Sarvam becomes India’s newest AI unicorn with $234 million funding round led by HCLTech

India, UAE partner on AI sovereignty to bypass Google, Microsoft

The OPSEC Rave Wave (with Imani Thompson)

We get into how platforms have tried to make surveillance cute, why that damn Duolingo owl emotionally manipulates you, and why learning about privacy best practices when surrounded by community works.

As AI agents become employees, NewCore emerges with $66M to give them identities

Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6BN

The Download: cutting AC emissions, and nature’s drug designer

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. These new solid-state ACs promise a cool future. Scientists aren’t so sure. After three years of record-­breaking heat and another scorcher underway, air-conditioning isn’t going anywhere. That’s good for our health,…

Robins Tharakan: Why Postgres Doesn't Have remote_receive - And What Happened When I Tried It

In distributed database environments, balancing durability and performance is a constant tug-of-war. PostgreSQL’s synchronous_commit parameter sits at the heart of this, giving administrators a dial to choose exactly when a COMMIT returns success to the client. The idea of remote_receive was born from a simple question: does skipping the standby's disk write yield a measurable, real-world performance benefit? By waiting only for WAL bytes to reach the standby's memory, could we get a meanin...

Asciline – real-time ASCII video rendering engine

A satellite just learned to find things on its own — here’s what that means

Triple Shockwave from Sun Crossing Rocket

AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS FinOps Agent in preview, Gemma 4 on Bedrock, Kiro Pro Max, and more (June 15, 2026)

This week, New York City is hosting AWS Summit, bringing together builders, customers, and AWS teams for a full day of announcements, demos, and technical sessions at the Javits Center. I wrote blog posts for some of the Summit launches, so I am excited to see them go live this week. I just won’t be […]

Show HN: I wrote a C++ ray tracer from scratch without AI

Ported my C game to WASM, here's everybug that I hit

pyinfra — agentless infrastructure automation, in plain Python

Anthropic's Safety Superpower

Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight

Being an old school web-based sports sim dev in the era of vibe coded games

UK Brings in Full Social Media Ban for Under-16s

What the Fuck Happened to Nerds

Exploring building a tiny FUSE filesystem

Under-16s to be banned from social media, Starmer announces

The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg

There Is(Ǝ) – Such That (∋)

Dalus (YC W25) Is Hiring a Senior Software Engineer in Germany

Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026

Diplomat: Multi-language FFI for Rust Libraries

A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time (2022)

Smashed Toilet Phone Web Server

Clojure is almost as fast as C (with some help)

David Sacks on Anthropic export control

Orbio raises $21 million to automate hiring and onboarding for frontline workers

Inside the 24 hours that led to pulling Fable 5

Incentives Of EdTech: A Systematic Review Of EduNLP Research

arXiv:2606.13691v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While the Natural Language Processing community has dedicated significant resources in developing educational technologies (EdTech) that support this shift, it remains unclear whose interests are being best served among the stakeholders of education. In this paper, we present a systematic literature review of 204 papers published in venues of the Association for Computational Linguistics' Special Interest Group on Building Educational Applica...

Indirect Computing Model with Indirect Formal Method

arXiv:2606.13690v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper,from the perspective of a collaborative intelligent computing system formed by combining human-computer interface and collaborative computing programs, discusses the principles of optimized cloud computing technology supported by the combination of an indirect computing model and an indirect formal method. On the basis of systematically reviewing the influence of previous theoretical achievements Turing's computability theory,Kleene'...

Empirical Evidence on Genre-Time Correlation in Box-Office Success Using Exploratory Data Analysis and Machine Learning

arXiv:2606.13689v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The movie industry is one of the fastest-growing global sectors, characterized by high production costs and significant financial risk. Given the capital-intensive nature of filmmaking, accurately predicting box office success is of critical importance for stakeholders ranging from producers to investors. This study investigates the correlation between movie genre and release timing as predictive factors for commercial success. A combined appro...

Picturing Perceptions: An Open-Source Toolkit to Uncover Bias in Humans and Machines

arXiv:2606.13688v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bias in human judgment and artificial intelligence systems poses critical challenges across consequential domains like hiring, loans, and criminal justice. However, traditional bias measurement tools face fundamental limitations: they struggle to capture intersectional identities, cannot evaluate AI systems, lack grounding in demographic reality, and remain vulnerable to social desirability effects. We introduce PictoPercept, an open-source too...

The Frustrometer: Detecting User Frustration in Data Visualization Tasks using Biomarkers and Interaction Patterns

arXiv:2606.13687v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visualization research has largely solved \textit{how} to help a stuck or frustrated user -- through interactive onboarding, contextual help, and active guidance. The unsolved problem is \textit{when}: trigger help too eagerly and you break the user's train of thought; wait too long and they have already gone astray. We present the \textsc{Frustrometer}, a series of experiments to predict user stuckness and frustration by fusing physiological a...

Benchmarking Web Agent Safety under E-commerce Deceptive Interfaces

arXiv:2606.13686v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As autonomous web agents are increasingly deployed to perform real-world tasks, ensuring their safety has become a critical concern. In this work, we study web agent behavior under realistic deceptive interfaces in the e-commerce domain. We introduce WebDecept, a lightweight and configurable plugin framework that enables controlled injection of deceptive interface patterns into existing web environments. Using WebDecept, we instantiate seven de...

The Coin Flip Judge? Reliability and Bias in LLM-as-a-Judge Evaluation

arXiv:2606.13685v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-as-a-Judge is now widely used to rank model outputs, train reward models, and populate public leaderboards, but its run-to-run reliability remains under-characterized. We study repeated identical evaluations on 29 tasks spanning 10 categories using two OpenAI judge models (GPT-4o-mini and GPT-4.1-mini), with 50 pairwise trials and 50 pointwise trials per question, supplemented by temperature and prompt-sensitivity ablations. Across judges, ...

Cross-Dataset Bloom Question Classification: Supervised Models and Prompted LLMs

arXiv:2606.13684v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic Bloom's taxonomy classification of assessment questions can substantially reduce instructor workload, but labeling is subjective and teacher-dependent. Prior machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) approaches reported strong within-dataset results, yet were rarely evaluated in cross-dataset settings, leaving real-world generalizability unclear; meanwhile, LLM effectiveness for Bloom question classification has not been systematic...

UP-NRPA: User Portrait based Nested Rollout Policy Adaptation for Planning with Large Language Models in Goal-oriented Dialogue Systems

arXiv:2606.13683v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To address the challenge that current dialogue policy planning methods struggle to dynamically adapt to diverse user characteristics, this paper proposes a User Portrait based Nested Rollout Policy Adaptation (UP-NRPA) online framework with Large Language Models. In contrast to conventional approaches dependent on model training and require offline reinforcement learning policy models for user groups, UP-NRPA enables dynamic customization of di...

A Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL)-Based Transformer Method for Solving the Open Shop Scheduling Problem

arXiv:2606.13682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The open shop scheduling problem (OSSP) arises in many industrial and service settings but remains computationally challenging as the number of jobs and machines increases. While exact methods quickly become intractable, classical dispatching rules and metaheuristics may require substantial tuning to maintain solution quality at large scales. This study develops a Transformer-based scheduling policy for OSSP using an encoder-decoder architectur...

Comparison and Benchmarking of Rust Decimal Crates

Even More Batteries Included with Emacs

AI Has Amnesia. Here's Every System Built to Fix It

Bacteria can learn and form memories without a brain (Carnegie Mellon)

Making 'food out of thin air' (2024)

Why Your CPU Is Fast but Your Program Is Slow: Understanding the Memory Wall

21 years and counting of 'eight fallacies of distributed computing' (2025)

The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair

Arch Linux's AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware

Chopped, Stored, Secured – The Story of the Hash Function

Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech

Did Anthropic Ask for This?

Why Is Claude Turning into an a**Hole?

Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything

AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter

TorchCodec 0.14: HDR Video Decoding for CPU and CUDA, and Fast Wav Decoder

Senior Game Security Engineer (Includes Linux Anti-Cheat)

Radim Marek: The NULL in your NOT IN

A NOT IN query can return the wrong answer without telling you. It is valid SQL, it runs without an error, and it hands back a perfectly well-formed result set that happens to be empty when it should not be. No warning, no hint, nothing in the logs: just zero rows where you expected hundreds, and a database that considers it correct. Almost always the cause is a single NULL sitting somewhere you forgot to look, combined with two keywords you have typed a thousand times: NOT IN. None of it is ...

The Telematico NMS3000 – Celso Martinho

zinnia: a modular 64-bit Unix-like kernel written in Rust

The first game engine for robotics

Ponytail – make your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room

Vibe Coder vs. Software Engineer

UK may ban social media for children under 16

KPMG report on AI found riddled with AI hallucinations

Show HN: Trace – Offline Mac meeting transcripts you can flag mid-call

Inverse Rubric Optimization: A testbed for agent science

Anthropic staff to meet White House officials next week

Chaosnet

Amodei the Man Behind DeepSeek?

Dillo directory – Directory of useful sites that work reasonably well on Dillo

Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing

FFI in Miri at 8000 segfaults per second

Can't Stop the Signal. Poison It

Quivers: A year of linear algebra by drawing arrows

AI is code and can't be prompted into being smarter

As AI companies race to go public, who else is along for the ride?

Extinction-Level Capitalism