All Dispatches

GPT-5.6 is a new AI model that achieves state-of-the-art results across various tasks. Learn more about its technical details and potential impact.

Telemetry shows GPT‑5.5 responses clustering at exactly 516, 1,034 and 1,552 reasoning tokens, a pattern linked to recent drops in complex‑task performance.

Sony will stop manufacturing physical discs for any new PlayStation releases starting January 2028, shifting fully to digital distribution.

A Member of the European Parliament was hacked with Pegasus spyware while serving on a committee investigating spyware abuse. The incident highlights the threat of mercenary spyware to democratic institutions.

As satellite broadband fills the gap left by fragile terrestrial networks, African IT leaders need a clear rollout plan that balances cost, security and scalability.

SQLite recently patched a rare, 16-year-old bug in its Write-Ahead Log (WAL) checkpointing system that could lead to database corruption. This post from Canonical's dqlite (distributed SQLite) team walks through how they used TLA+ to formally model SQLite's internal behavior, isolate the exact sequence of steps needed to trigger the corruption, and determine whether their own system was vulnerable.

A step‑by‑step breakdown of Jamesob’s $46,000 rig that delivers 384 GB VRAM and sub‑microsecond GPU interconnect for state‑of‑the‑art LLM inference.

Google’s open‑source Copybara automates bidirectional code flow between confidential and public Git repositories, but it brings integration quirks that enterprises must weigh.

Japan's top court rules that AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, dismissing an American engineer's appeal.

Germany's Infineon has opened a major chip plant as the EU seeks tech autonomy, with the new facility producing chips for intelligent power management used in electric vehicles and data centers.

A new study of 21,559 U.S. firms shows that companies pouring the most into AI added over ten percent headcount, while low‑intensity adopters saw little change.

Developers can’t reliably block sensitive files from Codex’s agent, exposing credentials and inflating compute costs. A .codexignore proposal remains unanswered.