SpaceX Acquires Cursor Maker Anysphere to Build an AI Coding Agent Model
SpaceX's acquisition of Anysphere, the maker of Cursor, signals a major shift in how we build software. Coding agents started as simple helper panels …
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Coinbase Postmortem Reveals How a Localized AWS Failure Triggered a Multi-Hour Trading Outage
Coinbase has published a detailed postmortem of its May 7, 2026, outage, revealing how a localized cooling failure inside an AWS data center escalated…
Perl 🐪 Weekly #777 - Check your CPAN profile!
Originally published at Perl Weekly 777 Hi there! In the recent weeks I looked at a lot of MetaCPAN profiles (aka. author pages) such as that of MANWA…
Apple’s On-Device AI: The Quiet Revolution for Edge Computing and Local-First Apps
The story of AI for the last three years has been written in megawatts. Nvidia GPUs stacked in desert data centers . Models with trillion-parameter co…
Claude Fable 5 lasted three days. Then the US government pulled it.
On Tuesday this week I was reading launch coverage that told me to try Claude Fable 5 soon. By Friday night it was gone. Not deprecated, not rate-limi…
Pectra & Fusaka Ethereum Upgrade MEV Impact 2026: Searcher Adaptation Guide
Answer first — Pectra and Fusaka are the two Ethereum hard fork upgrades shaping MEV in 2026. Pectra activated in 2025 with three MEV-relevant EIPs: E…
Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: June 4 to June 11, 2026
The lakehouse community spent this week arguing about versions, and the arguments mattered. Parquet contributors produced the single largest thread ac…
Claude Fable 5 Is Here. Here's What Actually Matters for Developers 👨🏾💻
Anthropic dropped two models today. Most people are focused on the wrong one. What launched: Fable 5 — the public-facing Mythos-class model. Available…
Perl 🐪 Weekly #776 - Learning Perl
Originally published at Perl Weekly 776 Hi there, Recently, I came across an article, The Day I Decided Never to Learn Python by Randal L. Schwartz . …
Inside Google’s System for Coordinated A/B Testing Across Its Global Service Fleet
Google has shared details of its fleet wide large scale A/B experimentation system designed to standardize experiment assignment, exposure logging, an…
Node.js Moves to One Major Release Per Year, Starting with Node 27
Node.js will change its release schedule starting with version 27 in October 2026, moving from two major releases per year to one. All releases will b…
What Is OSINT? Open-Source Intelligence Explained (2026)
Published: May 22, 2026 · 11 min read OSINT — open-source intelligence — is the collection and analysis of information from publicly available sources…
Perl 🐪 Weekly #775 - Events and using AI to write Perl
Originally published at Perl Weekly 775 Hi there! I try to keep track of the Perl-related events. You can find them listed at the bottom of each editi…
Building a Real-Time Financial Sentiment API: Handling Noise and LLM Hallucinations
Financial markets move faster than human cognition. A geopolitical headline can trigger automated oil liquidations within milliseconds. A single earni…
Claude Opus 4.8 is showing up where developers work
Claude Opus 4.8 is showing up where developers work The most useful way to read the Claude Opus 4.8 news is not as a pure model launch. I would read i…
SurrealDB 3.x by the numbers
Author: Tobie Morgan Hitchcock One engine, multi-workloads, full durability. You can explore the full results, methodology, and per-database breakdown…
GitHub Slashes Agent Workflow Token Spend up to 62% with Daily Audits and MCP Pruning
GitHub reports cutting token costs in agentic CI workflows by up to 62% by pruning unused MCP tools, swapping some MCP calls for gh CLI, and running d…
Best AI for Code: Top 4 Tools Tested and Ranked
Most AI coding comparisons test "Hello World" apps and call it a day. I ran every major tool through the same three-stage gauntlet: a simple build, a …
MiniScript Weekly News — May 27, 2026
Development Updates The MiniScript 2 work continues to move forward at a brisk pace. Joe’s latest dev log shows major progress on shell intrinsics lik…
Vitalii Kiro: The Drone War Is Over. The War of Algorithms Begins
When people say that Ukraine has become a “testing ground” for Western technologies, there is some truth to it. But that truth is incomplete — and eve…
Radiation-Proof Flash Storage Could Be the Missing Layer for AI Data Centers in Space
AI is forcing us to rethink the physical limits of computing. On Earth, data centers are running into familiar constraints: power availability, coolin…
The Kimwolf Bust Just Outed Android Webcams as Botnet Fodder — Here's the Question Every Repurposed-Phone Camera Setup Has to Answer
On May 22, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrest of a 23-year-old in Ottawa for allegedly running Kimwolf , a DDoS-for-hire botnet…
OpenJDK News Roundup: Vector API, Compact Object Headers and G1GC as Default in JDK 27
There was a flurry of activity in the OpenJDK ecosystem during the week of May 18th, 2026, highlighting three JEPs elevated from Proposed to Target to…
How Thinking Machines built interactivity into the model
A new release from Thinking Machines, dated May 11, 2026, lands at 0.40 seconds end-to-end on the FD-bench V1 turn-taking benchmark — about three time…
Node.js 22 LTS — EOL Date, Support Timeline, and What Comes Next
Node.js 22 became Active LTS in October 2024. That sounds recent. It isn't. Active LTS means the clock is already running. Node.js 22 reaches End of L…
Unity’s AI agent went public: the developers of a static analysis tool on what that means for code quality
In early May, Unity opened its built-in Unity Agent to all users. It runs in two modes. In chat mode, the AI assistant suggests improvements to game m…
GitHub Internal Repositories Breached: Source Code and Internal Data Allegedly Exfiltrated in 2026 Supply Chain Attack
Introduction In one of the most alarming cybersecurity incidents of 2026, GitHub confirmed unauthorized access to its internal repositories on May 20,…
OpenAI Model Disproves Central Conjecture in Discrete Geometry
OpenAI Model Disproves Central Conjecture in Discrete Geometry Meta Description: An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geomet…
Anthropic's Code With Claude Announces Managed Agents, Proactive Workflows, Capability Curve
Anthropic hosted "Code with Claude 2026" in San Francisco, featuring livestream sessions focused on Claude Code, the Claude API platform, and other pr…
Token Ledger – 2026-05-15
Token Ledger – 2026-05-15 356 models added, 0 removed, 0 price changes. The largest influx on record reframes the cost landscape. Leading the batch is…