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This chip startup just raised $135M on a bet that AI’s biggest bottleneck isn’t compute — it’s memory

South Korean chip startup Xcena is betting that AI's real bottleneck is not compute, but memory.

Is AI causing a repeat of Front end's Lost Decade?

# Summary The article argues that AI is causing a "deskilling" of programming—similar to how JavaScript frameworks…

Certik Unveils ‘Anti-Virus for AI Agents’ as Skill Marketplaces Face Hidden Threats

Certik has launched a new security platform described as an “anti-virus for AI agents” designed to address the growing…

Chinese Hacker Gets Four Years for Hijacking 157 Government, Enterprise Websites 

A Chinese court has sentenced a hacker identified as Zhou to four years and four months in prison for seizing control of…

Is This Sustainable?

A principal engineer reflects on how AI has fundamentally reshaped his role over three years, making it faster to build…

Real-time LLM Inference on Standard GPUs: 3k tokens/s per request

The article demonstrates that standard datacenter GPUs can achieve 3,000 tokens/second for single-request LLM…

The $500K AI Film That "Premiered at Cannes" Was Not in the Official Festival

An AI startup called Higgsfield claimed to have premiered a fully AI-generated feature film at Cannes, but the festival…

Wterm – Terminal Emulator for the Web

Wterm is a web-based terminal emulator that renders directly to the DOM, providing native browser features like text…

Cache Aware Scheduling Shows Nice Wins for AMD Zen 5 on PostgreSQL, Valkey

Cache Aware Scheduling, a long-in-development Linux kernel feature expected to land in Linux 7.2, shows significant…

AI : Anthropic unveils Opus 4.8, just six weeks after Opus 4.7

The advanced models market is evolving at a sustained pace, driven by frequent updates and increasingly precise tests.

Zot now supports Claude Opus 4.8

Zot, a lightweight coding agent written in Go, now supports Claude Opus 4.8 alongside multiple other AI providers…

Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion

Volkswagen has blocked Home Assistant's Volkswagencarnet integration by requiring client assertion authentication,…

Terawulf Expands AI Strategy With 1GW Data Campus and $3B Backing

Terawulf has acquired a major AI-focused data center site in Kentucky as it accelerates its shift from bitcoin mining…

China Works on AI Token Futures in Race Against U.S. GPU Compute

China’s Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) is in the very early stages of researching and designing artificial…

Python utility package for building Claude Code hooks

claude-hook-utils is a Python package that simplifies building Claude Code hooks—custom scripts that intercept and…

HeidiSQL – Lightweight MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQLite Manager

HeidiSQL is a lightweight graphical tool for managing multiple database systems including MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server,…

Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

The article provides a detailed guide for compiling Quake's original 1997 Windows binaries using period-accurate…

Cars are trying to spy on you, and it's only just the beginning

# Summary Modern cars collect extensive personal data about drivers—including location, facial expressions, weight, and…

Claude Code – Everything You Can Configure That the Docs Don't Tell You

Claude Code contains numerous undocumented configuration capabilities buried in its source code, including a permission…

Glean’s top line crosses $300M as AI budget-cutting becomes its major selling point

The enterprise AI search startup tripled its annual revenue even as tech giants entered the category.

Waymo dominates autonomous vehicle registrations as Tesla trails behind

A new law and AV tracker tool gives the clearest accounting yet of how many robotaxis and self-driving trucks are in…

The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large margin

A mysterious Tencent model called Hy3 has unexpectedly topped OpenRouter's rankings by token usage, surpassing Claude by…

Bot Company allegedly trashing Airbnb rentals with their prototype robots

A San Francisco startup called the Bot Company allegedly rented multiple Airbnb properties under false pretenses to test…

Garnix (A Nix CI) is shutting down

Garnix, a popular Nix CI/CD service, is shutting down on July 15, 2026, after the company joins Shopify.

The Silent Critic

The author describes "The Silent Critic," a tool they built to help manage AI code review by focusing human attention…

2027 Audi RS5 first drive: A performance PHEV with split personalities

Audi has developed an entirely new electric torque-vectoring rear differential.

Why Gentoo?

Gentoo Linux, often perceived as a performance-focused distribution requiring extensive compilation, is actually driven…

GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits

GitHub banned security researcher Nightmare-Eclipse's account after the researcher published multiple Windows zero-day…

I'm "Retiring" from Tech – Chad Whitacre, Head of Open Source, Sentry.io