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Josh Long's weekly Spring roundup highlights new Spring AI ChatMemory persistence options, a Spring Tools MCP server, and Tanzu's SLSA Level 3 compliance.
An independent developer got Linux 6.12 running on Espressif's ESP32-S31, a RISC-V MCU with a non-standard supervisor mode and no official TRM. The port leans on CLIC patches, XIP in flash, and a lot of probing.
Vercel's Ship 2026 keynote unveiled a full-stack platform for agents: the Agent Stack, the eve framework, Vercel Connect for temporary credentials, Dockerfile support with a container registry, and Vercel Agent for autonomous incident response. The company is betting that the next decade belongs to agent-native infrastructure.
Unity ships a standalone CLI for managing editors, projects, and authentication from the terminal, plus an experimental Pipeline package that turns a running Editor or Player into a programmable automation target with live C# eval.
The European Commission hits Google with a record fine under the Digital Markets Act for favoring its own services in search results and restricting app developer steering.
Commodore's Amiga 1000 launched 40 years ago with preemptive multitasking and custom graphics/sound hardware that the rest of the industry wouldn't match for a decade. A look at what made it special — and why it failed commercially.
New DNA analysis of Francesco I de' Medici's remains confirms malaria, not arsenic poisoning, as the cause of his and his wife's deaths in 1587, ending a 400-year-old murder mystery.
Cactus Hybrid post-trains small models to output a confidence score with every answer, enabling reliable cloud handoff only when needed. The first release, Gemma 4 E2B Hybrid, routes just 15–35% of queries to a larger model while matching Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite on benchmarks.
Mitchell Hashimoto argues that SIMD is simpler than its reputation suggests, offering a five-step pattern that turns naive loops into vectorized code with dramatic speedups.
A deep dive into the Perlin noise algorithm, from the fundamentals of coherent noise to the implementation details of gradient vectors and permutation tables.
Tens of billions in AI infrastructure debt is collateralized by GPU clusters whose value depends on operational state—and lenders have no way to measure that risk.
A federal judge approved a $1.5 billion settlement where Anthropic will pay authors ~$3,000 per book for using pirated copies to train Claude. The ruling upholds fair use for training but punishes the source of the data.