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Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning · 5

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
arXiv7/31/2026
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Development of FDD-ON: an Ontology for VAV HVAC System Fault Detection and Diagnostics

Fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) technology is essential for improving HVAC system reliability, energy efficiency, and maintenance effectiveness. However, effective deployment of FDD solutions in buildings requires structured domain knowledge that can bridge heterogeneous data sources, diverse equipment types, and varied diagnostic outputs. Limited data interpretability and interoperability within the FDD domain have led to fragmented information silos, hindering the implementation of FDD and related applications, such as the digital twin-enabled FDD frameworks and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven maintenance decision-making systems. Authors: Yimin Chen, Brian Fricke, Bo Shen.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning: Fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) technology is essential for improving HVAC system reliability, energy efficiency, and maintenance effectiveness.

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arXiv7/31/2026
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Freeze, Then Select: Structured Field Adapters and Stability-Validated Weak Selection for PDE Discovery from Sparse Observations

PDE discovery from sparse observations requires reconstructing a continuous field and selecting the correct differential terms. Our analysis of optimization paths in coupled neural PDE discovery reveals three behaviors: the exact support can persist to the end of training, appear only transiently, or fail to emerge. To decouple equation selection from neural optimization, we develop a freeze-then-select method combining a structured field adapter with Stability-Validated Weak Selection (SVWS). Authors: Juncheng Zhong, Chenghuang Shen, Jianfeng Liu.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning: PDE discovery from sparse observations requires reconstructing a continuous field and selecting the correct differential terms.

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arXiv7/31/2026
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The Theoretical Foundation of Socratic Tests: Dynamic, Multimodal, Conversational Examinations

Traditional static assessments rely on a subtractive, deficit-based grading model that often penalizes ambition and obscures diagnostic feedback. Conversely, traditional face-to-face oral examinations introduce severe construct-irrelevant variance by exacerbating performative anxiety and the sociological power imbalances inherent to academic hierarchies. This paper presents the theoretical foundation for the "Socratic Test," an automated, computer-mediated conversational assessment. Authors: Ilya Mikhelson.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning: Traditional static assessments rely on a subtractive, deficit-based grading model that often penalizes ambition and obscures diagnostic feedback.

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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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NVIDIA Technical Blog7/31/2026
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NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 13.1: Zero-Copy Transcode, AV1 B-Frames, and Frame-Accurate Seek

The demand for high-quality video continues to accelerate across industries, powering everything from immersive streaming experiences to remote collaboration,... The demand for high-quality video continues to accelerate across industries, powering everything from immersive streaming experiences to remote collaboration, generative AI media tools, and large-scale content delivery. Behind these experiences is a growing need for video pipelines that are faster, more efficient, and capable of handling increasingly complex formats and workloads.

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Read this for the official technical update in Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning: The demand for high-quality video continues to accelerate across industries, powering everything from immersive streaming experiences to remote collaboration,...

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Automation / Agentic Systems · 5

Automation / Agentic Systems
arXiv7/31/2026
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From Code Review to Code Critique: Intent, Drift, and Spotlight for AI-Generated Diffs at Scale

AI coding agents are generating code at volumes that exceed the capacity of traditional peer review. At the same time, existing AI code review tools over-index on low-value suggestions such as style and best practices while under-indexing on the concerns human reviewers prioritize most: correctness, security, and performance. We present ARCTIC, an AI-powered Code Critique system that reframes code review around three capabilities: intent prediction, which infers why a change was made from conversation logs and metadata; drift detection, which measures divergence between the developer's intent and the agent's output via backtranslation; and code spotlight, which ranks the regions of a diff most warranting human scrutiny. Authors: Chandra Maddila, Mashrur Rashik, Euna Mehnaz Khan.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Automation / Agentic Systems: AI coding agents are generating code at volumes that exceed the capacity of traditional peer review.

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arXiv7/31/2026
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ExtractBench: A Benchmark for Schema-Guided Enterprise Document Extraction

Enterprise workflows increasingly rely on agents for schema-guided extraction: given a document and a user-defined schema, the agent faithfully follows the schema to produce the correct output with source evidence as grounding metadata. We present ExtractBench, a benchmark for schema-guided extraction and, to our knowledge, the first to score value accuracy, record completeness at scale, grounding, and measured cost together. The evaluation system contains 4,869 pages across 370 enterprise documents, 8 business domains, and 67 document types, with clear tags differentiating their challenge scenarios. Authors: Boyang Zhang, Adrian Lyjak, Eli Stewart.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Automation / Agentic Systems: Enterprise workflows increasingly rely on agents for schema-guided extraction: given a document and a user-defined schema, the agent faithfully follows the schema to produce the correct output with source evidence as grounding metadata.

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arXiv7/31/2026
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AgentHPOBench: A Benchmark For Evaluating LLM Agents as Sequential Hyperparameter Optimizers

As LLMs evolve from code completion systems into autonomous scientific agents, evaluating their ability to conduct experiments has become increasingly important. Existing benchmarks typically focus on static code generation, paper replication, or final answer correctness, but do not directly assess whether agents can interpret experimental evidence and use it to guide subsequent hyperparameter decisions. To address this gap, we introduce AgentHPOBench, a sequential benchmark comprising 30 executable machine learning tasks across seven research categories. Authors: Tianyu Huai, Tingshuo Fan, Xinchi Chen.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Automation / Agentic Systems: As LLMs evolve from code completion systems into autonomous scientific agents, evaluating their ability to conduct experiments has become increasingly important.

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arXiv7/31/2026
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AMTFV: Agentic Mathematical Tool-Flow Verification for LLM Self-Correction

Large language models have demonstrated strong mathematical problem-solving capabilities, yet reliably verifying their candidate answers remains challenging. Existing representative methods mainly revise outputs through natural-language reflection or assist verification by directly generating verification programs; the former may not reliably support exact computation, whereas the latter prematurely couples mathematical modeling with low-level implementation. We propose AMTFV (Agentic Mathematical Tool-Flow Verification). Authors: Rui Zou, Yutao Zhu, Mengqi Wei.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Automation / Agentic Systems: Large language models have demonstrated strong mathematical problem-solving capabilities, yet reliably verifying their candidate answers remains challenging.

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arXiv7/31/2026
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Educating the Agentic Engineer: Curricula, Collaboration, and Continuous Learning in the AI Era

Generative and agentic artificial intelligence (AI) are reconfiguring software and systems engineering from a discipline centered on human authorship of artifacts to one focused on directing, verifying, and governing autonomous systems. This transition demands a new professional archetype, the agentic engineer, whose enduring value lies in intent specification, orchestration of multi-agent workflows, critical evaluation of machine-generated outputs, and ethical judgment. This article presents an integrative conceptual synthesis across engineering education, computing education, human--AI interaction, human factors, and the learning sciences to derive an evidence-grounded educational architecture for this archetype. Authors: Mamdouh Alenezi.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Automation / Agentic Systems: Generative and agentic artificial intelligence (AI) are reconfiguring software and systems engineering from a discipline centered on human authorship of artifacts to one focused on directing, verifying, and governing autonomous systems.

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Research Papers · 3

Research Papers
arXiv7/31/2026
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Data Visualization Style Guides in Practice: Why They Emerge, How They Work, and When They Bend

Visualization style guides play a crucial role in shaping how data is interpreted and trusted, yet they often receive little scrutiny in their creation and use. Understanding their impact requires looking beyond the specific rules that style guides prescribe and examining how they function within organizations to coordinate visual work, manage trade-offs, and support judgment under real constraints. Analyzing interviews with nine authors of twenty-six style guides across journalism, government, industry, and the public sector, we reveal how these guides reflect the specific challenges of their organizations, including consistency, training, governance, and accountability. Authors: Alvitta Ottley, Jonathan Schwabish.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Research Papers: Visualization style guides play a crucial role in shaping how data is interpreted and trusted, yet they often receive little scrutiny in their creation and use.

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arXiv7/31/2026
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Triangulating Across U.S. Federal AI Transparency Regimes

Federal AI systems can deny benefits or flag individuals for deportation, but the public disclosures meant to make those systems visible are fragmented and unevenly detailed. S. federal transparency regimes---System of Records Notices (SORNs), Information Collection Requests (ICRs), and the AI Use Case Inventory---and asks how well they, individually and together, describe government AI use. Authors: Emma Lurie, Emma Fauser, Qing He.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Research Papers: Federal AI systems can deny benefits or flag individuals for deportation, but the public disclosures meant to make those systems visible are fragmented and unevenly detailed.

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arXiv7/31/2026
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CWEEP: A Lexical Static Analysis Framework for CWE Early Prevention

As the hardware layer becomes a focus point for attackers, the need for improved hardware security verification techniques is more important than ever. State-of-the-art security verification techniques require significant manual effort from individuals with security expertise. Furthermore, there is no standard method to locate where the fault lies within the register transfer level (RTL) code. Authors: Bryan Kwan, Benjamin Tan.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Research Papers: As the hardware layer becomes a focus point for attackers, the need for improved hardware security verification techniques is more important than ever.

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Embedded Systems · 5

Embedded Systems
arXiv7/31/2026
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Bootstrapping Self-Supervised Learning of Binary Classification Using Error Bounds: A Case Study on a Robotic Insertion Task

Flexible manufacturing requires rapid deployment of solutions and minimal setup time to remain competitive. An essential attribute is the ability to control error levels, as failures can range from minor performance degradation to severe equipment damage. However, conventional deployment often involves extensive setup, data collection, model training or parameter tuning, and system testing, resulting in significant delays that hinder commercial feasibility. Authors: Zebin Duan, Norbert Krüger, Juan Heredia.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Embedded Systems: Flexible manufacturing requires rapid deployment of solutions and minimal setup time to remain competitive.

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arXiv7/31/2026
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Admissible Set for Linear Systems under Linear State Constraints

This paper presents a method for computing inner polytopic approximations of admissible sets for continuous-time linear control systems subject to affine state constraints. Building upon barrier theory and the explicit solution of linear systems, a structured sampling procedure is developed to generate boundary samples of the admissible set directly, thereby avoiding the discretization of large regions of the state space required by many viability and reachability methods. The proposed framework computes admissible sets for the individual state constraints separately and combines the resulting inner approximations by intersection, avoiding the explicit treatment of simultaneous active constraints. Authors: Jean Lévine, Philipp Rumschinski, Franz Rußwurm.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Embedded Systems: presents a method for computing inner polytopic approximations of admissible sets for continuous-time linear control systems subject to affine state constraints.

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arXiv7/31/2026
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WCM: A World Critic Model for Vision-Language-Action Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models has shown strong promise for robotic manipulation. Among RL methods, critic-based approaches rely on a value estimator that predominantly operates on single-frame observations or single-frame VLM backbone latents, which is a fundamental mismatch with the partially observable nature of robot control. A naive approach to incorporate observation history into the critic incurs exponential complexity with high-dimensional visual space, and still fails because pure scalar-return regression provides insufficient supervision for learning cross-temporal dynamics. Authors: Senyu Fei, Xiaopeng Yu, Siyin Wang.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Embedded Systems: Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models has shown strong promise for robotic manipulation.

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arXiv7/31/2026
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Diagnosing Compositional Generalization in Sequential Robot Tasks

Sequential robot manipulation requires policies to execute novel combinations of familiar instruction components. However, collecting demonstrations for all possible instruction tuples is combinatorially expensive, while sparsely covered datasets often fail under out-of-distribution recombination. This paper studies compositional generalization through the lens of instruction-space coverage. Authors: Yixiao Wang, Cheng-En Wu, Lingfeng Sun.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Embedded Systems: Sequential robot manipulation requires policies to execute novel combinations of familiar instruction components.

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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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Computer Systems · 5

Computer Systems
arXiv7/31/2026
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SLIM: Saturation-Aware Lightweight Performance Modeling for LLM Serving

Large language model (LLM) serving commonly increases batch size to improve throughput, but performance eventually reaches a deployment-dependent plateau beyond which larger batches provide marginal gains while increasing latency and GPU memory consumption. Previous studies have attributed this behavior to HBM/DRAM bandwidth limitations, but the underlying causes have primarily been supported by conceptual arguments or high-level performance observations. As our first contribution, we present a detailed GPU characterization using hardware profiling techniques, demonstrating that throughput saturation originates in the attention kernels during the decode phase. Authors: Pol G. Recasens, Ferran Agullo, Yue Zhu.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Computer Systems: Large language model (LLM) serving commonly increases batch size to improve throughput, but performance eventually reaches a deployment-dependent plateau beyond which larger batches provide marginal gains while increasing latency and GPU memory consumption.

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arXiv7/31/2026
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Beyond Resilience: Antifragility in Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity

Critical infrastructure cybersecurity increasingly requires frameworks that move beyond recovery toward bounded improvement under disruption, yet empirically grounded theories for operational technology remain limited. This paper develops a Theory of Antifragility (AFT) for critical infrastructure (CI) cybersecurity, anchored in a five-state Resilient System Model and a bounded mathematical definition based on Jensen gain and post-disruption gain. A two-layer empirical design pairs a CI-relevant subset of the CISSM Cyber Events Database with the HAI hardware-in-the-loop industrial control dataset and tests three confirmatory hypotheses and one exploratory proposition. Authors: Stephen Flowerday, Mauricio Papa, Ethan Flowerday.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Computer Systems: Critical infrastructure cybersecurity increasingly requires frameworks that move beyond recovery toward bounded improvement under disruption, yet empirically grounded theories for operational technology remain limited.

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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 Blog8/3/2026
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Cortex completes OSTIF security audit

The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of Cortex. Cortex functions as a long-term, multi-tenant scalable open source storage for Prometheus and OpenTelemetry. Thanks to Quarkslab and...

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Read this for the official technical update in Computer Systems: The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of Cortex.

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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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Developer Tools / Open Source · 5

Developer Tools / Open Source
Vercel Blog8/1/2026
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Qwen 3.8 Max now available on Vercel AI Gateway

4 trillion parameters and a context window of up to 1 million tokens. The model is suited for software engineering and office productivity, along with visual work like turning screenshots or design files into working pages, captioning video, and answering questions grounded in an image. 8-max AI Gateway provides a unified API for calling models, tracking usage and cost, and configuring retries, failover, and performance optimizations for higher-than-provider uptime.

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Read this for the official technical update in Developer Tools / Open Source: 4 trillion parameters and a context window of up to 1 million tokens.

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arXiv7/31/2026
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Alteron: A Tool for Behavioral Regression Testing Across NLP Classifier Versions

Evaluating evolving Natural Language Processing (NLP) models is important for ensuring reliable behavior across updates, but standard benchmark metrics do not fully capture how model behavior changes across versions. Existing work has focused mainly on testing models in isolation rather than comparing successive versions in continuous integration workflows. We present Alteron, a tool for detecting behavioral regressions across NLP model versions with metamorphic testing. Authors: Shazzad Hossain, Proma Chowdhury, Mridha Md. Nafis Fuad.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Developer Tools / Open Source: Evaluating evolving Natural Language Processing (NLP) models is important for ensuring reliable behavior across updates, but standard benchmark metrics do not fully capture how model behavior changes across versions.

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arXiv7/31/2026
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Students' Practices and Skills in the LLM-Era: "You Can't Outsource the Struggle and Still Get the Skill"

Generative AI tools have been rapidly learned in the daily workflow of graduate students in Software Engineering, but little is known about what AI-related skills they actually need for effective use in empirical research. Without this understanding, graduate programs cannot prepare students to conduct rig-orous research in the LLM era, risking creating a generation of researchers who delegate tasks without the necessary expertise. By analyzing 1,383 posts from five research-focused subreddits, we found that students systematically outsource the cognitive effort required to develop research skills and end up with neither the expected results nor the necessary competence. Authors: Enne Rebeca Silva de Freitas, Gustavo Pinto, Danilo Monteiro.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Developer Tools / Open Source: Generative AI tools have been rapidly learned in the daily workflow of graduate students in Software Engineering, but little is known about what AI-related skills they actually need for effective use in empirical research.

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arXiv7/31/2026
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Improving the Understandability of Conceptual Models via Abstract Notation Engineering

Conceptual modeling supports the design, analysis, and communication of the properties of complex systems, yet conceptual models can be difficult to understand when domain-level abstractions must be encoded through low-level constructs required mainly for semantic conformity. Prior work has mainly improved how existing individual constructs are visually represented. We shift the focus from individual constructs to recurring configurations of constructs, and propose abstract notation engineering as a language-agnostic method for replacing such configurations with higher-level, semantically transparent constructs. Authors: Amine Abbad-Andaloussi, Daniel Jeppe Schütt, Kasper Solhøj Jørgensen.

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Read this for the paper's specific claim in Developer Tools / Open Source: Conceptual modeling supports the design, analysis, and communication of the properties of complex systems, yet conceptual models can be difficult to understand when domain-level abstractions must be encoded through low-level constructs required mainly for semantic conformity.

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Vercel Blog7/31/2026
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AI Gateway now supports team and project spend budgets

AI Gateway spend budgets can now be scoped to a team or a project, in addition to individual API keys. Set a dollar limit on a scope, and the gateway meters spend against it and stops further requests once the limit is reached, until the budget resets or you raise it. A budget attaches to one of three scopes.

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Read this for the official technical update in Developer Tools / Open Source: AI Gateway spend budgets can now be scoped to a team or a project, in addition to individual API keys.

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Cloud / Infrastructure · 4

Cloud / Infrastructure
Cloudflare Blog8/2/2026
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Welcome to Agents Week

Agents Week explores how cloud infrastructure must evolve to serve autonomous agents rather than human browsers. Join us as we unpack the storage, execution, and security primitives needed for an agent-native web.

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Read this for the official technical update in Cloud / Infrastructure: Agents Week explores how cloud infrastructure must evolve to serve autonomous agents rather than human browsers.

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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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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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