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Anthropic's new coding-focused Claude Fable 5.1 became selectable in GitHub Copilot the day it launched, but the model requires data retention by default and stays off until administrators enable it.

HashiCorp argues HCP Terraform's policy, identity, and audit controls must govern AI agents authoring infrastructure changes, pointing to its new tfctl CLI as part of that model.

GitHub Copilot's automated code review can now submit approvals that count toward merge requirements, but the capability ships disabled by default and requires an administrator to opt in at the enterprise, organization, or repository level.

Figma replaced Projects with folders that nest up to 10 levels deep starting August 3, 2026, but users on its own forum immediately flagged missing previews, non-persistent sorting, and broken API endpoints.

GitHub is deprecating six Copilot AI models and reenabling Business and Enterprise sign-ups for credit-card and PayPal payers, both effective September 1, 2026.

A Google engineer's commit adds an experimental enable_flatpak build flag to Chromium's Linux installer code, explicitly not a commitment to official Flatpak support.

Cloudflare Workers can now accept inbound TCP connections and serve gRPC for the first time since the platform's 2017 launch, in private beta.

Cursor's principal systems engineer Vicent Martí describes Continuity, a write-ahead-log architecture on S3 that replaces three-phase-commit consensus and powers the Origin hosting platform.

Packer 1.16 adds a provenance post-processor and a verify-attestation command, letting teams cryptographically sign and check the origin of every machine image they build.

GNU Emacs 31.1 arrives with the legacy unexec dumper removed, xterm-mouse-mode on by default in compatible terminals, a new user-lisp directory feature, and expanded tree-sitter options.

Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash posts sharp coding and web-dev benchmark gains at half its predecessor's launch price, and lands in GitHub Copilot immediately.

Slack's new Slack Code feature moves AI coding agents out of private terminals into shared, self-archiving team channels, launching with Anthropic, Cognition, GitHub, and Vercel.