OpenAI no longer recommends SWE-Bench Pro
https://openai.com/index/separating-signal-from-noise-coding-evaluations/
https://openai.com/index/separating-signal-from-noise-coding-evaluations/
OpenAI
Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations
A new analysis from OpenAI reveals issues in SWE-Bench Pro, a popular coding benchmark, raising concerns about reliability and accuracy in evaluating AI models.
Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/we-cannot-choose-to-become-idiots-the-ai-cheating-scandal-roiling-brown-university/
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/we-cannot-choose-to-become-idiots-the-ai-cheating-scandal-roiling-brown-university/
John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement
https://apnews.com/article/john-deere-right-to-repair-agriculture-equipment-cb7514ffedb95c130a976af661f2bc02
https://apnews.com/article/john-deere-right-to-repair-agriculture-equipment-cb7514ffedb95c130a976af661f2bc02
AP News
John Deere owners will get the right to repair their own equipment under a new FTC settlement
John Deere owners should soon feel free to fix their own machines. The Federal Trade Commission and several state attorneys general have secured a “right to repair” settlement with farming equipment company Deere & Co., known as John Deere.
Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees
https://connectsci.au/news/news-parent/9703/Spider-venom-kills-varroa-mites-without-harming
https://connectsci.au/news/news-parent/9703/Spider-venom-kills-varroa-mites-without-harming
connectsci.au
Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees
Peptides isolated from the venom of the Tasmanian cave spider and giant Japanese funnel-web spider are promising candidates for potential new treatments to protect honeybee hives from a deadly parasite.Researchers tested spider and scorpion venoms for their…
AI changes the economics of software rewrites
https://thetruthasiseeitnow.com/ai-slop-starts-with-the-codebase-itself/
https://thetruthasiseeitnow.com/ai-slop-starts-with-the-codebase-itself/
the truth as I see it now
AI slop starts with the codebase itself. · the truth as I see it now
AI changes rewrite economics because codebases with clear, common patterns get more leverage than proprietary or inconsistent systems.
Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
https://github.com/malisper/pgrust
https://github.com/malisper/pgrust
GitHub
GitHub - malisper/pgrust: Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests - malisper/pgrust
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CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/collectwise/jobs/P646Yw6-founding-account-executive
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/collectwise/jobs/P646Yw6-founding-account-executive
Y Combinator
Founding Account Executive at CollectWise | Y Combinator
About Us
CollectWise is a fast growing and well funded Y Combinator-backed startup. We’re using generative AI to automate debt
collection, a $35B market in the US alone. Our AI agents are already outperforming human collectors by 2X, and we’re
doing so at…
CollectWise is a fast growing and well funded Y Combinator-backed startup. We’re using generative AI to automate debt
collection, a $35B market in the US alone. Our AI agents are already outperforming human collectors by 2X, and we’re
doing so at…
Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
https://www.howtogeek.com/why-developers-are-ditching-github-for-codeberg-and-self-hosting-alternatives/
https://www.howtogeek.com/why-developers-are-ditching-github-for-codeberg-and-self-hosting-alternatives/
How-To Geek
Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
It’s supposed to be a decentralized service, after all...
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EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: "Our children lose out"
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-parliament-greenlights-chat-control-1-0-breyer-our-children-lose-out/
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-parliament-greenlights-chat-control-1-0-breyer-our-children-lose-out/
TrueBiz (YC S22) – Senior Software Engineer – Remote (US) – Full-Time
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48844517
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48844517
How Version Control Will Evolve for the Agent Boom
https://entire.io/blog/how-version-control-will-evolve-for-the-agent-boom
https://entire.io/blog/how-version-control-will-evolve-for-the-agent-boom
Entire
How Version Control Will Evolve for the Agent Boom
To meet the demand of the agent boom, Git hosting must return to its original promise: a distributed network of many hosts.