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Hot on the heels of the Rust 1.98.0 release , the Rust team has published Rust 1.98.1, an update that fixes a miscompilation in vtable generation. Rust 1.98.1 was announced September 3 . A Rust issue opened August 21 (and now closed) noted that Rust 1.98 emits a zero method entry in a compiler-generated vtable, resulting in a segmentation fault and a crash. According to the Rust 1.98.1 release no…

When Nvidia said Thursday that it plans to pay $13 billion to acquire Hugging Face, the question arose of whether the open AI platform would remain open when it becomes a unit of Nvidia. And the current lack of a single viable open alternative that does everything Hugging Face does for enterprises adds further complications for CIOs. Rumors of the pending deal have been circulating for at least a…

First AI gave us code completion, predicting the lines of code, functions, and boilerplate we needed based on what we’d already typed. Then came code suggestions and code generation, where AI writes new code or improves existing code based on a natural language prompt. Today, coding agents can look at your code, suggest improvements, compile and test the improved code, and iterate on that to come…

Meta is upgrading its Muse Spark family with a new model aimed at long-horizon coding tasks and agentic software development while keeping its standard API pricing unchanged, giving development teams access to improved capabilities without paying more per token. The new Muse Spark 1.3 model claims to complete coding tasks using about 25% fewer tokens and 20% fewer tool calls than its predecessor,…

One of the problems facing those who develop agents today, especially when building agents that run on edge systems with a mix of local and cloud AI, is trust: ensuring that the code that runs on users’ PCs doesn’t access private data or call unexpected APIs. How can we keep systems that don’t have predictable operations under control, when it’s that very unpredictability we’re relying on, as the…

Entrusting mission-critical workloads in the cloud puts a lot of pressure on IT operations to build resilience into data infrastructure they don’t even own — to make sure that when an incident happens elsewhere, the lights stay on at home. Fortunately, savvy CIOs are learning they can architect their systems for resilience and high availability to keep mission-critical cloud workloads running whe…

The team behind the rustup installer for the Rust programming language has released an update to the command-line utility. Announced September 1 , rustup 1.29.1 improves concurrency in two rustup operations, according to the Rustup Team. Now, when running rustup update , rustup will first check for possible updates in parallel. And when running rustup component add with multiple components, the c…

Google is adding a pre-trained foundation model for tabular data to BigQuery, allowing enterprise teams to generate predictions from structured data without having to train and deploy a machine learning model from scratch. The TabFM model, which has been developed by Google Research and is now available in preview, can perform classification and regression, two common types of predictive machine …

Vibe coding an application or an AI agent sounds too good to be true. A single developer prompts their way through a plan and has the code for a working prototype in minutes instead of days. Fixes and improvements come through iteration until the developer is satisfied with the results. According to the State of Code Developer Survey , 48% of respondents have adopted vibe coding for new projects,…

I built a complete, working application in a day this past weekend. Well, less than a day if you don’t count the time I spent waiting on Claude Code to do the work. The idea was germinated by my sister having a difficult time tracking a personal growth project that she had undertaken. It worked out for her, but me being me, I thought “I can build an app for that!” So I did. The time between my si…

Learning from the OpenAI-Hugging Face fiasco, as well as from recent revelations about its own model, Anthropic is revamping its security and alignment practices. The company has established controls that flag when a model attempts to break out of a sandbox or successfully accesses the live internet, cordoned off its highest-risk test environments, and proposed a set of safety standards for its e…

The Apache Fory community has announced the release of Fory 1.7.0, an update of the multi-language serialization framework that adds Fory JSON support for Scala 2.13 and Scala 3 and for Kotlin on Android, the JVM, and GraalVM Native Image. Apache Fory is described as a “blazingly fast” serialization framework for idiomatic domain objects, schema IDL (interface definition language), and cross-lang…

OpenClaw has released what it describes as the largest update in its history, introducing a system-wide overhaul spanning runtime behavior, plugins, and security controls, as enterprises increasingly evaluate how such agent-based systems operate across connected environments. “This update touches every part of OpenClaw, including installation, messaging, memory, skills, models, automations, the b…

I saw Spider-Man: Brand New Day last week. I struggled to enjoy it. I guess I hit CGI overload, although its 89% score on Rotten Tomatoes suggests others have a higher tolerance. Ditto LinkedIn. I visit the site at least once a day, hoping to catch up on smart things friends and colleagues are saying, but I can’t hear them over the whir of their robots typing. I’m not against artificial intellige…

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is an AWS technology that deserves a closer look because it is not simply another migration automation tool. It is an agentic AI platform for building, deploying, managing, and governing AI agents that can take action across tools, data sources, development workflows, and operational systems. In the migration context, that means using specialized agents to handle work suc…