Weekly news | 2026-07-01

news

• OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
• Dostoyevsky isn't difficult
• Qualcomm to Acquire Modular
• RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers
• Om Malik has died
• An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
• The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy
• Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line
• The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (2nd Ed)
• Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour
• IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology
• An oral history of Bank Python (2021)
• What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant
• We all depend on open source. We will defend it together
• U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
• 22-year-old Mozart's handwritten notebook unearthed in 'major discovery'
• Choosing a Public DNS Resolver
• OpenRA
• AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design
• Enhancing X11 Application Security with LXC
• Fintech Engineering Handbook
• The case for physical media ownership
• Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
• A QNX-inspired operating system with selectable kernels
• Historical memory prices 1960-2026
• Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models (2024)
• 5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)
• I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI
• Sophon PFG-1: a monolithic-3D AI ASIC with 330 GB of on-die DRAM and no HBM
• TOP500 at ISC’26: We have a New Number 1 Supercomputer
• Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech
• HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88
• US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections
• Rocketlab acquires Iridium
• Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU
• The President Made More Than $1Billon in Crypto Deals
• Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5
• Forestiere Underground Gardens
• Nano Banana 2 Lite

AI: - Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model - Claude Sonnet 5 - Claude Science - Leanstral 1.5

• AWS:
  • AgentCore harness in now generally available
  • AWS Blocksan open-source framework for composing application backends on AWS | Preview
  • AWS Console Private Access now works without internet connectivity
  • AWS Continuum for security at machine speed
  • AWS Sign-in resource-based policies and resource control policies
  • Bedrock AgentCore Bedrock Guardrails in policy
  • Bedrock AgentCore Memory strictly consistent metadata for long-term memory
  • Bedrock AgentCore new optimization capabilities to continuously improve agents in production
  • Bedrock AgentCore Web Search Agentic Web Retrieval
  • Bedrock Grok 4.3
  • Bedrock Guardrails new API targeting agentic AI workflows
  • Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base is now generally available
  • CloudWatch cross-account metrics centralization
  • CloudWatch Log Analytics for unified log analysis
  • CloudWatch native OpenTelemetry metrics with PromQL querying and per-GB pricing
  • CloudWatch Query Studio is now generally available
  • CloudWatch Synthetics multilocation canaries
  • Compute Optimizer enhances EBS volume recommendations with additional performance metrics
  • Connect Customer interrupt an agent with an urgent contact
  • Cost Explorer historical data retention for accounts in billing groups
  • DevOps Agent adds release management capability | Preview
  • DevOps Agent custom SRE agents and MCP/A2A protocols
  • EC2 Future-dated Capacity Reservations Now Supports Cancellation
  • EC2 G7 instances are now generally available
  • ECS faster service auto scaling
  • EKS customer-routed control plane egress
  • GameLift Servers Free Network Bandwidth
  • GameLift Servers new container fleet improvements
  • Glue Data Catalog business context and semantic search | Preview
  • Glue Interactive Sessions Spark Connect for interactive workloads
  • HealthOmics now streams workflow engine logs to Amazon CloudWatch in real time
  • Lambda Managed Instances Tag Propagation for Managed Resources
  • Marketplace announces AI-assisted product listing
  • Marketplace reduces listing fee for professional services to 0.5%
  • Marketplace Storefront is now generally available
  • MQ for RabbitMQ private networking connectivity
  • MSK Express Intelligent Rebalancing on existing clusters
  • Oracle Database@AWS Oracle Autonomous AI Database Serverless
  • Partner Central accelerate co-sell deals with express private offers
  • Partner Central agents now accelerate co-selling on every deal
  • Partner Central agents now guide new partners from registration to ready-to-sell
  • Partner Central lead enrichment and prospecting
  • Partner Central new funding benefits for Business Value Realization
  • Partner Central validates Foundational Technical Review in minutes
  • Partner Competency Connect Customer Services
  • Quick autonomous agents, multi-dataset analytics, and redesigned activity feed
  • Quick expands integrations with new connectors for Adobe, Figma, WhatsApp, and more
  • RDS for MariaDB LTS 12.3
  • RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M9g database instances
  • RDS for SQL Server increases the maximum size and provisioned performance of General Purpose (gp3) volumes
  • RDS for SQL Server now supports X2m instances
  • Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Palo Alto Networks Advanced DNS Security | Preview
  • S3 annotations to provide AI agents and analytics tools with context for data discovery
  • S3 Vectors reduces query charges by up to 80% for large vector indexes
  • S3 Vectors up to 10,000 similarity search results per query
  • SageMaker AI new observability capability For Inference Endpoints
  • SageMaker JumpStart all-MiniLM-L12-v2 for semantic search and sentence similarity
  • Secrets Manager safe secrets handling in the Agent Toolkit for AWS
  • Security Agent adds Kiro Power, Claude Code, simulated validations and new integrations support
  • Security Agent support for Threat Modeling
  • Transform autonomous tech debt analysis and remediation
  • Transform FSx for NetApp ONTAP | Public Preview
  • Transform model-to-model migration assessment for generative AI workloads
  • Transform traceable reimagine workflow
  • WAF announces AI traffic monetization
  • For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.

tooling

• LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions
• A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events
• Libre Barcode Project
• Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days
• AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide
• Google copybara: moving code between repositories

blogs

• Blogging can just be stating the obvious
• PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s
• Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash
• 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero
• Ending All Respiratory Infections
• Un-0: Generating Images with Coupled Oscillators
• Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity
• Regular expressions that work "everywhere"
• Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other
• GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks
• Deciphering Basmala
• Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it
• Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
• Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
• From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery