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AI & Machine Learning

1. How AI is shortening drug discovery timelines in China

Insilico Medicine has reduced the time needed to produce some drug development candidates to about one year by combining artificial intelligence with laboratory research in China, according to CEO Alex Zhavoronkov. The Hong Kong-listed company’s fastest programme reached candidate nomination in nine months, while its typical timeline is about 13 months, Zhavoronkov said. He said […] The post How AI is shortening drug discovery timelines in China appeared first on AI News.

2. America’s AI Investment Boom Is Reshaping the Economy

America’s AI Investment Boom Is Reshaping the Economy Artificial intelligence has become one of the defining investment stories in the United States, and the numbers continue to grow. Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Alphabet are collectively committing hundreds of billions of dollars to AI infrastructure, while demand for advanced chips has turned NVIDIA into one of […] The post America’s AI Investment Boom Is Reshaping the Economy appeared first on AI News.

3. 5 Architectural Patterns for Persistent Memory and State in AI Agents

Memory & State For AI Agents Building an AI agent can be tricky. Keeping it on track over a six-month deployment is incredibly hard. LLMs...

4. How AI is expanding what people do at work

New OpenAI research shows how AI is expanding what workers do, with ChatGPT users taking on tasks across roles and reshaping job boundaries.

Software Development

1. Anthropic wants tests, not bans, as OpenAI and Google back open weights

Anthropic does not want open-weight AI models banned. CEO Dario Amodei said so plainly today after a week of criticism. The post Anthropic wants tests, not bans, as OpenAI and Google back open weights appeared first on The New Stack.

2. The 24-hour experiment that helped Anthropic find its identity

If you’re building traditional software, you write the product requirements document. If you’re building frontier AI, you run an evaluation. The post The 24-hour experiment that helped Anthropic find its identity appeared first on The New Stack.

3. Moonshot opens Kimi K3 weights — but few can run it

Moonshot AI has released the open weights for Kimi K3 on Hugging Face, giving developers access to one of the The post Moonshot opens Kimi K3 weights — but few can run it appeared first on The New Stack.

4. Microsoft is racing to make OpenAI optional

AI is changing the technology game so quickly that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella can’t stop long-posting on Twitter. Microsoft has The post Microsoft is racing to make OpenAI optional appeared first on The New Stack.

5. “Developers see this as the future”: Pilot Protocol launches to power the agent economy

When we created software agents, we built them in the shape of humans, as solitary individuals. Today, agents created by The post “Developers see this as the future”: Pilot Protocol launches to power the agent economy appeared first on The New Stack.

6. Cloudflare open-sources a debugger for privacy protocols used by Apple and Microsoft, with AI agents in mind

Every time you use a privacy service like Apple’s iCloud Private Relay, you’re trusting a system designed so that no The post Cloudflare open-sources a debugger for privacy protocols used by Apple and Microsoft, with AI agents in mind appeared first on The New Stack.

7. Dynatrace’s new agents can reveal the single hardest part of AI operations

Observability platform company Dynatrace announced a set of advancements to its Dynatrace Intelligence service on Monday that aim to take The post Dynatrace’s new agents can reveal the single hardest part of AI operations appeared first on The New Stack.

8. Nvidia, Palantir, Hugging Face join 34 others in race to defend open-weight AI from cyber threats

The current maelstrom of discussion surrounding the use of open-source software and open-weight AI models appears to be splitting opinion The post Nvidia, Palantir, Hugging Face join 34 others in race to defend open-weight AI from cyber threats appeared first on The New Stack.

9. MCP’s biggest update removes the machinery many servers were built around

The biggest update to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) since its launch is almost here. Lead maintainers froze the release The post MCP’s biggest update removes the machinery many servers were built around appeared first on The New Stack.

10. Microsoft and Google DeepMind agree on AI control — but not on who holds it

Over two days this month, two of the most credible people in the industry published framework manifestos on X. Microsoft The post Microsoft and Google DeepMind agree on AI control — but not on who holds it appeared first on The New Stack.

11. [Advanced Rust] 1.12. Lifetimes (Advanced) Pt.2 - Lifetime Variance, Covariance, Invariance, Contravariance

1.12.1. Lifetime Variance Variance is a concept in Rust’s type system. It describes how generic parameters — especially lifetime parameters — relate to one another in the type hierarchy. We can think of it simply as variance describes which types are “subtypes” of other types, where “subtype” is somewhat similar to the concept used in Java and C#. In addition, variance also cares about when a “subtype” can replace a “supertype” and vice versa. In general, if A is a subtype of B, then A is at lea...

12. [Advanced Rust] 1.11. Lifetimes (Advanced) Pt.1 - Review, Borrow Checker, Generic Lifetimes

1.11.1. Review In the beginner tutorial, we mentioned that every reference in Rust has a lifetime. A lifetime is the scope in which the reference remains valid, and in most cases it is implicit and inferred by the compiler. When you take a reference to a variable, the lifetime begins. When the variable is moved or goes out of scope, the lifetime ends. In other words, for a reference, a lifetime is the name of the code region in which it must remain valid. Lifetimes usually overlap with scopes, b...

13. Dysphoria: A 200k-Device Botnet Using Blockchain Name Resolution and Infected Device Relays

Dysphoria: A 200k-Device Botnet Using Blockchain Name Resolution and Infected Device Relays 1. Basic Information Article Title: New Dysphoria DDoS botnet spreads to 200k devices worldwide Publisher: BleepingComputer Publication Date: 2026-07-27 Original Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-dysphoria-ddos-botnet-spreads-to-200k-devices-worldwide/ Primary Source: https://blog.xlab.qianxin.com/dysphoria/ Related Entities: Dysphoria, jackskid, fbot, ENS, SNS, UPnP, Telnet, SSH,...

14. Public Wi‑Fi DNS Poisoning: Hijacking Microsoft 365 Sessions of Business Travelers

Public Wi‑Fi DNS Poisoning: Hijacking Microsoft 365 Sessions of Business Travelers 1. Basic Information Article Title: Hacked Public Wi-Fi Gateways Used to Harvest Corporate Credentials Source: SecurityWeek Publication Date: 2026-07-27 Original Article: https://www.securityweek.com/hacked-public-wi-fi-gateways-used-to-harvest-corporate-credentials/ Primary Source: https://reliaquest.com/blog/threat-spotlight-dns-poisoning-tactics-expand-to-hospitality/ Related Entities: Microsoft 365, Entra ID d...

15. FortiOS CVE-2025-68686: Bypass of Symlink Persistence Mitigation for Already Compromised Devices

FortiOS CVE-2025-68686: Bypass of Symlink Persistence Mitigation for Already Compromised Devices 1. Basic Information Article Name: CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog Source: CISA Publication Date: July 27, 2026 Original Link: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2026/07/27/cisa-adds-two-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog Related Sources: https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-25-934 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68686 Related Entities: CVE-2025-686...

Programming Languages

1. PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works

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2. Building a Fast Lock-Free Queue in Modern C++ From Scratch

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3. Pollard's P-1 Factoring Algorithm in Plain C

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4. Writing arenas in Rust from scratch

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5. Approximating Softmax for FPGAs with Taylor Series and Pade Approximants in Python

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6. How we make Luau fast

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7. A simple clustering algorithm for lists

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8. Let the Browser Do the Math or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the DOM

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9. Why Redis wasn't enough to survive a traffic spike, and what actually was

Postmortem after several rounds of performance work on a Laravel site, trying to push concurrent user capacity up. Ended up putting Varnish in front of Nginx. submitted by /u/noweh95 [link] [comments]

Game Development

1. Atari and Universal to create movies based on classic properties including Asteroids and Missile Command

Atari boss Wade Rosen said the company hopes to bring the 'spirit of our iconic brand and games to a new medium.'

Gaming News

1. Meccha Chameleon Players Are Getting Malware From User-Made Maps

Meccha Chameleon--a multiplayer prop-hunt game that's been blowing up on Steam lately--seems to have hit its first real road bump since it launched in early June. As pointed out by a player who goes by Feint, some of the game's player-made maps are basically just Trojan horses containing malware. One of Feint's friends had mentioned briefly seeing a command prompt appear while they were downloading the map. Curious, Feint dug into the files and concluded that the map known as Lazer Tag Zero cont...

2. Best Loadouts In Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 Season 5 Multiplayer

Call of Duty Season 5 is live in Black Ops 7, bringing more guns and new attachments to the game. You'll definitely want to consider updating your loadouts for this new season of Call of Duty. In this guide, we provide you with some recommended weapon builds to try in Season 5 of multiplayer. Black Ops 7's Gunsmith includes the weapon build code feature. Weapon build codes are unique to each weapon and a specific set of attachments, making it easy to share and receive custom weapon builds. We'll...

3. Best Loadouts In Call Of Duty: Warzone For BO7 Season 5

Season 5 of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is live in Warzone. The big update brings new guns in the battle pass and more attachments to unlock, so this is a good time to update your existing loadouts. In this guide, we will recommend some of the best weapon builds for Warzone in Season 5. Black Ops 7's Gunsmith includes the weapon build code feature. Weapon build codes are unique to each weapon and a specific set of attachments, making it easy to share and receive custom weapon builds. We'll list th...

4. You Might Need A Face Scan To Buy Pokemon Cards Soon, Thanks To Scalpers

Pokemon card scalpers are generally regarded as the worst part of the hobby, and in Japan, The Pokemon Company is taking steps to address the problem. As part of its crackdown to create a safe shopping environment, The Pokemon Company is introducing a facial recognition system for adult shoppers and children of a certain age. According to its website, this will be a mandatory measure for gaining access to a Pokemon Card Store, and customers may only enter a shop once per day. Preschoolers are no...

5. The Best Way To Remake More Final Fantasy Games Is Staring Square Enix In The Face

With the Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy reaching its conclusion next year, franchise fans are already asking which game will be next for a modern-day glow-up. The subject was brought up during the Final Fantasy Fan Festival in Berlin on the weekend, and Final Fantasy 14's Naoki Yoshida said that some of the most-requested titles for a remake would need multiple games to pull off successfully. Final Fantasy 6 appears to be at the top of the list--with Final Fantasy 8 and 9 also in contention--but...

6. Beast of Reincarnation – Everything to Know

Game Freak, the legendary studio behind the Pokemon series, is making its foray into the action RPG genre by blending real-time and turn-based combat. Here’s everything you need to know about Beast of Reincarnation.

7. Stalker 2’s First Major Expansion Arrives Very Soon

Stalker 2 has been out for nearly two years, and if you've been itching to jump back into the post-apocalyptic hellscape, you'll have a great reason to do so. The game's first expansion, Stalker 2: Cost of Hope, releases in just a few weeks across PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. Cost of Hope puts you back in control of Stalker 2 protagonist Skif, with the character following a "mysterious PDA signal" as the dangerous Zone's Duty and Freedom factions come into conflict. GSC Game World promises "doz...

8. Xbox Network Is Down Right Now, Microsoft Confirms

It's not just you; the Xbox network--or parts of it, depending on when you read this--is down. After users across the globe began reporting issues with the Xbox Network, Xbox identified several issues affecting its online services today. At the time of writing, the following functions are still experiencing "major issues" on the Xbox network: Account and profile Store and subscriptions Games and gaming Apps and mobile These problems are widespread, and include an inability to sign into network s...

9. Cringe '90s stoner icons Jay and Silent Bob are getting a cosy farming sim, but wait for it: you farm weed

Jay and Silent Bob: Joint Venture looks like Wario Animal Crossing.

10. Zach Cregger may have made the best Resident Evil movie yet, but a faction of fans aren't happy about it

The latest reboot of the Resident Evil movie series is taking some heat for not looking Resident Evil-ey enough.

11. 13 Ubisoft games go free on PC if you own them on Xbox

Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Far Cry 6, Skull and Bones, Rainbow Six Siege, and others are now part of Xbox's 'Console to PC' program.

12. After leaving Epic Games last month, its former 'Unreal evangelist' is now building his own game engine

Sjoerd De Jong aims to combat game development "stagnation" he says has emerged from Epic and Unity market dominance.

13. 'Wtf is going on': Indie dev discovers their neglected Steam game is powering an Undertale multiplayer mod following its freak 1700% jump in player activity

Little-known platformer Crashphalt is enjoying an unexpected popularity—but its players are enjoying something else.

14. EA is 'a hedge fund with a videogame hobby,' former Dragon Age boss says, and that's why he reckons the series is probably dead and buried

Mark Darrah doesn't think there's anyone left at BioWare who would pitch a new Dragon Age game, and he doesn't think studio executives would let anyone else do it either.

15. Cyan releases teaser for the first new Myst game in 20 years, then breaks the news that it's not actually being made

Project Anglerfish looks great, but publishers apparently aren't interested.

Robotics

1. NORD expands compact NORDAC VFD family to 200 hp

NORD Drivesystems said its NORDAC PRO VFDs are adaptable to individual application requirements across industries. The post NORD expands compact NORDAC VFD family to 200 hp appeared first on The Robot Report.

2. Kraken Technology raises Series B funding for autonomous vessels

Kraken Technology plans to use its funding to continue developing uncrewed surface vessels and localizing manufacturing around the world. The post Kraken Technology raises Series B funding for autonomous vessels appeared first on The Robot Report.

3. Magmotor makes motors for a changing world for 150+ years

Magmotor has been providing motors for demanding use cases for decades and offers custom systems for robotics. The post Magmotor makes motors for a changing world for 150+ years appeared first on The Robot Report.

4. Optical Tech Would Update a Robot’s AI on the Fly

Atop a lab bench, Cornell Tech postdoctoral researcher Yifan He positions the lens of an optical receiver almost a meter away from an LED emitting a beam of red light. The computer monitor attached to the receiver takes a beat to refresh, then displays an array of squares that resemble a QR code.When you hold your phone camera up to a QR code, light strikes the image sensor as only a first step to revealing the data hidden behind the black-and-white matrix. The receiver here is doing something d...

Tech General

1. Anthropic’s Dario Amodei responds: doesn’t oppose open-weight models, but fears Chinese AI

Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei made his views clear about open-weight models and China's growing AI capabilities.

2. Satya Nadella says companies that trust one AI for everything may not survive

Companies without their own models — or without a layer of AI infrastructure known as AI gateways to separate their prompts from the model itself — will be in trouble, Nadella says.

3. Thea Energy lands $20M federal grant to build its magnets for fusion reactors

Fusion power startup Thea Energy snagged a $20 million award from ARPA-E to scale production of its high-temperature superconducting magnets.

4. As rivals chase acquisitions, Peacock bets on bundles through a new deal with YouTube

The deal means content will be integrated into the YouTube experience, allowing viewers to discover and watch Peacock content without leaving the platform.

5. PSA: Your Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google

The issue appears to have originated from Claude’s “share chat” feature, which allows users to create links that enable anyone with the assigned URL view a conversation or project.

6. Microsoft launches its first cybersecurity model, plus a new agentic cybersecurity system

Microsoft bolstered its AI cybersecurity offerings this week with the launch of its first AI security model and a new security platform.

7. Apple sued after alleged App Store crypto scam cost users $1.8M

Apple is facing a lawsuit from three users who say they collectively lost more than $1.8 million after downloading a fraudulent crypto wallet from the App Store, challenging the company’s longstanding claims that its app review process keeps users safe from scams.

8. Amazon’s new satellite network for mobile phones could turn up the heat on SpaceX

Amazon is expanding its plans for providing satellite connectivity to mobile phones.

9. Antares raises $470M to build nuclear reactors for the US military

Antares has raised $470 million to build small modular reactors — 100 kW to 1 MW — for U.S. Air Force bases.

10. OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach has reignited the debate over alignment and control

OpenAI's Hugging Face breach has reignited debate over AI alignment and control, exposing competing views on whether increasingly capable AI should be better aligned, better contained, or both.

11. X Money is launching in the US starting today

X Money, a core part of Elon Musk's mission to turn X into an "everything app," is rolling out starting today, 9to5Mac reports. The payment platform offers a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payments similar to Venmo, along with a metal Visa card users can emblazon with their X username. Other perks include Apple Wallet support […]

12. Razer’s analog Huntsman V3 Pro is over 20 percent off

Gaming keyboards have evolved over the years to add RGB LEDs, extra knobs, and buttons with screens, but one feature has remained fairly consistent: the mechanical switch. That’s slowly changing, with brands introducing adjustable optical switches that are more customizable and have a faster response time. Razer’s Huntsman V3 Pro TKL is a compact, wired […]

13. Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc

An extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening didn't just cause issues for people trying to play digital games - it blocked people from playing their disc-based games, too. Xbox's status page initially reported the outage on Sunday at about 11PM ET, and it also prevented people from logging in, launching apps, or finding games […]

14. Nanoleaf’s colorful pegboard and shelf kit is half off

Nanoleaf’s Blocks Combo XL Smarter Kit is a fun back-to-school buy that can add pops of customizable light and storage to your wall. It combines colorful smart lighting panels with a low-profile shelf and pegboard, and right now you can buy the kit for half off at $99.99 from Nanoleaf, which marks a new low […]

15. Why China is giving away its best AI models

Silicon Valley has spent much of the past week on red alert, digesting the arrival of Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a Chinese AI model that can allegedly beat some of the best systems built by US companies at a fraction of the cost. Its performance alone would have been enough to intensify the rivalry between […]

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