The Insider News

The Next Web[^]:

A research team from MIT announced a new programming language. Finch, its creators say, is “a simple bytecode interpreted, purely object-oriented, prototype-based, dynamically-typed programming language.”

Ars Technica[^]:

The US is still regulating some enriched uranium based on an analysis from the 1950s.

Popular Mechanics[^]:

A new model lets scientists run ions through thousands of supercapacitor pores instead of just one at a time.

Hamming[^]:

We built a new benchmark called "Bug In The Code Stack" (BICS) to test how well LLMs can find syntactic bugs in large Python codebases.

The Old New Thing[^]:

How did this iconic screen saver come to be?

The Register[^]:

Oracle has started to dispatch Java audit letters to Fortune 200 companies for the first time, according to one licensing expert.

The Register[^]:

An experienced MySQL database engineer has questioned whether Oracle might unintentionally kill off the open source database with its preference for adding features to its proprietary systems.

The Verge[^]:

Security researchers are reporting that a “significant volume of data” has been stolen from hundreds of Snowflake cloud storage customers via compromised login credentials, with the incident being linked to massive data breaches at Ticketmaster and Santander Bank.

Neowin[^]:

Starting on September 16, Outlook personal accounts will no longer support signing into them with what the company calls Basic Authentication, which is the old-fashioned user name and password method.

Ars Technica[^]:

Apple debuts new catchall AI branding, generative features during WWDC 2024 keynote.

Beta News[^]:

A new survey of 1,000 finance and engineering professionals in the US reveals that 58 percent of respondents say their cloud costs are too high.

MacRumors[^]:

Apple at WWDC today announced a new Calculator app as part of iPadOS 18 that features special Apple Pencil support and a maths notes feature.

IFL Science[^]:

Scientists say there's a one-in-10 chance that these advanced creatures actually exist.

The New Stack[^]:

The Rust community doubled its number of users over the past two years -- from two million in the first quarter of 2022 to four million in the first quarter of 2024.

Bleeping Computer[^]:

A group of Israeli researchers explored the security of the Visual Studio Code marketplace and managed to "infect" over 100 organizations by trojanizing a copy of the popular 'Dracula Official theme to include risky code.

Futurism[^]:

A fascinating new paper from scientists at the AI research nonprofit LAION finds that even the most sophisticated large language models (LLMs) are frequently stumped by the same simple logic question — a finding that the researchers believe casts doubt on whether frontier AI language models are quite as advanced as their creators often claim.