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Cloudflare Cuts 100TB of RAM From 1.1.1.1's DNS Cache — and Made It Faster

Cloudflare's DNS platform, internally called Big Pineapple, holds more than 250 billion cache entries at any moment across services like 1.1.1.1, Gateway DNS, a

via Hacker News ·
aidevops

Content Negotiation for Bots: Serving Markdown to AI Agents via Accept Headers

The pitch behind acceptmarkdown.com is that websites should treat AI agents as a distinct client class and hand them a stripped-down Markdown variant instead of

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Devs Replaced by AI Answer Back With an Open-Source AI CEO

Open Executive, released by Sente Labs, is a tongue-in-cheek rejoinder to executives who cut engineering headcount in favor of AI: an open-source system that pl

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FDA clears Rasonque, first RAS inhibitor for metastatic pancreatic cancer

The FDA has approved Rasonque (daraxonrasib), a once-daily tablet from Revolution Medicines, for adults with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma who have alrea

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Gates Warns There's 'No Plan' for AI's Coming Economic Upheaval

In a roughly 6,000-word essay published August 26, 2026, Bill Gates argues the shift into the AI era will be one of the most turbulent stretches in human histor

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Google ships Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash with production-grade video controls

Google has released Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, an update to its generative-video model aimed at developers building creative and media-editing tools, now available

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Himalayan Glacial-Lake Floods Could Be 15x Bigger Than Models Assume

Researchers modeling a transboundary basin on the Tibet–Nepal border found that worst-case glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) could be catastrophically larger

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IBM's next mainframe chip runs Arm and IBM Z code natively on the same cores

IBM used the Hot Chips conference to unveil a mainframe processor that can execute both Arm and IBM Z (or LinuxONE) instruction sets natively, the first silicon

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Mold Linker Hits Up to 112x Faster Than GNU ld by Parallelizing Every Pass

Linking—the build step that stitches compiled object files into a final executable or shared library—remains a stubborn bottleneck in the edit-compile-debug loo

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Nvidia in $13B talks to buy Hugging Face, testing open-source neutrality

Despite framing suggesting a done deal, Nvidia and Hugging Face have only held acquisition talks in recent weeks, with a potential valuation north of $13 billio

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Offline OpenStreetMap App CoMaps Guided Earthquake Rescuers in Signal-Dead Venezuela

CoMaps, a non-commercial, fully open-source navigation app built on OpenStreetMap data, proved its worth during the Venezuela earthquake response by working ent

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Stripe acquires Clerky, the legal-paperwork platform behind 23% of SV seed rounds

Stripe has agreed to acquire Clerky, an online service that handles routine legal paperwork for startups — incorporation documents, equity issuance, and financi

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