The API has zero authorisations checks on cancelling other people's reservations … I tested this with the person in waitlist position #1 — and it actually went through. So you've moved from #4 to #3 already.
— OpenClaw, hacking an Australian gym-booking website
My thanks to WorkOS for, once again, sponsoring DF last week. What’s the best way to connect AI agents to your API? REST is great for human developers; MCP serves the agents. Many teams treat REST and MCP as competing standards, and through choice or necessity, pick one. But they ought not be considered rivals. They’re separate layers. Most MCP servers just call REST internally to do the real work. The best ones don’t convert every endpoint into a tool, they focus on what the agents are actually trying to accomplish.
Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 were first released on June 9, 2026. On June 12, 2026, Anthropic suspended access to both models to comply with U.S. Department of Commerce export controls; the Department lifted those controls on June 30, 2026, and Anthropic restored acces...
GitHub Models is now retired
I missed this news until today, when the GitHub Actions run for my simonw/research repository failed with this error message:
GitHub Models is temporarily unavailable as part of a scheduled retirement brownout.
That message is already stale, be...
Research: SQLite compressed text-history prototypes
I'm perennially interested in options for storing revision histories in relational databases. While out on a dog walk I had a new idea: how about taking the full text of every prior version in a big JSON array of st...
Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 were first released on June 9, 2026. On June 12, 2026, Anthropic suspended access to both models to comply with U.S. Department of Commerce export controls; the Department lifted those controls on June 30, 2026, and Anthropic restored acces...
GitHub Models is now retired
I missed this news until today, when the GitHub Actions run for my simonw/research repository failed with this error message:
GitHub Models is temporarily unavailable as part of a scheduled retirement brownout.
That message is already stale, be...
Research: SQLite compressed text-history prototypes
I'm perennially interested in options for storing revision histories in relational databases. While out on a dog walk I had a new idea: how about taking the full text of every prior version in a big JSON array of st...
On February 28th, in the opening hours of the first day of the US-Israel war against Iran, an attack on a school vin the southern city of Minab killed over 120 children. To date, its the deadliest civilian attack during the Iran war. Experts say the school was hit by a preci...
Iran's security chief Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr has warned the Strait of Hormuz will not open until the United States agrees to six conditions. These include easing economic sanctions, paying war reparations and ending the US blockade of Iranian ports. The foreign minister Ab...
Yesterday I published an article titled “App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours”. I have retracted it. Its premise was so fundamentally wrong that there’s no point merely correcting or editing it. Even the title, as I explain below, was inaccurate. Although the original...
Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans
Anthropic are really confident in Claude Code's auto mode, to the point that they are making it the default setting for new sessions in most Claude Code plans starting on August 14th.
This was one of th...
Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans
Anthropic are really confident in Claude Code's auto mode, to the point that they are making it the default setting for new sessions in most Claude Code plans starting on August 14th.
This was one of th...
Tariq Panja, reporting for The New York Times:
The five men should have been in a celebratory mood. FIFA had just
pulled off a World Cup that broke records on a number of fronts.
Its spectacular culmination, the final, was a day away from
kickoff.
But their mood was any...
Joseph Cox, writing for 404 Media (paywalled, sans gift links, alas):
Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop
non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token
budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to presentation
slides, accord...
In this episode I countdown the top 10 songs on the Spotify charts. Have we begun the Suno Era (the era of AI generated music)?
My Beato Club supporters:
Justin Scott
Terence Mark
Jason Murray
Lucienne Kilpatrick
Alexander Young
Jason Wagner
Todd Ladner
Rob Kline
Nicholas Long
Tim Benson
Leonardo Martins da Costa Rodrigues
Eddie Perez
David Solomon
MICHAEL JOYCE
Stephen Stubbs
colin stead
Jonathan Wentworth-Linton
Patrick Payne
MATTHEW KARIS
Matthew Barouch
Shaun Samuels
Danny Kurywchak
Gregory Reedy
Sean Coleman
Alexander Verbitskiy
CL Turner
Jason Pappafotis
John Fulford
Margaret Carno
Robert C
David M Combs
Eric Flatt
Reto Spoerli
Herr Moritz Adam
Monte St. Johns
Jon Beezley
Peter DeVault
Eric Nabstedt
Eric Beggs
Rich Germano
Brian Bloom
Peter Pillitteri
Piush Dahal
Toby Guidry
My comment on Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face — Hacker News.
I think one of the most interesting details here might be tucked away in that first bulletin point:
May 7: OpenAI starts a new training run for an experimental, unreleas...
My comment on Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face — Hacker News.
I think one of the most interesting details here might be tucked away in that first bulletin point:
May 7: OpenAI starts a new training run for an experimental, unreleas...
