APNIC Blog / RIPE Labs / Internet Society / 3GPP
The invisible heartbeat of our networks
Guest Post: The recent Telstra outage highlighted a critical but often overlooked dependency in modern networks: Accurate time synchronization.
Sunday, 30 August 2026
Everything this site carried that day, newest first. Stories are kept for a month, and the widely covered ones for a year.
tl;dr sec / Risky Biz News / Unsupervised Learning
The Link Between Your Workplace Situation and Your Mental Health
A large purple hand holds a pendulum swinging one man between standing arms-wide on a ship's prow in warm sienna and collapsed head-in-hands in a purple office chair/images/workplace-situation-mental-health.webp/images/workplace-situation-mental-health.webp One thing I keep forgetting and…
Hackaday / CNX Software / Liliputing
Amazon tablets with up to 16GB of RAM could be coming soon
Amazon launched its first Kindle Fire tablet in 2011, and over the years the company has dropped the Kindle name, dabbled in the high-end space, and largely settled on the idea that its devices would compete on price and convenience, rather than speed or a broad app ecosystem. But that could be set…
Planet GNOME / KDE News
Jussi Pakkanen: Stanisław Lem foretold the current LLM mania in 1964
Some time ago I visited a used book fair and came across this awesome piece of 80s scifi-asthetic. This book is a collection of short stories by the Polish author Stanisław Lem originally published in 1964. Its English title is The Cyberiad. One story, about Trurl's electronic troubadour, turned…
Chips and Cheese
Hot Chips 2026: Interviewing IBM's Christian Zoellin & Christian Jacobi
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Language blogs: Rust / Go / TypeScript / Swift / Kotlin / Java / .NET / Ruby / PHP / Elixir / ISO C++
CppCon 2026 Keynote: Language Designers Panel -- Tracey, Stroustrup, Van Rossum, and Torgersen
Registration is now open for CppCon 2026! The conference starts on September 12 and will be held in person in Aurora, CO. To whet your appetite for this year’s conference, we’re posting some upcoming talks that you will be able to attend this year. Here’s another CppCon future talk we hope you will…
Ethereum Foundation / Solana / a16z crypto / Chainalysis
How Argentina uses stablecoins, in 5 charts
Stablecoins solved an urgent problem in Argentina. Then people kept using them.
SemiAnalysis (free portion)
Most Neoclouds Suck At Security
OpenAI vs HuggingFace, Container Escapes, Kernel Bypass, Network Policies, Security Keys, Multi-tenant Grafana, and a ClusterMAX 3.0 Preview
Phys.org / ScienceDaily (tech)
This strange “spacetime crystal” can suddenly become a black hole
Physicists have mathematically captured a bizarre “spacetime crystal” that can either dissolve or collapse into a microscopic black hole after only a tiny change in energy. Their breakthrough came from an unusual trick involving infinitely many dimensions, potentially giving researchers a new tool…
Phys.org / ScienceDaily (tech)
IBM quantum computer solves classically intractable problem in 15 minutes
IBM and University of Chicago researchers have completed a quantum computation that leading classical methods could not practically reproduce. The system used 70 error-corrected logical qubits and finished the task in roughly 15 minutes while also providing statistical evidence that the result was…
Huntress
Boardroom Battles 2026: ASD’s Cyber Priorities & AI Risk
The Australian Signals Directorate’s 2026 board priorities and frontier AI guidance show why speed alone won’t stop AI-era cyber threats.
Bitcoin Optech / Fintech Takes / Fintech Business Weekly / Net Interest
Colorado Sues EarnIn For “Immoral, Unethical, Oppressive and Unscrupulous” Business Practices
Five Takeaways from Q2 Banking Profile, Nissan Withdraws ILC App, State Associations Plan BankChain Alliance, FDIC Defines “Unsafe or Unsound Practice” For First Time
Europe/UK: Tech.eu / Sifted / TNW / Silicon Republic / UKTN / Computer Weekly / heise / Golem / t3n / Maddyness / FrenchWeb
Présidentielle 2027 : ce que les candidats ont réellement compris de la puissance technologique
À La REF, grande messe annuelle du MEDEF, principale organisation patronale française, l’intelligence artificielle et l’innovation n’ont pas bénéficié d’une séquence dédiée lors du débat réunissant sept candidats à la présidentielle de 2027. Elles en ont pourtant traversé presque tous les sujets…
Chips and Cheese
Hot Chips 2026: XCENA and Samsung’s Near-Memory Compute CXL Device
CXL memory expansion, with a side of compute
Vercel (blog + changelog)
MiniMax H3 and H3 Max are 50% off on AI Gateway
MiniMax H3 H3 Max andare 50% off on AI Gateway from August 30 through September 13, in partnership with MiniMax. The discount covers requests billed through AI Gateway, at every duration and in every aspect ratio the model supports. minimax/minimax-h3 minimax/minimax-h3-max The model IDs (and) are…