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Oracle ended its 2026 fiscal year with about 21,000 fewer employees than it started with, a reduction of roughly 13% that ranks among the deepest in the company’s history. The figure, disclosed in the company’s annual filing, puts a number on a process staff had been living through since the spring,
Two executive orders set a research-grade target, push the post-quantum cryptography deadline to 2031, and tie $2bn in grants to government equity stakes. President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on quantum computing on 22 June 2026, the first directing the federal government to help build
The Model Capability Initiative, which logs mouse movements and keystrokes to train Meta’s AI, is on hold after sensitive staff data was left accessible to the whole company. Meta has paused a programme that watches its own employees work. On Monday 22 June 2026, the company said it would halt the i
The AI infrastructure startup raised $1.5bn in a Series F, with Australia’s Blackbird VC putting in what may be the largest single outlay yet by an Australian firm. Baseten has raised $1.5bn in a Series F round that values the AI infrastructure startup at up to $13bn, a number that arrives barely 18
A group of California drivers has sued six of the country’s biggest fuel retailers, accusing them of using an artificial-intelligence pricing tool to coordinate the cost of petrol and keep it artificially high. The complaint, filed on 22 June 2026 in federal court in Sacramento, names BP, Circle K,
IBM has signed up to OpenAI’s Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, a tie-up the company says will put frontier AI models to work inside corporate security operations. The partnership comes with a concrete first product: a new application-security service that uses the cyber capabilities of OpenAI’s model
The Five Eyes intelligence alliance has issued a joint warning that the next generation of artificial intelligence is poised to supercharge offensive hacking, and that the window to prepare for it is closing fast. In a coordinated statement, the agencies of the United States, the United Kingdom, Can
The chipmaker will supply high-bandwidth memory, DRAM, and SSDs for Claude’s data centres, run Anthropic’s models internally, and take a stake in its latest funding round. Micron Technology and Anthropic have signed a strategic agreement that ties the memory maker to the AI company across three fron
The purpose of Starfall is to support the "transport and delivery of goods through space."
A family “eSUV” designed to be fun and practical. | Image: Amflow Amflow, the e-bike brand spun out of DJI, just announced its TL Carbon, a do-it-all "eSUV" suitable for both bikepacking adventures and dropping the kid at daycare on your cycle to work. The TL Carbon is built around Amflow's incredib
Stop using coffee grounds and beer: Why this bathroom staple is a better slug and snail deterrent.
There's a quiet problem nobody's talking about yet. AI is becoming the new search engine. People ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude to recommend services, find experts, and compare products. The answers come back confident and detailed — and they're often completely wrong about specific businesses.
Building an app like Muffle, which relies on precise, time-sensitive sound profile changes, presents a classic Android development challenge: how do you ensure a task executes exactly when needed without getting killed by the system's aggressive battery optimizations? When I started building Muffle,
The easiest way to misunderstand LangGraph is to see it as “LangChain, but with more steps.” That misses the point. LangGraph becomes useful when an agent is no longer a single prompt or a simple chain. It becomes useful when the workflow has state, branches, tool calls, human approval, checkpointin
While learning Java, I wanted to understand how Java connects with a database and retrieves data. Instead of using a random example, I created a small cricket project. The idea was simple: store Indian and Afghanistan players' scores in MySQL and display them through Java. Step 1: Creating the Datab
The 2026 FIFA World Cup in North America represents a fundamental shift in tournament architecture. For the first time in history, 48 teams compete in 16 groups of three, fundamentally altering the statistical landscape of knockout qualification. Early group stage results are already revealing surpr
Machine learning has quietly become the default tool for payment fraud detection, and the reason is a trade-off every fraud team knows too well. Tighten the rules and you block more fraud, but you also block real customers who just wanted to buy something. Loosen the rules and conversion improves, r
I Open-Sourced an AI Skill for Generating Minimalist Hand-Drawn Illustrations Most AI-generated illustrations today look highly polished, glossy, and over-rendered. While that's impressive, I wanted something different. I wanted illustrations that feel simple, human, playful, and intentionally imper
In the world of workflow automation, efficiency is not just a nice-to-have; it is a fundamental requirement. A single workflow engine instance might need to manage hundreds of concurrent executions, each waiting on I/O, external APIs, or database operations. Today, we explore how Vyshyvanka achieves
An IP camera stream failure is rarely just “RTSP does not work”. The useful question is more specific: Did RTSP authentication succeed? Did DESCRIBE return the SDP you expected? Did SETUP choose TCP interleaved or UDP RTP? Is media arriving after PLAY? Are RTP sequence numbers continuous? Does the c
