AI Hyperscalers' Debt Binge Blamed for Pushing Long-Term Treasury Yields Higher

Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh identified the surging debt issuance by AI hyperscalers as a contributing factor to elevated long-term Treasury yields, with the 10-year note breaking above 5 percent for the first time since 2007. Corporate bond issuance by the five largest American hyperscalers jumped from an average of $28 billion annually between 2020 and 2024 to $121 billion in 2025, according to Bank of America Securities. Morgan Stanley estimates global AI-related debt reached $236 billion by late spring 2025 and could approach $570 billion through 2026. The borrowing surge is driven by capital expenditure on data centers and AI accelerator hardware that now consumes nearly all operating cash flow for several cloud providers. Analysts warn of a reflexive dynamic in which the AI sector's own debt issuance raises the benchmark discount rate, thereby increasing the financial hurdle its investments must clear to be justified.

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HC upholds revised Will favouring adopted daughter over biological sister

A woman named Kaur had initially drafted a Will leaving her house to her younger sister, but later changed her decision. On February 15, 2008, Kaur formally revoked her first Will, redirecting the property to her adopted daughter instead. Her brother, who lived nearby, had been regularly visiting and caring for her as she aged. The dispute over the property's rightful heir was subsequently brought before the High Court. The HC ruled in favour of the second Will, upholding the adopted daughter's claim to the property.

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Events Lineup Revealed With NMI, Backblaze and More

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is scheduled to take place at Moscone West in San Francisco from October 13 to 15. The annual event serves as a major gathering point for the global tech community to network, debate ideas, and forge connections. Alongside the main conference, a series of side events will be hosted by companies including NMI, Backblaze, PeakXV Partners, and Augment. These satellite gatherings are designed to extend the conversation beyond the main Expo Hall hours. The side events expand networking and engagement opportunities for attendees throughout the conference period.

Developer Builds FinderBack to Add Navigation Shortcuts to macOS Finder Menu

A developer has released FinderBack, a small open-source utility for macOS that adds Back and Forward navigation options to Finder's right-click context menu. The tool was created to eliminate the repetitive need to move the cursor up to the toolbar for basic navigation. Users can right-click anywhere within Finder to access the navigation commands directly. FinderBack is available both as source code on GitHub and as a ready-to-install build via the project's website.

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New Wild Cat Species 'Tilcayo' Identified in Bolivia's Cloud Forests

Scientists have officially identified a new wild cat species living in the cloud forests of Bolivia. The small, slender cat has been formally named Tilcayo, a name long used by local communities who have known of the animal for generations. Genetic analysis confirmed that Tilcayo is genetically distinct from all other known tiger cat species. While the discovery marks a significant scientific milestone, researchers warn that conservation measures are urgently needed as the population size of this newly recognised species remains unknown.

UK Secures £4.3M Norman-Era Coin Hoard, Largest Treasure Find in British History

A collection of 2,584 silver pennies dating to the Norman era has been acquired for the nation at a valuation of £4.3 million, making it the most significant treasure discovery in British history. The hoard was originally unearthed by detectorists and is believed to reflect the political instability that followed the Norman Conquest of England. Funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund made the acquisition possible. The coins are set to go on public display across the country before eventually being permanently housed in Somerset.

Attic: Open-Source Tool Lets AI Coding Assistants Retain Knowledge Across Sessions

A developer has released Attic, an open-source knowledge persistence tool designed for AI coding assistants like Claude Code and Codex CLI. The tool addresses a recurring inefficiency where AI agents repeat the same investigative steps across separate sessions because prior discoveries are lost when a session ends. Attic works by writing findings to a file and maintaining a small index, allowing assistants to retrieve relevant knowledge without reloading entire histories into context. The project, available on GitHub, has also added browser-based saving so users can capture insights outside their coding environment. The goal is to preserve not just bug fixes but the reasoning behind them, including architectural decisions, failed approaches, and undocumented code behaviour.

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Developer Builds AIM-Style Buddy List to Track Claude and Codex API Rate Limits

A developer has created a nostalgic project called 'Die With Me' that displays AI API usage limits as AIM-style away messages. The tool visualizes rate limit and token usage data for Claude and OpenAI's Codex in the format of the classic AOL Instant Messenger buddy list. The creator was motivated by a desire to bring back the casual, social feel of early internet culture. The project was shared on Hacker News, where it received early feedback from the community.

AODM: Open Vocabulary Standard Released for AI-Readable Web Knowledge

AODM (AI Optimized Data Markup) is a newly released open vocabulary designed to represent knowledge on the web, including entities, relationships, facts, and rules. It is built to be readable and usable by both humans and AI systems for validation and data exchange. The project, licensed under Apache 2.0, includes XML and JSON schemas, an HTML embedding profile, reference parsers in Python, JavaScript, Java, and C#, a graph compiler, inference engine, and an XBRL converter. A conformance suite ensures consistency by requiring all four parsers to produce identical results. The repository is publicly available on GitHub, and a browser-based validator requires no installation.

Skillsync Lets Developers Move AI Coding Sessions Across Agents Without Starting Over

Y Combinator W26 startup Skillsync, founded by Nars and Nishant, has launched a tool that lets developers transfer AI chat sessions between coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. The platform addresses a growing pain point where conversation history, reasoning traces, and tool calls get locked into a single agent's proprietary on-disk format. At its core is an open-source Rust engine called txcript that translates sessions between agent formats, functioning similarly to how ffmpeg converts media files. A local-first desktop app surfaces all sessions in one searchable interface, while skills and memory are stored as portable markdown files exposed to any agent via MCP. Everything runs locally by default, with data leaving the machine only when a user explicitly shares a session to a team workspace.

DEV Community Delays Summer Bug Smash Winners Announcement to September 24

DEV Community has announced a short delay in revealing the winners of its Big Summer Bug Smash event, which was powered by Sentry. Organizers cited the need for more thorough review of all submitted fixes and optimizations as the reason for the postponement. The competition drew entries across five categories, with a total of 23 winners to be recognized. The official winner announcement has been rescheduled for September 24. Participants were thanked for their patience and the effort put into their submissions.

Science Explains Why Humans Cannot Remember Their Earliest Years

Infantile amnesia is a universal phenomenon in which people are unable to recall memories from their earliest years of life. While babies are capable of forming lasting memories, adults consistently struggle to access them later on. The hippocampus, along with developing neural connections in the brain, plays a central role in the formation of these early memories. Ongoing brain development throughout childhood further affects how long such memories remain retrievable. Scientists now have a clearer understanding of why these formative experiences fade from conscious recall.

DNS and Mail Setup: One Credential Works Only When Platform Owns the Zone

A technical analysis outlines when to combine DNS and mail verification under a single credential versus keeping them as separate systems with explicit reconciliation. The core principle is that a successful DNS record write does not confirm that a mail provider has verified the domain. For platform-managed domains, a single credential allows DNS publication and mail verification to run as one retryable workflow, reducing missed-verification incidents. When a customer owns the DNS zone due to registrar contracts or compliance requirements, DNS and mail must remain separate systems linked by a durable reconciliation job with a clear owner and deadline. The choice ultimately depends on who has authority to modify the authoritative DNS zone, not on vendor preference.

Microsoft and GitHub add free AI and data science courses to GitHub Skills

Microsoft and GitHub have expanded the GitHub Skills platform to include free courses on artificial intelligence, data science, and machine learning, areas previously absent from its catalogue. The platform, which replaced GitHub Learning Lab, teaches through real repositories where students complete guided exercises triggered by GitHub Actions workflows. Access requires only a free GitHub account, with no credit card or trial period needed, and courses can be completed in the browser via GitHub Codespaces or locally. The new AI-focused content covers practical topics such as prompt writing, using GitHub Copilot, and basic Python data workflows, though it does not constitute a formal professional certification. The expansion aligns with Microsoft's broader push for free AI education through Microsoft Learn, bringing similar training directly into the GitHub environment where developers already work.

How the Log4Shell Flaw Works: Inside CVE-2021-44228's Devastating Impact

Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) is a critical remote code execution vulnerability discovered in November 2021 by Chen Zhaojun of Alibaba Cloud Security Team within Apache Log4j 2, a widely used Java logging library. The flaw was publicly disclosed on Twitter on December 9, 2021, and is widely regarded as one of the most severe cybersecurity vulnerabilities of the past decade. It affected Log4j versions 2.14.1 and below, putting major organizations including Apple, Cloudflare, Twitter, and Minecraft at risk. The vulnerability stemmed from Log4j's JNDI Lookup feature, which allowed attackers to inject malicious payloads into logged request fields — such as the User-Agent header — to trigger remote code execution on vulnerable servers. Evidence suggests the flaw was being actively exploited by malicious actors even before its public disclosure, classifying it as a zero-day vulnerability.

How to Build Automated Integration Tests for a Serverless AWS API

A developer tutorial published on DEV Community outlines a two-part workflow for building and testing a serverless Hello World API using AWS SAM, Python 3.11, and API Gateway. The guide distinguishes between unit tests, which validate code logic in isolation, and integration tests, which verify how components such as API Gateway and Lambda function together end-to-end. The tutorial walks through three testing stages: local integration testing against a SAM-simulated environment, manual verification of the live AWS deployment via browser and curl, and automated integration tests against the real deployed stack. The author also shares challenges encountered during the process and explains why passing unit tests alone does not confirm that a deployed API works correctly. A hands-on challenge is included, asking readers to add a new endpoint and push it through all three test layers independently.