Weekly news | 2026-06-10

news

• Changing how we develop Ladybird
• C++: The Documentary
• Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]
• Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe
• Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows
• SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P
• Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs
• Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity
• Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen
• Fine-tuning an LLM to write docs like it's 1995
• Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux
• New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste
• Dutch gov't will only allow European company to operate DigiD platform
• Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
• Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things
• South Korean forums will need to scan every images with AI censorship tools
• The IsUpMap lets you check the status of over 100 major sites at once
• Leap in DNA synthesis slashes time to build new genetic sequences
• Siri AI
• OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision
• xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab
• EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
• Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers
• Apple Core AI Framework
• Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
• FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs
• Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]
• The iPhone's Last Stand?
• Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption
• Thi.ng – open-source building blocks for computational design and art
• Old'aVista – The most powerful guide to the old Internet
• Show HN: Gravity – Interactive solar-system simulator, from Newton to Einstein
• Forever Young: how one molecule can lock plants in a youthful state (2025)
• Job: Head of Stonehenge
• Is Grep All You Need? How Agent Harnesses Reshape Agentic Search
• A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of the rarest explosions
• Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism
• Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'
• Apple bets cheaper AI will woo small developers

AI: - Claude Fable 5

• AWS:
  • Amazon Inspector improved agent-based scanning for EC2
  • Amazon Location Service public transit and intermodal routing
  • ARC Region Aurora scaling and Amazon Neptune global database failover
  • AWS Compute Optimizer 32-day lookback for EBS volume and ECS service rightsizing recommendations
  • AWS MCP Server cross-account and cross-role access
  • AWS Step Functions AgentCore-powered agentic reasoning step
  • Bedrock AgentCore Identity bring your own secrets with AWS Secrets Manager
  • Bedrock AgentCore Runtime introduces interactive shells for terminal access into agent sessions
  • Bedrock CloudWatch metrics for OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs
  • Bedrock GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex from OpenAI | GA
  • Bedrock redesigned console optimized for OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs
  • CloudWatch querying metrics data up to two weeks old
  • Cognito multi-Region replication
  • Config now supports internal service linked rules
  • Connect AI assistant is now available in the UI builder
  • Connect Customer now optimizes placement of ad-hoc activities in agent schedules
  • Connect Customer schedule update notifications
  • Connect Customer up to 5,000 agents per schedule
  • Cost and Usage Report 2.0 now supports Athena and Redshift integration
  • Deadline Cloud persistent storage for Service Managed Fleets
  • Deadline Cloud plugin sync for service-managed fleets
  • Direct Connect VIF Rate Limiters to help prevent network congestion
  • ECS Managed Instances AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia
  • ECS with AWS Fargate 32vCPU compute configurations
  • EKS and Amazon EKS Distro version 1.36
  • EKS Capabilities CloudWatch Vended Logs
  • ElastiCache for Valkey now supports durability
  • Glue Data Catalog Client Hive 3 and discovery of multiple catalogs
  • HealthLake CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule (CMS-0057-F) requirements
  • HealthOmics Nextflow version 26.04
  • HealthOmics Nextflow version pinning at run time
  • IoT Core new logs to troubleshoot connectivity and authentication
  • IoT Device Management MQTT session data to connectivity status API
  • Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) CDC iterator position
  • PCS production-ready Deep Learning AMI
  • Quick Research now supports customer managed keys
  • Quick Research now supports customer managed keys
  • Quick VPC connectivity for MCP connections
  • RDS for Db2 IBM Db2 v12.1 and Db2 Community Edition
  • RDS for SQL Server supports Bring Your Own Media
  • SageMaker adds permissions boundaries for SCP compliance
  • SageMaker AI multi-turn reinforcement learning for AI agent model customization
  • SageMaker Data Agent conversation history
  • SageMaker Data Agent integrates business context into conversations
  • SageMaker HyperPod EFA-only network interfaces
  • SageMaker HyperPod troubleshooting skills for AI coding assistants
  • SageMaker Studio now sets up in seconds with model customization ready from the start
  • SageMaker Unified Studio a localized experience in twelve languages
  • SageMaker Unified Studio notebook scheduling
  • SES tenant-level suppression lists
  • For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.

tooling

• Open Code Review – An AI-powered code review CLI tool
• pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution
• Show HN: Lowfat – pluggable CLI filter that saved 91.8% of my LLM tokens
• ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks Every Protocol
• GentleOS – Classic operating system with a lovely retro GUI

blogs

• I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling
• Branchless Quicksort faster than std:sort and pdqsort with C and C++ API
• Redis 8.8: New array data structure, rate limiter, performance improvements
• Cooldown Support for Ruby Bundler
• I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab
• Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing compression for mobile and laptop efficiency
• databow: a Rust CLI to query any database with an ADBC driver
• Go Experiments Explained
• Making Graphics Like it's 1993
• Looking Forward to Postgres 19: Query Hints
• Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers
• Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot
• If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know
• Passing DBs through continuations