Tech news, September 16, 2026
Wednesday: 35 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
9 pieces.
- Executive Director Search Extended to September 22
We are extending the search for the Django Software Foundation's first Executive Director.
- Enhance multitasking extensions with the new Tabs Split View API
Enhance multitasking extensions with the new Tabs Split View API.
- Chrome 155 beta
Get a preview of the next Chrome release with this post detailing the features in the current beta.
- Important updates: GitHub Copilot support ending for JetBrains 2025.1.x
To deliver new features faster and continue improving stability and performance, the GitHub Copilot plugin will end support for JetBrains IDEs version 2025.1.x (JetBrains platform…
- Adding the Discord Updates YOU Want to See
For Discord’s birthday, we wanted to celebrate YOU, so we asked you what you wanted to see… and we cooked up new things that you all asked for!
- 4.0.21 Released
RubyGems 4.0.21 includes enhancements and Bundler 4.0.21 includes enhancements and bug fixes.
- Welcoming Roberto Braga, our new Growth Marketer
We're thrilled to share the news that Roberto Braga is joining Resend.
- ML based ranking using Nrtsearch
We’ve extended Nrtsearch with the Inference Plugin, which embeds ML-based ranking directly in the search layer — eliminating the need for a standalone scoring service.
- Replace PRs with Delta – Now in Public Beta
Delta is now in public beta.
New Models
2 pieces.
- Open model: XingChen-AGI/Xing4.0-29B-A4B
Trending on the Hugging Face Hub.
- Open model: Cactus-Compute/needle3
Trending on the Hugging Face Hub.
Security Desk
9 pieces.
- The Apple Security Update Review for September 2026
Welcome back to our monthly look at Apple security patches.
- Memory-safe programming goes from advocacy to adoption
The coding languages shift — fueled by Microsoft, Google, and Amazon and enabled by AI coding — is driven by the quest for secure software.
- Why Is Detection and Response Too Slow for Machine Speed Attacks?
TLDR: Runtime security built around detecting activity, correlating signals and then responding assumes there is enough time to act after something malicious happens.
- Agents at Large | Tracing Illicit OpenAI Agent Activity on Hugging Face
Two Hugging Face accounts reveal that OpenAI's agents staged relay code, internal probes and ChatGPT account registration beyond the published timeline.
- We’re In: Enterprise Commitment to Sustainable Package Registries
The OpenSSF Governing Board and major tech enterprises are partnering to support sustainable funding models for public package registries.
- Stop rewriting stable code: How Lightwell protects your bottom line and developer velocity
How Lightwell breaks the forced-upgrade cycle to keep your systems protected and your developers focused on innovation.The Monday morning CISO nightmarePicture this: It’s Monday m…
- OpenSSL 3.0 End of Life
The OpenSSL 3.0 series has reached its End of Life (EOL).
- Mapping out your unknown: A threat hunter’s guide to GitHub
In this post, we walk through different threats to GitHub and how to detect them.
- Tails 7.13
Changes and updates Update Tor Browser to 15.0.23.
Technical Guides
6 pieces.
- AI Changed How Spotify Builds. What We Learned (and Fixed) About Quality at Higher Velocity
Quality and reliability have always been a point of pride for Spotify.
- From Specialist Agents to Distributed Skills over MCP
Keep your domain services distributed.
- How Data 360 Builds Trusted Context: The Enduring Layer for Enterprise AI
By Raveendrnathan Loganathan and Tobias Muehlbauer.
- Designing Claude for ears, not eyes: An accessibility skill for blind and low-vision users
How a cognitively diverse IT team at Nubank, they coded screen reader-friendly rules into Claude's instructions, treating auditory comprehension as an engineering constraint The p…
- We Automated Over 15,000 Security Reviews Without Letting AI Decide Everything
How we cut verification wait times from hours to minutes, avoided the equivalent of ~ 161 engineer-days of active review effort in four months, and kept total LLM spend at $1,391.…
- Building a large-scale iOS configuration system with the AttributedString architecture
As environments change, decisions that were reasonable in the past often cease to be valid.
AI in the Field
1 piece.
- Microsoft’s commitment for AI in education
AI can personalize learning, reduce administrative burden, accelerate research and expand access to high-quality instruction.
Columns
4 pieces.
- Fragments: September 16
Reports of agentic hacking continue, in this case it happened back in May and it seems OpenAI did not disclose that they were responsible.
- Algorithmic Progress is not Exogenous
Sometimes I have discussions about AI slowdowns and pauses where an argument against the pause is that a pause cannot slow things down in the long run since, even if we audit all…
- Academic Doomerism
AI doomerism is everywhere these days.
- Icon Fall Web Component
I’ve been doing some spring/fall cleaning and found an unpublished follow-up component to <snow-fall> (a web component to “snow” on your website — which also happens to work with…
Research
1 piece.
- AI being used by ‘bad guys’ is ‘no surprise’: Bryan Stern
CSET’s Sam Bresnick joined NewsNation alongside Grey Bull Rescue CEO Bryan Stern to discuss a report that AI models are being used by Iran against U.S.
Watch
3 pieces.