Weekly news | 2026-06-24

news

• Midjourney Medical
• Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
• I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware
• DeepSeek Introduces Vision
• Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving
• Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly
• Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost
• CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course (2020)
• Taxonomy of the Occlupanida (parasitoids on bread bag tags)
• How to Feed a Dictator
• Think of the Children: How to Force Real ID for All Internet Traffic (2023)
• There are no instances in ATProto
• Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
• I used sound waves to make espresso. It could cut coffee‑brewing energy use by ¾
• Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics
• Hey, n00b, we didn't hire you to complete tasks
• Americans express unease over SpaceX's influence on retirement savings
• Renting a sewing machine from the library
• Epoll vs. io_uring in Linux
• Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites
• Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior
• 15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test
• 'We had to get out of the way': The backlash over delivery robots
• Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI
• Did my old job only exist because of fraud?
• I was wrong about the Midjourney ultra-sound scanner
• Everything is logarithms
• Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models
• PowerFox Browser
• 1983 Northern Telecom Commodore Phone
• Steam Machine launches today
• Runing GLM-5.2 on local hardware
• Polymarket's viral videos showed people winning big, but the bets were fake
• Will It Mythos?
• What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance
• VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO
• Plotnine
• The Coming Loop
• Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators
• Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX

AI: - Project Fetch: Phase Two - Mistral OCR 4

• AWS:
  • Amazon Aurora DSQL JSONB data type with compression
  • Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL major version 18
  • Application Migration Service is now AWS Transform MGN
  • AWS CLI now supports the Agent Toolkit for AWS
  • AWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 table configurations update
  • AWS Workload Credentials Provider exportable ACM certificates and Secrets Manager
  • Bedrock announces and delists Claude Fable 5
  • Bedrock Gemma 4 models
  • CloudWatch Application Signals infrastructure, logs, and traces context for faster troubleshooting
  • CloudWatch Logs Insights +23 query commands and functions
  • Compute Optimizer idle recommendations for six additional resource types
  • Connect Customer launches real-time dashboard alerts from conversational analytics
  • Connect Customer now offers AI agent trace details for self-service voice interactions
  • Cost Explorer intelligent cost explanations powered by Amazon Q
  • DocumentDB engine minor version starting with 5.0.1
  • EC2 M9g and M9gd general purpose instances are now available
  • EC2 metal-48xl and metal-96xl instances
  • ECS Managed Daemons inter-task visibility and communication
  • EKS local clusters on Outposts with EC2 instance store
  • Elastic Beanstalk now integrates CloudWatch Logs in the Logs tab
  • EMR Serverless Run Interactive Workloads
  • FinOps Agent is now available in preview
  • Lake Formation extends table permissions to access underlying data in S3
  • Managed Service for Prometheus now supports Native Histograms
  • Managed Service for Prometheus out of order sample ingestion
  • MSK Express Brokers automatic topic creation with Kafka Streams
  • MWAA Serverless EventBridge notifications
  • OpenSearch Serverless now supports Agentic Search
  • OpenSearch Service MCP Apps for agentic observability
  • Quick now integrates with Snowflake Cortex AI
  • RDS Database Preview Environment PostgreSQL 19 Beta 1
  • RDS for SQL Server migration cost assessment capabilities now available in AWS Transform
  • Redshift reduces manual snapshot cost for Serverless and RG instances
  • SageMaker AI serverless fine-tuning for Nvidia Nemotron models
  • SageMaker Unified Studio Notebooks now support EMR Serverless
  • Savings Plans Purchase Analyzer target coverage analysis
  • VPC Flow Logs additional metadata
  • For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.

tooling

• Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see
• The Doom Justifies the Valuation
• Optocam Zero: a Pi Zero based digital camera made using off the shelf components
• Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance
• Unlimited OCR: One-shot long-horizon parsing

blogs

• Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool
• Aikido Code Audit
• Surprising Economics of Load-Balanced Systems
• SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible
• Alice is impatient
• JSON-LD explained for personal websites
• From Combinatorial Mess to Linear Elegance: Architecting a Conversion Engine
• Cyberdecks, going analog, and convivial technology
• My Mathematical Regression
• British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres
• Japanese symbols that speak without words
• Is it time for a new Embedded Linux build system?
• In praise of memcached