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Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning · 5

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
arXiv7/30/2026
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KAISEN: Reproducible Subgroup Fairness Auditing for Clinical Risk Models

Clinical risk models routinely achieve strong aggregate performance while producing materially different error rates across patient subgroups. Audit pipelines have been proposed to catch this, but their components are rarely stress-tested, so it is unclear which parts of an audit can be trusted and under what conditions. We present KAISEN, a five-phase audit pipeline covering subgroup stratification, disparity measurement, mechanism diagnostics, post-hoc mitigation, and drift monitoring, evaluated to the point of failure on a synthetic benchmark of 16 disease tasks, 15 social-determinant axes from Healthy People 2030, and three prespecified intersections. Authors: Sparsh Roy, Samuel Girmachew, Nishita Chavan.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning: Clinical risk models routinely achieve strong aggregate performance while producing materially different error rates across patient subgroups.

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arXiv7/30/2026
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AISPA: User-Centric System Prompt Auditing for Large Language Model Applications

System prompts are instructions configured by developers to govern the behaviors of foundation models in AI applications. They are used throughout commercial AI products, but are rarely disclosed to the public or regulators, creating a serious trust and accountability gap in the wide deployment of AI systems. In this paper, we introduce Artificial Intelligence System Prompt Assurance (AISPA), a user-centric framework for systematically auditing system prompts in AI systems. Authors: Xiangning Lin, Shenzhe Zhu, Shu Yang.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning: System prompts are instructions configured by developers to govern the behaviors of foundation models in AI applications.

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NVIDIA Technical Blog7/31/2026
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Co-Designing AI Model Attention for Fast, Interactive Long-Context Inference

As agentic and long-context workloads become common, the context lengths increase and attention consumes a larger share of inference time (Figure 1). Because... As agentic and long-context workloads become common, the context lengths increase and attention consumes a larger share of inference time (Figure 1).

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Read this for the official technical update in Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning: As agentic and long-context workloads become common, the context lengths increase and attention consumes a larger share of inference time (Figure 1).

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Microsoft Research Blog7/30/2026
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Echoverse: Deep, evolving environments for computer-use agents

Computer-use AI agents struggle with multi-step workflows like email and customer support. Echoverse trains agents in realistic environments rather than simply providing more training tasks, helping them improve as the tasks, tests, and environments evolve. The post Echoverse: Deep, evolving environments for computer-use agents appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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Read this for the official technical update in Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning: Computer-use AI agents struggle with multi-step workflows like email and customer support.

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Netflix Tech Blog7/30/2026
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GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix

Authors: Ying Li, Arjun Rao, Shradha Sehgal Introduction Recommendations sit at the heart of the Netflix experience. Our current production models rely on thousands of hand‑crafted features over users, items, and interactions, along with specialized architectures for sequence modeling, feature interactions, and multi‑task objectives. This stack has evolved over many years to support diverse content types (movies, series, games, live, podcasts) and product surfaces, but its complexity makes it costly to onboard new use cases: adding a content type or surface can require significant feature engineering, architecture change, infrastructure work, and experimentation.

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Read this for the engineering context in Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning: Our current production models rely on thousands of hand‑crafted features over users, items, and interactions, along with specialized architectures for sequence modeling, feature interactions, and multi‑task objectives.

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Automation / Agentic Systems · 5

Automation / Agentic Systems
arXiv7/30/2026
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Change2Task: From Repository Changes to Executable Coding Agent Tasks and Environments

Scaling coding agents requires a continuing supply of executable data for training, benchmarking, and continuous evaluation. Each task must couple a realistic software state with a specification, development tools, and reliable verification. To expand this supply, we present Change2Task, a system grounded in repository history that converts merged pull requests into verified tasks on healthy modern revisions of the same repository. Authors: Haomin Qi, Xingliang Wang, Xuanqi Gao.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Automation / Agentic Systems: Scaling coding agents requires a continuing supply of executable data for training, benchmarking, and continuous evaluation.

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arXiv7/30/2026
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ORCA-bench: How Ready Are Language Model Agents for Oncall?

Large language models can write, patch, and search code, but oncall root cause analysis (RCA) demands something different: reasoning over noisy metrics, logs, traces, and source code, starting from ambiguous user-facing reports, often hours after the incident began. We introduce ORCA-bench, a benchmark that puts general-purpose coding agents in a production-fidelity oncall setting. ORCA-bench pairs a live OpenTelemetry-instrumented microservice system--exposing six days of metrics, logs, and traces through real telemetry interfaces (Prometheus, Jaeger, and OpenSearch via Grafana) and full source-code access--with 1,079 RCA tasks that systematically vary report specificity, time-to-detection, and co-occurring fault scenarios. Authors: Albert Gong, Kyuseong Choi, Abhineet Agarwal.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Automation / Agentic Systems: Large language models can write, patch, and search code, but oncall root cause analysis (RCA) demands something different: reasoning over noisy metrics, logs, traces, and source code, starting from ambiguous user-facing reports, often hours after the incident began.

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arXiv7/30/2026
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Frontis-MA1: Training an AI4AI Model towards Recursive Self-Improvement in Machine Learning Engineering

, AI4AI); machine learning engineering (MLE) offers a concrete, executable testbed for studying this capability. We introduce OpenMLE, an open full-stack system for RSI research in MLE, spanning verifiable task environments with execution feedback (OpenMLE-Gym), operator learning (OpenMLE-RL), and long-horizon search (OpenMLE-Evo). On this stack we post-train Frontis-MA1 (35B) as a meta-evolution agent for MLE, aligning post-training and inference around four atomic program-evolution operators (Draft, Improve, Debug, Crossover): the same operators are trained via execution-grounded SFT and RL on data deduplicated against all evaluation benchmarks, then composed into long-horizon search, coupling learning and evolution in a single loop. Authors: Junlin Yang, Che Jiang, Yu Fu.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Automation / Agentic Systems: , AI4AI); machine learning engineering (MLE) offers a concrete, executable testbed for studying this capability.

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arXiv7/30/2026
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Beacon: Knowing When and How to Perform Agentic Visual Reasoning

The fundamental goal of agentic visual reasoning is to improve the success rate of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) on complex tasks, rather than merely equipping them with a sophisticated yet inefficient reasoning paradigm. In this work, we rethink agentic visual reasoning through two key dimensions of tool use: Mode Adaptiveness (MA) and Tool Effect (TE). Mode Adaptiveness characterizes whether an MLLM can recognize when tools are truly necessary and invoke them accordingly, thereby avoiding unnecessary computational overhead while improving performance on challenging problems that require tool assistance. Authors: Qixun Wang, Yang Shi, Letian Cheng.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Automation / Agentic Systems: The fundamental goal of agentic visual reasoning is to improve the success rate of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) on complex tasks, rather than merely equipping them with a sophisticated yet inefficient reasoning paradigm.

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arXiv7/30/2026
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AskChem: Claim-Centered Infrastructure for Chemistry Literature Synthesis

Chemistry literature synthesis often requires assembling specific findings scattered across many publications, yet existing literature-search systems primarily return ranked document lists. As a result, scientists and AI agents need to locate relevant information, verify their provenance, and assemble cross-paper answers manually. We present AskChem, a claim-centered infrastructure for cross-paper chemistry search. Authors: Bing Yan, Gregory Wolfe, Stefano Martiniani.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Automation / Agentic Systems: Chemistry literature synthesis often requires assembling specific findings scattered across many publications, yet existing literature-search systems primarily return ranked document lists.

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Research Papers · 5

Research Papers
arXiv7/30/2026
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Effects of Auditory Information for People With Visual Impairments in Highly Automated Vehicles

Automated vehicles promise to improve accessibility and access to personal mobility for everyone. However, their design and current research trends in visualizing relevant information do not reflect this commitment to accessibility for users with visual impairments. Therefore, we designed and implemented a visual and auditory communication concept for people with visual impairments seated inside fully automated vehicles. Authors: Mark Colley, Tobias Aescht, Omid Rajabi.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Research Papers: Automated vehicles promise to improve accessibility and access to personal mobility for everyone.

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arXiv7/30/2026
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Formalization of security

Proof assistants are often used to validate that designs and implementations meet their expected security properties. A further motivation for using proof assistants is to support certification. This chapter focuses on their applications to system security, language-based security, secure compilation, and cryptography. Authors: Gilles Barthe.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Research Papers: Proof assistants are often used to validate that designs and implementations meet their expected security properties.

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arXiv7/30/2026
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Implementing Homomorphic Encryption-Based Logic Locking in System-on-Chip Designs

This study presents a logic locking scheme based on the binary Ring Learning With Errors algorithm, implemented in a RISC-V System-on-Chip design. Unlike traditional logic locking methods that require providing users with raw locking parameters, the proposed approach secures critical logic paths in the privilege switching process without exposing these sensitive parameters. 9% in Registers compared to the baseline system. Authors: Ye Ziyang, Makoto Ikeda.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Research Papers: This study presents a logic locking scheme based on the binary Ring Learning With Errors algorithm, implemented in a RISC-V System-on-Chip design.

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arXiv7/30/2026
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CrossAtlas: Evaluating Projection Techniques for Spatial Referencing in Cross-Reality Collaboration

Cross-reality collaboration increasingly connects immersive and desktop users within synchronized workspaces, yet little is known about how bidirectional projection techniques between immersive 3D layouts and desktop 2D views influence communication. Spatial referencing depends on shared spatial understanding, but different mappings preserve and distort geometric relationships in different ways, altering perceived adjacency, orientation, and coverage across collaborators' views. We present CrossAtlas, a synchronized PC-VR collaboration platform that integrates multiple bidirectional projection techniques, including three planar projection variants and equirectangular, a spherical projection variant, across layouts of varying curvature. Authors: Haoyang Yang, Chenyang Zhang, Elliott H. Faa.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Research Papers: Cross-reality collaboration increasingly connects immersive and desktop users within synchronized workspaces, yet little is known about how bidirectional projection techniques between immersive 3D layouts and desktop 2D views influence communication.

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arXiv7/30/2026
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Multi-Session User Experience Assessments of Computationally Optimized Automated Vehicle Functionality Visualizations

Understanding automated vehicles (AVs) is crucial to improving their acceptance. Numerous approaches to visualizing relevant traffic information to passengers have been proposed and empirically evaluated. As this is time-consuming, costly, and reduces the possible design parameters, we employed multi-objective Bayesian optimization to optimize the design of visualizations in AVs. Authors: Mark Colley, Pascal Jansen, Svenja Krauss.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Research Papers: Understanding automated vehicles (AVs) is crucial to improving their acceptance.

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Embedded Systems · 5

Embedded Systems
arXiv7/30/2026
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A subspace approach to data-driven predictive control for linear parameter-varying systems

This paper presents a subspace data-driven predictive control method for linear parameter-varying (LPV) systems. Starting from an affine LPV state-space model in innovation form, we derive a multi-step predictor that separates the effects of past data, future inputs, scheduling trajectories, and innovations. By projecting this representation onto the row span of lifted input-output-scheduling data, we obtain an asymptotically unbiased data-driven predictor that can be embedded directly in a receding-horizon control problem, without explicitly identifying an LPV model. Authors: Federico Porcari, Chris Verhoek, Valentina Breschi.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Embedded Systems: presents a subspace data-driven predictive control method for linear parameter-varying (LPV) systems.

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Hackster.io8/1/2026
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Running a 28.9M Parameter LLM on an $8 Microcontroller

When you think of large language models (LLMs), powerful GPUs with dozens or even hundreds of gigabytes of memory likely come to mind. That's the kind of hardware it takes to run today's cutting-edge models. It would be hard to imagine this type of algorithm running on a tiny microcontroller, yet one developer has managed to do exactly that.

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Read this for the engineering context in Embedded Systems: When you think of large language models (LLMs), powerful GPUs with dozens or even hundreds of gigabytes of memory likely come to mind.

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Hackster.io7/31/2026
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Espressif's ESP32-S31 Dual-Core Edge-Smarts Microcontroller Hits the Mainstream, Launches at $4.51

Espressif has announced that its dual-core ESP32-S31, a high-performance RISC-V microcontroller targeting on-device machine learning (ML) at the edge, has entered mass production — and you can order the chips now, if you're willing to pay a hefty shipping fee. " The company announced ESP32-S31 development boards, the CoreBoard and Korvo, earlier this year as the first to be built around the part. Designed around the free and open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture, the ESP32-S31 doubles the usual core count to two 32-bit RISC-V cores running at up to 320MHz, includes a third ultra-low-power coprocessor, includes 512kB of static RAM (SRAM) for the main cores and 32kB for the ULP coprocessor, comes with 320kB of flash ROM with support for external flash and pseudo-static RAM (PSRAM) expansion, and includes 60 general-purpose input/output (GPIO) pins.

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Read this for the engineering context in Embedded Systems: Espressif has announced that its dual-core ESP32-S31, a high-performance RISC-V microcontroller targeting on-device machine learning (ML) at the edge, has entered mass production — and you can order the chips now, if you're willing to pay a hefty shipping fee.

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arXiv7/30/2026
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On the Implementation of Two-Parameter Stabilizing Controllers Using Stable-Block Input-Output Feedback Structures

This paper a universal implementation method for continuous- and discrete-time two-parameter (2-DOF) stabilizing controllers using exclusively stable constituent blocks. The framework is valid for all regular SISO and MIMO plants, particularly those failing to satisfy the parity interlacing property where unstable controllers are unavoidable. Unlike existing algebraic approaches that compromise parametric design freedom to force sub-block stability, the proposed method preserves design precedence. Authors: Fernando di Sciascio.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Embedded Systems: a universal implementation method for continuous- and discrete-time two-parameter (2-DOF) stabilizing controllers using exclusively stable constituent blocks.

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Hackaday8/1/2026
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Browser-based 3D Editor Covers The Basics While Staying Local

Got an idea and want to make a simple 3D model, but don't want to install a full-fledged CAD modeling suite and queue up a few hours of tutorial videos?

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Read this for the engineering context in Embedded Systems: Got an idea and want to make a simple 3D model, but don't want to install a full-fledged CAD modeling suite and queue up a few hours of tutorial videos?

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Computer Systems · 5

Computer Systems
arXiv7/30/2026
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Quantum Fidelity-per-Cost: A Metric for Evaluation of Quantum Computing Systems

Cloud-accessible quantum computing has made hardware comparison not only a physics benchmark but also a practical purchasing decision. Cost-aware comparison of quantum computers remains underexplored and is difficult to do under the heterogeneous billing models offered by various cloud-based quantum computing providers. This paper makes two main contributions to enable price-aware comparison of quantum computers. Authors: Siddarth Shinde, Jakub Szefer.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Computer Systems: Cloud-accessible quantum computing has made hardware comparison not only a physics benchmark but also a practical purchasing decision.

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GitHub Engineering7/31/2026
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Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed

How a branch-free loop and byte-space arithmetic let GitHub case-fold every byte of code search at >45 GiB/s on a single core. The post Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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Read this for the official technical update in Computer Systems: How a branch-free loop and byte-space arithmetic let GitHub case-fold every byte of code search at >45 GiB/s on a single core.

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CNCF Blog7/31/2026
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Scaling Kubernetes pods with KEDA based on Amazon SQS queue depth

In event-driven Kubernetes architectures, CPU and memory utilization often fail to reflect real system pressure. A worker pod may sit idle from a CPU perspective while thousands of messages pile up in an Amazon SQS queue...

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Read this for the official technical update in Computer Systems: In event-driven Kubernetes architectures, CPU and memory utilization often fail to reflect real system pressure.

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LWN.net7/31/2026
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The future of libraries in BPF

Song Liu believes that the way that programmers assemble complex BPF programs will be changing rapidly in the future. At a session of the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, he shared his thoughts on what that change could look like, though he did not have any concrete proposals for what, if anything, the BPF maintainers should do. He anticipates an ecosystem of Rust BPF packages developing, which is significant because BPF does not really have a package manager at the moment.

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Read this for the concrete reporting in Computer Systems: Song Liu believes that the way that programmers assemble complex BPF programs will be changing rapidly in the future.

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arXiv7/30/2026
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Safe Quotes for Retroactive Liquidity Pools

Automated market makers exchange assets through liquidity pools whose quoted prices depend on their reserves, with constant product pools being the most common. When such pools reside on different blockchains or shards, a sequence of swaps cannot in general be executed atomically. Aanes et al. Authors: Peter Bro Miltersen.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Computer Systems: Automated market makers exchange assets through liquidity pools whose quoted prices depend on their reserves, with constant product pools being the most common.

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Developer Tools / Open Source
Vercel Blog7/30/2026
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10x more capacity for Laguna S 2.1 on AI Gateway

from Poolside now has 10x more capacity on AI Gateway. 1AI SDK To run it in a coding agent, use to connect your agents to AI Gateway, then select or in the agent's model configuration. 1-freecoding agents guide AI Gateway gives you one API to hundreds of models, with usage tracking, retries, failover, and higher-than-provider uptime built in.

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Read this for the official technical update in Developer Tools / Open Source: from Poolside now has 10x more capacity on AI Gateway.

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Docker Blog7/30/2026
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The Future of Agentic AI Depends on Openness and Trust. That's Why Docker Is Joining Nvidia's Open Secure AI Alliance.

Docker joins NVIDIA's Open Secure AI Alliance to help build the security, governance, and trust frameworks that agentic AI systems demand.

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Read this for the official technical update in Developer Tools / Open Source: Docker joins NVIDIA's Open Secure AI Alliance to help build the security, governance, and trust frameworks that agentic AI systems demand.

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Hackaday8/1/2026
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Open Source Stream Deck Targets Flexibility

Stream decks are very useful when you're live on camera and you need to hit some complicated macro at a glance.

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Read this for the engineering context in Developer Tools / Open Source: Stream decks are very useful when you're live on camera and you need to hit some complicated macro at a glance.

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GitHub Blog7/30/2026
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Stacked sessions and pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app

Learn how I modernized an old codebase of mine using stacked sessions and pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app. The post Stacked sessions and pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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Read this for the official technical update in Developer Tools / Open Source: Learn how I modernized an old codebase of mine using stacked sessions and pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app.

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arXiv7/30/2026
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PAIChecker: Uncovering and Checking PR-Issue Misalignment in SWE-Bench-Like Benchmarks

SWE-bench-like benchmarks are widely used for evaluating LLM's issue resolution capability. They typically follow a common construction pipeline: each PR (Pull Request) is paired with its linked issue by extracting issue references from the PR description; the issue description is used as the problem statement, and the PR patch serves as the test oracle. However, due to the inherent complexity of developing and maintaining large repositories, such PR-Issue pairings are often misaligned in practice. Authors: Manyi Wang, Junjielong Xu, Pinjia He.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Developer Tools / Open Source: SWE-bench-like benchmarks are widely used for evaluating LLM's issue resolution capability.

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Cloud / Infrastructure · 4

Cloud / Infrastructure
Cloudflare Blog7/31/2026
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An API for MoQ: provision your own isolated relays

Last year we made every Cloudflare server a Media over QUIC (MoQ) relay. Now the new provisioning API lets you create your own isolated relay and control who can publish and who can only watch.

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Read this for the official technical update in Cloud / Infrastructure: Last year we made every Cloudflare server a Media over QUIC (MoQ) relay.

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Cloudflare Blog7/30/2026
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Dogfooding at scale: migrating cdnjs to Cloudflare's Developer Platform

We moved cdnjs, serving 9 billion requests a day, entirely onto Cloudflare's Developer Platform. That means we're running one of the Internet's busiest open-source CDNs on our own building blocks, and we pushed Workflows and Workers limits higher for everyone.

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Read this for the official technical update in Cloud / Infrastructure: We moved cdnjs, serving 9 billion requests a day, entirely onto Cloudflare's Developer Platform.

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Netflix Tech Blog7/31/2026
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Modeling Device Capabilities for Analytics

by Aarti Laddha, Richard Diaz-Cool, Rishika Idnani, Venkatesh Selveraj Netflix supports a vast and evolving set of features and content types, ranging from 4K streaming and immersive audio to live streaming and cloud gaming, across a diverse ecosystem of devices. However, not all devices are created equal. Hardware limitations such as available RAM, CPU cores, display capabilities, or platform support mean that some features cannot be supported on certain device models.

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Read this for the engineering context in Cloud / Infrastructure: by Aarti Laddha, Richard Diaz-Cool, Rishika Idnani, Venkatesh Selveraj Netflix supports a vast and evolving set of features and content types, ranging from 4K streaming and immersive audio to live streaming and cloud gaming, across a diverse ecosystem of devices.

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LWN.net7/31/2026
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Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption

The Arch Linux DevOps team has announced that adoption of orphaned packages in the Arch User Repository (AUR) has been disabled due to "the current influx of malicious package adoptions and follow-up commits made via the AUR". Michael Taggart has posted a brief analysis of the malware being added to a long list of packages in this round of attacks. The payload appears to be an remote-access trojan (RAT) that takes commands over the Tor network and attempts to upload a wide range of user data.

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Read this for the concrete reporting in Cloud / Infrastructure: The Arch Linux DevOps team has announced that adoption of orphaned packages in the Arch User Repository (AUR) has been disabled due to "the current influx of malicious package adoptions and follow-up commits made via the AUR".

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