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#165 Qwen3.8's phantom Alibaba Cloud URL, a VB6 IDE in one HTML file, and ICLR's double Bengio
Qwen3.8 tool calls keep hitting an Alibaba Cloud bucket nobody configured. A VB6 IDE fits in one HTML file. ICLR's template has listed Bengio twice since 2018.
#164 AWS's English spend-limit docs lost a deletion warning, and Kolibri lands under Apache 2.0
Simon Willison wants hard budget caps on by default. AWS's English docs dropped a warning that ten translations keep. Kolibri lands under Apache 2.0.
#163 Supabase is buying Turso, Apple will tighten Full Disk Access, and Meta lets Muse run sudo
Supabase is buying Turso, the database one customer swapped in for $20-a-user Supabase projects. Apple will tighten Full Disk Access. Muse can now run sudo on a Pi.
#162 OpenAI calls the RubyGems DDoS benign, 25 Fields Medalists signed, 13 of 56 installs were real
Three named researchers traced May's RubyGems package flood to OpenAI's agents, which the company calls benign. Signups had been shut for nearly four days.
#161 React Native is out at Shopify, SWE-2 is built on Kimi K3, and OpenAI deleted its own hedge
Shopify rebuilt the Shop app natively in 12 weeks and says coding agents are why, not speed. Cognition's SWE-2 is post-trained on Moonshot's Kimi K3.
#160 Shopify absorbed Tailwind after its revenue fell 80%, while DeepSeek retires V4 Pro on Sept 14
Shopify absorbed Tailwind Labs eight months after its founder wrote that docs traffic fell 40% and revenue fell 80%. DeepSeek retires V4 Pro on Sept 14.