2026-09-15
Top stories
- Java 27 reaches general availability with G1 as the default collector in all environments and compact object headers on by default Mark Reinhold announced JDK 27 as generally available on 2026-09-15, shipping nine JEPs including post-quantum TLS key exchange.
- Microsoft ships an out-of-band update after its September patch destabilized Remote Desktop Services and broke Plan9 host shares for WSL Microsoft released out-of-band update KB5129195 on 2026-09-14 to fix Remote Desktop Services instability and broken WSL host shares.
- Cloudflare adds a Disallow AI Training setting and changes Block to cover mixed-use crawlers including Googlebot, Bingbot and Applebot Cloudflare's Block setting now also stops Googlebot, Bingbot and Applebot, and a new Disallow AI Training setting keeps search allowed.
- Sidero Labs is acquired by Yardi and states Talos Linux stays open source under MPL-2.0 Sidero Labs says it has been acquired by Yardi and that Talos Linux remains open source under the MPL-2.0 license.
AI
- Google ships Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking to the Gemini API with tool calls running in the background during conversation Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking to the Gemini API, running tool calls in the background.
- Microsoft removes the COPILOT function from Excel and existing formulas return #NAME? on recalculation Microsoft removed Excel's preview COPILOT function, and formulas left in workbooks return #NAME? once a recalculation runs.
ML research
- Sakana AI reports training 1000-layer networks without backpropagation using layer-local predictive coding Sakana AI reports training 1000-layer networks with layer-local predictive coding and no backpropagation pass.
- An ICML paper reports that discounting correlated LLM judges beats weighted majority vote by 9 to 14 percent Amazon researchers report a judge-aggregation method that beats weighted majority vote by 9 to 14 percent on existing logs.
- A preprint claims a proof of the k-server conjecture, arguing the work function algorithm is k-competitive on every metric space Three authors post an arXiv preprint claiming a proof that the work function algorithm is k-competitive on every metric space.
Outages
Linux and kernel
- Sidero Labs launches Talos Enterprise Linux as a paid license and states the open source build differs only by FIPS Sidero Labs launched Talos Enterprise Linux, a commercial license adding SBOMs, VEX data, FIPS builds and CVE response SLAs.
- An eBPF security agent caches policy lookups per inode and cuts benchmark kernel cycles from 28 billion to 3.03 billion Per-inode caching of policy lookups cut the agent's benchmark kernel cycles by about 90 percent, from 28 to 3.03 billion.