Daily Tuesday, 13 October 2026
Tuesday, 13 October 2026
Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic
Spotify More Than Doubled Monthly Code Changes as AI Accelerated Development
Spotify reports that AI-assisted development more than doubled monthly merged changes, prompting a review of quality and reliability contro…
How to Build Models Without Language, with Logical Intelligence
Something unusual happened in a public Sudoku experiment early this year.
Turning Opportunistic AI Inference Capacity Into Better Ads Recommendations
At Meta, we’ve built a system that enhances ads recommendations by leveraging idle inference capacity in our fleet. Two elasticity levers i…
Shipping Media Over QUIC at Meta Scale for Instagram Live Ingest
Meta has begun deploying Media over QUIC (MoQ), an emerging open protocol for real-time video streaming at scale. MoQ will help simplify ou…
Announcing AWS Lambda Web Functions
AWS Lambda Web Functions is a serverless compute primitive that runs your HTTP framework natively, delivering fast, consistent responses th…
Research Firm Calls Anthropic's IPO 'Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity'
🎙️ How I AI: How Meta designed Muse with Alex Cornell
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How Meta designed Muse: an AI agent people actually want to talk to | Alex Cornell (Design Director)
Listen now | 🎙️Alex Cornell explains how Muse serves your mom and an engineer with the same interface, and demos a SkyMall-style catalog,…
Our AI Agent Picked Render Over Railway and Vercel. I’d Barely Heard of It. That’s How You Get Leads in The Agent Age.
I asked our agent for SaaStr AI Connect a simple question this week: if we wanted to move hosting, where should we go? It came back with a…
Sales in the Age of AI
Bardia Shahali, VP of Sales at Granola, joins Office Hours to discuss what the sales organization should look like in the AI era, drawing o…
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QGIS enacts moratorium on AI contributions
Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?
AI is a tool and using it well takes skill
web-edit 0.1a0
Release: web-edit 0.1a0 I was working on a project from my phone using Codex Remote when I found myself wanting to edit a credentials file…
Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later
Postgres isn't slow, your storage is
datasette-ports 0.4
Release: datasette-ports 0.4 My plugin for detecting and listing all Datasette instances on the current machine now works with the latest v…
Simulating student learning for better AI tutoring
StudentSim is a research system for evaluating and improving AI tutoring tools before they are tested with learners. It models how individu…
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to teach Copilot about your codebase
Learn how to add custom instructions and skills to your repository, use custom agents, and connect MCP servers like Playwright. The post Gi…
Podcast: What Does It Really Mean To Program With AI: A Conversation with Joy Ebertz
In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke to Joy Ebertz about how the use of artificial intelligence is changing the way architects and develo…
Java News Roundup: Grails 8, Open Liberty, GlassFish, Infinispan, LangChain4j, Spock
This week's Java roundup for October 5th, 2026, features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs Proposed to Target for JDK 28; Lazy Constants elev…
Article: When Should You Use Liquid Clustering? Benchmarking Lakehouse Layout Strategies
Physical data layout is one of the most consequential decisions in lakehouse engineering. The author compares Liquid Clustering, ZOrdering,…
RAG access control: 3 ways to enforce document permissions in AI apps
On-behalf-of tokens (Databricks), live ACL re-checks (AWS), and parent-level fine-grained authorization: how each keeps an AI assistant fro…
What Okta and Entra ID actually send to your SCIM endpoint
Real request bodies from the two directories most enterprise customers use, where they part ways with RFC 7644 and the new interoperability…
GitLab Critical Patch Release: 19.4.2, 19.3.4, 19.2.8
Three OAuth account takeovers, one bug: Auto-linking by email
Pingvin Share X, Better Auth and AshAuthentication each attached a stranger's OAuth sign-in to someone else's account. Here's how each chec…
Filter, reshape, and redact logs before export with Transformers
Logpush now supports Transformers, allowing teams to filter, redact, and reshape log streams using SQL before export. Powered by Apache Dat…
Muse Wonder now available on AI Gateway
Presentation: You Can't Trust Your AI Bill. And Neither Can I
Erik Peterson discusses why AI spend is eclipsing cloud bills, triggering a major software engineering cost crisis. He explains tokenmaxxin…
Beyond the AI noise: How Stack Overflow is rethinking tech hiring
It’s gotten exponentially harder to identify talent that we feel is a good fit for our teams at the top of the application funnel.
Build Your Game Challenge: Join in and Compete for Prizes
This October, we’re launching a new challenge for the JetBrains Academy community. To take part, complete our Build a Game With an AI Codin…
OCP Summit 2026: Powering AI with Open Innovations in Scale-Up, Scale-Out, and Scale-Across Networks
At the 2026 Open Compute Project Global Summit, Meta is sharing the next generation of open networking infrastructure, including: Our first…
The Latest SaaStr AI Agent Playbook for GTM Is Out: Everything We’ve Learned Running SaaStr on 3 Humans and 21+ AI Agents, In One Handy Guide
We just shipped the biggest update yet to our AI Agent Playbook for GTM. It is the October 2026 edition: 53 pages, 27 parts, every number,…
KL Rahul-backed Boldfit raises over Rs 400 Cr in Series B round led by Bharat Value Fund
Boldfit, a homegrown sports brand, has raised over Rs 400 crore (nearly $42 million) in its Series B funding round led by Bharat Value Fund…
India’s Cleantech Funding Boom, The AI Safety Drill & More
EVs Power Cleantech Funding Boom India’s cleantech story accelerated in Q3 2026. The quarter saw the sector nearly triple its…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts tomorrow: Your final chance to secure up to $100 ticket savings
Tomorrow at 8 a.m. PT, it all begins z— 10,000+ founders, investors, and tech operators will gather at San Francisco’s Moscone West for Tec…
Mesa School Bags ₹110 Cr To Launch New On-Campus Courses
Bengaluru-based Mesa School of Business has raised ₹110 Cr ($11.4 Mn) in its Series A funding round in a mix…
WindBorne wins a hefty US Air Force contract for its balloon data
A Silicon Valley startup that uses weather balloons and AI to predict the weather won a U.S. military contract worth almost $50 million.
Honeyjar offers AI tools to improve PR and comms at every company
Journalists, entrepreneurs, and even some public relations professionals will tell you that the PR process is broken. But could AI actually…
Smart ring maker Ultrahuman to roll out biological-age model across UAE
Ultrahuman and Abu Dhabi will spend the next two years working on research and clinical validation of the model.
Qualcomm Sells Shadowfax Shares Worth ₹157 Cr In Bulk Deal
Early backer Qualcomm Ventures has sold 57.1 Lakh shares of listed logistics company Shadowfax via an open-market transaction for ₹157.3…
RDI Fund Announces First Cohort Of 19 Fund Managers, Eyes Deploying ₹7,131 Cr To Strengthen Deeptech Startups
Central government-backed ₹1 Lakh Cr Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) Fund has approved 19 second-level fund managers (SLFMs) wit…
Nazara Top Deck Shuffle: Founder Mittersain Steps Down As MD; Caratlane’s Sacheti Takes Executive Role
Listed gaming major Nazara Technologies announced a major leadership reshuffle today, highlighted by founder Nitish Mittersain stepping dow…
Whizzo To Raise $26 Mn From Aavishkaar Capital, Bertelsmann
Bengaluru-based Whizzo is in talks to raise around $26 Mn in its Series B funding round which could be co-led…
Stryker to invest $400m in CMR Surgical, with option to buy it outright
Energy unicorn 1Komma5 raises €70m as IPO plans remain on ice
[Update] Alpha Wave Ventures Sells Lenskart Shares Worth ₹1,705 Cr
Update | October 12, 20:00 IST Lenskart early backer Alpha Wave Ventures has sold 2.64 Cr shares in a bulk deal…
Nazara’s Nitish Mittersain steps down as MD; Mithun Sacheti becomes executive director, Arun Agrawal named CFO
Nazara Technologies founder Nitish Mittersain will step down as managing director and transition to the role of founder and non executive d…
PharmEasy Parent API Holdings’ FY26 Loss Declines 67% YoY To ₹520 Cr
PharmEasy parent API Holdings narrowed its consolidated net loss by 67% to ₹520 Cr in the fiscal year ended March…
Brands Have A New Mission: How To Get AI To Say Your Name
“Have you ever clicked your mouse HERE? You will.” That was the text accompanying the first banner ad on the…
Deeptech Funding Zooms 2.8X YoY In Q3 Despite Tighter Deal Flow
India’s deeptech startups raised substantially more capital in Q3 2026, even as the number of deals edged lower. As per…
D2C Brand Boldfit Raises ₹400 Cr From Bharat Value Fund For Retail Expansion
D2C fitness and sportswear brand Boldfit has raised around ₹400 Cr (about $41.8 Mn) from Bharat Value Fund as part…
UK government mulls compulsory AI safety reporting
How XSCACE Is Taking On Bose And B&O With 12mm-Thin Speakers
For decades, names like Bose, Marshall, Bang & Olufsen and KEF have shaped how the world listens to music. Their…
Hero Electronix-Owned Tessolve Secures $75 Mn To Expand Semiconductor Capabilities
Hero Electronix-owned Tessolve Semiconductor raised $75 Mn (₹718 Cr) in a funding round led by Vector Line Capital, with additional…
European consumers are begging for better customer support
InCred Capital appoints Abhinav Khanna as Capital Markets CEO, Abhimanyu Kalra as MD of Equities
InCred Capital has appointed Abhinav Khanna as CEO of Capital Markets and Abhimanyu Kalra as managing director and co-head of equities as i…
Zetwerk IPO: Early investors set for up to 38X returns through OFS
Zetwerk’s upcoming IPO is expected to deliver multi-fold returns to several early investors, with Kae Capital and Kalysta Capital set…
BYJU’S Parent To Hold 32% Stake In Aakash After Settlement: Report
Think & Learn Pvt Ltd (TLPL), the insolvent parent of BYJU’s, is set to hold around 32% in Aakash Educational…
Tonbo Imaging Sets IPO Price Band At ₹665-₹700 For ₹852 Cr Issue
Defence tech company Tonbo Imaging India has set a price band of ₹665-₹700 per equity share for its ₹852.1 Cr…
Zetwerk Sets IPO Price Band At ₹143-₹151 For ₹5,012 Cr Issue
B2B manufacturing company Zetwerk has set a price band of ₹143-₹151 per share for its IPO, which will be worth…
Scarcity is the mother of European AI invention
Exclusive: Project Europe leads step down as fund readies next chapter
The ‘biggest threat’ China poses for European startups isn’t what you think
Europe’s fastest-growing fintechs are queueing up for growth-stage funding rounds
Pledge, Sell, Pledge Again: Bhavish Agarwal & Ola Electric’s Dilemma
For close to two years, Bhavish Aggarwal has been stuck between a rock and a hard place. All to keep…
Zetwerk sets IPO price band at Rs 143-151; eyes Rs 5,012 Cr from issue
Manufacturing platform Zetwerk has fixed the price band for its initial public offering (IPO) at Rs 143-151 per share. The Bengaluru-based…
Efferon wants to eradicate the devastating toll of pediatric sepsis
This Battlefield 200 startup has developed blood-purification tech to save children.
Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth
Muse Wonder
Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default
GLM-Legal
Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe
, , Related: I think the military commissary's freezers wer…
A Modern Web App in C
I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google
Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age
Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver
Thinking will become a hobby
'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey
OpenFatigue™ – Open is the new closed
Anthropic's Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police
“I may have information regarding this case," Claude AI told Philly police.
Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly
Meta has some Wonder Full new AI models
Meta is making up for lost time in the AI race. After launching Muse Spark, the first model from its revamped Superintelligence Labs divisi…
The Yandex outage probably didn’t blitz Russian bots
Multiple Ukrainian drone strikes over the last week have taken Russian data centers offline and reportedly caused online bot traffic to plu…
Android is the best and worst thing about Googlebooks
My first week with the new Android-powered laptops has been about as rocky as anyone's, but I've slowly learned to like them, even if love…
Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?
Google announces the Fitbit Edge, a middle ground between Pixel Watch 5 and Fitbit Air
The Fitbit Edge offers more than the Air, but it's not a real smartwatch.
The Fitbit Edge is for folks who don’t want to go totally screenless
The Fitbit Edge may not be Google's best-kept fitness-tracking secret, but as of today, its existence is official. The tracker sits smack-d…
Amazon has over 1 million robot workers. What’s next for human employees?
The second-largest corporate employer has bet big on robot workers to scale.
RJ Mitte has died
Fable Took My Job
Type-safe HTML templating in Zig
Feds got warrants to use fake cell towers to hunt down Don Lemon's producer
French supermarkets suffer fridge shutdown after 'unprecedented' cyberattack
Who Is Vfmaddrnd231pd?
Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack
Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues
Zod 4.6.6 compromised by malware?
Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers
Solar panels that plug into your wall
Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones
39-year-old unvaccinated woman becomes 6th measles death in Pennsylvania
As of Friday, state health officials reported 1,136 cases across 41 counties.
The Social Reckoning is flopping at the box office
As important as some of the messages in The Social Reckoning are, the movie has been drastically underperforming at the box office. Per Var…
Epic Games reportedly pivoting to "AI first" game development model
"No more hand-written code" or AI-free art for delayed Marvel/Star Wars shooter.
After a 10-year redemption arc, No Man's Sky is coming to the iPhone and iPad
You can get a universe in your pocket if you have an iPhone 11 or later.
WHO report on Russian lab worker death highlights "key uncertainty"
Without a cause of death, it's unclear if Russia's precautions were the right ones.
Russia was not ready for the data center war it started with Ukraine
Russian bloggers warn Russia’s hyper-centralized digital economy is vulnerable.
Elon Musk has donated over $276 million to Republican midterm efforts
Elon Musk has handed out at least $276 million to Republican groups since July, The New York Times reports, making him both the party's top…
Long-lost horror gaming cult classic P.T. gets a much-needed PC port
Kojima's discontinued "playable trailer" is no longer stuck on a few aging PS4 hard drives.
Mechanism’s first Switch 2 case is as awesome as I hoped it would be
Most companies have slowed down releasing new Switch 2 cases, but one of my favorite accessory makers recently debuted its first, after a f…
F1 in Singapore: There's a new fastest car now
Also, F1’s final sprint saw our first real wet racing of the year.
No Man’s Sky is coming to the iPhone and iPad
The No Man's Sky universe is about to get a little bit smaller - but in a good way. Hello Games announced that its long-running sci-fi expl…
The OnePlus 16 is the company’s most interesting phone in years
Today the OnePlus 16 launched in China, the company's first flagship phone since quitting both the US and European markets this summer. As…
CMF’s first wireless speakers look like musical milk cartons
The CMF Speaker Series are the first portable Bluetooth speakers from the budget-focused brand that Nothing created but is in the process o…