Weekly news | 2026-05-20

news

• Scorched Earth 2000 – Web
• A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline
• Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid
• RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?
• Computer Hobby Movement in Canada
• Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired
• AI is making me dumb
• Avoiding and reducing microplastic false positives from dry glove contact
• Leaving the Physical World
• USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought
• Microsoft BitLocker – YellowKey zero-day exploit
• Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads
• Saying Goodbye to one line of APL
• Sam Altman's Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI's IPO
• Fossils show millipede and centipede ancestors evolved legs underwater
• HDD Firmware Hacking
• Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude
• Myths about /dev/urandom (2014)
• The Tree House: A voyage to the source of a backyard dream
• Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
• Extraordinary Ordinals
• Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer
• The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme
• Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals
• The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)
• δ-mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models
• SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video
• Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station
• Futhark by example (2020)
• Additive Blending on the Nintendo 64
• Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)
• SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud
• Erlang/OTP 29.0
• DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again
• 'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens
• ESP-EEG is an affordable 8-channel biosensing board
• Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone
• England Runestones
• Greek Alphabet Cards
• Show HN: Epiq – Distributed Git based issue tracker TUI
• Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux
• PART Telescopes – Bringing radio astronomy within reach of rural schools
• A nicer voltmeter clock
• Colossus: The Forbin Project
• Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller
• Halt and Catch Fire
• A molecule with half-Möbius topology
• Native all the way, until you need text
• Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit
• C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For
• AI is a technology not a product
• AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise
• Unknowable Math Can Help Hide Secrets
• Illusions of understanding in the sciences
• High-Entropy Alloy
• Hindenburg’s Smoking Room
• Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels
• WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency
• At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025
• Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf]
• Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]
• Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes
• Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD
• How diamonds are made
• Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU

AI: - Claude for Small Business

• AWS:
  • Amazon Aurora DSQL change data capture | Preview
  • Application Recovery Controller zonal shift with Karpenter
  • Application Recovery Controller Lambda event source mapping
  • AWS HealthOmics caching of cancelled workflow runs
  • AWS RTB Fabric custom domains for real-time bidding workloads
  • Bedrock Advanced Prompt Optimization and Migration Tool
  • Claude Platform on AWS is now generally available
  • CloudFormation and CDK Reference stack outputs across accounts and Regions
  • CloudFront OCSP Revocation for Mutual TLS (Viewer)
  • CloudFront Passthrough Mode for mutual TLS (Viewer)
  • CloudFront Premium flat-rate plan now supports configurable usage allowances
  • CloudWatch Logs increased query result limits
  • Connect Cases edit related items and delete cases from the agent workspace
  • Connect Customer embedding Cases and Customer Profiles in custom agent applications
  • Connect Customer permission for agents to view only their own performance evaluations
  • EC2 ENA Express now supports traffic between Availability Zones
  • EC2 M3 Ultra Mac instances | GA
  • EventBridge Scheduler +619 new SDK API actions, including Lambda Managed Instances
  • FSx for OpenZFS creating Multi-AZ file systems in shared VPCs
  • Interconnect multicloud connectivity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in preview
  • Lambda scheduled scaling for functions on Lambda Managed Instances
  • Managed Grafana in-place upgrade to Grafana version 12.4
  • Organizations higher quotas for service control policies (SCPs)
  • Partner Central agents now accelerates opportunity creation
  • Quick cross-account access for Amazon Athena data sources
  • Redshift RG instances powered by AWS Graviton
  • Route 53 Domains +34 Top Level Domains including .app, .dev, and .health.
  • SageMaker AI serverless model customization for Qwen3.6
  • SageMaker Data Agent IAM Identity Center domains
  • SageMaker Feature Store SageMaker Python SDK V3
  • SageMaker JumpStart New models for image generation and text embeddings
  • SageMaker JumpStart speech recognition and text-to-speech new models
  • SageMaker JumpStart Two new models for coding
  • SageMaker Unified Studio getting started tutorials and in-product release notes
  • Security Agent full repository code reviews
  • Transform agent builder toolkit Kiro power for building customized transformation agents
  • Transform agentic AI assistant to the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio
  • Transform agents now available in Kiro, Claude, Cursor, and Codex
  • Transform containerization capability during migrations
  • Transform customer-owned artifact stores
  • WAF introduces dynamic label interpolation for custom request and response handling
  • For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.

tooling

• A Claude Code and Codex Skill for Deliberate Skill Development
• New Nginx Exploit
• Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged
• Show HN: Nibble
• Orthrus-Qwen3: up to 7.8×tokens/forward on Qwen3, identical output distribution
• Accelerate – Embedded language for high-performance array computations
• After 8 years, I rewrote my open-source PyTorch curvature library
• I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation
• CUDA Books

blogs

• Cisco workforce reductions
• Show HN: Running the second public ODoH relay
• First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5
• 60fps Video on a CGA? – The GlyphBlaster
• Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
• Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
• Accelerando (2005)
• Gaining control of every projector and camera on campus
• HTML Lists
• We've made the world too complicated
• I don't think AI will make your processes go faster
• Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools
• Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter
• Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon
• The Third Hard Problem