Omarchy, the keyboard-first Linux desktop built on Arch and Hyprland by David Heinemeier Hansson, has moved its production pipeline, packaging builds, PR review agents, and QA testing to DigitalOcean.…
ZeroLabs and OpenClaw have published a guide to self-hosting autonomous AI agents on Ubuntu VPS instances, detailing the use of Xvfb virtual displays, headless Chromium, and systemd service supervisio…
OpenRouter's multi-provider routing causes significant performance variability for the same AI model, according to a developer who runs the iMessage assistant Olly and has processed over 18 million me…
Vercel's AI Gateway is offering GLM-5.3 at a 50% discount through Tuesday, September 8, in partnership with DigitalOcean, using the promo name 'zai/glm-5.3-promo-50'. The promo routes only to DigitalO…
Hacktoberfest is shifting its focus from open-source contributions to community-building and education around open artificial intelligence, with a new 'Preptember' month dedicated to planning local Fe…
A 390-line Python script benchmarked six AI models via DigitalOcean's OpenAI-compatible inference endpoint and found that the cheapest model, Mistral 3 14B, delivered the fastest time-to-first-token a…
A developer built a 390-line Python tool to race six AI models against each other on DigitalOcean's Inference endpoint, streaming responses side by side with time-to-first-token and cost metrics. The …
The-DevOps-Daily has released DNS Detective, a 300-line Python agent that diagnoses DNS, TLS, and email-record issues by actively probing the network with tools like dig and openssl, rather than relyi…
Alibaba Cloud's QwenCloud, launched May 26, 2026, packages model inference, agent tools, and compatible APIs to drive cloud consumption, part of Alibaba's $53 billion three-year AI and cloud infrastru…
DigitalOcean introduced v5 Droplets, a new generation of compute built on 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, delivering up to 30% higher performance per core than previous-generation Droplets. For the first…
At DigitalOcean's Deploy 2026 conference in San Francisco, four founders — Angela Hoover of Andi AI, Alex Mashrabov of Higgsfield AI, Hovsep Seraydarian of LawVo, and Peter Elias of Probably — discuss…
DigitalOcean has launched Managed Agents Runtime Services (M.A.R.S.) in private preview, a fully managed infrastructure for running AI coding agents and long-running agentic workflows. The service com…
Vale, a command-line linter for prose developed solely by Joseph Kato, offers fast, cross-platform linting for spelling and style across multiple markup formats, with extensibility via YAML and an MIT…
Security researchers at Wiz found that S3-compatible object storage services from Nebius, Crusoe, Vultr, Lambda Labs, Cloudflare R2, and DigitalOcean lack many of Amazon S3's security protections, inc…
DigitalOcean has made its Inference Router cache-aware, enabling it to account for cached context when selecting models for agentic sessions, which can reduce costs and latency despite higher nominal …
Major League Hacking (MLH) and DEV are partnering with DigitalOcean to run Hacktoberfest 2026, which will focus on open-source and open-weight AI. The event will include over 300 in-person Fests and a…
DigitalOcean alternatives in India are evaluated for startups needing more than basic Droplets, with providers like Akamai Cloud, AceCloud, Vultr, Utho, AWS, Google Cloud, and E2E Networks compared on…
A one-time snapshot of DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 latency across nine inference providers found Baseten fastest with 3,980 decode tok/s and 7.72 s total p99, while Azure ran an older checkpoint and Scalew…
DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest 2026 shifts from counting pull requests to focusing on building with open artificial intelligence, aiming to reduce low-effort PRs and promote meaningful learning. The eve…
XAI released Grok Build version 1.0.0 on August 7, 2026, after a 10-week beta that included roughly 100 updates. The terminal-based coding agent, which transitioned to the Grok 4.5 model, was open-sou…