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AI & ML

Nvidia Buying Hugging Face Is Reported, Not Signed, and Not Confirmed

Nvidia is reported to have agreed US$12.9bn for Hugging Face, against roughly US$150m of revenue. At about 86 times, the purchase is of a distribution point rather than an income statement.

1 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
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Developer Tools

Broadcom Already Maintains Spring and RabbitMQ. Now It Will Sell You Clean Builds.

A reproducible build proves the binary matches the source. It says nothing about whether the source is safe, which is where the damaging incidents live.

1 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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AI & ML

An AI Super PAC Is Advertising in Kansas, Ohio and Wisconsin. The Fight Is Zoning.

Federal AI law is written in Washington. Zoning, water withdrawal and ratepayer cost allocation are decided in county commissions, which is where the money went.

1 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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AI & ML

The Pentagon Onboarded 1.7 Million People. That Is Not Usage.

Three million personnel, 1.7 million accounts provisioned. The figure measures how much work the department did, not how much anyone uses what it built.

1 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
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Developer Tools

OpenClaw 2.0 Is Easier to Install and Its Secrets Are Not Encrypted

The limitations are in the project's own documentation, which is to its credit. The difficulty is the gap between someone who reads that and someone drawn in by an easier installer.

1 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Developer Tools

Broadcom Will Harden Open Source, and Has Not Said What It Costs

Two very different promises sit in one announcement: doing a stated job on projects Broadcom owns, and republishing hardened builds of code it does not maintain.

31 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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AI & ML

Japan's Banks Waited Eleven Weeks for a Capability Anyone Can Download

A US directive covered foreign nationals, so Anthropic switched the models off for everyone, including Americans. That is what export control on a hosted API looks like when the border does not exist.

31 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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Developer Tools

Five Critical WordPress Flaws, and None of Them Needs an Account

Most WordPress advisories describe flaws that need an account first. These five do not, which is what a 9.8 is actually saying, and one of them scores a full 10.

31 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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Developer Tools

Ten People Wrote $1m Cheques for a Linux Desktop Foundation

The headlines read as backing from Shopify, Stripe, Dell and Cloudflare. Those companies have funded nothing. Ten individuals wrote personal cheques, and the remit is narrower and better than the number suggests.

31 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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AI & ML

Meta Promised Frontier Weights Three Weeks Ago. The Repository Is Still Empty.

Zuckerberg promised the weights for Meta's frontier model three weeks ago, with no date attached. We queried the repository: four items, all of them the smaller model, and no Spark of any version.

31 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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