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AWS announced that Aurora DSQL now supports foreign key constraints, including CASCADE and SET NULL, addressing a gap users had called an adoption blocker. The feature enforces referential integrity via snapshot verification and commit-time conflict detection without locking tables.
Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating. Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse. I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies fro
NVIDIA described a joint evaluation with Nscale of its DSX MaxLPS policy-governed power sharing on GB300 NVL72 systems running Kimi K2.5 workloads, reporting 49.2% higher normalized aggregate throughput and up to 40% more GPUs within the same approved power budget, with P99 time to first token up 17%.
GPT-6 Astra completed a 50-tab tax workbook twice as fast as GPT-5.6 Sol, and its stronger understanding of user intent gives Basis more confidence in real-world use.
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On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological exploration of everything that happened in 2026. The video is on YouTube ; here are my annotated slides and notes to accompany the talk. And as an annotated presentation : # I'm going to give a lightning tour of everything that has happened so far in 2026. The year isn't over yet! # For me, 2026 started a couple of months earlier in November 202
Simon Willison noted that Amazon S3 has not had a price drop in a full decade, listing historical reductions from $0.150/GB-month in 2006 to $0.023/GB-month in December 2016, a rate that remains unchanged today.
Simon Willison has released a tool that examines Bluesky profiles for evidence of likely automated reply bots, built using Opus 5.5. It looks for signals such as rapid replies and accounts that only reply to higher-follower users.
Google has published benchmarks for GKE Pod snapshots, reporting up to 89% lower startup latency and a 70B model loading in 37 seconds. The feature checkpoints CPU and GPU memory through gVisor into Cloud Storage. Practitioners have asked whether invalidation is the harder problem, since snapshots match on a spec hash, machine series, and kernel and driver versions. By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Simon Willison used Claude Opus 5.5 to generate a pixel art kākāpō party animation on an HTML5 canvas, then used Claude Code with Playwright to record a 15-second video of the animation for a keynote closing slide.
Docker announced Cloud Sandboxes, hosted execution environments for AI coding agents built on hardware-enforced microVM isolation, offering a consistent environment and unified CLI across local machines and the cloud. Docker also released Kits v3, packaging kits as standard OCI images.
In 2023 most people doubted that there could be more than 1 or 2 frontier model labs. Now there are dozens.... and Stripe just bought the best known one for $7B.
"Overly constrained AI models" could cause military operations to fail, judges say.
Despite challenges, Tesla aims for 1,000 Optimus robots per week by end of 2026.
MIT's PKG Center for Social Impact ran its second Code.Tulsa summer program, placing 10 undergraduates with the Muscogee and Cherokee nations and local nonprofits. A student-founded STEM camp, TASC, selected 25 campers from 10 tribes out of 160 applications.
"There is no evidence of any significant, widespread displacement or reduction in hiring.”
With Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra, Proaction builds, operates, and sells modern fleet management faster.
GitHub published a beginner-focused post describing how to build custom workflows with canvases in the GitHub Copilot app, using the /create-canvas skill to generate a shared, editable interface from a plain-English description.
Microsoft's new Surface laptops forgo Copilot+ PC branding.
John Gruber commented that Meta's Muse agentic AI system is technically groundbreaking and consumer-accessible, but questioned whether consumers understand how powerful and potentially dangerous it is, especially when running on a Mac.