2026-09-14

commit-rewriter 0.1

Release: commit-rewriter 0.1 I built this little web app the other day to help edit the commit messages for the Datasette security releases . The initial commits were full of coding agent cruft and references to issue IDs from our private repository, so they weren't fit for publication. If you want to edit the commit messages for a repository you can run it like this: uvx commit-rewriter path/to/repo Omit the path if you are already in the directory for that repo. When you submit your edits the tool creates a timestamped branch of your current repo state - to allow you to revert if you need to - and then rewrites every commit from the first one you edited to the most recent. Tags: git , projects , python , ai-assisted-programming

shot-scraper 1.12

Release: shot-scraper 1.12 I've added WebP support to my shot-scraper screenshot automation tool. You can now take a WebP screenshot of a web page like this: shot-scraper https://simonwillison.net -o screenshot.webp --quality 80 The --quality option sets the quality - without that option the WebP file will be lossless. In my experience WebP screenshots are almost always significantly smaller in file size than their JPEG or PNG equivalents. See the PR for some examples. I shipped this feature so I could use it to generate the screenshot for my new commit-rewriter tool . Tags: playwright , shot-scraper

Gary Marcus 评 Dario Amodei 的放慢 AI 发展提议：三份赞誉加两分怀疑

Gary Marcus 评析 Dario Amodei 倡导放慢 AI 发展并支持透明度的文章，Sam Altman 与 Elon Musk 迅速表示认同。Marcus 肯定其透明度承诺，但列举多方质疑：METR 与 AI 公司关系过近、Anthropic 借对华威胁维持加速、以及该提议可能意在抢先于真正的监管。 🔗 阅读原文 via AIHOT · https://aihot.news/items/cmu06l0dg09hiroryn5e19xp1

Anthropic 报告称胡塞组织用 Claude Code 开发导弹制导软件

Anthropic 9 月威胁报告披露，据评估极可能关联胡塞组织的也门小组使用 Claude Code 开发制导火箭、射程超 2，000 公里弹道导弹及名为 R2000 的高超声速滑翔载具概念的相关软件。 🔗 阅读原文 via AIHOT · https://aihot.news/items/cmu01iavi08reroymepsxnar2

Sam Altman 表示同意 Dario Amodei 的放缓前沿主张，OpenAI 将同样开放独立评估者访问

Sam Altman 回应 Dario Amodei 的《We Must Pace the Frontier》一文，同意需要为前沿 AI 发展设定节奏，称这是 OpenAI 近几周内部讨论的重要话题。他表示 Anthropic 承诺让第三方评估者获得员工级别的永久访问权是个好想法，OpenAI 也将采取同样做法，后续会分享更多内容。 🔗 阅读原文 via AIHOT · https://aihot.news/items/cmtymlrth035dronv9zqv9ccb

DeepSeek 发布 V4.1-Flash：新 Causal Encoder-Decoder 架构，带原生视觉理解

DeepSeek 发布 V4.1-Flash，采用新 Causal Encoder-Decoder 架构并支持原生视觉理解，为其新架构家族中最小模型。该模型为 552B 参数 MoE，输入处理激活 8B、输出生成激活 16B；KV cache 需求较上一代降至 HBM 的 1/4、SSD 存储的 1/8，API 价格更低。 🔗 阅读原文 via AIHOT · https://aihot.news/items/cmtva1qh206burok9zip2wdid

DeepSeek AI 发布 DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash：1M 上下文、FP4 KV 缓存与跨层注意力复用

DeepSeek AI 发布多模态 MoE 模型 DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash，552B 主干加 196B Engram 参数，上下文窗口 1M，prefill 激活 8B 参数、decode 激活 16B，全局 KV 缓存降至每 token 890 字节，约为 DeepSeek-V4-Flash 的 1/4、DeepSeek-V1 的 1/437。 🔗 阅读原文 via AIHOT · https://aihot.news/items/cmtv7kmzk02vdrok9y0y8njiv

DeepSeek 发布 V4.1-Flash，API 价格同步下调

DeepSeek 发布 DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash，是全新模型结构系列中最小尺寸的模型，具备原生多模态视觉理解能力，评测包括 GPQA Diamond 90.9、HLE 36.8、Codeforces Rating 3471、Terminal-Bench 2.1 90.6 等。 🔗 阅读原文 via AIHOT · https://aihot.news/items/cmtv48yni0oq5rorpf4o74549

Long Live the Short King: Why 4-hi HBM Wins

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The 9 buzziest startups from Y Combinator’s latest Demo Day, according to VCs

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Obama urges Democrats to have a ‘clear plan’ for AI safeguards

Obama recently said that Democrats need to make artificial intelligence one of their “central agendas” and “have a very clear plan” to address concerns around the technology’s economic impact and safety.

Fusion power startups find new partners in the defense world

Fusion startups are inking defense-related deals, reigniting the relationship between fusion and national security that might have gone dormant, but never completely disappeared.

Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting

Yesterday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy open letter saying it was time to "pace the frontier" and slow down AI development. OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk both agreed, publicly voicing their support on X. Even Alphabet's Demis Hassabis offered tentative support for Amodei's proposal. Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson, however, […]

Insight Partners’ Deven Parekh on why the firm is diversifying while everyone else bets the farm on OpenAI and Anthropic

Insight Partners' Devin Parekh opens up about losing Legora to General Catalyst, why he's fine holding stakes in rival AI labs, and why — even as everyone else piles into OpenAI and Anthropic — his $90 billion firm is deliberately staying diversified.

Larry Ellison cancels $7.5 billion sale of Oracle stock

Oracle had previously disclosed that Ellison planned to sell 50 million shares worth around $7.5 billion.

What’s behind the AI industry’s latest warnings of doom?

On Equity, we discussed the AI industry's latest debate about whether it poses an existential threat to humanity.

Your car is selling your data

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on cars, data privacy, and autonomous vehicles, follow Andrew J. Hawkins. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Earlier this year, the Federal Trade Commission […]

Apple’s new phones are here

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 143, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, new tech season is here, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been devouring every iPhone Duo video I can find, clicking on […]

Apple is reportedly working on iPhone game controllers

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Apple is developing two game controllers for the iPhone and will likely sell them under the Beats brand. Rumors that Apple might enter the game controller business have circulated for some time. But last week, MacRumors reported finding two references in macOS 26.7's code to two game controllers identified as first-party […]

The Units’ Digital Stimulation is synthpunk perfection

The Units are a band I discovered in part thanks to No Dogs in Space. During their miniseries on The Screamers (another incredible band worth checking out), they mention synthpunk.org as one of their sources. And there's no better way to get my attention than to combine two of my favorite things - punk rock […]

Waymo pulls over, calls cops on riders with a ghost gun

Two people were arrested in San Fransico while riding around in a Waymo robotaxi after the cab pulled over and called the cops on them. The riders were juveniles in possession of a loaded AR-style ghost gun and were taken to a juvenile hall. While the police report did not specify who was operating the […]

US firm alerts WeChat to AI hacking tool A US startup used AI models to identify a potentially devastating bug in Chinese super-app WeChat.

习近平主席出席2026年上海合作组织峰会并对吉尔吉斯斯坦、埃及进行国事访问纪实

初心不改 虽远不怠——习近平主席出席2026年上海合作组织峰会并对吉尔吉斯斯坦、埃及进行国事访问纪实

CruVu™ Helps Hotel General Managers Earn More Four- and Five-Star Reviews Through Better Guest Experiences

CruVu by Lodging Interactive collects private in-stay guest feedback to give hotel GMs real-time service recovery alerts, department recognition tools, and AI-assisted coaching to improve public review scores.

But Does It Have Starlink? It’s the New Must-Have, but at $500k a Plane, Somebody’s Got to Pay

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55 days Scenic UK, Ireland & Europe Drive Made for Theo and Ned

6 days Scenic US Road Trip Adventure Made for Roland

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Swedish party blocs tied after Sunday vote, projections say

A partial count by Sweden's election authority projected that left-wing opposition bloc would win a one-seat majority.

Trump says he will remove all Irish whiskey tariffs as he ends two-day visit

Whiskey distilled in the Republic of Ireland faces the standard 15% tariff which applies to EU goods entering the US.

Russia hits Ukrainian train shortly after Boris Johnson and top European officials leave station

The former UK PM said "I don't know what warped logic drove Putin to blow up a stationary Ukrainian locomotive on the Polish border this morning".

Trump downplays warnings of AI risks, citing rivalry with China

The US president said "negative forces" were airing concerns about "things that won't happen".

Iran war reshapes Brics ties but also exposes divisions

Brics members agree they need a new global order but it's harder to answer what should replace it and how to get there.

Questions mount over what an AI 'slowdown' would look like

While pacing AI development might sound like a quick fix, it is far from an easy solution.

Why Spain’s new Sahrawi citizenship law matters to Morocco

Houthi projectile wounds two, damages mosque in Jazan region, Saudi says

Deadly Hormuz Strait ship attack as Yemen fighting escalates

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Why Saudi Arabia has few options in its conflict with the Houthis

Fighting continues between Yemen gov’t forces, Houthis: What is the latest?

Voting under way in Sweden election that could see far right in government

6 dead, 130 missing after Indonesia ferry capsizes

‘Where do we go?’: How Israel’s ‘yellow line’ is closing in on Palestinians