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OpenAI's Assistants API stops working on August 26, 2026. That is six days from today. After that date, calls to /v1/assistants, /v1/threads and /v1/threads/runs return an error, according to OpenAI's
Wed Aug 19 2026 · 5 min read · 9 views

Anthropic cancelled the September 1 Claude Sonnet 5 price increase and made $2/$10 permanent. Here is what that changes for your model routing and budget.
Wed Aug 19 2026 · 5 min read · 8 views

Stay on Node.js 24 for production for another three weeks, test Node.js 26 in CI today, and move once 26 becomes LTS. Node.js 26 has been the Current release since May 5, 2026, and the official
Wed Aug 19 2026 · 8 min read · 26 views

If next build fails with Turbopack and passes with next build --webpack, the bundler is not broken. Something in your project is written for webpack, and Turbopack refuses it. Five causes cover almost
Wed Aug 19 2026 · 7 min read · 12 views

AMD raised Radeon prices 10% in August 2026 and the RTX 5090 sells near $4,700. Here is when to buy a GPU now and when to wait.
Wed Aug 19 2026 · 6 min read · 42 views

KB5121003 crashes ARC Raiders and The Finals on some PCs. Remove one old driver instead of rolling back 400+ security fixes.
Wed Aug 19 2026 · 6 min read · 11 views

Rust 1.98.0 shipped on August 20, 2026, exactly on its six-week schedule. One compatibility note in it deserves a check before you bump your toolchain. The compiler now takes a fast path for
Tue Aug 18 2026 · 5 min read · 8 views

Python 3.15.0 is out. The final release landed on October 9, 2026, eight days later than the October 1 date this blog first reported, after a third release candidate was added on October 2. The
Tue Aug 18 2026 · 6 min read · 19 views

TypeScript 7.0 is out and fast, but three months on, your lint step still cannot use it. On October 14, 2026 the latest TypeScript on npm is 7.0.2, and @typescript-eslint/parser 8.71.2 still declares
Tue Aug 18 2026 · 5 min read · 6 views

GitHub Copilot's promotional AI credits stop on August 31, 2026. Nothing about how your team writes code changes on September 1. The invoice does.
Tue Aug 18 2026 · 7 min read · 21 views

Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, Bloomberg reported on August 16, 2026. If your product calls a large language model through OpenRouter, nothing breaks this
Tue Aug 18 2026 · 7 min read · 7 views

Three of the largest PC makers now ship some notebooks with Chinese memory chips, and the machines that get them are sold outside the United States. That makes this a European shopping question rather
Sun Aug 16 2026 · 5 min read · 13 views

OpenAI now sells a model built to write exploits, and almost nobody can buy it. GPT-5.6-Cyber sits inside a tier called Daybreak Red, behind identity checks, legal paperwork and, from September 1,
Sun Aug 16 2026 · 5 min read · 9 views

Apple is set to launch three iPhone models in September 2026, and every one of them belongs to the premium tier. The standard iPhone 18 is not among them. That single change rewrites the autumn
Sun Aug 16 2026 · 5 min read · 14 views

There is now a public database of more than 1,600 court decisions worldwide in which someone filed AI-fabricated material and a judge responded. It is the largest documented record of AI being used
Sun Aug 16 2026 · 5 min read · 6 views

Browsers and chat apps are now happy to hand an AI agent your payment details and let it check out on your behalf. Nobody has told you what happens when the agent buys the wrong running shoes, buys
Sun Aug 16 2026 · 6 min read · 8 views

Two AI labelling laws switched on together on August 2, 2026 — Article 50 of the EU AI Act and California's AI Transparency Act — and almost every explainer written about them is aimed at compliance
Sun Aug 16 2026 · 6 min read · 5 views

DeepSeek bills the same request at two prices, and the price depends on the UTC clock and the day of the week. Output from the flagship V4-Pro model costs $3.96 per million tokens at peak and $1.98
Sat Aug 15 2026 · 15 min read · 49 views

Two uBlock Origin stories broke in August 2026, and most coverage has merged them into one. They are separate failures with separate fixes. On August 10, 2026, the people who maintain the extension
Sat Aug 15 2026 · 5 min read · 39 views

Apple sent a fresh wave of mercenary spyware warnings to users in 110 countries on August 13, 2026. The news is not that Apple warned people, because it has done that since 2021. The change is where
Sat Aug 15 2026 · 6 min read · 7 views