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3 AUG 2026 · Simon Willison

Set up a nightly cron job that executes the prompt: fetch upstream changes to the <software> and rebase all local changes on top of upstream. Check that the software works as intended and replace the current version. — David Crawshaw's prom…

30 JUL 2026 · Simon Willison

Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations It happened again! This is turning into something of a pattern. Last week OpenAI accidentally exploited Hugging Face when one of their frontier models broke out of a …

30 JUL 2026 · Hacker News · 73 pts · 85 comments ↗

The OpenJDK interim policy on generative AI restricts contributions in OpenJDK repositories from being generated by large language models, diffusion models, or similar deep-learning systems, except for private use to comprehend, debug, and review code. Reviewers are expected to detect AI-generated content and notify contributors if found, and contributors must ensure they own intellectual property rights in their contributions. The policy aims to balance benefits of generative AI tools with risks to reviewer burden, safety, and security. AI summary

30 JUL 2026 · Hacker News · 349 pts · 423 comments ↗

The GCC steering committee has accepted an AI contributions policy that prohibits "legally significant" contributions generated by Large Language Models (LLMs), defined as those with more than 15 lines of code or text. The policy allows for non-significant AI-generated test cases, but expects the policy to evolve and be revisited periodically. AI summary

30 JUL 2026 · Vercel

Shopify and Vercel Open source and runtime agnostic, runs anywhere JavaScript does Standard Actions brings agentic commerce to every storefront Feature development cut from months to a week for retailers like Global Retail Brands Shopify po…

28 JUL 2026 · Simon Willison

We’re aware a Modal customer published an unauthenticated endpoint that allowed ​anyone on the internet to use ​their ⁠sandboxes for code execution. This was used by the rogue agent. Modal’s ⁠platform ​or isolation were not ​compromised in …

27 JUL 2026 · Hacker News · 49 pts · 18 comments ↗

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has made his first Twitter post, defending open access to AI models alongside companies like Google, OpenAI, and Meta, arguing that restricting open models prematurely would stifle competition and innovation. AI summary