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Anthropic resolves ~100-minute outage that hit error rates across all Claude models
Anthropic's Claude experienced elevated error rates and latency across every model tier during an incident on July 29, 2026. The disruption ran from roughly 19:
Cheap H96 streaming sticks moonlight as ad-fraud bots and residential proxies
Bitsight researcher Pedro Falé cracked open a sprawling ad-fraud operation after registering an expired telemetry domain that tens of thousands of H96 Android T
Cold Emails Changed His Life — And the Survivorship Bias He Owns Up To
Zach Holman credits cold outreach for three pivotal turns in his life: an extra essay mailed overnight that pulled him off Carnegie Mellon's waitlist (which cle
Darktable: The Open-Source Answer to Lightroom for Raw Photo Editing
Darktable is a free, open-source application for managing and developing raw photographs, positioning itself as a non-subscription alternative to commercial too
Espressif's official book brings Rust to ESP32 embedded development
Espressif has published a guide to writing embedded Rust for its ESP microcontrollers, aimed at Rust developers who want to move into embedded work without nece
GitHub Ships Stacked Pull Requests in Public Preview
GitHub has launched native support for stacked pull requests, a workflow that splits one large change into an ordered chain of smaller PRs, each targeting the l
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 adds whole-body control and robot teamwork
Google DeepMind has released Gemini Robotics 2, a suite of three models meant to serve as the intelligence layer for adaptable robots. Where the prior generatio
Google Play takes its age-signals API global, rolling out to all users by year's end
Google is expanding its Play Age Signals API from a single-market pilot in Brazil to a worldwide rollout, reaching Australia and Canada by mid-August and every
Hamburg's Stadtpark: A Century-Old Park Designed for Doing, Not Admiring
Opened in 1914 and designed by Fritz Schumacher on 149 hectares beside Hamburg's densely populated working-class districts, the Stadtpark was planned around act
Hashicorp's Mitchell Hashimoto Launches Superlogical, Starting With a Terminal Multiplexer
Superlogical is a new startup pitching itself as a "multiplexer for all work" — a single durable session layer that unifies the fragmented ways software gets bu
Keychron's ZGM brings QMK-style open-source firmware to gaming mice
Keychron has unveiled ZGM, what it bills as the first open-source firmware project for gaming mice, with an initial release targeted for Q1 2027 on the G6 HE, a
Kimi ships K3-256k: same output as its 1M model at half the quota
Kimi Code, the AI coding assistant from Moonshot, has added a new model ID called k3-256k. It caps the context window at 256k tokens but, within that window, pr