Tech news, September 11, 2026
Friday: 17 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
10 pieces.
- Why this year’s Clojure/Conj matters beyond the conference
Making technical knowledge more accessible strengthens the entire developer community The post Why this year’s Clojure/Conj matters beyond the conference appeared first on Buildin…
- Apparently, Nothing Happened in Database History Between 1986 and Monday
Databricks calls LTAP the end of a 40-year database divide.
- Apparently, Nothing Happened in Database History Between 1986 and Monday
Databricks calls LTAP the end of a 40-year database divide.
- Why Expo is a great fit for new and existing apps
What is Expo: the React Native framework for native iOS and Android apps.
- Module Tracking in Swift Debug Info
When your Swift program hits a breakpoint and stops so you can inspect it, the debugger’s expression evaluator has to find the exact Swift module your code was built from.
- A better way to build MCP servers with Laravel
Every MCP tool loads on every request.
- An update on the May spam-publishing campaign on rubygems.org
Following reporting by The Wall Street Journal and the publication of research by Nightingale Collective, we want to clarify what we know about the spam-publishing campaign on rub…
- Welcoming Julia Zettel, our new Video Producer
We're thrilled to share the news that Julia Zettel is joining Resend.
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- Gleam Gathering 2027 is coming to London!
Earlier this year we had a fantastic time at the first ever 100% Gleam conference.
Security Desk
2 pieces.
- [Security-announce][CVE-2026-87910] tarfile hardlink fallback ignores custom extraction filter rejection via None
There is a MEDIUM severity vulnerability affecting CPython.
- Linux Detection Engineering - Local Privilege Escalation
Seven of the thirteen Linux privilege escalation CVEs we tracked in 2026 turned out to be the same copy-on-write bug pointed at different kernel interfaces.
Technical Guides
3 pieces.
- How Firecrawl helps our sales team build custom product demos
A personalized demo beats a features list.
- Evolving Pinterest’s Embedding Retrieval Platform
Authors: Bowen Zhou | Staff Software Engineer; Shan Gao | Senior Software Engineer; Jingwen Hu | Software Engineer II; Wenjiang Chu | Staff Software Engineer The Billion-Embedding…
- Coding agents rediscover your codebase on every single run.
Coding agents rediscover your codebase on every single run.
Columns
2 pieces.
- AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement
“We're nowhere near the ceiling.”
- Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
A lot has been written about the incidents of the last few months in which AI agents misbehaved in serious ways.