First complete Herculaneum scroll read through X-ray and ML; IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip; age-verification laws threaten internet anonymity

IBM Newsroom

IBM Debuts Sub-1 Nanometer Chip Technology

IBM announced the world's first sub-1 nanometer (0.7 nm) chip technology, packing nearly 100 billion transistors onto a fingernail-sized chip — double the density of its 2021 2nm design. The breakthrough uses IBM's "nanostack" architecture, which vertically stacks transistors in 3D layers, enabling 40 percent improvements in SRAM density and up to 50 percent performance gains with 70 percent greater energy efficiency over 2nm chips. The announcement extends Moore's-Law-adjacent scaling for roughly another decade as the industry approaches atomic-scale transistor dimensions.

FIRE.org

The 'Papers, Please' Era of the Internet Will Decimate Your Privacy

Age verification and identity mandates are spreading across internet platforms, requiring government IDs or biometric data before users can access services — evoking dystopian border checkpoints where anonymous participation becomes impossible. The risks compound: stored biometric databases invite breach, mandatory identification expands profiling, and the chilling effect on speech intensifies when every post is permanently linked to a legal identity. The piece argues these mandates don't just threaten privacy in isolation but construct the infrastructure for broader government overreach under the guise of child safety.

Cloudflare Blog

How We Built Saga Rollbacks for Cloudflare Workflows

The saga pattern pairs forward operations with compensating logic that semantically reverses them — essential in distributed systems where external side effects (a bank debit, a shipped order) cannot simply be undone. Cloudflare now ships native saga rollbacks in Workflows, letting developers declare compensation logic directly within each step's definition rather than maintaining fragile global catch blocks. The implementation uses replay-based recovery so that even after a process restart, rollback handlers are rebuilt from durable step history and executed in reverse start order, maintaining atomicity guarantees across restarts.

Fernando Irarrázaval

What Happened After 2,000 People Tried to Hack My AI Assistant

Fernando Irarrázaval opened his AI legal assistant to a 2,000-person red-team exercise, receiving over 6,000 attack emails using social engineering, impersonation, authority exploitation, and prompt injection across multiple languages. The assistant leaked no credentials and — around attempt 500 — independently recognized the coordinated nature of the attack. The experiment suggests capable models with precise instructions can resist sustained adversarial pressure, though Irarrázaval cautions that weaker models and novel injection vectors remain genuine threats.