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AI & Machine Learning

1. HP accelerates enterprise workflows with OpenAI Frontier

HP has scaled its OpenAI Frontier integration across global operations to optimise enterprise workflows and accelerate output. The hardware manufacturer initiated testing of the platform in February 2026. Early pilot programs yielded verified operational gains in software engineering and cybersecurity remediation. Expanding these initial trials into an enterprise-wide operating model requires connecting access protocols, contextual […] The post HP accelerates enterprise workflows with OpenAI Fro...

2. Wimbledon adds IBM AI tools for live match coverage

The All England Lawn Tennis Club is adding new AI-powered features to Wimbledon’s digital platforms through its ongoing work with IBM. The updates will be available through the Wimbledon app and wimbledon.com as first-round matches begin on Monday. They include an upgraded Match Chat assistant and a new feature called Key Moments. The features will […] The post Wimbledon adds IBM AI tools for live match coverage appeared first on AI News.

3. Advances in Natural Language Processing Are Changing Professional Networking

Natural language processing is reshaping professional communication on online platforms, enabling more relevant and personalised networking interactions. As AI-driven systems increasingly comprehend and generate human language, these technological advances affect how users pursue and maintain professional connections, presenting both opportunities and challenges in authentic relationship-building. Professional networking now relies on a growing ecosystem of AI-powered […] The post Advances in Na...

4. Best Automated Security Testing Tools for Modern DevSecOps

Modern DevSecOps needs security checks that run before release day. Teams now write code, build services and deploy updates at a pace that manual review cannot match. That’s why they use automated testing, as it helps catch routine flaws before they reach production. The pressure has grown. Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report found that […] The post Best Automated Security Testing Tools for Modern DevSecOps appeared first on AI News.

5. xFusion scales enterprise AI from edge workstations to liquid-cooled data centres

xFusion presented scalable enterprise AI computing models at ISC 2026, transitioning hardware from edge devices to data centres. Enterprise technology buyers attending the Hamburg exhibition sought practical production frameworks. Hardware selection processes regularly fail to account for physical operating limits. Relying on public APIs exposes proprietary commercial data. xFusion engineers responded with a four-tier hardware […] The post xFusion scales enterprise AI from edge workstations to l...

6. Scam.ai Announces Qualcomm Partnership, Launches Halo Deepfake Detection Model at Computex 2026

New partnership brings on-device deepfake detection to video calls on desktop SAN FRANCISCO, June 29, 2026 — Scam.ai today announced a partnership with Qualcomm and the launch of Halo, an on-device deepfake detection model for live video calls. Both announcements were made at Computex 2026 in Taipei, where Scam.ai was featured at Qualcomm’s booth as […] The post Scam.ai Announces Qualcomm Partnership, Launches Halo Deepfake Detection Model at Computex 2026 appeared first on AI News.

7. Model Context Protocol Explained in 3 Levels of Difficulty

MCP provides a standard way for AI applications and external systems to communicate.

8. Mapping Europe’s AI Workforce Opportunity

A new OpenAI report maps how AI could reshape jobs across the EU, highlighting which occupations may face automation, growth, or workflow changes.

9. HP Inc. launches Frontier strategic partnership with OpenAI

HP Inc. scales its OpenAI Frontier partnership to deploy AI across customer experiences, software development, and enterprise operations.

Software Development

1. Base44 bets a narrow model beats frontier AI for vibe coding

Base44, an AI-powered app-building platform, has launched its first proprietary AI model, dubbed Base One. It is a fine-tuned open-source The post Base44 bets a narrow model beats frontier AI for vibe coding appeared first on The New Stack.

2. JetBrains kills Kotlin Notebook months after Microsoft’s Polyglot exit. But Jupyter is doing just fine.

JetBrains, the Czech developer tools company behind the IntelliJ IDEA IDE, announced Monday that it’s sunsetting Kotlin Notebook, the interactive The post JetBrains kills Kotlin Notebook months after Microsoft’s Polyglot exit. But Jupyter is doing just fine. appeared first on The New Stack.

3. Palantir and Nvidia want to change who owns government AI

Building with AI has, until recently, meant calling up someone else’s model. But wiring an app to an API from The post Palantir and Nvidia want to change who owns government AI appeared first on The New Stack.

4. “Bring it to our shop”: Workday’s pitch for keeping AI agents close to your most valuable data

Workday, the payroll and HR data platform, has been pursuing AI and agents for a while, but while other businesses The post “Bring it to our shop”: Workday’s pitch for keeping AI agents close to your most valuable data appeared first on The New Stack.

5. Okta is the first to bring AI agent governance inside FedRAMP boundaries

Okta has made its AI agent governance platform generally available for FedRAMP- and HIPAA-regulated environments, becoming what it claims is the first independent The post Okta is the first to bring AI agent governance inside FedRAMP boundaries appeared first on The New Stack.

6. MII: Machine Identity Intelligence — discover and risk-score IAM roles, OIDC federations, and CI/CD tokens across AWS

Released an open-source tool for a problem I kept hitting: no visibility into machine identities. CyberArk's 2025 report found machine identities outnumber humans 82:1. Every IAM role, every OIDC federation from CI/CD to AWS, every service account — they pile up with no one monitoring them. MII connects to your AWS account (read-only) and: Discovers every IAM role and trust relationship Maps them into a directed trust graph Scores each one 0-100 (admin permissions, cross-account trust, staleness...

7. World Cup 2026: The 48-Team Format Just Created a Statistical Nightmare — and Nobody's Talking About It [Jun 30]

Spain demolished Saudi Arabia 4-0. Japan demolished Tunisia 4-0. Germany beat Ivory Coast 2-1. But here's what should terrify tournament organizers: in a 16-group, 3-team format, the second-place team in your group might have an easier path to the quarterfinals than the group winner in another. I analyzed the first week of WC2026 results, and the data reveals something that will fundamentally shape how teams should play group stage football — and most are getting it completely wrong. The Finding...

8. Need a break? Play today's game from The Daily Context.

We (at DEV and MLH) are covering AI Engineer's World Fair by printing a physical newspaper called "The Daily Context" everyday of the conference. We wanted to include a game in each issue so for today's first edition, we published a little word search affectionately named "Vector Search": I built this game with AI Studio and deployed it to Cloud Run. It was super easy to put together and I love the little touches included in the game (answer reveal, confetti upon completion, etc). You can play i...

9. The $500M Claude Code Problem: Why Most Teams Pay 3x What They Should for AI Coding

Enterprise AI coding bills are hitting absurd numbers. One source told Axios that a client spent $500 million in a month on Claude Code. Gartner's latest data says 23% of tech leaders are spending $200-500 per developer per month on tokens alone. Uber reportedly burned through its entire 2026 Claude Code budget by April and had to cap spending at $1,500/month per employee. These aren't edge cases anymore. This is the new normal. And the uncomfortable truth is that most of this spend is waste. Th...

10. How Machine Identities The Invisible Attack Surface: Why Machine Identities Are Cloud Security's Biggest Blind Spot

And how I built an open-source platform to solve it. The Problem No One Is Talking About Here's a number that should concern every CISO: 82 to 1. That's the ratio of machine identities to human identities in modern cloud environments, according to CyberArk's 2025 Machine Identity Security Report. For every developer, engineer, or admin in your organization, there are 82 IAM roles, service accounts, CI/CD tokens, and OIDC federations operating silently in the background. These machine identities ...

11. Your AI agent forgets. Mine doesn't - and it works on a plane, in a hospital, with wifi off.

Six months ago you recommended switching your client's invoicing tool. Last week they asked why. You have no idea - the conversation happened in three meetings, a Slack thread, and a spreadsheet comparison no one archived. Your AI assistant is useless here too: it only knows what you paste into the prompt. This is not a context-window problem. It is a memory architecture problem. Why vector search alone is not enough Most "persistent memory" solutions for LLMs work by storing past exchanges as t...

12. How I used a sparse GSI to build a real-time post scheduler on Amazon DynamoDB

I'm writing this as part of my submission for the H0 Hackathon: Hack the Zero Stack with Vercel and AWS Databases. But the database problem I'm about to describe is real and it took me longer to solve than I'd like to admit. SlothPost is a tool I built for indie developers who want to build in public but can never find the time to actually write posts. It connects to your GitHub, Vercel, and App Store, captures all your activity, and drafts social media posts for X and Threads that you review an...

13. 🤖 I Built an AI Company With Paperclip AI

What if your next startup didn’t begin with hiring developers… What if it began with hiring AI employees? Not just one AI assistant. An actual company. → A CEO that plans the roadmap. → A CTO that designs the architecture. → Software Engineers that write production code. → QA Engineers that test every feature. → Security Engineers that review vulnerabilities. → A Marketing Manager that prepares the launch. And instead of you manually coordinating everything, they collaborate, delegate work, requ...

14. I built a POC for an IDE that visually maps and edits architecture using Local AI

Most "AI IDEs" today are essentially just VS Code forks with a chat UI bolted on. You paste some code into a sidebar, get some code out, and manually copy it over. While this is incredibly useful, it still forces developers to explain architectural changes through flat text and deal with context window exhaustion. I wanted to experiment with a radically different approach: What if the IDE understood your architecture visually? So, I built a Proof of Concept (POC) called TerminateCode. The Core C...

15. What I learned building offline AI for Android

I built Orb because I wanted AI on my phone that still worked when the network disappeared. Most AI apps are simple from the app side: send the prompt to a server, stream the response back, and keep the real complexity in the cloud. Orb is the opposite. It runs local models on Android after a one-time model download, so the app has to deal with the annoying mobile parts directly. A few things stood out. The model download is part of the product If your app needs a 1-3 GB model before it becomes ...

Programming Languages

1. You Don’t Know Jack About Formal Verification

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2. GitOps for 15,000+ Clusters: What Large-Scale Testing with vCluster Taught Us

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3. Modding a 20-year-old game to make it even better

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4. Video about splice: The Linux Syscall That Moves Data It Never Reads

A visual walkthrough of how Linux splice() works: file descriptors, pipes, pipe buffers, page cache interaction, avoiding the userspace read/write bounce, and the tradeoffs that come with using such a strange linux kernel interface. submitted by /u/Ok_Marionberry8922 [link] [comments]

5. Do excellent vulnerability reports

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6. Uses for nested promises

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7. Platforms: Build Abstractions, not Illusions • Gregor Hohpe

Let’s be honest, the tech we use today is amazing, but it can also be complex. It’s only natural that teams want to build platforms that hide this complexity to improve productivity, avoid mistakes, and reduce cognitive load. But they may be misled to believe that the more complexity they hide, the better their platform is. Instead, they end up creating dangerous illusions! This talk reflects on two decades of building complex distributed systems, highlighting where abstractions helped and where...

8. Ante: A New Way to Blend Borrow Checking and Reference Counting

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9. Integrating a native UI toolkit's event loop with Node's libuv

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Game Development

1. Supermassive Games CEO steps down following launch of Directive 8020

'I was honored to guide the studio through intense industry change.'

2. Nintendo is increasing the price of the Switch 2 in South Korea

The latest price hike comes shortly after Nintendo lamented rising oil prices and surging component costs.

Gaming News

1. Xbox Devs Call For Worker Protections Ahead Of Likely Layoffs

Earlier this month, rumors began to spread about potentially massive layoffs coming to Microsoft's Xbox gaming division this summer. While the majority of those those cuts don't appear to have happened yet, game developers under Xbox have come together to push for more layoff protections for their members. Members of the United Video Game Workers and representatives from workers at Microsoft's first-party studios--including Bethesda's parent company Zenimax, as well as Activision Blizzard--were ...

2. CFB 27 Launch Times For Early Access And Global Release

The new college football season begins soon, and ahead of that, EA's College Football 27 is launching this week, at least for early access. In this post we're rounding up the key details on how to play early, and when you can get in. The official global release date for CFB 27 is July 9, but MVP+ subscribers can jump in starting July 2. People who own the deluxe edition or the MVP bundle can begin playing on July 6. Everyone else can play on July 9. See at Amazon EA Sports CFB 27 early access re...

3. Activision Promotes Call Of Duty: MW4 By Telling You It’s Not On Game Pass

For the first time in two years, the annual Call of Duty release, Modern Warfare 4, will not come to Xbox Game Pass at launch. To help hammer that point home, Activision is rolling out a new ad campaign reminding people they need to buy the game outright to play it at launch. The ad (see below) informs people they can preorder the game to "lock in" early access to the campaign. Right below that is a line that states, "Not on Xbox Game Pass this year." MW4 is not coming to Game Pass at launch. 20...

4. Resident Evil Movie Follows An “Idiot,” Director Likens Story To Lord Of The Rings

The upcoming Resident Evil movie from Weapons and Barbarian director Zach Cregger follows the story of an "idiot" in a narrative that the filmmaker says is akin to The Lord of the Rings. Speaking to Empire, Cregger said Austin Abrams' character, a medical courier named Bryan, is an "everyman" who gets mixed up in a deadly, horrific adventure. “The concept here is that we’re following an idiot,” Cregger said. “Not that he’s stupid, but he’s not your typical game character, with no combat skills w...

5. Steam Machine’s Unlicensed Companion Cube Canceled, Dbrand Owns Up To Huge Mistake

Dbrand, a consumer electronics accessories company that has stumbled into its fair share of controversy over the years, finds itself in that position once again. The Canadian company has announced that its $100 Companion Cube-style wrap for the Steam Machine has been canceled, and anyone who already preordered one will get a refund. This is happening because Dbrand never asked Valve for permission in the first place. "We made the Companion Cube without a license from Valve," the company said. Db...

6. A Once-Dismissed Warcraft Leak May Have Just Revealed Blizzard’s Huge Plans For The Franchise

A leak from nearly a year ago allegedly revealing Blizzard's huge plans for the Warcraft franchise is looking more legitimate after a recent datamine seems to have corroborated a key aspect of it. In August 2025, Reddit user 5thyatch (as highlighted by Warcraft-content creator Bellular) posted an image of a document that reportedly showed a timeline of Warcraft-related releases up through 2030, including the release windows for the next several World of Warcraft expansions as well as two unannou...

7. Marvel Tokon’s Deadpool Is Full Of Obscure References, Just Like You’d Hope

Ahead of its launch in August, Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls' final team of multiversal brawlers was revealed at Evo 2026. Dubbed the Samurai Outriders, this team includes Blade, Loki, Ghost Rider, and everyone's favorite chatterbox antihero, Deadpool. As you'd expect, Deadpool is pure chaos, but he's also a walking tribute to fighting games from across multiple series. As part of his character, Deadpool has somehow obtained a game strategy guide from beyond the fourth wall, allowing him to use a...

8. The Witcher Company CD Projekt Is Now CD Projekt Red, Not To Be Confused With CD Projekt Red

CD Projekt, the parent company of Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher studio CD Projekt Red, has a new name that it hopes will unify its businesses. Unfortunately, that name is CD Projekt Red, which is perplexing because CD Projekt Red already exists. So now, there are two CD Projekt Reds. In a June 23 news post (via Eurogamer), CD Projekt's new name is CD Projekt Red Spółka Akcyjna, with the tacked-on bit at the end being a Polish term for joint-stock company. The company voted on this name to conso...

9. All The Major Fighting Game Announcements From Evo 2026

Evo 2026 is in the books, with new champions crowned in Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8, and more of the top fighting games on the scene. As is tradition, along with the competitions came a steady supply of fighting game news across multiple developers and publishers. Below, we've gathered all of the major announcements from the weekend into one place. Announcements included the final character announcements for Marvel Tokon's launch lineup, DLC plans for Avatar Legends, a pair of retro revivals from...

10. All +1 Speed Keyboard Escape codes for June 2026: Extra speed

All active +1 Speed Keyboard Escape codes for free speed boosts and multipliers.

11. New Vegas director Josh Sawyer says games can and should pull on artistic inspirations from 'anywhere and everywhere': 'Greek plays, they knocked it out of the park thousands of years ago—why not look at them?'

If you want the player to feel something, look to media that already cracked the code.

12. 5 years after we called this Kickstarted MMO 'a giant fiasco' and just 3 months after it finally launched, it's shutting down

Even the shutdown process is turning into a mess.

13. We finally got our first good look at Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, and I hate to break it to you but I don't think this one's gonna have a happy ending either

Looking preem, choom.

14. Steam Machine Companion Cube case cancelled because Dbrand didn't ask Valve for permission to make it: 'We’re going to regret that decision for a very long time'

This was definitely not a triumph.

15. Logitech G316 X (tactile) gaming keyboard review

Oh what could have been.

Robotics

1. BMW Group deploys Figure 03 humanoid after tests with previous version

The Figure 02 robot supported the production of more than 30,000 BMW X3 vehicles over 11 months in South Carolina. The post BMW Group deploys Figure 03 humanoid after tests with previous version appeared first on The Robot Report.

2. MBody AI expands service robotics operations to eleven states and Canada

MBody AI has deployed its hardware-agnostic Orchestrator platform to Florida and California, with a pilot in Ontario. The post MBody AI expands service robotics operations to eleven states and Canada appeared first on The Robot Report.

3. Advantages of hypoid gearing over worm, bevel and bevel-planetary

Right-angle gearing often requires engineers to compromise between torque capacity and mechanical efficiency. Hypoid gearing offers a balance of mechanical efficiency, load-carrying capability, and single-stage ratio range. The post Advantages of hypoid gearing over worm, bevel and bevel-planetary appeared first on The Robot Report.

4. AGIBOT produces 15,000th robot, marking a milestone in embodied AI deployment

AGIBOT has rolled out 15,000 wheeled semi-humanoid robots as it moves from embodied AI from development and production to deployment. The post AGIBOT produces 15,000th robot, marking a milestone in embodied AI deployment appeared first on The Robot Report.

Tech General

1. Gemini’s personalized AI image generation is now free for US users

Google is expanding Gemini’s personalized AI image generation to eligible free users in the U.S., allowing the chatbot to create images based on your interests and data from connected Google apps.

2. Watch out, Amazon: The Kobo eReader now has a Goodreads rival

Kobo users can now automatically sync their reading progress to StoryGraph, making it easier to track books, reading stats, and challenges without relying on Amazon’s Goodreads.

3. Waymo and Uber quietly part ways in Phoenix

The companies confirmed to TechCrunch that their unusual partnership in Phoenix recently ended after nearly three years..

4. Anthropic and Gov. Newsom forge deal allowing California government to use Claude at half price

As Anthropic forges a closer relationship with the state of California, the federal government has made an enemy out of the OpenAI rival.

5. South Korean tech giants commit over $550B to ease ‘RAMageddon’

The world's two largest memory chip companies vow to build more memory lab fabs as South Korea positions itself as an AI tech powerhouse country.

6. Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, is now a $100M business

The startup, which runs a popular free AI leaderboard, launched its commercial service just last September.

7. Cursor now has a mobile app for guiding your coding agent on the go

Cursor has launched a new mobile app for remote oversight over coding agents.

8. Trump administration threatens 92 GW of new electricity supply with red tape

The Trump administration's moves threaten $121 billion in new solar and wind power, two energy sources that are the biggest contributors to new capacity in the U.S.

9. TIDAL cracks down on AI music by cutting off monetization

In addition, TIDAL will use automated tools to remove AI-generated music that attempts to impersonate an artist or a group, the company said.

10. In major privacy win, Supreme Court rules geofence warrants are protected by privacy rights

The Supreme Court's decision to limit geofence warrants is a win for privacy advocates, who called their use unconstitutional but sought an outright ban.

11. Leaked iPhone 18 Pro photos reportedly wound up on the dark web

Leaked iPhone 18 Pro photos and parts lists appeared on the dark web following a data breach affecting one of Apple's key suppliers, according to a report from Reuters. The leaked images show a drop test of what a source tells Reuters is the iPhone 18 Pro, equipped with a three-camera layout and Apple logo. […]

12. Tidal won’t pay royalties on AI-generated music but isn’t banning it outright

Tidal shared its new policies regarding AI-generated music today and how the platform plans to "protect artists" and "inform listeners." Instead of banning it outright, starting on July 15th Tidal will label tracks it has identified as being 100 percent AI-generated with an icon. But starting today those tracks will no longer be monetizable. "Tidal's […]

13. Sony’s next-gen PlayStation will go ‘beyond the living room’

Sony hinted in a recent Q&A with investors that the next generation PlayStation will offer some kind of experience that lets you play games outside of your living room. Here's the relevant portion from the transcript, emphasis mine: Q: How can you bring back to the PlayStation platform users who migrated to gaming PCs during […]

14. OpenAI is teasing new hardware… for Codex

OpenAI is releasing some sort of device related to its AI-powered coding tool, Codex, on July 15th. In a video posted to X on Monday, OpenAI shows a square-shaped device with several buttons, alongside the caption, "Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgrade." This isn't the mysterious AI-powered device OpenAI is working on with […]

15. At $499, Apple’s M3-powered iPad Air is a good deal

Most of Apple’s price increases have gone into effect, resulting in iPads and other products costing hundreds more than they did a few days ago. If last week’s Prime Day sale wasn’t a good time to consider buying an iPad, we found a deal worth considering that’s just under $500 right now. The 128GB iPad […]

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