EVs and Transportation
BYD to install 5-minute EV chargers across Europe
Postgres by Example
Space Tech
The Indian government got cold feet on Starlink just before SpaceX’s IPO
Uber
A Server Called Mercury
Software Engineering
A human in control
Generative AI
DiffusionGemma: 4x Faster Text Generation
Artificial Intelligence
How memory tools can make AI models worse
Web Performance
GitHub Authentication issues related to API requests
The Last Evolution, by John W Campbell Jr. (1932)
Bootstrapping Rust Considered Harmful
Stripe
Zest launches a restaurant discovery app powered by where people actually eat
WebGPU
Linux latency measurements and compositor tuning [KWin Wayland]
Anthropic
Cybersecurity researchers aren’t happy about the guardrails on Anthropic’s Fable
The iPad was on Tailscale: a WebRTC debugging story
Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications
Artificial Intelligence
Why enterprise AI will be a major focus at VivaTech 2026
Open Source
Tuta and Proton: An Open Source Client Does Not Result in an Open Source Service
Data Governance
Introducing the Snowflake and AWS Custom Lens for the AWS Well-Architected Framework
The Snowflake and AWS Custom Well-Architected Framework Lens brings together AWS Well-Architected best practices and Snowflake guidance into a single review experience, with integrated recommendations that reflect how the two services compose in production. In this post, we walk through each pillar, the three access points (AWS Management Console, Kiro, and Snowflake Cortex Code), and how to run your first review.
AI Hardware
Now available: Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances powered by new AWS Graviton5 processors
AWS launches Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors. AWS Graviton5 is most powerful, and most energy efficient processor AWS has ever built, and offers up to 25% better compute performance compared to Graviton4-based instances.
AI Agents
Announcing Stack Overflow for Agents
If your coding agent has questions, Stack Overflow for Agents has answers, now in beta.��...
xAI
Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in
Space Tech
The three hard-tech moonshots fueling SpaceX’s unbelievable IPO
Prompt Engineering
A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent
Spotify
Warner Music acquires AI attribution startup Sureel AI
Amazon
Pinterest bets on creators with Amazon Storefront integration
AI Psychosis
'They take you out of life, out of time': a journey into Spain's cave paintings
Light Phone SDK: Developer Program June Update
GnuCash is right. It's also why I built my own finance app
Google DeepMind
Notes on DeepSeek
Web Application Security
ServiceNow tells customers a bug left some of their data exposed to the internet
PostgreSQL
PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you
Google
Podcast: Google Employees Meme About How Bad Their AI Is
Memes at Google; Microsoft wants to make its new AI assistant addictive; and manipulating Reddit.
Apple
I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys
xAI
Jedify raises $24M to help companies arm AI agents with context on their business
Web Application Security
Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
Rust
Who Runs Your Rust Future? Hands-On Intro to Async Rust
Privacy
Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People
There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.
Redis vs Memcached - a simple way to decide
This one comes up constantly, so here's the short version without the marketing spin. Both are in-memory caches: they keep your most-requested data in RAM so the database isn't hit for the same queries over and over. For most sites you won't feel the raw speed difference between them. Where they split: Memcached is simpler and slightly faster for basic key-value caching. No persistence, so if the server restarts the cache is gone. Fine for smaller, read-heavy, mostly-static sites. Redis does ...
NVIDIA
Game On: Discord Is Backing the Next Generation of Dutch Gaming Founders
Together with Techleap, we’re launching the Gaming Founders Circle: a hands-on program for the most ambitious gaming companies in the Netherlands to provide participants with a direct line to the people, investors, and networks that help great games scale.
AI Inference
Decart’s new world model can simulate hours of photorealistic driving — with some caveats
Spotify
Encoding Your Domain Expert: The Context Layer Behind Spotify's Data Assistant
At Spotify, data problems used to follow a specific pattern. You'd look for the relevant dashboard, there... The post Encoding Your Domain Expert: The Context Layer Behind Spotify's Data Assistant appeared first on Spotify Engineering.
EVs and Transportation
Why everyone’s an energy company now
Apple
The Download: the “steroid olympics” and a safer Mythos
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. The “steroid olympics” were a circus—and a window into our culture —Amit Katwala A couple of weeks ago, at a $50 million arena built in a casino parking lot in Las…
Space Tech
Why two SpaceX alumni are betting on solar and batteries to power the AI craze
Trojaned OpenSSH (in 2002)
Linux Firmware Repository Preps For AI Coding Agents
Elixir
Elixir for a Bluesky DataPlane: the choice we didn't expect
Defense Tech
Hacking for Defense Stanford 2026 – Lessons Learned Presentations
Notepad++ Zero-Click RCE via Path Traversal (CVE-2026-52884)
Show HN: macOS menu bar gauges for your Claude Code quota
SmithDB
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17 bugs in 10 weeks from AI security scanning
Defense Tech
Robots are about to overtake armed soldiers as the deciders of war
Port React Compiler to Rust
Authentication
New reCaptcha requires approved phones to pass
X / Twitter
The “steroid olympics” were a circus—and a window into our culture
Testosterone. Methenolone. Nandrolone. Human growth hormone and EPO. Meldonium, modafinil, and mixed amphetamine salts. Clomiphene, anastrozole, levothyroxine, and liothyronine. Patches and capsules, creams and pills. A whole galaxy of steroids, metabolic modulators, and synthetic hormones coursing through the blood of a few dozen swimmers, sprinters, and weightlifters. And millions of dollars up for grabs for…
Reviving Papers with Code
Robotics
Waymo says it built a better benchmark for comparing robotaxis to humans
Anthropic
Initial impressions of Claude Fable 5
A line-by-line translation of the OCaml runtime from C to Rust
Defense Tech
How do you design a $30k electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks
AI Hardware
Meta signs first AI data center deal in India with Reliance
Browser Internals
Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge, Opera to follow
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Lessons
Google DeepMind
Vibe coding my way to a healthy family: Introducing Gamow Labs
RAG
The Evolution of 'More Like This'
Computational Complexity
Bit Propagation over a Noisy Grid
EVs and Transportation
Top Lucid Motors executive departs amid new CEO’s leadership shakeup
Stripe
Surprise, Pay $1000
Artificial Intelligence
Rich Sutton on AI creativity and discovery
Anthropic
Claude Fable 5 feels less like a launch and more like a preview of AI inequality
Google
German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews
Active-Passive DR for a fintech payments platform on AWS — architecture decisions and trade-offs
I recently worked on region-level DR for a fintech payments platform on AWS. Sharing the architecture trade-offs here because the Active-Active vs Active-Passive decision became more interesting once stateful systems entered the picture. We evaluated Backup & Restore, Active-Passive, and Active-Active. Active-Active was the first instinct. Three things ruled it out: * Aurora's single-writer model made true Active-Active harder without changing the database model. * Kafka cross-region replicat...
CVE-2026-45447: Heap Use-After-Free in the PKCS7_verify() Function
Connection Pooling
Christophe Pettus: All Your GUCs in a Row: deadlock_timeout
PostgreSQL's `deadlock_timeout` controls how often deadlocks are searched for, not how long a deadlock will be tolerated.
macOS Container Machines
Startups and Venture
How Justin Ernest invested nearly $500M into hot startups without a traditional VC fund
xAI
Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars
Software Engineering