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Visit website →Anthropic-AWS Expand 10-Year, $100 Billion Compute Partnership...Securing Up to 5GW of New Capacity
Anthropic and AWS have expanded their 10-year partnership to secure up to 5GW of compute capacity.
We found a stable Firefox identifier that links all of a user's private Tor identities
A vulnerability that tracks Tor identities via Firefox IndexedDB ordering
Two Chips for the Agentic Era: Google's 8th-Gen TPU
Google unveiled TPU 8t for training and TPU 8i for inference.
GitHub CLI now collects pseudonymous telemetry
GitHub CLI sends pseudonymous telemetry to analyze usage patterns.
Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding Performance from a 27B Dense Model
The 27B dense multimodal Qwen has unveiled coding performance on par with much larger models.
Linux Subsystem for Windows 9x
WSL9x is a project that cooperatively runs Linux 6.19 inside Windows 9x
kumo, a lightweight AWS service emulator written in Go
Introducing kumo, a local emulator supporting 76 AWS services
Anthropic secures $5 billion investment from Amazon in exchange for $100 billion cloud spending commitment
Anthropic has struck a deal combining an Amazon investment with a long-term AWS spending commitment.
Kimi Vendor Verifier - Verifying Accuracy of Inference Providers
Kimi Vendor Verifier validates implementation deviations across inference providers.
Windows Server 2025 runs better on ARM
The ARM64 VM on Snapdragon X Elite was more stable and faster than the Intel x64 VM.
Making RAM at Home [video]
A DRAM cell was fabricated with home equipment, confirming 3V charging and 2ms retention characteristics.
Garry Tan's "Skillify" — A Methodology for Turning AI Agent Failures into Permanent Structural Fixes
Introduces the "Skillify" methodology, which permanently fixes AI agent mistakes by converting them into markdown skills and deterministic scripts.
Meta Starts Collecting Employees' Mouse Movements and Keystrokes for AI Training
Meta collects input and screen data from employee PCs to use in AI training.
StackAdapt's ChatGPT ad operation method has leaked
The targeting and pricing structure of an internal ChatGPT ad pilot has leaked.
How to build a fast dynamic language interpreter
A case study of pushing an AST interpreter up to 1.9x faster than CPython through 21 stages of optimization.
GitHub Copilot Individual Plan Changes
The Copilot individual plan is changing, with new sign-ups paused and stricter limits introduced.
Vercel Breach: OAuth Attack Reveals Hidden Risk of Platform Environment Variables
An OAuth breach exposed internal access at Vercel and some customer environment variables
SpaceX Signs $60 Billion Deal with Cursor
SpaceX has signed a deal that would allow it to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for up to $60 billion.
SpaceX Secures Option to Acquire AI Coding Startup Cursor for $60 Billion
SpaceX has partnered with Cursor and secured an option to acquire it for $60 billion.
Is Claude Code Being Removed from the Pro Plan?
Anthropic appears to be moving to remove Claude Code access from the Pro plan and shift to API-based billing.