Daily Monday, 21 September 2026
Monday, 21 September 2026
ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector
Kubernetes 1.37 Released: Stable Metrics API and Rootless Kubelet in Beta
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced the release of Kubernetes 1.37, named "Garhwal", emphasizing its focus on stability,…
Cloudflare Measures Origin TLS Preferences, Cutting Handshake Retries from 52% to 3.7%
Cloudflare has replaced its static X25519 guess for origin TLS handshakes with per-origin measurement. HelloRetryRequests on scanned origin…
Trying the Software factory pattern.
One of the interesting challenges of the AI ecosystem in 2026 is that new, effective patterns emerge faster than I can adopt them. I’…
ScrollEd wants to turn textbooks into TikTok
ScrollEd turns textbooks into a scrollable, Instagram-like feed with video, audio, and quizzes. The Palo Alto startup, founded by student c…
A small but growing number of founders are betting on bringing people together offline
On the surface, a game console and a leathercraft school don't appear to have much in common. But both founders think there's money in fost…
20VC x SaaStr: Pacing the Frontier, Meta Ships Muse And It’s Great, and Miro Sells for $1.35B After a $17.5B Mark
20VC x SaaStr: Pacing the Frontier, Meta Ships Muse, and Miro Sells for $1.35B After a $17.5B Mark Plus: a $1B round at $10B for Instinct,…
6 days left to save up to $200 to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Current ticket pricing ends in 6 days on September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Join 10,000+ founders, investors, and tech leaders at Disrupt and s…
How CubeAPM Plans To Take On Datadog And New Relic In The AI Observability Race
When Vineet Chirania was scaling his train-ticket booking startup, Trainman, a decade ago, he encountered a problem that would eventually…
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Google's Open Agentic Orchestrator
Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion
AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons
llm-keys-ui 0.1
Release: llm-keys-ui 0.1 This plugin solves a very specific problem. I've started using Codex Remote to run coding agents on various machin…
The LLMentalist Effect (2023)
datasette-explain 0.2.2
Release: datasette-explain 0.2.2 Explain plans now work on read-only stored-query pages. I upgraded datasette.simonwillison.net to Datasett…
Alibaba Open Sources OpenCodeReview for AI-Assisted Code Review
Alibaba recently open-sourced OpenCodeReview, an AI-powered code review CLI that combines deterministic pipelines for file selection, bundl…
90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord’s product chief | Peter Sellis
Peter Sellis on designing teams like terrorist organizations, riding your best people hard, and the three oxymorons of a truly great PM
Kissht, Ola Electric & More: Why Listed Startups Keep Going Back To The Well
Barely four months after making its stock market debut, digital lending platform Kissht is back in the public markets for…
India’s Spacetech Gold Rush Is Here, But What’s Making Investors Jittery?
The Indian spacetech ecosystem is entering its most critical phase yet. After years of experimentation and ambition, spacetech startups mus…
The UPI Shake-Up Begins
A customer scans a QR code at a neighbourhood shop, enters a passcode and the payment is done. Similarly, a…
Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM
Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices
US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution
Kojima Productions disputes reports the studio is in trouble
After it was announced that Sony was dropping Hideo Kojima's Physint, and that instead the Metal Gear Solid creator's latest title would be…
What happened to the Snowden archive
Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors
Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits
Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business
Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to
Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington
An undercover Google analyst infiltrated a notorious supply-chain hacking gang
Google’s threat intelligence group said it had a mole inside TeamPCP's inner circle.
Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program
Laya on Mac M4 CoreML Offline
RSA-896
The senior engineer death spiral
I am often wrong
Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative
Hello HN! I'm relaunching Radius [1] - far too long after the original Show HN [2] (I'll blame the day job for that). Radius started out fr…
The Millennium Problems for Biology
Prompts aren’t Real
One-Electron Universe
Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?
UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8
Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier
No Dogs in Space is back to feed your need for obsessive music history
In August, I wrote about my love of the music history podcast No Dogs in Space, but mourned the fact that there hadn't been a new episode i…
Trump now says he wants to form an ‘AI Force’
The president posted on Truth Social that he wanted to appoint an "AI czar" to lead a new "AI force." He made the announcement amid growing…
A24’s reputation is on the line with the SCP Foundation movie
After the success of Backrooms, it looks like A24 is trying to cash in on yet another internet horror craze with a new installment in the V…
All roads lead to cable
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on streaming platforms, FAST chan…
Humans, not rogue AI, are still the biggest cybersecurity risk to energy systems
Before recent high-profile hacks raised the specter of AI possibly "killing all humans," our energy systems were already disturbingly vulne…
The hidden monopoly behind your TI graphing calculator
The same calculator has been on most kids' back to school shopping list since the early 2000's and the dominance of Texas Instruments' calc…
A great new video game movie
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 144, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, new tech…
Don't call it an SUV: The Ferrari Purosangue review
Unlike previous Ferrari four-seaters, this one is better for humans than cargo.
T. rex teeth indicate it ran as warm as an elephant
Isotope ratios provide a hint that the giants were actively managing temperatures.