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What domains Maglite and other businesses recently acquired

Flashlight maker is among end user domain name buyers. We’re still catching up on end user reports at Sedo. This one covers sales in the week ending August 16. Let’s dive in. (You can view previous lists like this here.) WiseCasino .com $24,888 – This domain is, unsurprisingly, u

Brief domainnamewire.com · 4h ago
Web News Today — September 1, 2026

A group funded by Andreessen, Horowitz, and Brockman plans data center ads to sway midterms and more — today's web signal.

Brief WebNews · 6h ago
Lovable removes excuse for developers to view lingerie site at work

Popular vibe coding platform acquires the matching .com domain name. Earlier this month, vibe coding platform Lovable announced it raised a $400 million Series C funding round, valuing the company at a whopping $13.3 billion. It also made a big improvement to its web presence. De

Brief domainnamewire.com · 1d ago
Introducing Hy4 Preview

Introducing Hy4 Preview New open weight text input (no vision) LLM from Chinese company Tencent today: 770B total parameters, 49B active parameters, 1M token context window, 1.56TB on Hugging Face. This is a big size increase from their previous Hy3 in July, which was 295B, 21B

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Lovable removes excuse for developers to view lingerie site at work

Popular vibe coding platform acquires the matching .com domain name. Earlier this month, vibe coding platform Lovable announced it raised a $400 million Series C funding round, valuing the company at a whopping $13.3 billion. It also made a big improvement to its web presence. De

domainnamewire.com · 1d ago
Quoting Matt Webb

After I released version 1.0, I figured I would have to do the rotations myself. So I sat down with ChatGPT and I didn’t get it to write the code, but I got it to educate me. With a patient, interactive tutor, I was able to finally do what I hadn’t by reading books and asking mat

simonwillison.net · 11d ago
A shot-scraper-style JSON API on Bun 1.4's new Bun.WebView

Research: A shot-scraper-style JSON API on Bun 1.4's new Bun.WebView Today saw the long awaited release of Bun 1.4, the first stable version since the infamous Rust rewrite a few months ago. Interestingly, the Rust rewrite was downplayed in the release notes, which i

simonwillison.net · 12d ago
smolmachines / smolvm as a sandbox for untrusted Python & JavaScript

Research: smolmachines / smolvm as a sandbox for untrusted Python & JavaScript I tasked Claude Fable 5 running in Claude Code for web with the following research task: Put https://smolmachines.com through its paces as a fast secure sandbox. Explore what it would take

simonwillison.net · 13d ago
Quoting Jeremy Morrell

My hypothesis is that there is a new opportunity for Extensible Software on the web. LLMs radically lower the cost of authoring extensions, and modern sandbox primitives lower the deployment cost and provide good security boundaries. We can build our app as a solid, accountable c

simonwillison.net · 13d ago
What Codex unlocks for Notion

How Notion uses Codex to one-shot specs, build AI Voice Input for the web, and multiply engineering power across small teams.

openai.com · 84d ago
ChatGPT Sites

Create that kind of lightweight website or app with Codex.

openai.com · 91d ago
New RFC Editor website is live

Today we are launching the new rfc-editor.org website, the most visible part of a comprehensive overhaul of the tools that support editing and publishing RFCs.

ietf.org · 104d ago

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