Weekly news | 2026-08-05
news
- Superlogical
- KOReader
- The coolest use for the Vision Pro
- Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice
- Kimi K3-256k
- A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands
- UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
- Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
- AI's top startups are barely publishing their research
- The Economic Benefit of Refactoring
- GCC steering committee announces AI policy
- Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?
- Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up
- Elevators
- Big Food vs. the People
- DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update
- DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
- The most official water costs $120k a gallon
- The session you cannot take with you
- Diátaxis
- How to Exist
- Software for One
- Seedance 2.5
- Karpathy’s Pelican
- Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management
- F*: A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language
- MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150
- When transit passes were designed by hand (2022)
- LLMs reward expertise
- SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?
- In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years
- There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
- Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area
- AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol
- AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog
AI: - Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 - Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science - Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation
- AWS:
- Amazon Corretto July 2026 Quarterly Updates
- Amazon RDS for MySQL v9.7 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
- AWS automatic credit memo application preferences
- AWS Wickr Data Retention Service feature
- Bedrock AgentCore unified observability with traces and logs in a single log group
- Bedrock Claude Opus 5
- CloudTrail selectively log network activity events by identity
- CloudWatch coding agent insights
- CloudWatch Logs now supports Application Load Balancer logs
- CloudWatch Synthetics customer managed encryption keys
- Connect audio optimization for Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 Cloud PC
- Connect Customer metrics for agent queues on analytics dashboards
- Connect expanded language support and speech controls
- Data Exports standardized Bedrock product metadata
- Direct Connect announces 100G expansion in Lima, Peru
- EC2 Dedicated Hosts host resource groups without self-managed licenses
- ECS Action Logs for deployment and orchestration visibility
- ECS advanced deployment strategies now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud
- EKS EFA and placement groups on EKS Auto Mode and Karpenter
- Entity Resolution advanced real-time matching
- Kinesis Data Streams scaling down ingest capacity with warm throughput
- Lambda durable execution SDK for .NET is now generally available
- Lambda durable functions now supports customer managed key encryption
- Lambda now publishes logs for Lambda Managed Instances capacity providers
- Managed Service for Apache Flink v2.3
- Managed Service for Prometheus 1.5B active metrics and 200K rules per workspace
- Marketplace self-service seller signature management for India-based sellers
- Network Load Balancer Listener Rules for custom traffic routing
- Open Source aws-bench, an open-source benchmark for AI agents on AWS
- Open Source KNFSD File Cache
- Organizations increases RCP quota to 2,000 per organization
- Partner Central agents expand funding guidance to all programs
- RDS for SQL Server Microsoft SQL Server 2025
- RDS latest CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
- SageMaker AI Inference now supports G7 instances
- SageMaker AI Inference region expansion of G6 instances
- SageMaker AI inference region expansion of G7e instances
- SageMaker Unified Studio custom visual transforms
- SageMaker Unified Studio now supports OpenSearch
- Secrets Manager secret update notifications to EventBridge
- SES introduces pricing plans
- SES simplifies sending emails over SMTP using Mail Manager
- WorkSpaces Applications OneDrive and Google Drive on Multi-Session fleets
- For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.
tooling
- Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac
- Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript
- qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work
- Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era
- Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576
- Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s
- Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types
- Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM
- Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built
- Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library
- Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones
- DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X
blogs
- Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
- More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle
- Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
- Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub
- Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
- Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio
- Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion
- How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
- June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more
- NetBSD 11.0
- Go 1.27 Interactive Tour
- Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust
- Devtools must be open source
- Don't be a meat proxy
- Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
- Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
- MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video
- Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale
- Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
- Waymo in Dallas