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Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Why your company should (try to) build its own AI SRE

Companies ship more code today than ever, thanks to agentic coding tools. For product teams, this accelerated pace of development The post Why your company should (try to) build its own AI SRE appeared first on The New Stack .

Society · NPR Technology

Elon Musk's AI company is suing to block a new Minnesota law against certain AI apps

Minnesota has a new law taking effect Saturday to ban AI apps that allow for "nudification." Elon Musk's AI company is suing to block it, saying it violates free speech, noting that it can be used for satire of prominent people.

Business · CNBC Technology

Amazon's AWS posts fastest growth since 2021, citing AI and chip demand

Amazon Web Services announced new business with Meta and OpenAI in the quarter.

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English

Article URL: https://github.com/AminBlg/SimpleEnglish Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49114639 Points: 258 # Comments: 89

Developers & Open Source · Docker Blog

The Future of Agentic AI Depends on Openness and Trust. That’s Why Docker Is Joining Nvidia’s Open Secure AI Alliance.

Docker joins NVIDIA's Open Secure AI Alliance to help build the security, governance, and trust frameworks that agentic AI systems demand.

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Chinese AI competitors may have forced OpenAI’s hand on pricing

OpenAI has lowered API prices for two GPT-5.6 models only three weeks after their launch. On Thursday, the company announced The post Chinese AI competitors may have forced OpenAI’s hand on pricing appeared first on The New Stack .

Developers & Open Source · GitHub Changelog

GitHub Models is now retired

As of July 30, 2026, GitHub Models is now retired. The playground, model catalog, inference API, and bring your own key (BYOK) are no longer available to any customer, including… The post GitHub Models is now retired appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

Cybersecurity · SecurityWeek

Okta to Acquire Identity Threat Detection Firm Permiso

The deal extends Okta's reach beyond identity management and into the realm of security operations, positioning the company to compete more directly on identity threat detection and response. The post Okta to Acquire Identity Threat Detection Firm Permiso appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

AI-generated software is forcing yet another platform rethink

“Raise your hand if your team is actively using AI to write and review code. Now keep it up if The post AI-generated software is forcing yet another platform rethink appeared first on The New Stack .

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 9 is $40 off at Costco and comes with over $50 in freebies

The Galaxy Watch 9 launches on August 7th, and not only does Costco have the best preorder incentives we’ve seen so far, the watch is also discounted. The deal includes the 40mm Watch 9 in cream or graphite, two wireless fast chargers for the watch, and a $50 Costco gift card, all for $339.99 — […]

AI · TechCrunch AI

Google says it fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

As experts have warned for the last two years, some companies — like Microsoft and now Google — are finding and patching an exponential number of bugs in their products, thanks to the use of LLMs and AI tools.

Developers & Open Source · JetBrains Blog

The Complete Package: Why Debugging Is Only Half the C# Productivity Story

As .NET developers, we need to iterate on our applications while building, and part of that developer inner loop is the debugging experience. The rise of multi-platform code editors further requires developers to have all the functionality they need to build and debug their application out of the box, wherever they’re coding. Previously, .NET developers […]

AI · The Decoder

OpenAI goes full China pricing mode with an 80 percent cut to its most affordable GPT-5.6 model

Starting July 30, OpenAI is cutting GPT-5.6 Luna prices by 80 percent and Terra by 20 percent. OpenAI says its top-tier Sol model helped make the company's own infrastructure more efficient, enabling the cuts. Price pressure from cheap Chinese providers and Microsoft's own MAI models likely played a role too. The article OpenAI goes full China pricing mode with an 80 percent cut to its most affordable GPT-5.6 model appeared first on The Decoder .

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

LinkedIn actually adds a ‘seems like AI slop’ button

A lot of content on LinkedIn might seem like AI slop, and now, you'll be able to report those posts. As part of a series of updates to reduce the volume of AI slop on the platform, LinkedIn is introducing an actual button that lets you flag a post as something that "Seems like AI […]

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions

Article URL: https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/02a7-213a92896eb0-54dfbf454e3b-1000--statement-on-behalf-of-uefa-and-its-55-national-associations/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113929 Points: 741 # Comments: 418

Notable Blogs · Simon Willison

Quoting Bruce Schneier

The writing assignments I give my students are gym tasks, not work tasks. I ask them to write policy memos not because the world needs more policy memos. I assign them because the very act of writing, which includes thinking and outlining and drafting and editing, making and criticizing and revising arguments, will help develop the critical thinking skills they will need in their future careers. And without this constant mental exercise, those skills will atrophy. Employers are already noticing . — Bruce Schneier , Should You Use AI for a Task? Here’s a Simple Way to Decide Tags: ai-ethics , writing , ai-misuse , generative-ai , bruce-schneier , ai , llms

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

DPRK-Linked macOS Malvertising Uses Fake Updates to Deliver Crypto-Stealing Malware

Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been attributed to a sophisticated macOS malvertising campaign that involves redirecting users to fake web pages displaying a full-screen non-existent update sequence to deliver malware as part of a new iteration of the long-running Contagious Interview campaign. The defining aspect of the attack is that bogus macOS software update screen stealthily

AI · The Decoder

Ex-OpenAI researcher bets $100 billion will flow into training data because scaling alone won't cut it

Former OpenAI employee Andrew Ho and Cambridge researcher Adam Hunt see a growing problem with large language models. Instead of becoming more versatile, the models are becoming more specialized, excelling at coding and math while stagnating or even regressing in other areas. Ho is leaving OpenAI to start a company focused on specialized training data and predicts that AI labs will need to spend more than $100 billion on targeted data collection. The article Ex-OpenAI researcher bets $100 billion will flow into training data because scaling alone won't cut it appeared first on The Decoder .

AI · TechCrunch AI

LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop’

LinkedIn is introducing new ways to reduce low-quality AI-generated posts, including a “seems like AI slop” reporting option. It's also replacing its own AI writing feature with a proofreading tool.

World · BBC Europe

Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant

Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia are also grappling with the effects of a series of prolonged heatwaves and low rainfall.

Startups & Funding · TechCrunch Startups

Synthetic-user startup Simile raises $200M at $2B valuation 5 months after $100M Series A

Add another member to the fast-and-furious AI unicorn club: Simile.

World · The Guardian Ukraine

Russian missile destroys US firm’s Kyiv drone factory

Strike on Terminal Autonomy plant appears to be first time in the war that Moscow has targeted a US defence company A drone factory in Kyiv destroyed by a Russian ballistic missile on Friday was owned by a US corporation registered in Delaware, in what appears to be the first time Moscow has targeted a US defence company in the conflict. Terminal Autonomy makes precision “deep-strike” drones with guidance systems that are resistant to Russian jamming signals, according to a person familiar with the company. Continue reading...

Developers & Open Source · GitHub Changelog

Reference same-repository actions with self-repository syntax

You can now reference an action or reusable workflow that lives in the same repository using the new self-repository syntax. A uses: value that starts with $/ resolves to your… The post Reference same-repository actions with self-repository syntax appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

Business · BBC Business

British Airways flight called mayday on approach to Heathrow

The call was made on an Airbus A320 flying from Dusseldorf airport in Germany on 6 July following two stall warnings.