New Microsoft tool lets devs spin up AI behavior tests using text descriptions

Microsoft's MAI-Code-1-Flash Scores 51% SWE-Bench Pro with Just 5B Active Params

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Robert Haas: Hacking Workshop for June/July 2026

I was hoping to usual resume the monthly cadence of hacking workshops in June, but it didn't quite happen, largely due to being a little exhausted after pgconf.dev. But, I'm pleased to announce that Melanie Plageman will be joining us to discuss her talk Additional IO Observability in Postgres with pg_stat_io. If you're interesting in joining us, please sign up using this form and I will send you an invite to one of the sessions. As always, thanks to Melanie for joining us.Read more »

Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal

Planning documents for "Scout" say the plan is to "make people addicted" to the tool before adding new features.

Hermes Desktop

GitHub Copilot App

A startup, Everand, is now bundling ebooks, audiobooks, and book clubs in challenge to Amazon

Martin Scorsese becomes the latest — and most unlikely — Hollywood voice for AI

Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target

Show HN: RePlaya – self-hosted browser session replay with live tailing

Here is the Contract for Palantir’s Super API for the IRS

The API would make IRS data available to any app the agency wishes. The Criminal Investigation arm of the IRS is also modernizing its own systems.

A New Chapter for Codecov

Microsoft offers devs a better way to control AI agent behavior

Google rolls out fake call detection to protect against AI deepfake impersonation scams

Ex-Anduril engineer raises $42M to build the Amazon of composite parts

Microsoft launches Scout, an OpenClaw-inspired personal assistant

Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording"

Amazon faces class action lawsuit over Ring facial recognition feature

Rethinking Search as Code Generation

Microsoft launches Project Solara, device platform for AI

revo, the programming language

The reflex of deriving `serde` traits

Show HN: Build Your Own AI Agent CLI in 150 Lines

Intelligent Terminal 0.1

Show HN: DropLock – E2EE secret sharing web app with no backend

Surface RTX Spark Dev Box

Microsoft to Ship Coreutils with Windows

When history fails you, borrow from geography

How Airbnb used sequential geographic recovery signals and prior propagation to generate reliable corridor-level forecasts when local data was scarce.By: Harrison KatzThe problem with unprecedented shocksAlmost every forecasting system is built on the same implicit assumption: the future will resemble the past. You train on historical data, you validate on holdout periods, and you trust that past patterns will at least roughly indicate future performance. When this assumption breaks, the mo...

Coreutils for Windows

Minimally Acceptable Systems: Tolerable at the Lowest Cost Possible

We must stop framing deliberately subpar technology as a technical flaw and start seeing it as a policy failure that demands political solutions.

Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security

Trump signs executive order granting oversight of AI models

Self-calling executables

Why VivaTech 2026 is the place to see Europe’s AI strategy take shape

Amazon joins Microsoft in sending message to employees

Trump signs narrower executive order on AI oversight after industry objections

iddqd, or the hardest kind of unsafe Rust

Board, the new game startup from Mirror founder Brynn Putnam, raises $20M, has already sold thousands

OpenAI launches new Codex tools for white-collar work

Americans don't know how to fight AI. So they're fighting data centers

Amazon paid music subscription will soon include ads and lose downloads

PCMFlowG722 wideband (HD voice) codec for ESP32

Turning your purse into a cyberdeck is the most fun way to resist big tech

How we rebuilt PostgreSQL branch metrics on VictoriaMetrics, per cell

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Meta repeatedly snubs EU body over Facebook and Instagram user bans

How Europe’s AI strategy diverges from Silicon Valley’s

Christophe Pettus: Managed Postgres, Examined: Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server

Azure's managed PostgreSQL differs from competitors by putting the standby in the commit path—every write waits for synchronous replication to a second server…

Nvidia and Microsoft Researchers Say AI Agents Don't Care About Safety or Reliability

The researchers compared AI to the near-sighted cartoon character Mr. Magoo, who can’t see he’s stumbling through dangerous situations.

Meta tests ‘Series’ for episodic Reels on Instagram and Facebook

X caters to creators with new ‘React with Video’ feature

Reviving Teletext for Ham Radio

Anthropic scales Claude Mythos to critical infrastructure in 15+ countries

Apple’s MacBook Neo is winning over a new generation of buyers

AI Doesn't Have ROI

Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History

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In this post, we show you how Doczy.ai™ uses generative AI on AWS to automate contract intelligence at scale, transforming unstructured documents into structured, actionable insights, so organizations can automate critical business processes and unlock the full value of their data.

Memory safety is a matter of life and death

A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle

Amazon Prime Day 2026 takes place June 23-26

Martin Scorsese Is Embracing A.I

Why Custom Attributes in .NET Give Me Nightmares

Expanding Project Glasswing

Blue Origin plans to launch New Glenn again this year after explosion

Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs

Stop Ruining It

10g Upgrade

ZeroDrift raises $10 million to protect AI models from themselves

The Download: AI can run your admin department now

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. How small businesses can leverage AI From accounting to design to market research and product development, there’s a staggering breadth of skills needed to run a business. Large companies can hire…

Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API

Sweden is now America's most valuable tech ally. Most Americans haven't noticed

You Don't Love Systemd Timers Enough

Rocket engine startup Impulse raises $500 million to hire people, not AI

Vim Classic 8.3 released

BPF support in GCC 16 and beyond

Rehumanizing global health care with agentic AI

The global health care sector is under increasing strain.  Decades of chronic underinvestment and constraints in recruitment have coincided with a surge in demand for services for aging populations. Gaps in provision are already taking a toll, with fragmented access to care and high rates of stress and burnout among staff. And it’s getting worse.…

Privacy isn't dead: it's just that tech companies have made it inconvenient

semab tariq: The Night Our Tables Wouldn’t Stop Growing

We were doing everything right. The migration plan was solid, the team was experienced, and we had done this kind of thing before. But somewhere around midnight, someone on the team noticed something strange. Tables on the destination side were ballooning at an unexpected rate with hundreds of gigabytes being used, while the source side tables sat quietly at just a few megabytes.Something was very wrong, and we had no idea what.How It StartedThe customer had a PostgreSQL database that they wa...

CSS-Native Parallax Effect

Adafruit Receives Demand Letter from Fenwick Legal Counsel on Behalf of Flux.ai