Saturday, 3 October 2026

From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4

AI Makes Me Sad

The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding

Sites in ChatGPT

Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video]

Open-sourcing AstaBrief, the fast report-generation model in Asta

Toward provably private learning from federated data

AutoSynthData: Generating Training Data for Enterprise Agents

2026 Birthday week: network performance update

Cloudflare now ranks as the fastest provider across 74% of the top 1,000 global networks. By incorporating background telemetry from Cloudf…

Building for good: How civil society organizations are automating on Cloudflare

Some of the world's leading organizations are building the future of non-profit work with Cloudflare.

Protected Quick Tunnels: simple accountless authentication for your next dev project

Quick Tunnels now support email authentication. Add --allowed-mail to one cloudflared command, and only the addresses or domains you list c…

Follow the thread: a new dashboard to investigate account abuse

Fraudsters are increasingly using AI to bypass stateless security checks. Cloudflare's new Account Abuse Protection dashboard uses stateful…

Announcing Cloudflare OHTTP Gateway – expanding access to Cloudflare’s privacy-preserving infrastructure

We’re announcing the closed beta of a self-serve Cloudflare OHTTP Gateway. We’re also renaming our Privacy Gateway to Cloudflare OHTTP Rela…

Updates on our pledge to make Cloudflare features accessible to everyone

A year after pledging to eliminate two-tier product access, Cloudflare has expanded Logpush, multi-account governance, and higher platform…

Introducing Cloudflare Traces: follow requests through our entire platform

Cloudflare Traces shows how a request moves through security rules, transformations, cache, routing, Workers, and your origin, then follows…

8 major updates to Cloudflare Observability

Cloudflare is launching eight major updates that bring logs, traces, analytics, alerts, dashboards, querying, and telemetry export into one…

How Rogo ships agent-written code to production in 5 minutes on Vercel

AI is changing developer work. Here are three skills to strengthen.

Learn to direct AI agents, critically review their output, and keep technical judgment at the center of your workflow. The post AI is chang…

Uber Eats Rebuilds Search Pipeline to Cut End-to-End Latency by 50%

Uber has rebuilt major parts of the Uber Eats search pipeline, reporting a 50% reduction in end-to-end latency. Changes include Above-the-F…

Engineering Production Systems for an Agentic Era: QCon San Francisco 2026

QCon San Francisco 2026 will bring together practitioners from Airbnb, OpenAI, Netflix, Honeycomb, and other engineering organizations to s…

Storm-3168 explained: How compromised service principals deleted Azure resources in seven minutes

Microsoft says the actor behind JADEPUFFER, the first documented agentic ransomware operation, used two compromised Azure service principal…

Gemini 4 Argon access: What Google's Fairwind rules require

Fairwind's rules read like an authorization spec for capability. Background checks, phishing-resistant MFA, security-team-only access and u…

Why rate limits can't stop distillation attacks

OpenAI saw 16,000 extraction requests from more than 4,000 accounts in two days, about four each. Per-key quotas can't see an actor shaped…

Monitor Databricks with Datadog

Learn how to monitor the performance, data quality, and costs of your Databricks analytics and AI/ML workloads with Datadog.

Databricks’ native monitoring resources

Learn how to collect Databricks and Spark telemetry with system tables, the Databricks and Spark UIs, job notifications, and the Databricks…

Key metrics for monitoring Databricks

Learn about key metrics for monitoring the health, performance, and costs of Databricks data engineering, analytics, and Model Serving work…

DeepSeek-Reasonix: How a poisoned config can hijack an AI coding agent

GitLab's Threat Research Group discovered a command execution vulnerability ( GHSA-grg2-7gc6-36m6 , CVE-2026-102437 ) in DeepSeek-Reasonix…

Jev for Python engineers

Presentation: Managing Asynchronous APIs at Scale

Ian Cooper discusses managing asynchronous APIs in event-driven architectures at scale. He explains the "ABCs" of messaging (Address, Bindi…

DigitalOcean Managed Agents Brings Managed Cloud Infrastructure to AI Agents

DigitalOcean recently launched DigitalOcean Managed Agents in public preview, offering a managed cloud infrastructure layer for AI agents w…

Article: From Reusable to Regeneratable: Rethinking the Shared UI Component Library

Regeneration has changed reuse economics. A model pointed at a solid design system can produce most standard UI on demand, so paying to kee…

Constraints that make developers faster

Ryan chats with Julien Verlaguet, CEO at Skip Labs, about finding the balance between human tolerance and tooling constraints, the spectrum…

A New Agentic Experience: JetBrains Air in IDEs – EAP Now Open

Last week, we shared our point of view on where we think agentic development is headed and introduced JetBrains’ answer to it: JetBrains Ai…

Speed Insights deprecates First Input Delay on November 1st

Arch-specific SIMD in Go

Go 1.27 introduces experimental arch-specific SIMD vector APIs

Demoting i686 Windows targets to std-only

With Rust 1.100.0, the following changes to 32-bit Windows targets will happen: i686-pc-windows-msvc Tier 1 with host tools target will be…

When the AI agent can edit the evidence

A new study found that coding agents in seven of eight popular harnesses deleted their own session traces when asked. If a record of what a…

Three MCP auth bugs in 30 days, one root cause: Trusting what the other side said

The MCP Python SDK, the Rust SDK (rmcp), and LiteLLM each accepted authentication input that nobody verified. Here is what broke, who is af…

Practice hack: how to review previous lessons on Duolingo

Get access to all the units you’ve already completed. Here’s how!

Affected by layoffs? Don’t miss this $75 deal for your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Expo+ Pass

Your next opportunity could be one conversation away. Get your Expo+ Pass for just $75. Limited to the first 100 qualifying people.

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Almost All About AI

This week’s list of the largest U.S. startup funding rounds was pretty much all about AI. That includes the biggest financing — a $1 billio…

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Blackstone’s Jas Khaira on building the next generation of AI giants

Blackstone's Jas Khaira will take the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on building next-gen AI. Register for your pass and get 50%…

Your Investors Can Make Or Break Your Startup. Here’s Who Founders Actually Need On Their Cap Table

For startup founders, the goal shouldn’t be assembling a cap table filled with whoever was willing to invest, but rather intentionally cons…

Reporter’s Notebook: Europe’s Sovereign AI Push Needs Customers As Well As Capital

Crunchbase News Research Lead Gené Teare moderated panels and spoke with leaders building Europe and the Middle East’s AI ecosystems at Hum…

Nautical And Marine Startups See Stepped-Up Funding

Over the past year, venture backers have poured close to $3 billion into good-sized rounds for marine-related startups in sectors ranging f…

We Got a $240,000 Estimate for Agent API Access. Our Agent Suggested a $5 Postgres Instance.

We run SaaStr with 3 humans and 21+ agents. 10K, our AI VP of Revenue, started as a simple dashboard and now runs most of our outbound, inb…

Circuit Breaker Labs hopes to make AI safer for your kids (and you)

With all the talk about how AI might one day kill us all, it's easy to forget that AI has already harmed some people psychologically. Circu…

Last 24 hours: Exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and reach 10,000+ tech leaders

Today is the last day to book your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. From October 13–15, 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, an…

How BorderPlus Is Turning India’s Talent Surplus Into A Global Workforce

A decade ago, the biggest demographic concern gripping the globe was population overgrowth. Cut to 2026, and the demographic worry…

Who are Europe’s fastest-growing companies?

IPO-Bound JSW One’s FY26 Loss Narrows 51% YoY To ₹107 Cr, Revenue Jumps 45%

JSW Group’s B2B ecommerce marketplace JSW One Platforms narrowed its consolidated net loss by 50.9% to ₹106.5 Cr in FY26…

The age of the scaleup fund

Do We Grow Software or Do We Design It?

Explores the contrast between organic 'growing' of software via vibe-coding and deterministic 'designing' via state machines and formal ver…

Sifted Summit day two: dispatch

ideaForge Faces ₹109 Cr GST Demand, Penalty Over Alleged Tax Underpayment

Drone maker ideaForge Technology has received a GST demand and penalty order totalling ₹109.2 Cr over alleged tax underpayment on…

Teachmint revenue jumps 2.8X to Rs 205 Cr in FY26

Edtech startup Teachmint continued its strong growth in FY26, with its operating revenue crossing the Rs 200 crore mark. The company also n…

Dear SaaStr: When Should We Start Pushing For Multi-Year Contracts?

For most of us: stop pushing for them in the Age of AI. The market has shifted, and fighting it costs you more than it gains. Here’s the re…

IPV leads Rs 7 Cr seed round in cybersecurity startup Zaperon

Cybersecurity startup Zaperon has raised Rs 7 crore in a seed funding round led by Inflection Point Ventures (IPV). The fresh funds will be…

Niyo’s income jumps 78% to Rs 178 Cr in FY26

Travel fintech platform Niyo’s income grew 78% year-on-year to Rs 178 crore in FY26, compared with Rs 100 crore in FY25, according to…

Inside ixigo’s Full-Stack Model: How Trains, Flights And Buses Are Funding Its Next Bets

Everything ixigo has done since it started off in 2007 can be called a stepping stone to get to where…

UPI Transactions Dip 2% MoM To 24.07 Bn In September

Amid ongoing debate over the future of UPI post the introduction of MDR, UPI transaction volumes for the month of…

After CEO, COO elevations, OTPless elevates Manas Poddar as CBO

Bengaluru-based identity and access management startup OTPless has elevated early team member Manas Poddar as Chief Business Officer (CBO),…

Seeds Fincap raises Rs 100 Cr in Series B led by Michael & Susan Dell Foundation

Gurugram-based NBFC Seeds Fincap has raised more than Rs 100 crore ($10.4 million) in a Series B round led by Michael & Susan Dell Foundati…

Unveilr AI raises pre-seed round from AJVC at Rs 16.7 Cr valuation

Mumbai based Unveilr AI has raised an undisclosed amount in a pre-seed round from Aviral Bhatnagar’s AJVC at a valuation of Rs 16.7 c…

Bangalore Watch Company raises $1.4 Mn in seed round from customers, family office, HNIs

Indian luxury watch brand Bangalore Watch Company (BWC) has raised $1.4 million in a seed round from a group of its customers, including fa…

Zig v0.17.0

Supabase is acquiring Turso

Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility

Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas

Show HN: Audionaut – an open-source cross-platform multitrack audio editor

Someone got Doom in an SQL database

1,300 lines of SQL querying renders accurate bitmapped views of Hell at 35 fps.

Meta open sources code to let you make Muse AI gadgets

Meta now lets you make your own Muse gadgets that feature the company's new AI agent with code that the company open sourced. The company s…

Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash

Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.

Netflix is pivoting away from prestige

Many of Netflix's biggest critically acclaimed hits have been the products of its multiyear production deals with noted directors like Davi…

Apple will limit Mac disk access as AI agents ‘substantially’ increase risk

Apple will add new limits for "full disk access" on Mac in response to risks posed by AI agents, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. In an u…

The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]

Lyft settles landmark driver misclassification lawsuit for $272.5M

Critics say workers are still owed far more.

US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China

Nvidia’s chip-smuggling problem won’t go away as arrests continue.

OpenAI’s Dot agent is enterprise software that can also order your dinner

It's a tale as old as last week: OpenAI's new agent platform, called Dots, is full of cute little guys who can do your bidding. But unlike…

Shimano Bicycle Museum Review

Nacon’s new PS5 controller can mix audio from your phone and console

Nacon announced what the company is claiming is the world's first officially licensed PlayStation 5 controller with a built-in screen for a…

ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts

Cybertruck sales in free fall as Tesla reports mediocre sales for Q3

Tesla met analysts expectations as it sold fewer cars in Q3 2026 than Q3 2025.

Dots get up in Muse’s business

OpenAI's answer to Muse arrived this week, and it looks a whole lot like Muse dressed up in a suit and tie. Dots is a business-first produc…

Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours

The 7-year-old Nvidia Shield TV is now $100 more expensive due to AI

Initially launched in 2019, the Nvidia Shield TV Pro now retails for $299.99.

Rocket Report: SpaceX completes launch triple-header; Rocket Lab nets big contract

Blue Origin seeks FAA approval for up to 50 New Glenn launches and 50 booster landings per year.

A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting

How Singapore's government-run dating service works

Muse Gadgets

Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS

FLUX 3 Image

GrapheneOS has fixed the Android 17 QPR1 kernel performance regression

On social reality in China

Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city

One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash

Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers

Patient-zero drill put health facilities to the test—40% of them failed

Actors with makeup and fake symptoms staggered into 73 healthcare facilities.

Sling TV drops its one-day cable passes

Dish-owned Sling TV will no longer be offering its Sling Pass feature that allowed people to buy a single day of cable TV programming at a…

The 2008 economic crisis changed the US's relationship with energy

It wasn't obvious at the time, but the US uncoupled carbon emissions and GDP growth.

Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed

Also: Spooky action at the LHC, Ice Age psychoactive use, yeast for building homes on Mars, and more.

Breaking up (with Elon Musk) is hard to do

In a throwback to MySpace-style internet drama, Shivon Zilis announced that she and the father of her four children, Elon Musk, had broken…

US military ends long-running program to spot nuclear missile launches

A newer program has been operational since 2011, and the next generation could launch within 12 months.

How I kept cool with NYC's free battery program for window AC units

Bonus: Every Electric’s batteries are beloved by household cats.

Rivian’s sales pop as the company’s big R2 bet starts to pay off

Rivian had high hopes for its more affordable R2 vehicle - and so far, those hopes appear to be paying off. The company released its third-…

Beehiiv creators are buzzing about a new price increase

Beehiiv, a creator platform that has risen in popularity as an alternative to Substack, is increasing its prices - and many users aren't ha…

NYC is now the first city in America that bans sketchy subscriptions

New York City residents struggling to get out of recurring subscription fees can now submit complaints to the city government. As of Thursd…

PS5 emulation is suddenly making big strides on PC

Games like Astro Bot and Demon’s Souls are running ably without a console.