Tech news, September 4, 2026
Friday: 11 pieces the paper read from primary sources, by section, newest first. Each links to its source; the line under it is the source's own opening.
News
6 pieces.
- What's new in Swift: August 2026 Edition
Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community.
- NFR Brain: challenging the status quo of risk management with data
Author: Mayara Zenati At Nubank, we believe the most meaningful problems for customers and for the business rarely come with ready-made answers.
- W3C opens 2026 community survey
W3C opens an 8-minute survey until 30 September and seeks community-wide input to get to know our community better, investigate needs, and understand how we can improve.
- Ractor-ready Rails, ordered cache fetches, and more!
Hi, it’s Vipul.
- ESLint v10.10.0 released
Highlights The no-unexpected-multiline rule has been updated to check regular expression literals with d and v flags.
- Our endorsements for Python’s first Packaging Council
Astral is proud to endorse William Woodruff, Pradyun Gedam, Ralf Gommers, and Donald Stufft for the inaugural Python Packaging Council.
Security Desk
1 piece.
- How CISA BOD 26-04 Is Changing Risk-Based Vulnerability Management
Tenable's Liat Hayun, SVP of Product Management, tells FedTech Magazine that vulnerability risk is "not one-size-fits-all." Hayun notes, "There can be the same vulnerability in th…
Technical Guides
1 piece.
- Investigate DMS migration issues with AWS DevOps Agent
Migrating a production database is a high-risk operational event.
Columns
1 piece.
- 19 robotics companies to watch
I talked with nine of these companies.
Research
2 pieces.
- Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
- Rex: Safe kernel extensions can also be usable
Safe kernel extensions have gained significant traction, evolving from simple packet filters to large, complex programs that customize storage, networking, and scheduling.