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DevMeta’s Iris chip enters production in SeptemberA leaked internal memo, not a keynote, is how we found out Meta has a new chip. On July 9 Reuters reported it: Iris,…14 July 2026
DevDeepSeek V4 is here: deepseek-chat breaks July 24So you wired up deepseek-chat months ago, it's been humming along, and you'd more or less forgotten it was even there. Bad news: that…14 July 2026
SecurityShip ML-DSA now, says Cloudflare, and here is what it costsPicture a quantum computer big enough to forge the signature on google.com's certificate. It doesn't exist yet. When it does, every RSA and elliptic-curve…13 July 2026
DevMeta ships Muse Spark 1.1 at $1.25 per million tokensMeta spent years as the lab that gave its weights away, so watching it stand up a paid API is a small plot twist.…13 July 2026
DevTypeScript 7.0 is here: the Go rewrite is 10x fasterWe know the pause. You save a file, the type-checker spins up, and off you go to check your phone. TypeScript 7.0, out July…10 July 2026
DevxAI Grok 4.5 is here: cheap, fast, coding-firstxAI shipped Grok 4.5 on July 8, and the number that matters is not a benchmark, it's the price: $2 in, $6 out per…8 July 2026
DevIs Tencent’s 295B Hy3 really free?Another giant model landed on Hugging Face, and this one is worth stopping for. On July 6 Tencent open-sourced Hy3, a 295B mixture-of-experts model…8 July 2026
DevClaude Fable 5 vs Grok 4.5: is 8x cheaper worth it?Two coding models, one released a week apart, sitting at opposite ends of the market. Claude Fable 5 is the benchmark king: it wins…8 July 2026
DevOpenAI GPT-Realtime-2.1: what changed for voice agentsYour voice agent hangs for a beat after the caller stops talking, and that beat is where the call feels robotic. On July 6,…7 July 2026
DevOpenAI’s first chip, Jalapeño, is built for inferenceSam Altman got handed a chip on a stage, and the AI hardware race picked up a new character. On June 24, OpenAI and…6 July 2026
DevClaude Sonnet 5 vs Fable 5: is the top model worth 5x?Anthropic pulled off a strange double feature. On June 30 it launched Sonnet 5 at $2 in and $10 out per million tokens, and…2 July 2026
DevClaude Fable 5 is back: what each effort level costsClaude Fable 5 lasted three days. Launched June 9, suspended June 12 under a US export control order, and as of July 1 it…2 July 2026
SecurityProton Lumo 2.0 review: how private is it, really?Proton shipped Lumo 2.0 on June 30, and the headline writes itself: a private ChatGPT alternative, built in Europe, that got a lot smarter…1 July 2026
DevClaude Sonnet 5 vs Opus 4.8: cheaper, nearly as goodOn June 30 Anthropic shipped Claude Sonnet 5, made it the default in Claude Code, and priced it to make you look twice: $2…1 July 2026
SecuritySecure Boot certificates expire in 2026: the Linux fixThe headlines made it sound like every Linux PC turns into a brick on 27 June 2026, the day Microsoft's 2011 Secure Boot certificate…22 June 2026
DevQwen 3.7 Max vs GLM-5.2: benchmarks, price and the catchAlibaba dropped Qwen 3.7 Max in May 2026, and within days the coding crowd was lining it up against GLM-5.2, the open-weight model we…22 June 2026
DevQwen 3.7 local: what you can actually run offlineYou typed 'Qwen 3.7 local' hoping to pull Alibaba's new flagship onto your own machine and cut the cloud loose. Small problem: you can't,…22 June 2026
DevGPT-5.6 vs GPT-5.5: what actually changedOpenAI started previewing GPT-5.6 in June 2026, and the first surprise is that GPT-5.6 isn't a model, it's three. The new naming splits the…22 June 2026
SecurityNo, Claude Mythos didn’t hack the NSA: what really happenedFor a few days in June 2026 the internet was sure an AI had hacked the NSA. Claude Mythos, Anthropic's frontier model, supposedly walked…22 June 2026
SysadminMB vs MiB: why your 1 TB drive shows up as 931 GBYou buy a 1 TB drive, plug it in, and Windows cheerfully reports 931 GB. Nothing's broken and nobody robbed you, but it's annoying,…20 June 2026
SysadminLinux file permissions explained: rwx and 755You chmod a file, it works, you move on, and permissions stay a thing you never quite have to learn. Then a script won't…20 June 2026
SecurityIs your nginx exposed? How to check and harden itTwo critical nginx holes, CVE-2026-42530 and CVE-2026-42055, both rated 9.2, dropped in June 2026, and the coverage made it sound like every nginx on…20 June 2026
Email & DNSHow to read a DMARC report: the aggregate XML, decodedSo you switched DMARC on, and now google.com mails you a little .xml.gz file every morning. You open one, meet a wall of nested…20 June 2026
SecurityHow to secure a new Ubuntu VPSSpin up a fresh VPS and check the auth log an hour later. It's already full of bots hammering SSH, which is why we…18 June 2026