Saturday, 22 August 2026

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

I'm becoming AI-blind

Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

llm-openrouter 0.7

Release: llm-openrouter 0.7 Now that this plugin is compatible with LLM 0.32 it can display the reasoning traces for LLMs available through…

Stop Making TUIs

Thomas Ptacek advocates for building real native user interfaces for even the smallest of personal tools, because coding agents have reduce…

Quoting Matt Webb

After I released version 1.0, I figured I would have to do the rotations myself. So I sat down with ChatGPT and I didn’t get it to write th…

How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms

An AI tool for prioritizing candidate biomarkers from wearable sensor data

How mobility gives language models a deeper understanding of place

Cloudflare Cuts Astro GitHub Issues by 85% with AI Agents

Cloudflare, Astro, AI agents, GitHub Actions, issue triage, agentic AI, software architecture, open source, developer tools, AI automation,…

Connect v0 apps to Slack, Google, and 100+ other services

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Experimental now available on AI Gateway

Vercel CLI expands support for DNS, domains, and project commands

Presentation: Enchant Your AI and APIs with eBPF Magic 🪄

Dan Finneran discusses the risks of unowned AI-generated code in production and demonstrates how eBPF can intercept and control AI API traf…

Azure DevOps Remote MCP Server Reaches GA, without Support for Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor

Microsoft has made the Azure DevOps Remote MCP Server generally available, offering a hosted endpoint into work items, repos, and pipelines…

S3 Compatibility Doesn't Guarantee S3-Level Security

Security researchers at Wiz recently examined S3-compatible object storage services across six popular neoclouds, revealing significant sec…

Auth0 Enterprise Connect in beta vs. WorkOS for enterprise SSO and SCIM

Auth0's beta keeps the authorization server you already run and adds the enterprise surface around it. The differences from WorkOS show up…

How to add enterprise SSO to an Express.js API

Add enterprise SSO (SAML and OIDC) to an Express.js API with WorkOS. Step-by-step Node.js code for the login redirect, the callback, and JW…

Enabling the next-generation trait solver on nightly

After nearly 4 years of active development, the next-generation trait solver is close to stabilization. We are enabling it by default on ni…

TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering

Deployment Storage keeps your deployments rollback-ready

From PHP to team lead of agents: rethinking judgment, review, and data with Google's Andi Gutmans (Part 1)

Andi Gutmans, head of Agentic Data Cloud at Google and co-creator of PHP, joins Leaders of Code to talk about why agentic development feels…

Always-on tracing for production and preview traffic

GPT-5.6 Sol is now 50% off a lower price

Mini book: Architecture as a Socio-Technical Craft

Architecture is not a fixed choice made once; fitness is a moving target driven by changing regulations, tech, and markets. Even a sound de…

Dispatches from O'Reilly: The right amount of spec for agentic development

When code gets cheap, the hard part is deciding what “correct” means and building a reliable way to check it.

Get rid of your CAPTCHA, the future of the web is bots

Ryan chats with Brian Alvey, CTO at WordPress VIP, about how AI agents are changing the business models of the web, what parts of how we bu…

What’s the easiest language to learn?

Here’s what makes a language “easier” for some, and how to choose a language to learn!

Ready for Go 1.27 on Day One

Go 1.27 is here, and the release notes have plenty to explore. Language updates include generic methods, promoted field names in struct com…

Spring Boot Configuration Management Best Practices

Spring Boot provides comprehensive externalized application configuration support. It enables one application artifact to run in different…

Control trace volume with OpenTelemetry tail-based sampling

Learn how to configure tail-based sampling in the OpenTelemetry Collector to drop noisy traces, keep the ones that matter, and control APM…

How AI accounting startup Rillet raised $100M and became a unicorn in 48 hours

Rillet CEO Nicolas Kopp shared growth numbers at a board meeting and set off a fundraising frenzy from Iconiq, Sequoia and others. Without…

Exclusive: Legal dispute emerges at Monzo cofounder's Monaco banking venture

Exclusive: Battery Smart raises $19.5 Mn at $430 Mn valuation

EV battery-swapping startup Battery Smart has raised Rs 185.5 crore or $19.50 million in its Series C funding round led by existing investo…

Atomberg’s revenue nears Rs 1,300 Cr in FY26, losses rise 27%

Consumer appliances brand Atomberg’s revenue grew 34.8% year-on-year (YoY) to Rs 1,294 crore in FY26, even as its losses widened duri…

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Defense Tech, AI Tools And Infrastructure Lead The Way

The biggest financing of the week went to Castelion, a defense tech startup developing a hypersonic missile. Other sizable rounds went to c…

Japanese space tech startup Letara expands beyond satellite thrusters with $16M

Japanese space startup Letara is betting its hybrid rocket technology can move beyond small satellite thrusters into a broader market for s…

5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: AI For Everything From Recycling To Breathing To Winning Construction Bids

This month’s installment of this column is all AI, though applications for the technology range widely, from two startups that apply AI to…

Last chance: Save up to $300 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket today

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…

Starcloud raises $250 million for orbital data centers as launch options dry up

There's about to be a big fight to secure access to space.

ServiceTitan Just Shut Off Podium’s Integration for ~1,000 Shared Customers. Why? Agents Turned a 9-Year Partner Into a Direct Competitor.

When a 9 year partnership … breaks down in the Agent Era. Podium co-founder and CEO Eric Rea posted last week that ServiceTitan gave roughl…

All the decacorns in Europe: listed

Mainframes became personal. So will your data center.

Local models now answer 89% of everyday chat & reasoning queries as well as frontier models, & their efficiency per watt has improved 5.3x…

Atomberg’s early investors, founders sold Rs 683 Cr stake since 2019; A91 sold Rs 445 Cr

Consumer electronics startup Atomberg’s early investors, founders and other shareholders have sold shares worth around Rs 683 crore t…

Who are Europe’s ‘top’ VCs? Claude and ChatGPT have some left-field picks

Nobel Hygiene files DRHP for Rs 150 Cr fresh issue; Quadria Capital to lead OFS

Nobel Hygiene Limited, an absorbent hygiene products manufacturer, has filed its Draft Red Herring Prospectus (DRHP) with SEBI for its init…

Dear SaaStr: How Do You Build a Real Exit Strategy?

First, bear in mind acquisitions are relatively rare. The vast majority of startups will never get one strong acquisition offer. Still, it’…

How badly does Europe need its own frontier AI models?

Record number of CVCs making repeat bets on European robotics

How tech shortcuts come back to haunt startups

Neuromod Aqua raises pre-seed funding from Sportskeeda founder Porush Jain

New Delhi-based water infrastructure startup Neuromod Aqua has raised pre-seed funding from Porush Jain, founder of Sportskeeda. The firm w…

Exclusive: BGauss raises Rs 110 Cr in fresh round at Rs 1,000 Cr valuation

Electric two-wheeler maker BGauss has raised Rs 110 crore ($11.6 million) in a Series D funding round led by founder Hemant Mahendrakumar K…

Atomberg files DRHP for Rs 450 Cr fresh issue; A91, Temasek, Jungle Ventures, and others to take partial exit

Consumer appliance startup Atomberg Technologies has filed its draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) with the Securities and Exchange Board o…

Inc42’s 7th D2C & Retail Summit, Shiprocket’s Stellar IPO & More

India’s Evolving D2C Landscape India’s consumer ecosystem is undergoing a reset, driven by instant gratification and algorithmic execution.…

Top 10 Mistakes I See New CROs and VP Sales Make The First Week on the Job

"The top mistakes CROs make when they pick their next role: #1. Needing to be too passionate about the space#2. Don't do enough diligence o…

Dear SaaStr: Can A Great Sales Rep Sell Any Product?

Dear SaaStr: Can A Great Sales Rep Sell Any B2B Product? No. Not really in software. At least not well. Although many think they can. Too m…

Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera

Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

Felony Bench

Kobo can run apps now

I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases

Chinese regulators tell Tesla to fix nearly 3 million cars

Chinese safety regulators have cracked down on doors that don't open in a crash.

What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x

We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon

Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges

Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened

TikTok will pay $400 million to settle DOJ child privacy lawsuit

The US Department of Justice announced on Friday that TikTok will pay $400 million to settle a lawsuit filed in 2024 over allegedly violati…

Hidden Zillow listings created fake supply shock, raising NYC rents, lawsuit says

Renters say hidden Zillow listings make it harder to afford living in New York City.

Apple is laying off staffers working on the Vision Pro and Siri

Apple is laying off staff on the Siri and the Vision Pro teams, according to Bloomberg. The cuts include "largely shutting down" a Vision P…

Lawsuit demands Logitech hand tariff refunds over to customers

Logitech increased prices by up to 25 percent last year.

Walmart is finally adding Apple Pay and Google Pay

Walmart will soon allow you to pay for your items with Google Pay or Apple Pay. In an announcement on Friday, Walmart says it's going to br…

Microsoft and Discord subpoenaed over GTA VI gameplay leaks

Following several apparent video leaks of Grand Theft Auto VI, Take-Two Interactive has subpoenaed Microsoft and Discord over content that…

The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates

Google’s Pixel 10A is a great deal at 15 percent off

This week, all of Google’s Pixel 11 phones launched, including the $899 Pixel 11, the $1,099 Pixel 11 Pro (with the same processor and star…

New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson

Waymo doubles spending on lobbying in robotaxi battle with Uber

Alphabet-owned company is seeking to persuade US regulators to clear a path for fully autonomous taxi services.

Small, native web tricks worth remembering

As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings

Ars looks at Zuckoff, the latest free app detecting Meta AI glasses amid privacy backlash.

Rocket Report: SpaceX makes its mark on the Moon; ULA names new boss

Taiwan's effort to develop its own satellite launcher hit a setback this week.

Fighter jets help destroy Russian drone boat near European offshore gas platform

Romania blew up drone boat to protect lives of several hundred rig workers.

Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

Direct link to Legacy Survey Sky Viewer:

Omacom Foundation launches with $8M

I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip

I Just Want to Search

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Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise

Trump's space transportation policy calls for new spaceport on federal land

"We probably need another site that's capable of heavy and super heavy launch capability."

HoverAir’s transforming modular drone has already been halted in the US

I am so sorry, fellow US gadget fans: the FCC's drone ban appears to have struck again. The HoverAir Versa - a baby steadycam with snap-on…

Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button

LinkedIn actually announced a "Seems like AI slop" button on July 30th, and the company says that a lot of people have already used it. Acc…

Thunder + fiber-optic cabling used for seismic imaging

Thunderstorms make seismic waves that can be used to find sub-surface features.

Motorola's GrapheneOS phones will launch in 2027 priced higher than Pixels

The private Android-based OS will expand beyond Pixels next year.

$100 Best Buy gift cards will be $60 at stores Saturday

The best gift card deal we’ve spotted this year is happening Saturday, August 22nd, at Best Buy stores for one day only. In celebration of…

Personalized pricing is “abhorrent,” but FTC limits may increase costs, critics say

Some Americans fear the FTC may be thinking about personalized pricing all wrong.

Pixel 11 gets in on the digicam trend

I recently looked back at a photo I'd taken on a smartphone in 2014, and I was struck by just how good it looked. The details were soft, th…

Why does it seem like food recalls are out of control this year?

Just weeks after Taylor Farms issued a recall of its iceberg lettuce amid a massive cyclospora outbreak, the Food and Drug Administration r…

A dumpling shop becomes a poster child of AI adoption in China

Business owner quotes Deng Xiaoping as motivator: “Science and technology are a primary productive force.”