Weekly news | 2026-07-01
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- OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
- Dostoyevsky isn't difficult
- Qualcomm to Acquire Modular
- RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers
- Om Malik has died
- An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
- The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy
- Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line
- The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (2nd Ed)
- Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour
- IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology
- An oral history of Bank Python (2021)
- What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant
- We all depend on open source. We will defend it together
- U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
- 22-year-old Mozart's handwritten notebook unearthed in 'major discovery'
- Choosing a Public DNS Resolver
- OpenRA
- AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design
- Enhancing X11 Application Security with LXC
- Fintech Engineering Handbook
- The case for physical media ownership
- Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
- A QNX-inspired operating system with selectable kernels
- Historical memory prices 1960-2026
- Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models (2024)
- 5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)
- I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI
- Sophon PFG-1: a monolithic-3D AI ASIC with 330 GB of on-die DRAM and no HBM
- TOP500 at ISC’26: We have a New Number 1 Supercomputer
- Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech
- HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88
- US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections
- Rocketlab acquires Iridium
- Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU
- The President Made More Than $1Billon in Crypto Deals
- Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5
- Forestiere Underground Gardens
- Nano Banana 2 Lite