2026-09-01

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Top stories

  1. Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 Anthropic states Fable 5.1 costs about 25 percent less than Fable 5 on typical workloads through cache-read pricing. confirmed AI
  2. Chrome Web Store removes all remaining Manifest V2 extensions, including uBlock Origin Google's Manifest V2 timeline records 2026-08-31 as removal of all remaining MV2 extensions from the Chrome Web Store. confirmed Dev tools
  3. AWS signs an agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the company behind DuckDB Amazon signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, keeping the DuckDB open source project out of the deal. confirmed Markets
  4. PyPI stops counting metadata requests as package downloads PyPI now counts only .whl, .tar.gz and .zip fetches, after about 39 percent of urllib3 counts were other objects. confirmed Dev tools
  5. AnkiDroid faces removal from Google Play over its Open Collective donation link Google set 2026-09-11 for removing AnkiDroid from Play worldwide over its Open Collective donation link. developing Dev tools

Agentic coding

  1. Google Antigravity adds a /boost multi-agent reasoning mode Google Antigravity's /boost mode splits a task across subagents in isolated worktrees, then validates against test suites. confirmed

Security

  1. METR discloses two security incidents affecting its own infrastructure METR disclosed on 2026-08-31 two incidents from March and May 2026, including a stolen API key that consumed about $600,000 in credits. confirmed

Outages

  1. Microsoft Exchange Online outage leaves Outlook users without mail access Microsoft opened incident EX1464935 for Exchange Online on 2026-08-31 and names an authentication component. confirmed
  2. Google Cloud reports network degradation in us-central1-b after routine fabric maintenance Google Cloud states routine network fabric maintenance in two us-central1-b clusters caused packet loss and errors. developing

Developer tools

  1. ReactOS 0.4.16 ships after 18 months of development ReactOS 0.4.16 ships after 18 months with a graphical installer, a new ATA boot driver, and 381 issues closed. confirmed
  2. Jujutsu creator Martin von Zweigbergk becomes CTO of East River Source Control Martin von Zweigbergk joins East River Source Control as CTO and continues as a core maintainer of Jujutsu. confirmed

Languages and runtimes

  1. PEP 805 proposes thread-scoped object sharing, and Guido van Rossum says he wishes Python had stuck with the GIL Mark Shannon's PEP 805 would give objects a shareable state, and Guido van Rossum says he wishes Python had kept the GIL. developing

Apple platforms

  1. Firefox for iOS ships a built-in ad blocker because iOS has no extension path Mozilla built ad blocking into Firefox for iOS with WebKit content blockers, because iOS has no extension path. confirmed

Linux and kernel

  1. Measuring io_uring without readahead: one in-flight request gives the block layer nothing to merge A measurement of Turso's iouring backend finds near-zero block-layer merging without application readahead. confirmed

Infrastructure

  1. Tailscale releases tailcat, its data plane without its control plane Brad Fitzpatrick released tailcat, a Go tool using Tailscale's WireGuard and DERP data plane with no control plane. confirmed
  2. EC2 R9g and R9gd instances on AWS Graviton5 reach general availability AWS made the Graviton5-based R9g and R9gd instances generally available, claiming up to 25 percent more compute per vCPU. confirmed

New videos

  1. A walkthrough of the OpenAI agent attack on Hugging Face A video walkthrough reconstructs the OpenAI agent attack on Hugging Face from the two published incident reports. discussion

Hacker News

  1. An HN thread reports old.reddit.com no longer serves logged-out users An HN thread reports old.reddit.com now requires a login to browse, on user reports with no Reddit statement. discussion