cartero Tuesday, August 11, 2026 · No. 25882
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What Song is on Repeat in Your Head?

I was sitting at dinner with dear friends, and we made a list of questions we love to ask.

MongoDB

Hengefinder

Kotlin

Leanstral 1.5

Testing

Superpowers 6

Anthropic

Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product

At an event for pharmaceutical executives, biotech founders, and researchers on Tuesday, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a major new product intended to support scientific research in the same way that Claude Code supports software engineering. Like Claude Code, Claude Science can autonomously carry out meaningful work when given concise, high-level instructions, and it has access…

Storage Systems

Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors are now available

Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5, are now generally available. They deliver up to 25% better compute performance than Graviton4-based instances, 5x larger cache, fastest memory of any processor instances in the cloud, and local NVMe storage options (C9gd).

DNS

Automate public TLS certificate issuance with ACME support in AWS Certificate Manager

AWS Certificate Manager now supports the ACME protocol for public TLS certificates, enabling automated issuance and renewal through any ACMEv2-compatible client on any workload. Administrators get centralized governance, IAM-based access controls, and domain scoping, reducing operational risk as certificate lifetimes continue to reduce.

Performance Engineering

Cost Attribution in Discord’s API

Discord's API spans 1700+ endpoints across hundreds of Kubernetes deployments. The challenge: tracking per-feature hosting costs without restructuring. Jim Benton helps explain how Discord tackled the situation.

Google DeepMind

Roundtables: Longevity’s Next Frontier: “Reprogramming” Your Body

Listen to the session or watch below Billions of dollars are flooding into efforts to reverse aging as scientists explore ways to return cells to a younger state. But how far off are these experimental treatments? Will they really work? Watch a conversation exploring longevity’s new focus. Speakers: Mary Beth Griggs, science editor and Jessica…

Computational Biology

Claude Science

AR and VR

Discord is Now on Meta Quest: Reach Out to Your Servers While in VR

Starting today, Discord is now available to download directly from Meta’s Horizon App Store. No more sideloading. No more using the web app. Grab it using the link in this blog, or at discord.com/download.

CVE and Exploit Development

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