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Muse Spark 1.3 now available on AI Gateway

Muse Spark 1.3 from Meta is now available on AI Gateway, in both the standard and contributor pricing tiers.This model improves on prior Muse Spark models at agent work and coding, with a 1M token context window and text, image, and PDF input. On coding it takes fewer turns and writes less filler th

Gemini 3.8 Flash now available on AI Gateway

Gemini 3.8 Flash from Google is now available on AI Gateway.The model is 50% off through December 31st. It has a 1M token context window, accepts text, image, PDF, and video input, returns text, and supports tool calling and web search. Maximum output is 65,536 tokens.Gemini 3.8 Flash improves on pr

GLM-5.3 is 50% off through DigitalOcean on AI Gateway

GLM-5.3 is 50% off on AI Gateway through Tuesday, September 8, in partnership with DigitalOcean.How to use the model during the offer periodUsing the promo name (zai/glm-5.3-promo-50) gets the discounted rate. It routes only to DigitalOcean, with no fallback to another provider, and it stops serving

Enterprise Live Migrations from GHES to ghe.com generally available

Enterprise Live Migrations (ELM) is now generally available, enabling near-zero-downtime repository migrations from GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) to GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Data Residency (GHEC DR), so you can move… The post Enterprise Live Migrations from GHES to ghe.com generally available

Set an expiration date for individual user budgets

You can now set an optional expiration date on an individual user budget, and GitHub removes the budget on that date. This capability is generally available. The user then falls… The post Set an expiration date for individual user budgets appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Copilot code review can now approve pull requests

Copilot now tells you when a pull request is ready to approve, and admins can authorize it to sign off on approval. The ability for Copilot to approve is off… The post Copilot code review can now approve pull requests appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

A note on subscription prices from LWN

The online publication industry, as a whole, is struggling, with challenges coming from multiple directions. Thanks to the support of all of you, our readers, LWN would appear to be doing better than most. But the world has changed around us and, in particular, prices have changed considerably. B

Block users from discussion comments in personal repositories

You can now block or unblock users directly from discussion comments in repositories owned by personal GitHub accounts, extending the in-context blocking controls already available for issue and pull request… The post Block users from discussion comments in personal repositories appeared first on Th

Claude Fable 5.1 is generally available in GitHub Copilot

Claude Fable 5.1 from Anthropic is now available in GitHub Copilot. The latest model in Anthropic’s Mythos class, Claude Fable 5.1 is designed for long-horizon, autonomous coding and knowledge-work tasks.… The post Claude Fable 5.1 is generally available in GitHub Copilot appeared first on The GitHu

How we could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora

Could we get more cache space with the same hardware? We prototyped compression inside Cloudflare's cache to find out.

GitHub CLI: Media in issues, pull requests, and comments

GitHub CLI now has a repeatable --attach flag that uploads a local image or video and references it inline in an issue, pull request, or comment body. This is now… The post GitHub CLI: Media in issues, pull requests, and comments appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

The Grails Plugin Has a New Home: Apache Grails

The Grails plugin for IntelliJ IDEA (which provides framework-aware coding assistance, GSP tooling, and GORM integration) has moved to the Apache Grails project. The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), which already stewards the Grails framework, now owns the plugin’s source code, which lives in its n

Ensuring Code Compliance in Public Sector Software Projects

The public sector handles sensitive citizen data, which is why software projects built with secure coding are imperative to deliver high trust levels. Code compliance with data protection laws, financial governance standards, and various regulations and policies is an obligation that must be consist

The good ol’ days of building Java

Ryan sits down with Tim Lindholm, an early contributor to the Java language at Sun Microsystems, to chat about what it was like building one of the most popular programming languages ever at its inception, why it was strategically important for the Java team to create a cross-platform ABI to compete

Compute that takes any shape

Workloads differ in how long they run, how much memory they take, and how much of the environment they control. That previously meant a different compute primitive for each job, so product iterations required provisioning infrastructure, not just working on a feature.We built Vercel so that none of

Authentication made easy: Building a secure e-commerce shopping cart with Firebase

How to disclose AI to customers without killing the conversation

Teams worry that telling customers they're talking to AI will hurt engagement. Not true. Learn what to say, when, and what to avoid instead.

Complete guide to sending email to Google: Rules, signals & setup

Learn how Google filters incoming email: SPF, DKIM, DMARC requirements, spam rate thresholds, and how to use Google Postmaster Tools to protect deliverability.

When AI takes the wheel: The rise of invisible identity intelligence in 2026

Secure your platform in the AI era with continuous identity intelligence. Learn how.

Announcing rustup 1.29.1

The rustup team is happy to announce the release of rustup version 1.29.1. Rustup is the recommended tool to install Rust, a programming language that empowers everyone to build reliable and efficient software. What's new in rustup 1.29.1 The headlines of this release are: Concurrency in certain