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Giovanni Barontini used 24,000 ultracold rubidium atoms to test whether time can be defined from a system's internal disorder rather than an external clock.
FERC issued unanimous show-cause orders to all six regional grid operators, giving them until August 17 to justify or revise how data centers above 20 MW connect to the grid.
Using a single trapped strontium-88 ion, an Oxford group built cat states whose components are themselves squeezed and trisqueezed states, reporting Wigner negativity and greater quantum resourcefulness than standard cat or Fock states.
GitLab's next-generation source code management, shown at its Transcend event, keeps the Git protocol but rebuilds the backend so agents query repos server-side instead of cloning them.
A new MIT CSAIL inference method has a model inspect its prompt in a Python REPL and recursively call itself over snippets, processing inputs beyond its context window.
A Nature study reports stacking three silicon transistor layers with 98-100% yields using bonding temperatures no higher than 200°C, offering a route to denser chips without smaller transistors.
A DeepMind preprint reports an LLM-and-Lean agent that autonomously solved 9 of 353 open Erdős problems and proved 44 of 492 OEIS conjectures for a few hundred dollars each.
At the June 14-18 VLSI Symposium in Honolulu, TSMC details A16 with backside direct-contact power delivery, claiming 8-10% more speed or 15-20% less power versus N2P.
A KAIST team uses optimal transport over video-foundation-model embeddings to learn robot rewards from a handful of preference labels, winning a top-0.7% ICML 2026 oral slot.
A Penn State-led study in Physical Review Letters argues that the highest-energy cosmic rays, including the Amaterasu particle, may be nuclei heavier than iron that lose energy slowly enough to reach Earth.
The risk-tiered directive harmonizes BOD 19-02 and BOD 22-01, ranking flaws by exposure, KEV status, automation, and impact.
Apple's second Swift release of the WWDC 2026 cycle leans on ergonomics and performance: async cleanup in defer, condensed availability syntax, and a for-in protocol that borrows noncopyable elements.