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The European Parliament has approved an urgent procedure to fast-track legislation that would revive the EU's expired private message scanning rules, setting up a decisive vote on July 9.

A new MPMC queue design ensures bounded waiting times, preventing starvation and ensuring efficient data transfer between producers and consumers. The queue's performance has been benchmarked, showing promising results.

Apple's Mac mini and Mac Studio have become the machines of choice for running AI agents, according to Doug Brooks, Apple's senior product manager of Apple silicon. Brooks made the claim while discussing Apple's chip strategy in a newly published interview with The Deep View conducted just prior to WWDC 2026 in June.

The European Commission has found Meta's Facebook and Instagram in preliminary breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA) due to their 'addictive' design. The Commission suggests that the platforms' design features, such as infinite scroll and autoplay, may harm users' physical and mental well-being.

Cloudflare introduces Meerkat, a globally distributed consensus service designed to handle strong consistency across its 330+ data centers. Meerkat uses QuePaxa, a 2023 algorithm that eliminates leader elections and timeouts, providing higher availability than traditional consensus algorithms like Raft.

John Deere owners will soon have the right to repair their own equipment under a new FTC settlement.

The Postgres database has been rewritten in Rust, passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests. This achievement marks a significant milestone in the development of pgrust, a Rust-based Postgres alternative.

Meta has developed a custom bridge chip to reuse old RAM in new servers, reducing electronic waste and cutting costs. The technology, called Vistara, decouples older memory from server memory channels, enabling its reuse in new machines alongside native memory.

The European Parliament has allowed the suspicionless mass scanning of private communications to pass, despite a majority of voting Members of the European Parliament opposing the regulation. Dr. Patrick Breyer warns of the consequences, stating that 'our children lose out' in this undemocratic process.

GPT-5.6 is a new AI model that achieves state-of-the-art results across various tasks. Learn more about its technical details and potential impact.

Telemetry shows GPT‑5.5 responses clustering at exactly 516, 1,034 and 1,552 reasoning tokens, a pattern linked to recent drops in complex‑task performance.

Sony will stop manufacturing physical discs for any new PlayStation releases starting January 2028, shifting fully to digital distribution.