Thursday, 20 August 2026

Quoting Jeremy Morrell

My hypothesis is that there is a new opportunity for Extensible Software on the web . LLMs radically lower the cost of authoring extensions…

Conceptual integrity and counting lines of code

Last week I recorded an episode of the Talking Postgres podcast with Claire Giordano on the subject of "How AI is changing software develop…

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Mathematics in the age of AI

Extensible Software in the age of LLMs

ChatGPT Ads expands across Europe

ChatGPT Ads is expanding to 31 European markets. Learn how advertisers can reach people as they explore, compare options, and make decision…

LFM2.5 Q4\_0 Checkpoints from Quantization-Aware Distillation

fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent.

Mojo🔥 is now open source

The Mojo programming language has been promising an open source release since May 2023 . Last week they shipped their 1.0 and today they ha…

How Kubernetes Probes Work

GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Managing your work

If you’re juggling multiple Copilot sessions, use the My work pane to track what's in flight, what's done, and what's next. The post GitHub…

PostgreSQL for Everything

Algolia joins the Vercel Marketplace

Whatsapp Tests on Device ML for Scam Detection with Privacy Preserving Analytics

WhatsApp is testing Scam Alert in limited beta, using on device machine learning to detect potential scam messages from non contacts. Meta'…

Vercel Connect now supports Microsoft

Vercel for Slack now in public beta

Fish Audio models now available on Vercel AI Gateway for free

Introducing Vercel for Slack

Why global workers are driving demand for stablecoin payouts

Platforms like DoorDash, Meta, and Deel already enable stablecoin payouts for global workers. We surveyed 2,300 workers in 20 countries to…

Presentation: Understanding Progressive Collapse: How To Avoid A Cascading Failure

Sam Newman discusses the concept of progressive collapse in civil engineering and how it applies to distributed systems. Using real-world e…

New in Air: Claude Subscriptions, Multiproject View, and Improved Markdown

You can now use Air with your existing Claude Pro, Max, or Team subscription. Usage counts against your subscription quota – there’s no nee…

Citizens Build, Agents Execute, Experts Govern

TL;DR Why building an app over the weekend isn't the same as building enterprise software I’ve noticed an interesting gap opening up over t…

Practitioner Voice: The Writing Category Nobody has Named Yet

Jim Highsmith recognizes that effective writing from a practitioner is a style distinct from academic writing or thought-leadership content…

GraphRAG: How AI Answers Questions Hidden Across Many Documents

GraphRAG was designed to handle the second kind of questions, and we are going to learn more about it in this article.

20× the CI traffic without getting slower: How we rebuilt Git serving at Datadog

Learn how Datadog built gitretriever to handle 20× more CI Git traffic while maintaining low latency and reducing backend CPU usage.

How CISA’s BOD 26-04 changes vulnerability prioritization

Learn how CISA’s BOD 26-04 mandates risk-based vulnerability prioritization and how Datadog helps teams prioritize and remediate critical f…

Compliance documents are now available in Team settings

Headed for the Exit: the Great Engineering Leader Career Break

Trend: more CTOs, VPEs, and Heads of Engineering are walking away from their high-status, in-demand positions. There are many reasons, most…

Signatures, be true: domain errors and functional handling in Kotlin

Here’s a function that signs a document: In Kotlin, Unit means the function completes without returning a meaningful value – roughly equiva…

Sachin Bansal’s fintech Navi raises first outside capital with $100M Prosus investment

The investment comes amid Navi plans to go public.

OpenAI clarifies ‘acquisition’ offer for Irish teen's startup idea was a joke

Nikhil Kamath invests Rs 200 Cr in CtrlS as hyperscale data centre operator raises Rs 250 Cr

Hyperscale data centre operator CtrlS has raised Rs 250 crore, including Rs 200 crore from Zerodha cofounder Nikhil Kamath and Rs 50 crore…

CtrlS DataCenters Nets ₹250 Cr From Zerodha’s Nikhil Kamath, Sreeram Reddy Vanga

Data center network company CtrlS DataCentres has raised ₹250 Cr (about $26.1 Mn) in equity funding from Zerodha cofounder Nikhil…

Navi raises $100 Mn from Prosus ahead of IPO

Fintech unicorn Navi has raised $100 million from Prosus. This is the company’s first institutional funding round and the transaction…

IPO-Bound Navi Raises $100 Mn From Prosus In Maiden Institutional Round

Global VC firm Prosus has invested $100 Mn (over ₹955 Cr) in Sachin Bansal-led fintech startup Navi, marking the latter’s…

Piper Serica leads Rs 15 Cr pre Series A round in deep tech startup AlgoFET

Deep tech startup AlgoFET has raised Rs 15 crore in a pre Series A funding round led by Piper Serica. The fresh funds will be used to accel…

Exclusive: Krafton-backed Bobble AI enters insolvency process after failing to repay debt

Bobble.AI, the homegrown AI-powered communication and data intelligence startup, has entered insolvency proceedings. The National Company L…

Travis Kalanick kicks off another round of VC bashing: ‘1% are helpful’

After raising $1.7 billion for his new robotics company Atoms, Travis Kalanick is introspective about the role VCs have played in his caree…

Swiggy Gets The IOCC Tag, Shiprocket’s Return Roulette & More

Swiggy Instamart All Set For Inventory Model Swiggy is finally an Indian-owned and controlled company (IOCC). After a failed attempt…

Y Combinator Rakes In ₹1,435 Cr From Groww Stake Sale, Clocks 55.7X Return

US-based startup accelerator Y Combinator has sold shares worth ₹1,435.2 Cr in Groww parent Billionbrains Garage Ventures through a bulk…

Y Combinator sells another Rs 1,435 Cr stake in Groww

US-based startup accelerator Y Combinator has once again reduced its stake in Groww, selling nearly 1.2% in the fintech company’s par…

Is AINS the Next SaaS?

Roll-ups vs. AI-Native Services. Here’s the download on why some VCs are betting that startups will build AI-native law firms & insurance c…

Which Investors Have Backed The Most 2026 Unicorns?

So far this year, 250 companies have joined the unicorn ranks through Aug. 15, up from 2025's 193 companies. Leading sectors included robot…

When Should A Board Consider Selling A Company?

The best boards continuously evaluate selling alongside scaling, pivoting, or staying independent, especially when the company is thriving,…

Meet the startup helping Wall Street put a price on AI compute

The AI buildout shows no signs of slowing. And with hundreds of billions of dollars a year going into data centers and GPUs, compute has be…

Time’s running out! Save $300 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass until August 21

If you’ve been circling around Disrupt, then now’s the best time to lock in your pass and start getting ready to join the rest of the start…

The founder’s secret weapon: Work at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and learn how the pros do it

Volunteer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and get an insider's view of how world-class tech events get built and more.

AI isn’t close to curing cancer. This startup says it knows what it will take.

Domyn CEO Uljan Sharka: ‘We're a few quarters away from $1bn ARR’

How Indian D2C Brands Are Rewriting Their Playbook For Profitable Growth

Indian D2C brands are rethinking their channel strategies, store formats and customer acquisition models as they shift focus from topline…

Why Hammer Prefers Cables Over Premium Headphones For Quick Commerce

For D2C consumer brand Hammer Lifestyle, quick commerce is not a channel for replicating its entire ecommerce catalogue. Instead, the…

5 Interesting Learnings from Atlassian at $6.6 Billion in ARR: 28% Growth, 44% RPO Growth, and a 35% One-Day Stock Pop

Atlassian closed its fiscal year on June 30 and reported on August 6. Going in, it was one of the most doubted names in enterprise software…

Yantra Packs raises Rs 12 Cr in seed round led by Caret Capital

Yantra Packs, a technology-driven asset-pooling and reusable packaging platform, has raised Rs 12 crore in a seed funding round led by Care…

D2C Brands Should Use Influencers Only After Finding PMF: Emami’s Dhruv Aggarwal

D2C brands should scale influencer marketing only after establishing product-market fit, as creator-led campaigns cannot compensate for a w…

The Playbook Behind Agilitas’ Global Sportswear Ambition

Having raised ₹225 Cr in fresh funding, three-year-old sportswear startup Agilitas is looking to bolster its presence in the sportswear…

Cashfree FY26: Revenue Inches Closer To ₹1,000 Cr Mark, Loss Narrows

Cashfree Payments inched closer to the ₹1,000 Cr revenue mark in the fiscal year 2025-26 (FY26). The fintech soonicorn’s operating…

[Update] Shiprocket Shares End First Trading Session 48% Above Issue Price

Update | August 19, 16:15 IST Share of ecommerce enabler Shiprocket closed their maiden trading session at ₹143.5 on the…

Zaggle Shares Surge Over 12% After Vijay Kedia’s Firm Buys 1.48% Stake

Shares of Zaggle Prepaid Ocean Services surged 12.15% on the BSE today after veteran investor Vijay Kedia’s broking company Kedia…

Exclusive: Cashify to become public entity; appoints independent directors ahead of IPO

Cashify is taking concrete steps towards its proposed IPO, converting into a public company and appointing independent directors. The firm…

Why Dogsee Chew Refused A UK Distributor’s Demand To Drop ‘Made In India’

Pet wellness brand Dogsee Chew was once asked by a UK distributor to remove the ‘Made in India’ label from…

Startups are clamping down on internal AI slop: ‘You’re losing so much’

I chase invoices for a living. Here’s how to get paid without taking your client to court

CRED launches Circle app to connect members with experienced peers

Fintech platform CRED has launched Circle by CRED, a new app that allows its members to have one-on-one conversations with experienced prof…

How AI Helped The Bear House Grow Its Conversions 5X

As AI moves from powering search and recommendations to making decisions on behalf of consumers, ecommerce is beginning to shift…

Butterfly Learnings Raises ₹65 Cr To Scale Neurodivergent Care Network

Healthtech startup Butterfly Learnings, which operates a child development and behavioral healthcare network, has raised ₹65 Cr ($7.7 Mn) i…

Why The Future Of Indian Retail Is Omnichannel

The convergence of quick commerce and convenience is transforming the consumption patterns of Indians and triggering shifts in unorganised…

Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027

Google replaced Git tags for certain source code with obtaining via Google Drive

OpenLogi

Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma

Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees

Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco

Go 1.27 is released

Go 1.27 adds generic methods, encoding/json/v2 package, uuid package, faster memory allocation, goroutine leak profiles, and more.

Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere

Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)

Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming

Show HN: Automatically detect and patch walking-dead states in Sierra games

Hi HN, I've become lazier in my old age and struggle to replay my favorite Sierra games from the 80s and 90s because I keep getting into th…

Casio F-B100W-1A

NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift gamma-ray observatory

Without a rescue, NASA's Swift Observatory is expected to reenter the atmosphere later this year.

Amazon aims for delivery drones to reach 500 US neighborhoods by end of 2026

US residents face trade-offs as delivery drone services such as Prime Air expand.

Framework responds to complaints that BIOS update bricks Ryzen 7040 laptops

Framework says it's replacing some out-of-warranty AMD mainboards.

Flight attendants freaked out that Google is buying tons of Spirit employee data

Bankrupt Spirit accused of selling out workers in massive data sale to Google.

Google Gemini is getting a dedicated student hub

As we're gearing up for back-to-school season, Google is rolling out a new dedicated student hub in Gemini. It's a one-stop repository for…

The wearable future is stuck in weird, experimental, existential limbo

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and poti…

Grab an iPad Air M4 for its lowest price since the June increase

Almost everything with high-end memory or storage is more expensive these days, and tablets are no exception, so we’re glad to see that Ama…

Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what?

With a looming IPO, intense competition from Anthropic, and Chinese and open-weight rivals nipping at its heels, OpenAI has plenty of reaso…

GTA VI keeps leaking ahead of its gameplay premiere

Clips of what appears to be Grand Theft Auto VI have hit the internet, possibly spoiling aspects of the game ahead of Rockstar Games' deep…

Meta AI is getting a Mac app

Meta is launching a new Mac app dedicated to its AI chatbot. In an announcement on Wednesday, Meta says you can share your window with its…

Does giving a camera wings dodge the FCC’s drone ban?

HoverAir drones always have intriguing gimmicks. This one folds flat to fit in your pocket. This one can land on water. Another can charge…

We reviewed the new Pixel lineup, ask us anything

The embargo has lifted on Google's Pixel 11 series, as well as for its Pixel Watch 5. Now we get to talk smack - just kidding, the new hard…

Google Pixel 11 series review: Is the magic fading?

Google's new Pixels make some compromises but still manage to be good phones.

Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs

Meta ran ads for an app promising to nudify female politicians

One ad featured a pornographic video with deepfake closely resembling a US politician.

Police officer used Flock cameras to track estranged wife 717 times

Ornith-1.5: From Self-Scaffolding to Self-Improvement

The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source

Unlocking a locked/deactivated e-waste Cricut Maker

Palomar: A registry of Lean verified mathematics

Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good?

Where Human Sleep Went Wrong

Nielsen is leaning more on wearables to hear what people are watching

In order to beef up its ability to accurately measure viewership data in the streaming era, Nielsen is moving forward with a plan to use mo…

FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies

FCC decides 1Gbps is too fast, standard must be "technologically neutral."

The floodgates are open after another Chinese company lands a reusable rocket

"We will put the booster back into service for another flight as soon as possible."

Watch Valve set up the Steam Frame in its own leaked videos

Valve just leaked several new videos showing the Steam Frame's unboxing, setup process, and various accessories. The videos apparently appe…

A fantastical journey unfolds in gorgeous Wildwood trailer

"I will tear apart this forest and bring back what it took from me."

mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in Phase 3 melanoma trial, Moderna and Merck say

The vaccine reportedly thwarted the cancer's return and spread.

Scientists find closest star to the Milky Way's central black hole

Star, moving at 8% the speed of light, may let us measure the black hole's rotation.