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The Vision Log, Part 1: Two Systems Before This One, and Why Both Were Abandoned
Three attempts in four months. What the two systems before Vision were, what remains of them on disk, and why the one that worked was shut down anyway.
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Muse Glimmer on ExecuTorch: What Meta’s 30B Local Model Actually Runs On, and Who Already Built Bindings for It
The claim at the center of this story is that Meta released an open-weight model, of roughly 30 billion parameters, built specifically to run on local hardware rather than behind an API.
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Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen Overview at gamescom 2026 — Capcom’s Frigid New Region Norgan
Coverage emerging from gamescom 2026 points to Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen as a headline showing for fans of the action-RPG.
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Gemini 3.5 Transcribe: Google’s Speech-to-Text Model, Its Live Variant, and the Dictation, Captioning, and Meeting Projects Built on It
Google published a post titled “Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe” on the DeepMind blog, and a companion post appeared on Google’s Keyword blog.
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No Backend, No Install: The Agent Studios All Converged on MCP — and Two of Them Dropped the Server Entirely
A year ago, “agent studio” meant a hosted canvas with a proprietary node format.
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Roblox Creator Updates, Week of August 17-21, 2026: New Algorithm, Marketplace Protections, and Studio Mesh Segmentation
Roblox’s weekly recap for August 17–21, 2026 bundles several changes that touch discovery, Marketplace safety, program eligibility, and the Studio toolchain.
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Automating Dependabot Pull Request Triage in the GitHub Copilot App — and the Community Script That Still Turns Dependabot On
Key finding: GitHub has chosen dependency-update triage as an introductory lesson for its Copilot app — the visible, per-pull-request end of dependency management.
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The Right Amount of Spec for Agentic Development: What the O’Reilly Dispatch Argues, With Numbers From playagit’s Own Pipeline
A post titled “Dispatches from O’Reilly: The right amount of spec for agentic development” is listed on the Stack Overflow blog under a 2026-08-21 date.
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Stopping a Bad Command Before It Runs: Policy Gates, Hash-Chained Audit Trails, and the Unattended Agents That Made Them Necessary
The pitch for always-on agents has converged on a small set of numbers.
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Epic’s Game Animation Sample Reaches Unreal Engine 5.8 — and Developers Keep Treating It as a Starting Template
Epic announced that the Game Animation Sample Project has been updated for Unreal Engine 5.8, and published it for download through its own tech blog.