IBM teases new rackable mainframes that ‘complete’ the z17 family

IBM has posted an announcement that teases the introduction of rack-mounted and single-frame versions of its z17 mainframes.
Communications of the ACM

The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure

LLVM powers the core development tools, operating systems, and most applications at Apple Computer, where it long ago ...
InfoQ

AWS Previews FinOps Agent for Cost Analysis and Optimization

Amazon has released AWS FinOps Agent in public preview, a managed service that automates several common FinOps workflows. The agent can investigate cost anomalies, correlate spend changes with AWS ...
Linux Journal

Git 2.55 Released with Faster Performance, Smarter Hooks, and Expanded Rust Integration

The Git project has officially released Git 2.55, bringing a wide range of improvements focused on performance, developer ...

‘Rust-Out’ Is the New Burnout, and It Requires a Different Fix

When someone in your office says “ same shit, different day” that’s rust-out, and it’s contagious. Repetitive processes kill machinery and the human spirit in equal measure, squashing innovation and ...

Kimi K2.7-Code cuts thinking tokens 30% — but practitioners say the benchmarks don't check out

Kimi K2.7-Code claims 30% fewer thinking tokens and a drop-in API swap path, but independent benchmarks show kernel regressions and no DeepSWE submission.
VentureBeat

AI joins the 8-hour work day as GLM ships 5.1 open source LLM, beating Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.4 on SWE-Bench Pro

Is China picking back up the open source AI baton? Z.ai, also known as Zhupai AI, a Chinese AI startup best known for its powerful, open source GLM family of models, has unveiled GLM-5.1 today under a ...
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Taking on Mathematical Optimization with AWS Lambda × Rust

We will build an environment to write mathematically intensive optimization logic in Rust, which is fast and memory-efficient, and run it on serverless AWS Lambda. On Windows, using WSL2 (Windows ...