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DevThe M6 Mac mini is $899, capped at 16GBThe cheap Mac is gone. Apple opened pre-orders on the M6 Mac mini on 25 August, and the entry machine now costs $899 with…25 August 2026
DevJalapeño measures 1.9x per watt against a GB200A photograph of a chip sitting on a teal test board, and finally some numbers under it. OpenAI published Jalapeño's first measured results on…25 August 2026
DevWan 3.0 does thirty seconds a clip, closed and $6Hand it a PDF and it makes the video. That is the actual headline in Alibaba's Wan3.0 rollout on 24 August, more than the…24 August 2026
SEOCloudflare Bot Preference Sync rewrites your robots.txtOpen your robots.txt next week and there may be a block at the top you did not write. Cloudflare announced Bot Preference Sync on…24 August 2026
DevA2A v1.0 breaks v0.3.0, and the AAIF news buried itAnother protocol governance post, and we nearly scrolled past it. On 17 August the Agentic AI Foundation announced that A2A, Google's agent-to-agent standard, is…24 August 2026
DevA free 1M context coding model appeared with no lab behind itYou open the OpenRouter model list, sort by price, and there it is at the top: ox-alpha, a million tokens of context, zero dollars…23 August 2026
DevThe MCP roadmap has five priorities and no datesThree weeks after the 2026-07-28 revision landed and quietly deleted sessions from the protocol, the maintainers published where MCP goes next. Five priority areas,…23 August 2026
SysadminGitHub’s autoscaler watched the wrong service for 7h47mMonday afternoon, 13:28 UTC, and roughly one request in five to github.com came back an error. That ran for 7 hours and 47 minutes,…23 August 2026
DevNvidia paid $6B for a non-exclusive Poolside licenceFriday afternoon, and the news arrives the way these things do now, through somebody's letter to their investors rather than a press release. Nvidia…22 August 2026
DevNevada cleared 8,000 robotaxis, and Tesla’s 5,000 is a ceilingThree weeks ago Tesla was allowed ten robotaxis on one stretch of the Strip. On 20 August the same regulator handed it a permit…22 August 2026
DevBun 1.4 is the first stable Rust build, and five things breakThree months of nothing, then it lands. Bun 1.4 went stable on 20 August, the first shipped release since the team tore the runtime…22 August 2026
DevGoogle’s $12.2B Marvell warrant needs $120B of ordersHeadlines called it a $12.2 billion stake, and if you stop at the first paragraph of the Reuters wire that is roughly what you…21 August 2026
DevPrime Air promises 500 cities from 11 drone sitesFive metro areas got named. Chicago, Syracuse, Cleveland, Atlanta, Boise. Amazon's post on 19 August says Prime Air will reach nearly 500 US cities…21 August 2026
DevRamp Router is free until January, with a year of retentionYour model bill went up again and nobody on the team can say which feature did it. That's the itch Ramp is scratching. On…20 August 2026
DevOpenAI’s Private Safety Processing keeps ZDR aliveYour security team signed off on the API integration on one condition: nothing you send leaves your control. Then the good models started arriving…20 August 2026
DevGoogle’s $10M Spirit Airlines Data Buy Slips to September 9An airline that stopped flying in May just sold its Slack-equivalent. Google won a bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines' internal enterprise data with a…19 August 2026
DevCursor opened its git forge the day GitHub brokeTen in the morning in New York, 17 August. About a fifth of GitHub's web and API traffic was coming back as errors, and…19 August 2026
DevCerebras stacks three wafers for 750 PFLOPSLook at the spec table for two minutes and the story falls out on its own. Every number on the WSE-3 Turbo is exactly…19 August 2026
DevStripe is reportedly buying OpenRouter for over $7BOpen your OpenRouter dashboard this morning and it looks exactly like it did last week. Same keys, same balance, same model picker, same everything.…18 August 2026
DevGroq raised $350M and now sells Nvidia capacityGroq spent years selling one idea, that Nvidia was the wrong shape for inference and a custom chip called an LPU was the right…18 August 2026
DevClaude Code weekly limits drop a third after August 19You will probably notice it on Thursday, mid refactor, when the weekly meter sits lower than it has all summer. Here is what happened:…18 August 2026
DevNvidia’s $105B OpenAI exposure is a lease guaranteeNvidia published a press release on Monday, and the number everyone repeated was not in it. The $105 billion showed up in the SEC…17 August 2026
DevEvery Claude output is watermarked, with no opt-outPaste a Claude answer into a doc and something invisible travels with it. Since 2 August, every new model Anthropic ships marks its own…17 August 2026
DevQuantinuum is putting 98 qubits inside an Oracle data centreYour cloud console is about to grow a tab you can't use yet. On 11 August, Quantinuum and Oracle said they'd install Helios, a…16 August 2026