• The Web Machine Learning Working Group invites implementations of an updated Candidate Recommendation Snapshot of Web Neural Network (WebNN) API . • This document describes a ded
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Updated Candidate Recommendation: Web Neural Network (WebNN) API
• WebNN API now a Candidate Recommendation Snapshot, ready for implementation. • Focused on low-level neural network inference with hardware acceleration support. • Updated spec in
Preserving Pittsburgh's Public Art, One Pixel at a Time
• Pittsburgh Public Art archive maps murals with yellow pins, enabling easy location search. • Archive offers ultra‑high‑res images via Gigapan, letting users zoom into fine detail
Headlamp in 2025: Project Highlights
• Headlamp expanded in 2025, reaching more teams, new workflows, and plugin integrations. • Officially joined Kubernetes SIG UI, aligning roadmap and design with core Kubernetes co
Announcing Rust 1.93.0
• Rust 1.93.0 released, bringing updated musl 1.2.5 for reliable static Linux binaries. • Updated musl improves DNS resolver, handling large records and recursive nameservers more
Announcing Rust 1.93.0
• The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.93.0. • Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. • If you have a p
Mark Asta appointed dean of Berkeley Engineering
• Mark Asta, 15-year UC Berkeley faculty, named 14th dean of College of Engineering. • Appointment announced by Chancellor Rich Lyons and Provost Ben Hermalin. • Asta will official
Sylvia Ratnasamy named 2025 ACM Fellow
• The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Sylvia Ratnasamy, Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley, to its 2025 class of ACM Fellows. • Ratnasamy is being rec
One ISA, Infinite Use Cases: RISC-V and the Road to Workload-Specific Silicon
• RISC‑V’s 2025 Annual Report highlights rapid ecosystem growth and industry adoption. • Krste Asanović, co‑creator, emphasizes RISC‑V’s transition from generic to workload‑specifi
AI has a bias problem. Can we build something smarter?
• AI increasingly shapes health and justice decisions, but bias remains a critical challenge. • UC Berkeley’s Emma Pierson develops fair algorithms to reduce racial and gender bias
Satellites encased in wood are in the works
• Wood-based satellite casings reduce launch mass, cutting fuel requirements and launch costs. • Timber offers superior thermal insulation compared to traditional alloys, enhancing
To disperse their spores, truffles rely on animals eating other animals
• Truffles rely on carnivores eating other animals to disperse spores. • This unique ecological strategy links fungal reproduction to predator‑prey dynamics. • The practice raises
A new study highlights the brain's role in immune health
• New research links brain activity to immune system performance, showing mental states influence infection resistance. • Study demonstrates stress hormones alter immune cell signa
Linux Foundation Newsletter: January 2026
• 2025 Annual Report highlights open source milestones, community growth, research, and new foundation launches. • Jim Zemlin discusses Agentic AI Foundation on Latent Space Podcas
Announcing the Checkpoint/Restore Working Group
• New Kubernetes Checkpoint/Restore WG formed to integrate CRIU-based checkpointing into K8s. • Focus on optimizing interactive workloads like Jupyter notebooks and AI chatbots for
I Learned The First Rule of ARIA the Hard Way
• A component passed automated tests but remained inaccessible to screen readers due to an unnecessary ARIA role. • Removing the ARIA role restored native keyboard behavior, provin
WHO renews commitment to a leprosy-free world, spotlighting partnership and progress ahead of World Leprosy Day
• WHO reaffirms leprosy elimination goal, highlighting partnership with Novartis. • 172,717 new cases reported worldwide in 2024, yet 55 regions zero cases. • Multidrug therapy (MD
Ma Named 2025 ACM Fellow
• Jian Ma, CMU computational biology professor, named 2025 ACM Fellow for groundbreaking genome and cell ML algorithms. • Ma’s work develops biologically grounded AI to decode cell
Ready to review some changes but not others? Try using Play Console's new Save for later feature
• Save for later lets developers postpone non‑ready changes in Publishing overview. • Previously all changes bundled, causing delays or publishing incomplete updates. • Feature app
Big Brother Watch consultation response
• Big Brother Watch urges stronger safeguards for biometric data in upcoming EU surveillance regulation. • Calls for mandatory transparency and public reporting on facial recogniti
UK Government Facial Recognition Consultation
• UK government launches public consultation on facial recognition technology use by police and public services. • Consultation seeks views on ethical guidelines, data protection,
Hypergrowth isn't always easy
• Tailscale faced shaky uptime during holiday season, prompting transparency. • Public uptime history page offers detailed incident logs and metrics. • Coordination server issues c
Is that allowed? Authentication and authorization in Model Context Protocol
• MCP enables AI agents to access services via standardized remote APIs, similar to REST. • Authentication and authorization happen at the transport layer, ensuring secure client-s
SAP Introduces Demo Data Personalization Add-On for SAP Demo Environment 2.0
• SAP introduces a demo data personalization add‑on for Demo Environment 2.0, enabling rapid, tailored demos. • Powered by Saleo, the add‑on lets partners personalize UI elements i
εpsilon
• ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot launched to ISS on 13 Feb 2026 aboard SpaceX Dragon. • Mission named εpsilon symbolizes small yet impactful contributions in space exploration. • Crew
Agentic AI Is Reshaping Commerce: The Next Frontier of Discovery, Payments, and Trust
• Agentic AI shifts commerce from search to proactive assistants for retailers. • Agents act on intent, learn preferences, and complete transactions autonomously. • Retailers must
AssetOpsBench: Bridging the Gap Between AI Agent Benchmarks and Industrial Reality
• AssetOpsBench introduces a multi-agent benchmark for industrial asset lifecycle management. • Covers 2.3M sensor telemetry points and 4.2K work orders. • Evaluates agents across
Pwn2Own Automotive 2026 - Day One Results
• 76 unique 0‑day vulnerabilities discovered across three days, totaling $1,047,000 in rewards. • Fuzzware.io clinched Master of Pwn with 28 points, outperforming rivals like Team
Docker lazy loading at Grab: Accelerating container startup times
• Grab tackled slow container cold starts for data platforms like Airflow and Spark Connect. • Implemented Docker image lazy loading via eStargz and Seekable OCI (SOCI). • Fresh no
crates.io: development update
• Six months have passed since our last crates.io development update, so it’s time for another one. • Here’s a summary of the most notable changes and improvements made tocrates.io
crates.io: development update
• New Security tab displays RustSec advisories and affected version ranges for each crate. • Trusted Publishing now supports GitLab CI/CD via OIDC, expanding beyond GitHub Actions.
Results from the 2025 Go Developer Survey
• Go developers seek guidance on best practices, standard library use, and modern tooling. • AI-powered dev tools are widely used, yet satisfaction remains middling due to quality
Announcing Amazon EC2 G7e instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs
• Amazon EC2 G7e instances launched, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs. • Deliver up to 2.3× inference performance over G6e, ideal for generative AI and graphics worklo
Building a community-led future for AI in film with Sundance Institute
• Google.org grants $2M to Sundance Institute, The Gotham, Film Independent for AI film education. • Initiative aims to train 100,000 artists in foundational AI skills. • Focus on
NASA's SunRISE SmallSats Ace Tests, Moving Closer to Launch
• Six SunRISE SmallSats undergo rigorous testing at Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory. • Thermal vacuum tests simulate orbital conditions, ensuring spacecraft survi
Kimwolf Botnet Lurking in Corporate, Govt. Networks
• Kimwolf botnet has infected over 2 million IoT devices, enabling massive DDoS attacks. • It scans local networks of compromised systems to spread to additional vulnerable devices
How to Avoid Common Pitfalls With JPA and Kotlin
• Avoid null-safety conflicts by using nullable types carefully in entity fields. • Ensure entity classes have a public no-argument constructor for JPA hydration. • Do not declare
DNS OverDoS: Are Private Endpoints Too Private?
Azure Private Endpoints can unintentionally expose resources to DoS attacks. Attack vectors include accidental admin deployments, vendor setups, and malicious actors. Over 5% of Az
Multimodal reinforcement learning with agentic verifier for AI agents
• Argos trains multimodal RL agents to reward answers grounded in visual and temporal evidence, not just plausibility. • Automated verification selects specialized tools per answer
UC Berkeley professors explore new ways to integrate AI in engineering courses
• UC Berkeley faculty across four engineering departments receive funding to embed AI tools in core undergraduate courses. • Initiative funded by CAWIT and donor-supported campus p
Berkeley Engineering welcomes five new faculty members
• Berkeley Engineering hires five new tenure‑track professors across multiple departments. • Henry Corrigan‑Gibbs, ex‑MIT, focuses on privacy‑enhancing cryptographic computer syste
Thermonat makes nanoscale thermal prediction practical for real-world chip design
• DARPA’s Thermonat program tackles heat management in sub‑10‑nm chips, a critical barrier to performance. • Existing commercial tools miss nanoscale heat flow; atomistic methods a
One Year Since the 'DeepSeek Moment'
• DeepSeek’s R‑1 release in January 2024 sparked a surge of open‑source AI models across China. • The move shifted China’s AI industry from closed to open models, enabling rapid, r
Tulsiani Receives NSF CAREER Award
• Shubham Tulsiani, CMU Robotics Institute assistant professor, receives NSF CAREER Award for groundbreaking perception research. • Award supports project bridging 2D video observa
A C-Suite Framework for Climate Capability in 2026
• Climate adaptation shifting from episodic risk management to core business strategy in 2026. • Extreme heat, water scarcity, and energy volatility now influence daily operations
SAP Fieldglass: Recognized by Analysts and Customers as a Leader in Workforce Management
• SAP Fieldglass named Market Leader by Ardent Partners 2025 VMS Technology Advisor. • Earned Elite Performer status in AI Innovation, SOW & Services Procurement, Direct Sourcing,
Release candidate: Godot 4.6 RC 2
• Godot 4.6 RC 2 released today, fixing critical regressions from RC 1. • Final chance to report show‑stopping bugs for the stable release. • Supports Web, XR, and Android editors;
Pwn2Own Automotive 2026 - The Full Schedule
• Pwn2Own Automotive 2026 returns to Tokyo, featuring record 73 entries. • Competition spans real‑world automotive components, testing IVI and Level‑2 EV chargers. • Random draw se
Rethinking 'Pixel Perfect' Web Design
• Pixel-perfect design is a relic, misaligned with responsive, fluid web experiences. • AI-enhanced workflows now automate layout adjustments across devices, reducing manual pixel
The IRR Landscape: Data Quality - the Good, the Bad, and the Outdated
• IRR data quality assessed via freshness, DFZ alignment, RPKI conflicts. • Distinguish authoritative RIR-operated IRRs vs third-party registries. • Proxy metrics used because no g
VoidLink: Evidence That the Era of Advanced AI-Generated Malware Has Begun
• VoidLink showcases AI-generated malware capable of crafting polymorphic code. • The malware leverages generative models to evade traditional signature-based detection. • Checkpoi
Don't let your backend write checks your frontend can't cache
• Xano provides a no-code backend platform with visual logic, APIs, and modular AI components. • Prakash Chandran, former Google UX lead, now CEO of Xano, shares backend insights.
Group Note Drafts: Threat Modeling Guide and Threat Model for Decentralized Credentials
• The Security Interest Group has published the first drafts of the following Group Notes: Threat Modeling Guide : This document describes when, why, and how to perform threat mode
Group Note Drafts: Threat Modeling Guide and Threat Model for Decentralized Credentials
• W3C Security Interest Group releases first drafts of two Group Notes. • Threat Modeling Guide explains when, why, and how to model threats during spec development. • Guide encour
Open-Source Community Tackling Y2K38 Epoch
• Y2K38 epoch issue looming in 2038, threatens 32-bit time representations. • openSUSE actively testing, fixing, coordinating to mitigate risk across packages. • Build system clock
Differential Transformer V2
• DiffTransformer V2 doubles query heads, keeps KV heads constant for efficient attention. • Uses differential attention: subtracts paired heads within same GQA group. • Applies si
AWS Weekly Roundup: Kiro CLI latest features, AWS European Sovereign Cloud, EC2 X8i instances, and more (January 19, 2026)
• Kiro CLI adds granular URL controls, keyboard shortcuts, enhanced diff views for custom agents. • AWS European Sovereign Cloud now GA, meeting strict EU sovereignty requirements
Checkpoint #8: Jan 2026
• Fusaka upgrade live, adding Data Availability Sampling and independent blob parameter adjustments. • Blob Parameter Only forks now allow blob count increases without full fork cy
Introducing Waypoint-1: Real-time interactive video diffusion from Overworld
• Waypoint‑1 is Overworld’s real‑time interactive video diffusion model, controllable via text, mouse, and keyboard. • Trained on 10,000 hours of diverse video‑game footage with co
Uniform API server access using clientcmd
• clientcmd provides restclient.Config for Kubernetes API access, mirroring kubectl defaults. • Handles kubeconfig selection via ~/.kube, KUBECONFIG env, and CLI flags. • Supports