A new open-source project called Algo-Trading-Skills packages 501 reference implementations covering algorithmic trading engineering, spanning 16 technical domains and five regulatory/exchange frameworks. Each skill is backed by unit tests (over 20,000 total) and follows the agentskills.io SKILL.md standard, making it usable by Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex CLI, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and similar tools. It's released under Apache 2.0 and explicitly framed as engineering guidance, not financial or compliance advice.
OpenAI has temporarily disabled new subscriptions to its $200-per-month Pro plan after unprecedented demand for its Astra model overwhelmed its infrastructure. Product lead Thibault Sottiaux said the Pro tier strains systems the most, so the company chose to pause it rather than degrade service for existing users. Other offerings, including API access and the Go and Plus plans, remain open to new customers.
Franklin "Frank" Kuo, who helped build the University of Hawaii's ALOHAnet system in 1971, has died at age 91. ALOHAnet was the first public wireless packet data network and served as a direct influence on Robert Metcalfe's later creation of Ethernet.
OpenAI has released an Agents API that gives developers programmatic access to its Codex agent harness, handling session management, orchestration, context compaction and recovery on OpenAI's servers. Applications supply tools and choose an execution environment, including an OpenAI-hosted sandbox where agents can run code, edit files, and connect to MCP servers. Billing follows standard model, tool, and container rates, and OpenAI has published sample use cases like incident-response bots and GitHub issue investigators.
OpenJDK's JEP 544 proposes extending HotSpot's existing AOT cache mechanism to store precompiled native code generated during a training run, making it instantly usable when an application starts in production. If workload behavior shifts, the JVM falls back to dynamic JIT compilation to maintain performance, blending AOT and JIT approaches without requiring any code or configuration changes from developers.
Slack is rolling out Slackforce Surfaces, a feature letting users ask Slackbot to build interactive dashboards, reports, polls, and presentations directly within a chat conversation. The AI pulls data from relevant messages and connected apps like Google Drive or Salesforce to generate these tools, which can then be pinned to channels for teams to view, interact with, and comment on.
A longtime small-business marketing consultant argues that many companies build attractive websites that fail to turn visitors into customers. He recommends prioritizing clear usability, straightforward instructions and essential information over stylish but unclear design, and suggests using digital retargeting ads and direct-mail postcards to re-engage visitors who leave without converting.
A researcher replayed 68,266 requests from 393 Claude Code sessions and 23,608 Mooncake requests through a custom prefix-cache simulator, testing three approaches meant to outperform the standard LRU eviction policy used by vLLM, SGLang, LMCache and Mooncake Store. None of the alternatives beat the default LRU-over-radix-leaves baseline, and the analysis found that cache misses mostly come from rapid, seconds-apart tool-calling loops rather than sessions timing out after going idle.
A software commentary piece argues that app features, once shipped, behave like kudzu — an invasive plant that spreads uncontrollably and is nearly impossible to remove. The author cites a personal example: adding AI-driven hashtag bubbles to a blog in May, then discovering months later through Plausible analytics that the feature never cracked the top 30 visited pages, making it not worth maintaining.
Linux developer Justin Schroeder shared a photo of an older Intel MacBook pointing its webcam at a mirror reflecting its own screen, letting an AI coding agent visually monitor its progress while tuning AMD Radeon GPU support for the Omarchy Linux distribution. Omarchy is built as an 'agent-first' OS with tools designed to let AI agents install, configure and debug the system autonomously.
Anthropic has provided the EU's cybersecurity agency with access to its Mythos 5 model, following months of negotiations with the European Commission. The model is capable of detecting vulnerabilities in computer code, a capability that had previously raised national security concerns among officials.
GreyNoise reports that a likely Russian-speaking threat actor deployed hundreds of AI agents using OpenAI's Codex and DeepSeek models to build and launch exploits against two PaperCut NG/MF vulnerabilities. The campaign, which began August 31, compromised at least 440 servers across 395 organizations in 48 countries, mostly in education, with credentials stolen from 280 victims and admin access gained at 12 organizations.
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