Weekly news | 2026-07-08
news
- Meta Caps Internal AI Token Spending After Costs Approach Billions in 2026
- ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2
- Show HN: Searchable directory of 22k+ products from worker-owned co-ops
- For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides
- Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise
- The Underhanded C Contest
- The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
- Virginia bans sale of geolocation data
- CarPlay Is Additive
- Right to Local Intelligence
- Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory
- Exapunks (2018)
- Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research
- MSI Center – How to gain SYSTEM privileges in seconds
- Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming
- The circuit that lets your brain think and see
- The firefighting system of the Van der Heyden brothers in 17th century Amsterdam
- If you're a button, you have one job
- Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets
- Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)
- Leaking YouTube creators' private videos
- Atomic Force Microscope high-speed video, stainless etching, bacteria, and more
- Artful Cats: Feline-Inspired Art and Artifacts
- Better Models: Worse Tools
- Organic Maps
- Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix
- It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership
- OpenPrinter
- Pandoc Lua Filters
- OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
- How to sequence your own DNA at home
- CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps
- GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse
- Small AI Models Gain Traction In places with unreliable networks
- Ternlight – 7 MB embedding model that runs in browser (WASM)
- Resetting Xbox
- Is The Economist Always Wrong?
- GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup
- Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor
- Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Video Lectures (1986)
- Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro
- StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time
- Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained
- We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12
- Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI
AI: - Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all - A global workspace in language models
- AWS:
- AppConfig managed experimentation tools for A/B testing
- Artifact Assurance Assistant for compliance inquiries
- AWS Interconnect last mile new partner with AT&T in gated preview
- AWS Service Availability Updates
- Bedrock AgentCore default runtime quota limits increase
- BedrockClaude Sonnet 5
- Capability Insights regional availability dashboard
- Clean Rooms intermediate tables for SQL
- CloudFormation and CDK express mode speeds up infrastructure deployments by up to 4x
- CloudFormation and CDK pre-deployment validation on all stack operations
- CloudWatch creating alarms from log queries
- CloudWatch processing and enriching OpenTelemetry metrics
- CloudWatch Logs enriches log events with AWS resource tags
- Connect Customer rule based redaction for agent screen recording
- Connect Customer rule based redaction for agent screen recording
- Connect Customer up to 7 security profiles with granular access controls per user
- EC2 Auto Scaling balanced Availability Zone distribution
- EC2 C9g and C9gd compute optimized instances
- EC2 Dedicated Hosts AMD SEV-SNP
- ECS configurable deployment circuit breaker settings
- ECS Express Mode custom task definitions
- ECS real-time deployment observability in the AWS Management Console
- ECS Service Connect now supports Zone-Aware routing
- EKS version rollback
- ElastiCache now supports Valkey 9.1
- ElastiCache T4g nodes now available in additional AWS Regions
- End User Messaging RCS rich media and interactive messaging
- GameLift Servers DDoS Protection client SDKs for C# and Unity
- GuardDuty sensitive file modification threat detections
- IAM Identity Center programmatic AWS account access for customer managed applications
- MWAA Serverless shared VPC configurations
- Neptune dual stack support with IPv6
- Network Firewall container attribute-based inspection for EKS and ECS
- OpenSearch Service optimized for log analytics
- Parallel Computing Service in-place Slurm major version upgrades
- Partner Central Marketplace listings for co-selling
- RDS for Db2 self-managed Active Directory
- RDS IAM Database Authentication with Connection Rate Scaling
- S3 server access logs now deliver to CloudWatch Logs and Amazon S3 Tables
- SageMaker AI cuts generative AI inference scale-out time by up to half with automatic container image caching
- SageMaker AI serverless model customization for Gemma 4 models
- SageMaker HyperPod AMI versioning and auto-patching
- SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Terraform for provisioning
- Security Hub CSPM AI Security Best Practices standard with 31 automated controls
- Time Sync Service Microsecond accurate time on 26 additional EC2 instance types in all commercial regions
- WAF Bedrock AgentCore Gateway
- WorkSpaces AI agents |
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tooling
- crustc: entirety of
rustc, translated to C - PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform
- Steam Controller Auto-Charge – pilot to magnetic charging puck using CV
- SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine
- Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable
- GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance
- Introduction to Compilers and Language Design (2021)
- Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter
blogs
- What to learn to be a graphics programmer
- Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance
- Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation
- Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum – Meet Oomwoo
- Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
- An American Privacy Emergency
- GLM5.2 on AMD MI355X at 2626 tok/s/node at over 2x lower cost than Blackwell
- Synthesis is harder than analysis
- Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019)
- Meta's Un-Stable Signature
- Pruning RAG context down to what the answer actually needs