Meta Exposed Data Internally from Its Controversial Employee-Tracking Program

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Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks

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How Netflix Simplified Batch Compute with Kueue

By Alvin Bao, Alex Petrov, Jennifer Lai, Aidan Sherr, and Samartha ChandrashekarAs a part of the journey to transition Netflix’s compute infrastructure to be more Kubernetes-native, we have leaned into incorporating components from the Kubernetes ecosystem into our container platform Titus. One example of this is our use of Kueue, a cloud-native job queueing system for batch workloads, which has largely replaced the custom queuing and scheduling logic in our homegrown managed batch solution...

Regina Obe: PostGIS Tiger Geocoder 2025.1

The PostGIS development team is pleased to provide postgis_tiger_geocoder extension. This is the very first release since the break from the PostGIS core. This version requires PostgreSQL 16 and above and should work with any supported PostGIS version. PostGIS 3.6 series is the last series to include postgis_tiger_geocoder. PostGIS 3.7 will be shipped without postgis_tiger_geocoder. Moving forward postgis_tiger_geocoder has its own dedicated repo at OSGeo Gitea postgis_tiger_geocoder under th...

Identities Unmasked

Q-Day could be a day of cryptographic reckoning, turning harvest-now, decrypt-later hacker strategies into a global identity crisis.

The AI world is getting ‘loopy’

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Microsoft and Chevron plan one of the largest gas-powered data center projects in US

AI Has Already Killed Academia as We Know It

AI and tech are trying to influence the midterm elections

Patch the Planet: a Daybreak initiative to support open source maintainers

AI chipmaker Groq confirms $650M raise, re-staffs after Nvidia’s $20B not-acqui-hire deal

Nvidia wants to cut data center water use, but that’s not the same as fixing AI’s water problem

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SpaceX Drops 14% in One Day, Price Now Below IPO Launch

How we found a bug in the hyper HTTP library

By rearchitecting the Images binding, we accidentally uncovered a bug that existed in the open-source hyper library across multiple major versions.

Tata Electronics, a major tech supplier to Apple and Tesla, confirms data breach

Memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon

Google DeepMind bets $75M on AI’s future in Hollywood with A24 deal

A new unpatchable flaw in Apple chips opens the door to an iPhone jailbreak

How it feels to practice for IOAI in Iran

Anthropic says Claude may want to see your ID

Three things to watch amid Anthropic’s latest feud with the government

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. For those of you enjoying your summer unaware of Anthropic’s latest feud with the US government, here’s a recap: In April the company said it had built an AI model called Mythos…

Finding the Best Dog Treat with Statistics

Why Physical Security Demands More Than Just AI

The transformative nature of AI can introduce significant risks and must be deployed with a framework of responsibility.

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Show HN: Selector Forge – browser extension for AI-generated resilient selectors

Tata Electronics cyber breach claiming to expose Apple, Tesla trade secrets

A Theory of Why Prompt Injection Works

Mexico Just Showed Off a New Cheap, Government-Backed EV

The Optimal Amount of Slop Is Non-Zero

How Big Is a Physical Address?

A short aside from the virtual memory series on physical address size, why it differs from virtual address size, and why different CPUs expose different limits.

SpaceX inks compute deal with Reflection AI, an open-source AI lab

Secure multi-tenant RAG with Amazon Bedrock and Verified Permissions

This post walks you through a two-layer, defense-in-depth authorization pattern for granular, intra-tenant access control in RAG applications. Defense in depth is a security strategy that uses multiple independent layers of protection. Each layer operates independently. If one layer is misconfigured, the other layer still enforces access control. The pattern runs on Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from Amazon and AI compa...

Modernizing financial analytics with Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio

Avanse Financial Services, India’s leading education loan providers, migrated to a cloud-native lakehouse architecture using Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, which unified their data engineering, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) workflows in a single governed environment on AWS. In this post, we walk through their migration journey so you can adapt their approach to your own environment.

Andreas Scherbaum: PostgreSQL Berlin May 2026 Meetup

On 7th of May, 2026, we had the PostgreSQL May Meetup in Berlin. AWS hosted it again, this time we had two speakers from UK and US. The Meetup took place in the Amazontower (EDGE East Side Tower Berlin) in Berlin, across the Uber Arena and with a view at the railway station Warschauer Straße. Celeste Horgan: pg_lake: Unifying transactional and analytical data with Postgres Celeste is Sr.

Architecting AI-powered resilience framework on AWS

In this post, you’ll learn how to architect and implement a five-layer AI-powered resilience framework that automatically discovers dependencies, generates targeted experiments, and integrates with your existing Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. First, we’ll explore the key challenges in resilience testing. Then, we’ll walk through the five-layer architecture that solves these challenges. Finally, we’ll show you how to implement this, with phased rollout ...

Adopting AV1 for Real-Time Communication (RTC) at Scale

Adopting AV1 for real-time communication at Meta has been a multi-year effort spanning codec selection, device eligibility, rate control, and error resilience. We’re sharing the technical and operational challenges while deploying AV1 and expanding coverage, and how we addressed them for real-time communication. We’re presenting several technologies for improving AV1 call quality, including rate control [...] Read More... The post Adopting AV1 for Real-Time Communication (RTC) at Scale ap...

Peering into Dark Places

Researchers are pursuing a variety of approaches that help machines hone their visual acuity—and even see around corners.

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Richard Yen: pg_stats: How Postgres Internal Stats Work

Introduction I recently had the privilege of speaking at POSETTE 2026 about pg_stats and how Postgres internal statistics work. This post is a written companion to that talk – aimed at giving you a working understanding of what pg_stats is, how it’s populated, and how it shapes the decisions the query planner makes on your behalf. Imagine a customers table that looks roughly like this: CREATE TABLE customers ( id bigserial PRIMARY KEY, city text NOT NULL, s...

Show HN: I rebuilt the only parts of my IDE I use, in Rust, over a weekend

WhatsApp gets new chief as Meta taps India’s CRED founder Kunal Shah, and invests $900M in startup

I built Ponytrail, a local audit trail for AI coding-agent edits

Christophe Pettus: waxsql: Wax Fruit for Your Query Planner

Generate valid SQL that looks real, nourishes nothing, and never spoils.

Claude Code's "extended thinking" is a summary- not authentic thinking

AWS Weekly Roundup: NY Summit recap, Local Zone in Hanoi, Grok 4.3 in Bedrock, price reductions, and more (June 22, 2026)

Last week AWS Summit New York City brought together thousands of customers, partners, and builders for a free, one-day event showcasing the latest in cloud and AI innovation. Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of Agentic AI at AWS unveiled a stack of AI launches in his keynote, all built around one thesis: agents that compound value […]

Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance

Die analysis of the 8087 math coprocessor's fast bit shifter

Never Give Them Your Face

Instagram looks to take on streaming services with longer-form, episodic and live formats for its TV app

The founder conference built for growth: TechCrunch Founder Summit pass rates increase June 26

The Coming Enshittification of AI

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Pledging Another $400k to the Zig Software Foundation

Lucid Motors’ new CEO cuts 18% of staff to ‘simplify the company’

UUID: NewV7() always generates a UUID with 7000 on browsers (Golang)

Meta Taps New WhatsApp Boss as Part of $900M Investment

Seedcamp raises $320M for its new fund to expand its US footprint

Show HN: Prismag – Per-block model routing for the terminal and any IDE

WhatsApp's "End-to-End Encryption" Is the Biggest Lie in Tech History

Show HN: KeyGhost – Keyboard app launcher for macOS

Rive, Fast and reliable background jobs in Go

window.showDirectoryPicker opens up a whole new world

From Block-Based Programming to Vibe Coding

Vibe coding democratizes software development by enabling domain experts without traditional training to enhance their productivity and impact.

Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux Floss Drivers

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The Download: record-breaking subsea tunnels and flexible data centers

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inside the world’s deepest and longest subsea road tunnel —Niall Firth I’m currently around 1,000 feet beneath the North Sea, in a dark, dank cave. It smells weird. And I’m increasingly…

Manticore Search 27.1.5: Auth, sharding, conversational and faster vector search

Show HN: Teach your kids perfect pitch

UTFS: A Tar-Like File System for Embedded Systems (2025)

LLMs do not merely reflect the bias of their training, they police it

Use AI for reviewing code especially when the diff is huge

Data centers become the face of AI backlash

Learning XQuery One Dish at a Time

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