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Microsoft's updated small-tier coding model rolls out in GitHub Copilot with native vision support, a 73% lower list price, and double-digit gains on coding benchmarks.

Mitchell Hashimoto's new startup Superlogical is building a client-server terminal multiplexer on his Ghostty terminal engine, aiming to fix the latency of tmux, Zellij, and GNU Screen.

Warp launched Warp Factories, an out-of-the-box cloud system for running AI coding agents through triage, spec, implementation, review, and verification.

Docker's self-built container hypervisor replaces libkrun on Mac and Hyper-V/WSL2 on Windows, with general availability targeted for the end of October.

Expedia's mockql-rs uses an LLM to fill in GraphQL schema fields marked with @mock, joining Airbnb's build-time directive and an early-stage GraphQL Foundation RFC.

Google will remove every remaining Manifest V2 extension from the Chrome Web Store on August 31, 2026, completing a phase-out that has already disabled uBlock Origin and other legacy ad blockers in Chrome.

HEIR compiles pre-trained AI models to run inference on fully homomorphic encrypted data, letting servers process private data without decrypting it.

Podman 6.1 ships volume renaming, a machine restart command, Quadlet ImageVolume support, and IPv6 rootless port forwarding.

GitHub made Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 generally available in Copilot on August 6, briefly pausing the rollout to mitigate a GitHub Actions incident before resuming it the same day.

GitHub shipped enterprise-wide allow/deny lists for MCP servers reachable through Copilot, enforced with fail-closed policy across the Copilot app, CLI, and VS Code.

Zed's 1.14.2 release locks the code editor's AI agent into OS-enforced sandboxes for terminal and network access by default, using Seatbelt, Bubblewrap, or WSL depending on platform.

Kubernetes 1.37, due August 26, graduates the Metrics API, KYAML output, and Pod Certificates to stable, moves rootless kubelet to beta, and keeps phasing out kube-proxy's ipvs mode.