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427 stories · page 25 of 48Spotify puts a label on performers who do not exist
From mid-September, a profile with an AI-generated identity carries an AI Persona badge - on the banner, in search, next to every track. And by default, the algorithm recommends it to no one.
Read →Terabit DDoS attacks became a series: 935 in half a year
Cloudflare reports 23.2 million network DDoS attacks for the first half of 2026. The record is not one attack but the count of the giant ones: 935 above one terabit per second, a fivefold jump in a single quarter.
Read →NVIDIA brought a 30-billion model down to the home RTX card
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open mixture-of-experts model built to run locally: on an RTX computer, not in someone else's cloud. Alongside it ships NeMo Switchyard, an open router between models.
Read →Mistral promises European compute and a choice of where your data lives
Regional endpoints are now generally available: pick Europe or the US and processing stays there. Alongside comes a European compute programme targeting up to 1 gigawatt by 2030.
Read →Vercel fenced its agent sandboxes with a network wall
A box that isolates the processor but leaves the network open lets an agent carry the data out without ever leaving the box. Vercel adds a host-level firewall and keeps secrets outside the sandbox entirely.
Read →Shopify ends duties paid at the door on August 24
Managed Markets is dropping support for the scheme where the recipient pays duties on delivery. Merchants who do nothing switch automatically to payment at checkout.
Read →JetBrains put agents on a shared protocol and called it the LSP moment
ACP separates the editor from the agent: you swap agents without swapping environments and without losing project context. GitHub Copilot works as a protocol server, Claude Code connects through an adapter.
Read →A London studio builds identities with code and calls it material
Studio Dial builds visual systems with generative code: the motion of mixing a cocktail becomes the pattern in the menu, and every drink gets its own image. Their code is material in a designer's hand, not a machine drawing instead of them.
Read →Jeff Dean left Google after 27 years and started Discovery Loop
On August 5, Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le and Oriol Vinyals left Google and launched Discovery Loop - a public benefit corporation, with a mission to automate research cycles in frontier science. The departure was announced in the same letter from Sundar Pichai that put Koray Kavukcuoglu in charge of Gemini.
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