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When you run compute-intensive workloads like real-time analytics, batch processing, video encoding, scientific modeling, or CPU-based machine learning inference, every percentage point of performance matters. You need instances that deliver higher throughput per vCPU, faster memory access, and more network bandwidth, all while keeping your costs in check. Today I am happy to announce the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C9g and C9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors. C9g instances are compute-optimized and deliver up to 25% higher performance per vCPU compared to previous-generation C8g instances. They feature the fastest memory of any processor instance…

By Emily Stoddart A nation unprepared On the 24th of June 2026, Venezuela experienced two catastrophic earthquakes, leaving the country, infrastructure and economy devastated. The earthquakes, which started at 6.04pm local time and struck within a minute of each other, have caused over 1,900 confirmed deaths so far, though the United Nations warns that the final death toll could reach up to 10,000. As one of Latin America’s poorest and least earthquake-prone nations, Venezuela lacks a lot of the infrastructure and ‘earthquake culture’ that other richer and more geologically unstable countries have. Whilst places like California and Japan have strict…

The equipment needed to cut, strip, crimp and assemble wiring is always changing. Here’s a look at some of the latest products.Daniels Manufacturing Corp. achieved Qualified Products List (QPL) status for its 51 Series of 6-ton form crimp tools. That means the tools meet military standards for terminating large-gauge insulated and uninsulated terminals and contacts. All three heavy-duty tools are qualified to AS5259 standards for crimping terminals onto 8 to 2/0 AWG copper and aluminum wires. Each tool has a 340-degree rotating head to enhance maneuverability. Interchangeable die sets deliver optimal electrical integrity across a wide range of applications. Three…

“We don’t write prompts anymore. We design loops.” — someone at Anthropic in June 2026 agent loop, self-critique did no better than doing nothing. A deterministic, source-anchored verifier cut the hallucination rate roughly in half. The line is from a few weeks ago and already feels true. We stopped tuning one perfect prompt and started building systems that try, check their own work, and improve over several steps. A model that can revise is worth more than a model that answers once and stops. On this, the line is right. What it leaves out is the bill. A loop is…

  # Introduction  Humanity’s Last Exam (HLE) is a benchmark designed to measure the reasoning and deep knowledge capabilities of most modern AI systems. Its defining trait: its underlying evaluation is taken to the extreme. Think of it as nowadays’ evolution of the Turing tests, which were born quite a few decades ago. This article takes a gentle dive into this benchmark, outlining why it was created, curating diverse opinions from groups of experts in the field about it, and wrapping up with a summary of the most widely accepted verdict.   # Why Was It Built, and What Does It Consist…

Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. And check out our new daily news show covering all of the top stories in 5 minutes, downloadable on Apple Pod or Spotify.GM!Today’s top news: Crypto majors are very green as SOL jumps 10%; BTC +5% to $61.3k Venice AI announces $65M raise at $1B valuation, creating crypto’s newest unicorn Robinhood launches Robinhood Chain with tokenized stocks focus, Lighter perps Lighter’s LIT jumps 15% to new local highs on back of Robinhood launch Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire…

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alarum Technologies [NASDAQ: ALAR]. The action comes roughly two weeks after KrebsOnSecurity published findings from multiple security firms connecting NetNut to the Popa botnet, a collection of at least two million devices that have been compromised by malicious software with little or no consent from victims. The NetNut homepage today was replaced by this seizure banner from the FBI. On June 19, three different security firms issued similar…

Meta Platforms is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business that would sell access to AI computing power and models, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter.CNBC later reported that Meta plans to sell excess computing power to outside customers.The business would compete with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and CoreWeave, which rent computing power, storage, software, and AI infrastructure to enterprise customers.The reported plans overlap with full-service cloud providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, as well as neocloud firms such as CoreWeave and Nebius, which focus more directly on GPU capacity.Meta has been…

Maria Diaz/ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET’s key takeawaysSeveral industry groups have expressed concern about the safety of plug-in solar.Issues range from the risk of fire and shock to trip hazards and falling solar panels. If in doubt about your installation, consult a licensed electrician.There’s been a lot of excitement recently about the potential of plug-in solar and how cheap, self-install kits could help households save money. But industry groups in the UK have raised a number of concerns about the safety of these kits and urge consumers to proceed with caution.Also: Years of living with…

Content production right now feels like a treadmill that keeps speeding up. You produce a solid piece of original content, and immediately the expectation is that it gets sliced into multiple formats for several different platforms. Doing this manually is a massive drain on your daily resources. We are well past the novelty phase of artificial intelligence where people generated funny pictures just to see if the technology worked. In 2026, the only utilities worth paying for are the ones that actually remove bottlenecks from your daily workflow. The goal is output speed without sacrificing the baseline quality your clients…