Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello
Get expressive high-quality speech generation built for global scale Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS delivers leading voice customization capabilities, securing the #1 overall spot on Hume AI’s Voice Design Benchmark (71.4) and also leading in accent modeling (60.8). Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS enable truly expressive performances without sacrificing reliability, also securing […]
Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol
Radicle is a peer-to-peer, local-first code collaboration stack built on Git. 23.09.2026 Summary What happened? Two critical security vulnerabilities in the network protocol used by Radicle nodes were reported. Which versions are affected? All versions of Radicle that were released to date are vulnerable. What is the issue? Network traffic between nodes is not encrypted […]
Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock
Written on 11th April 2026 I got a message from a friend today which read along the lines of “I know we were going to meet in Edinburgh today, but do you fancy meeting in Portobello instead and trying to fix the clock in the old police station with me?” I don’t know about you, […]
GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car
attemptprogressHow far along the course centerline the attempt got while staying within 4 m of it, as a share of the centerline length to the finish zone; a collision keeps the progress reached before it.distanceGPS speed integrated from the first accepted set_motion to the end of the attempt’s last engagement.finish timeFirst accepted set_motion to the […]
Strands Harness
We noticed builders often wished their Claude Code or Codex setup could run in the cloud because locally their agent idea just “worked” with those harnesses. But the moment you build your own agent, you’re on your own. It’s tricky wiring up the right primitives just well enough to match that “it just worked” feeling. […]
Jev Can’t Be Calibrated
September 23, 2026 · 3 mins · 617 words Share on: X · HN Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard about Jev. Simon Willison’s post is a good overview, and this one shows how to implement it in a few lines of Python. In short, Jev is TypeSafe’s first “System One […]
Jev in practice: typed decisions, scoped authority
Tenuo Engineering ·September 21, 2026 Building safe agent delegation with Jev, LangGraph, and Tenuo TL;DR: safe-upgrade is a dependency upgrade agent built on Jev, LangGraph, and Tenuo. Jev turns repository evidence into typed probabilistic decisions. LangGraph carries those decisions through a durable workflow. Tenuo gives each resulting action a task-scoped warrant. The design rule: keep […]
The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern
The “should I use the wiki or a docs folder on GitHub?” discussion comes up every 6 months or so, and following Shawn Wang’s three strikes rule I thought it was about time I wrote something down about it. The initial version of this post opened with “You can use the wiki or a docs […]
I Don’t Want the Details
A few months ago I was dragged into a call with my engineering counterpart and their boss (who happens to be our SVP of engineering). Something had gone wrong that shouldn’t have. Nothing catastrophic, but important enough that I was now on a call with an SVP. I started to explain how it happened when […]
OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look ‘good for the world’
Adtech vet Brian O’Kelley’s startup is pivoting to AI agents and rebranding with a new name Legal AI startup Spellbook hired a new CMO — and she has strong opinions on avoiding ‘creepy’ AI marketing Taboola is buying a rival adtech company to gain a bigger foothold with lucrative finance clients Google has to make […]