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doc-scraper, a year later: incremental crawling, SQLite crawl history, and an MCP server (still no CGO)

I posted an early version of this here about a year ago. It crawls a documentation site and spits out clean Markdown plus a JSONL file, mainly for feeding docs into LLM pipelines. A year of changes: it does incremental crawls now (only flags pages whose actual content changed, not the nav), keeps cr

Frontend 09-03 3 Reddit r/golang

Deepity: A C++ library showing Predictive Coding Networks can match Backprop (97.73% on MNIST in 60s) [P]

I've spent the last month building a local C++ machine learning library called Deepity to test alternative credit assignment algorithms; specifically Predictive Coding Networks (PCNs). While PCNs are fascinating for biological plausibility and continual learning, naive implementations are painfully

AI & ML 09-03 3 Reddit r/MachineLearning

The best tech and gadgets announced at IFA so far

The doors to Europe's largest consumer tech show haven't opened to the public yet, but there's already plenty of news coming out of IFA 2026 in Berlin, Germany. If you're already struggling to keep up with what has been announced, here are some of the best new gadgets and upgrades from the show - in

Industry 09-03 3 The Verge (Tech)

Researchers fear safety disaster ahead of OpenAI’s Astra release

OpenAI is on the cusp of releasing its most powerful AI model yet, Astra, following weeks of delays to shore up safety protocols after its agents attacked real targets during testing. As details about the model trickle out, researchers are warning it "may be the single worst development for AI secur

AI & ML 09-03 3 The Verge (Tech)

JFrog Moves to Secure Agentic Engineering Workflows

JFrog today at its swampUP 2026 conference added a zero touch remediation capability that ensures the most secure version of a binary is provided even when application developers request a version that has known vulnerabilities. Additionally, JFrog is adding tools and capabilities to secure artifici

DevOps 09-03 1 DevOps.com

Google is sending MrBeast into the wilderness, armed with AI

MrBeast will feature Gemini, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air in upcoming videos as part of a multi-year partnership with Google. The deal will kick off with a video featuring Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson turning to Gemini for wilderness survival advice: First up on September 5 is a new MrBeast video

AI & ML 09-02 3 The Verge (Tech)

UK Moves to Block High-Risk Tech Suppliers From Critical Infrastructure

Late amendments to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill would give ministers new powers to restrict risky technology providers as supply chain attacks intensify. The post UK Moves to Block High-Risk Tech Suppliers From Critical Infrastructure appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security 09-02 3 SecurityWeek

Google dodges another breakup attempt

US District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema declined the Justice Department's request to make Google sell off parts of its ad tech business, accepting milder remedies to restore competition to markets it illegally monopolized for years. Brinkema said she would adopt most of the behavioral changes propos

General 09-02 3 The Verge (Tech)

go-sr: deterministic, no-lookahead support/resistance detection for Go

I’ve been working on go-sr, a small Go module for support/resistance detection aimed at trading systems and backtests where reproducibility matters. The main design goal is avoiding accidental lookahead bias: operate on closed candles confirmation-based pivots in zone mode deterministic output for

Open Source 09-02 3 Reddit r/golang

[$] Governing GNOMEs: how the project's technical decision-making is evolving

Emmanuele Bassi kicked off a project to improve GNOME's technical governance with a presentation about his ideas (video) at GUADEC 2025. His nudging has led the project to, slowly, work on creating more formal structures for technical governance. It is adopting a teams structure and looking toward c

Frontend 09-02 3 LWN.net

Incus 7.4 released

Version 7.4 of the Incus container and virtual-machine management system has been released. Notable changes in this release include UEFI Secure Boot key management, "near-live" migration of containers between Incus instances, as well as burst I/O limits for disk and network devices.

Industry 09-02 3 LWN.net

CABiNet (ICRA 2021) vs YOLO26-sem on UAVid: accuracy, compute, and GPU latency [P]

Disclosure up front: I'm the original first author of CABiNet (ICRA 2021), so I'm not a neutral party. Everything below is reproducible from the repo. Background CABiNet is a dual-branch CNN for real-time semantic segmentation: a high-res spatial branch, a lightweight context branch (global aggregat

AI & ML 09-02 3 Reddit r/MachineLearning

Detailed explanation of how to create a text-to-image model from scratch. [R]

Jasper Research just released a cookbook on how to build a text-to-image model from scratch. It shares the full reasoning and intermediate results, making it ideal if you want to deep-dive into text-to-image models, or if you are curious about how frontier labs build them. The cookbook also includes

Open Source 09-02 3 Reddit r/MachineLearning

TeamCity 2026.2: Pipelines General Availability, BYOK for AI Assistant, and More

This major update for TeamCity On-Premises introduces a number of pipeline improvements that are now moving out of EAP and joining build configurations as official, stable options for designing CI/CD workflows. We are also shipping a number of AI-related features, including an MCP toolset extension

DevOps 09-02 3 JetBrains Blog

The MPS 2026.2 Early Access Program Has Started

MPS 2026.2 EAP1 offers several improvements to test reporting, enhances grouping of found items, and brings a smoother editing experience and a more maintainable foundation for launching MPS and MPS-based products. This release makes multi-node selection more predictable and aligns the MPS startup c

Backend 09-02 3 JetBrains Blog

Tado’s new thermostat is designed as a Nest killer

When Google ignominiously exited the European thermostat market last year, it pointed its customers to Tado. This week, the German-based smart home company is launching its Smart Thermostat X (2nd gen), and aiming to attract European Nest users who haven't already jumped ship. Google shutting down t

General 09-02 3 The Verge (Tech)

Stop Guessing at Hard Faults

CLion’s new AI skill lets agents find the root cause without manual digging. Embedded debugging takes a lot of manual work. You’re flashing real hardware, juggling debug probes or DAP adapters, and when something goes wrong at a lower level (a hard fault), the processor doesn’t tell you why, only th

AI & ML 09-02 3 JetBrains Blog

automemlimit v1.0.0: automatically set GOMEMLIMIT from cgroup limits

Hi gophers! I recently released v1.0.0 of automemlimit, a small library I started about four years ago (and thankfully, a few open-source projects are using it). It sets GOMEMLIMIT based on the cgroup memory limit, similar to what automaxprocs does for GOMAXPROCS. Hope some of you find it useful! h

Open Source 09-02 3 Reddit r/golang

Eight stable kernels for Wednesday

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the 7.2.3, 7.1.13, 6.18.49, 6.12.108, 6.6.156, 6.1.187, 5.15.220, and 5.10.269 stable kernels. Each contains a number of important fixes throughout the tree. Users are advised to upgrade. Note that 7.1.13 is the last of the 7.1 updates

General 09-02 3 LWN.net

Security updates for Wednesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (dbus-broker, freerdp, gegl, gegl04, gimp, gimp:2.8, glib2, grafana, gzip, iperf3, libssh, nodejs22, nodejs24, nodejs:22, nodejs:24, php:7.4, php:8.2, pipewire, ruby:3.3, ruby:4.0, tar, wget, and xmlrpc-c), Debian (cyrus-imapd, keystone, and lemonldap-n

Backend 09-02 3 LWN.net