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Artificial intelligence

Severe Overtraining of Small Language Models Degrades Performance After 20 Billion Tokens

An experiment published on Hugging Face shows that a model with 0.9 million parameters reached peak performance when trained on 20 billion tokens, before gradually declining as training continued to 180 billion tokens. The results suggest a practical range of 22,000 to 30,000 tokens per parameter for very small models, with evaluation necessary before increasing the budget.

2026-08-12

Programming and Software Development

How Developers Move Between Programming Languages: From Project Requirements to the Kotlin Experience

JetBrains analyzes data from the 2025 Developer Ecosystem Survey to track actual movement between programming languages rather than relying solely on developers’ future plans. The findings reveal that project requirements drive most transitions, while Kotlin attracts users seeking a better development experience and more modern features.

2026-08-12

Programming and Software Development

JetBrains Reveals Key PyCharm 2026.2.1 Updates for AI Agent Support and Interactive Notebooks

PyCharm 2026.2.1 adds support for AI agents to work inside Jupyter notebooks using a live runtime kernel, along with directing package installation operations to the correct Python environment. The release also introduces support for marimo notebooks, improvements to package management and type checking, and changes to bundled plugins.

2026-08-12

Programming and Software Development

PyCharm Coordinates Python Environments for AI Agents and Raises Task Success to 98%

The Agent Environment Coordinator skill enables AI agents to identify the interpreter and Python environment associated with a project before executing commands. According to a JetBrains test involving six models and 28 tasks, the average success rate rose from 68% without access to the project environment to 98% when the skill was enabled.

2026-08-12

Programming and Software Development

JetBrains Gives AI Agents a Live Jupyter Kernel Inside PyCharm

JetBrains has launched a new Jupyter skill inside PyCharm that allows AI agents to work directly on a live kernel while preserving the state of data and models between cells. The company says tests showed lower costs with Claude Opus 5 during long-running tasks, while the benefit depends on the model and the nature of the task.

2026-08-12

Medical Technologies

Google unveils Pixel Watch 5 with Gemini assistant and advanced health tracking

Google announced the Pixel Watch 5, combining a proactive Gemini assistant with improvements to GPS tracking and Health Guardian features for monitoring health indicators and monthly trends. Preorders begin on August 12, and the device will go on sale on August 20 at a starting price of $399.

2026-08-12

Technologies

Google Unveils Pixel 11 Pro Fold with a Thinner Design, Greater Durability, and New AI Features

Google has announced the foldable Pixel 11 Pro Fold, featuring a lighter and thinner design, a new hinge, a 48-megapixel main camera, and the Tensor G6 chip. The phone is available for preorder through the Google Store and will arrive in stores on August 20.

2026-08-12

Artificial intelligence

Beyond the Overall Score: How Country Differences Reveal the Reliability of Wheat Head Detection Models

A re-evaluation of nine wheat head detection models shows that the overall mean mAP can conceal substantial performance differences between countries. China ranked first for all models, while areas of weakness differed between YOLO and RF-DETR, making cross-domain measurement essential before field deployment.

2026-08-11

Cybersecurity

Cloudflare Report: Hyperscale DDoS Attacks Exceeding 1 Terabit per Second Surge 519% in the First Half of 2026

Cloudflare recorded a sharp rise in distributed denial-of-service attacks during the first half of 2026, mitigating 935 attacks that exceeded 1 terabit per second in intensity, with an increase of 519% between the first and second quarters. The report points to a shift in focus from botnet floods to reflection and amplification attacks, particularly through DNS and CLDAP, with the landscape affected by geopolitical tensions.

2026-08-11

Programming and Software Development

Availability of .NET 11 Preview 7 with Extensive Updates to Libraries, SDK, and ASP.NET Core

Microsoft announced the availability of .NET 11 Preview 7, including improvements to the libraries, runtime, SDK, C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, Entity Framework Core, F#, and Windows Forms. Developers can begin by installing the .NET 11 SDK, while Windows users are advised to install the latest version of Visual Studio 2026 Insiders.

2026-08-11

Cloud Computing and Data Centers

CNCF Announces Cloud Native Buildpacks Graduation After Expanded Adoption in Container Building

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced the graduation of the Cloud Native Buildpacks project after it reached a level of maturity supported by broad adoption in production environments, vendor-neutral governance, and security practices. The project helps transform source code into OCI-compliant container images by automating language detection, dependency installation, and image-layer creation.

2026-08-11

Programming and Software Development

WebStorm Enables Switching Between AI Agents via the ACP Protocol

JetBrains has added support for the Agent Client Protocol to WebStorm, enabling developers to use multiple AI agents from within the same development environment, including agents associated with their existing subscriptions. The protocol also enables connecting custom agents and controlling the infrastructure and where data is processed.

2026-08-11

Cloud Computing and Data Centers

NVIDIA and Financial Partners Plan to Mobilize More Than $500 Billion to Finance AI Infrastructure

NVIDIA announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to create independent financing platforms aimed at mobilizing more than $500 billion in external capital to build AI infrastructure. The company says AI factories have become financeable productive assets, while investment decisions and risk assessments remain independently in the hands of financial institutions.

2026-08-11

Startups

River AI Raises $1.1 Billion Just Two Months After Its Founding

River AI, the startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babushkin, has secured $1.1 billion in seed/Series A funding led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC. The company is developing personally trainable AI agents and offering an API for customizing open models.

2026-08-11

Consumer Electronics and Technology

Intel Launches Gamer Days 2026 Campaign Featuring Tomb Raider and STAR WARS Games

Intel has begun its Gamer Days 2026 campaign with game bundle offers and collaborations with Fuse Games and Crystal Dynamics, including digital copies of STAR WARS: Galactic Racer and Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis with the purchase of eligible products. Both games will support XeSS 3 technologies at launch on Intel platforms, with their release dates set for October 2026 and February 2027.

2026-08-10

Startups

The Number of New Billion-Dollar Startups in the First Half of 2026 Surpasses the Total for 2025

A total of 195 companies joined Crunchbase’s list of private startups valued at $1 billion or more during the first half of 2026, surpassing the total number of new companies that achieved this classification throughout 2025. Robotics and artificial intelligence companies led the surge, with a notable presence from China and successive funding rounds that rapidly increased some companies’ valuations.

2026-08-10

Technologies

Microsoft Analysis of DeadLock: Rust-Based Ransomware and a Decentralized Architecture for Recovery and Extortion

Microsoft Threat Intelligence reviews the DeadLock ransomware, which first appeared in July 2025 and uses the Session network and Polygon blockchain-supported services to manage communication with victims and data leaks. By July 2026, data from more than 80 organizations had been published on the leak site, with more than half of the disclosed victims concentrated in Europe.

2026-08-10

Technologies

GitHub Launches Copilot SDK for Java to Develop Framework-Independent AI Agents

GitHub has introduced the Copilot SDK for Java, which enables server-side Java applications to create sessions for Copilot agents, register tools, send prompts, and receive structured responses. The library is currently available as a preview release and supports Jakarta EE and Spring environments, as well as the BYOK option.

2026-08-10