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Hackers quickly prove that Neo Geo Doom ports are not "impossible"
Clever coding and graphical compromises get a classic game on more classic hardware.
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Builder Center at 1 year, Network Scanning in Security Hub, Loom for AWS, and more (July 13, 2026)
AWS Builder Center turned one year old last week. Launched on July 9, 2025, the platform has grown from a community hub with Wishlist voting, community profiles, and a toolbox into a full ecosystem with sandbox environments, workshops, Spaces, and a Builders’ Library. To mark the anniversary, Rick Suttles published a full feature timeline covering […]
Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor
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Fragments: July 13
Some more of my notes from Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat. When we had our first retreat in Utah early this year, nobody had heard of Harness Engineering. This time we had a whole session on it. When comes to the guide side of harnesses, most of the discussion is about context management. While context windows have increased is size as models get more sophisticated, that doesn’t mean that models will properly focus on the right bits. Models typically only focus attention on
A "disaster waiting to happen"? Industry officials worry about Crew Dragon availability.
"It's very clear that in the United States there is a big need for an additional crew vehicle."
Modernizing the Meta Ads Service With an Open-Source Kernel Scheduler
TL; DR At Meta’s scale, a few milliseconds of latency degradation can have a significant negative impact on ads performance. When a Linux kernel upgrade risked regressing latency across Meta’s ad serving fleet, we turned to sched_ext — the upstream, BPF-based extensible scheduling framework — to build a scheduling policy customized to the Ads delivery [...] Read More... The post Modernizing the Meta Ads Service With an Open-Source Kernel Scheduler appeared first on Engineering at Meta.
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