Announcing TypeScript 7.0 RC https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-7-0-rc/ If you haven’t been following TypeScript 7.0’s development, this release is significant in that it is built on a completely new foundation. Over the past year, we have been porting the existing TypeScript codebase from TypeScript (as a bootstrapped codebase that compiles to JavaScript) over to Go. With a combination of native code speed and shared memory parallelism, TypeScript 7.0 is often about 10 times faster than TypeScript 6.0. https://stacker.news/items/1511443

Here are the odds of SpaceX becoming the world's most valuable company https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/18/here-are-the-odds-of-spacex-becoming-the-worlds-most-valuable-company.html SpaceX debuted as the fifth-biggest stock. The path to third place could take years, at least according to options prices. https://stacker.news/items/1510651

Apple boss Tim Cook says prices to rise due to memory chip costs https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3wyxvqdx1zo Apple plans to raise the prices of its products as the cost of the memory chips it uses has surged, the technology giant's boss has said. https://stacker.news/items/1510541

Air: Multitask with agents, stay in control https://air.dev/ JetBrains Air is the Agentic Development Environment where Codex, Claude Agent, Gemini CLI, and Junie execute independent task loops without interfering with each other. https://stacker.news/items/1510190

Quantum entanglement detected in centimeter-sized crystal of strange metal https://phys.org/news/2026-06-high-degree-quantum-entanglement-centimeter.html Many quantum effects can be observed only when a small number of particles is studied—individual atoms, molecules or photons, for example, carefully shielded from the rest of the world. But what about macroscopic objects, consisting of an unimaginably large number of particles? Can they, too, display effects that provide a direct glimpse into the quantum world? https://stacker.news/items/1509982

VS Code finally has a serious rival, and it feels absurdly fast https://www.makeuseof.com/vs-code-serious-rival-absurdly-fast/ VS Code is a lean, mean writing machine, and it might just be the perfect writing app. However, the program in its stock form can be a bit underwhelming, and before long, you'll find yourself installing several extensions as you use it more. Because VS Code is built on Electron, you'll quickly find that you add more extensions, and as your files get bigger, the editor starts gasping for air. https://stacker.news/items/1509534

SecSuite - AI-powered Tool for OSINT, Web and API Security Testing https://cybersecuritynews.com/secsuite-ai-powered-tool/ A new open-source security platform called SecSuite, developed under the TheSecuredAnalyst project, has been released, combining OSINT reconnaissance, web vulnerability scanning, API security assessment, compliance checking, and AI-powered analysis into a single unified toolkit. https://stacker.news/items/1509351

Google Cloud Announces The Open Knowledge Format https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-cloud-announces-the-open-knowledge-format/579253/ Google Open Knowledge Format standardizes how organizational knowledge can be shared between AI agents, tools, and teams. https://stacker.news/items/1509307

Japan raises interest rate to highest since 1995 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjdgl213dpzo On Tuesday, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) raised its so-called policy rate to 1% from 0.75% - a level not seen since 1995. The decision comes as some other central banks have raised interest rates this year as the US-Israel war with Iran pushed up the cost of living. https://stacker.news/items/1509235

Hidden Phase of Matter Finally Captured After Decades of Predictions https://scitechdaily.com/hidden-phase-of-matter-finally-captured-after-decades-of-predictions/ Scientists have finally captured a hidden state of matter, revealing a long-predicted phase with intriguing quantum potential. https://stacker.news/items/1507938

Deadly heatwave grips Italy and Balkans as wildfire fears grow https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/29/deadly-heatwave-grips-italy-and-balkans-as-wildfire-fears-grow A record-breaking heatwave has tightened its grip on Italy and the Balkans, killing hundreds of people, fuelling wildfire fears and disrupting daily life across Europe. In Italy, authorities placed 22 cities under red heat warnings on Monday, from Bolzano in the north to Palermo on the southern island of Sicily. https://stacker.news/items/1517000

Brain activity under anesthesia challenges what we know about consciousness https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260624025514.htm The unconscious brain appears to be far more capable than scientists once believed. Researchers found that patients under general anesthesia could still process language at a sophisticated level, distinguishing nouns, verbs, and adjectives while listening to stories. Even more remarkably, neural activity showed signs of predicting upcoming words before they were heard. The results challenge traditional ideas about consciousness and hint at new possibilities for brain-computer interfaces. https://stacker.news/items/1516945

South Korea announces more than $1 trillion AI, chip investment drive https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/29/south-korea-announces-more-than-1-trillion-ai-chip-investment-drive South Korean president frames the push as a race against time to secure the country’s domination in AI boom. https://stacker.news/items/1516729

Consciousness is not an object we can observe https://iai.tv/articles/consciousness-is-not-an-object-we-can-observe-auid-3608 Physicist Carlo Rovelli recently proclaimed that consciousness is just another physical thing, while materialist philosophers argue that consciousness is simply one brain state observing another. What such views miss, argues Manfred Frank, a leading figure in contemporary German philosophy, is that consciousness comes with a built-in awareness of itself—an awareness that exists prior to any introspection or observation. Consciousness does not observe itself in the way we observe objects; rather, it dissolves the distinction between observer and observed altogether. This is why consciousness cannot be simply another object in the world, but instead exists in an entirely different dimension. https://stacker.news/items/1516507

Iterating faster with TypeScript 7 (2021) https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2026/06/26/iterating-faster-with-ts-7 VS Code and TypeScript practically grew up together. We made a bet early on to write VS Code in TypeScript, and we have always worked closely with the TypeScript team to provide great built-in TypeScript and JavaScript language support in VS Code. This post is about the next step of that journey: TypeScript 7, and how collaborating on adopting TypeScript 7 sped up our builds, improved the day-to-day editing loop for both developers and agents, and helped the TypeScript team ship a more tested release. https://stacker.news/items/1516280