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OpenAI has announced GPT-5.5, a major new AI model release that has generated significant discussion with 905 points and 529 comments on Hacker News. The announcement suggests substantial technical ad...

The Bitwarden CLI has been compromised in an ongoing supply chain attack campaign identified by Checkmarx. This represents a critical security incident affecting a widely-used password management tool...

OpenAI has released GPT-5.5, which the company describes as its smartest and most intuitive AI model to date with improved capabilities across multiple domains. The release represents a significant st...

US Space Command confirms Russia has operationalized co-orbital anti-satellite weapons that are actively shadowing and threatening US spy satellites. The Nivelir system uses 'nesting doll' satellites ...

Apple has fixed a critical security bug that was storing push notification data from encrypted apps like Signal for up to a month, even after messages were deleted. This vulnerability allowed law enfo...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, completed eight months early and under budget, is set to launch in September. It features a wide-field infrared imaging system capable of transmitting 1.4TB o...

New natural gas projects powering AI data centers could emit over 129 million tons of greenhouse gases annually, potentially exceeding Morocco's 2024 emissions. These 'behind-the-meter' power plants b...

Palantir employees are increasingly questioning the ethical implications of their work as the company expands controversial government contracts. The internal moral conflict reflects broader tech indu...

GitHub experienced a significant incident affecting multiple services, causing widespread disruption for developers and organizations relying on its platform. The incident garnered substantial attenti...

The MeshCore development team has split due to a trademark dispute and disagreements over the use of AI-generated code. The internal conflict highlights growing tensions in open-source projects around...

A French government agency has confirmed a data breach after a hacker offered to sell stolen information. The incident highlights ongoing cybersecurity vulnerabilities in government systems and the ac...

A developer shares their personal journey of building a cloud computing platform from scratch, detailing the technical challenges and architectural decisions involved. The post has generated significa...

Despite jemalloc being archived in 2025 after declining development, many major projects still rely on this alternative memory allocator designed for multi-threaded applications. The article explores ...

Ubuntu has released version 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon), a long-term support edition that will receive security updates and critical bug fixes until April 2031. The release includes significant chang...

The article explores the historical X.400 email protocol, which offered advanced features like message recall, scheduling, encryption, and rich metadata—capabilities that SMTP lacked at its inception....

A demo language combines dynamic typing with Rust-like borrow checking through dynamic runtime checks, offering a middle ground between flexibility and safety. It explores a hybrid static/dynamic type...

Security audits of rust-coreutils by Zellic identified 113 vulnerabilities across two rounds, with most issues now resolved. The findings emerged during Ubuntu's transition to rust-based coreutils for...

A developer shares their journey of using Claude Code to port their Ruby tools first to Rust and then to pure x86_64 Assembly, resulting in extremely fast performance. They created a 150KB Assembly sh...

raylib v6.0 has been released with significant new features including a software renderer that enables GPU-less operation, making it fully self-contained. The release includes over 330 closed issues, ...

Gecko is a new standalone GLR parser library written in C that handles any context-free grammar with automatic syntax error recovery, without requiring grammar modifications. It achieves performance c...

An experienced developer shares practical insights into modern rendering culling techniques used in game development, emphasizing their critical role in optimization despite advancements in AI and too...

Australia has become the first country to implement a social media ban for children in late 2025, aiming to protect young users from cyberbullying, addiction, and online predators. This represents a s...

Sean Plankey, the Trump administration's nominee to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), has withdrawn his candidacy following a year of unstable interim leadership. The w...

Microsoft is offering voluntary retirement buyouts to US employees whose age plus years of service total at least 70. This move could affect up to 7% of its US workforce, signaling a strategic shift i...

Vercel has discovered a second compromise of customer accounts following an expanded investigation into its April breach, indicating that additional data was stolen prior to the initial incident. The ...

Tens of thousands of Samsung Electronics workers held a rally at the company's Pyeongtaek campus, signaling readiness for an 18-day strike next month. This labor unrest could significantly worsen glob...

The US government accuses China of conducting industrial-scale AI intellectual property theft through systematic distillation attacks on American AI models. Multiple US AI companies including OpenAI, ...

Researchers have developed a chemical doping method that significantly improves the current-carrying capacity of carbon nanotube wiring, bringing it closer to copper's performance levels. While the en...

A ransomware family named Kyber has become the first confirmed case to use post-quantum cryptography, specifically the ML-KEM1024 algorithm, to encrypt victim data. While this provides no practical ad...

Meta is laying off 10% of its workforce, affecting approximately 8,000 employees, while also eliminating 6,000 open positions. The cuts come alongside massive AI investments, with the company planning...

Anthropic's highly anticipated Claude Mythos AI model, which the company claimed was too dangerous to release due to its cybersecurity capabilities, has been accessed by unauthorized users. This secur...

GPT-5.5 has been released via OpenAI Codex and ChatGPT, but lacks an official API. The author discusses using a semi-official backdoor API through OpenClaw integration to run benchmarks, highlighting ...

Anthropic published a postmortem report addressing recent Claude code quality issues that occurred on April 23rd. The technical analysis gained significant attention on Hacker News with 470 points and...

Honker is a new open-source project that brings PostgreSQL-style NOTIFY/LISTEN semantics to SQLite, enabling real-time notifications and event-driven architectures in SQLite databases. The project has...

A developer is documenting their experience writing a C compiler using the Zig programming language, sharing insights about compiler design and Zig's capabilities. The project has generated significan...

Arch Linux now offers a bit-for-bit reproducible Docker image, allowing users to verify the exact build process and contents of the container. This enhances security and trust by enabling verification...

Shazam uses audio fingerprinting technology that converts sound into spectrograms via Fast Fourier Transform, then identifies unique patterns to match against millions of songs. The system works by an...

A novel method combines online k-means clustering with ordered dithering in a single pass, eliminating the need for a separate pixel mapping step. While offering only minor speed improvements, it prod...

The ZJIT team is using Perfetto to visualize and analyze performance issues in Ruby's just-in-time compiler, particularly focusing on side-exits where code falls back to the interpreter. They share st...

The article analyzes recent DDoS attacks on Bluesky and mastodon.social, contrasting their impacts to explore resilience in decentralized social networks. It argues that decentralization alone isn't s...

Secure is a new Python library for managing HTTP security headers with safe defaults and framework-agnostic middleware support. It provides configurable presets and a unified API to prevent security h...

Meta is reportedly planning to lay off 10% of its workforce, or 8,000 employees, as part of an effort to improve operational efficiency and offset investments in AI and other areas. The cuts, set to b...

Era has raised $11 million to develop a software platform specifically designed for AI-powered gadgets like glasses, rings, and pendants. The company believes diverse AI hardware form factors will eme...

Fintech startup Salmon has raised $100M in equity and debt funding to expand digital credit services for underbanked Filipinos. The company targets individuals with limited credit history and those di...

AI startup Context AI suffered a significant security breach last week, with TechCrunch confirming that troubled compliance company Delve performed their security certifications. This marks another se...

Tesla has withdrawn a $29 billion interim compensation package for Elon Musk after a Delaware court reinstated his original $56 billion 2018 pay package. The move prevents Musk from receiving double c...

During a Senate hearing, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s rejection of germ theory was publicly debunked by Senator Bill Cassidy after Kennedy defended his fringe views. Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist with ...

Apple's Mac mini and Mac Studio desktops are experiencing severe availability issues, with many configurations marked as 'currently unavailable' and others facing 5-12 week shipping delays. This is un...

BMW has announced a major refresh of its 7 Series flagship sedan for 2027, incorporating design and technology elements from its new Neue Klasse EV platform. The update includes a redesigned exterior ...

Anthropic has expanded Claude's app connectors to include personal services like Spotify, Uber Eats, and TurboTax, enabling the AI to suggest relevant apps during conversations. This move mirrors simi...

A leak reveals Microsoft's upcoming Xbox Game Pass 'Starter Edition' bundled with Discord Nitro, offering access to over 50 games, 10 hours of cloud gaming monthly, and Xbox Rewards. This partnership ...

Microsoft's new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Chief Content Officer Matt Booty outline a strategy focused on daily active players, addressing player frustrations with hardware, content, and services. The m...

Microsoft's new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced a strategic reevaluation of Xbox exclusive games and windowed releases during an internal meeting. While rebranding Microsoft Gaming back to Xbox was con...

Simon Willison has adapted the open-source LiteParse PDF text extraction tool to run entirely in the browser, using PDF.js and Tesseract.js for OCR. The tool focuses on spatial text parsing to handle ...

A developer shares technical details on how they serve the 'For You' personalized feed for the AT Protocol from a home setup, using a Go binary, SQLite database, and a VPS proxy. The approach emphasiz...

Instagram is testing a new standalone app called 'Instants' focused on ephemeral photo sharing. The app allows users to share photos that disappear after being viewed once and remain available for 24 ...

Sierra, an AI customer service startup founded by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor, has acquired Y Combinator-backed French startup Fragment. The acquisition signals consolidation in the AI custom...

Noscroll is an AI bot that automatically browses social media and news feeds to filter out noise and only notify users about important updates via text. Founded by ex-OpenSea CTO Nadav Hollander, it a...

Bluesky has updated its app to support higher-quality photo uploads, doubling the size limit to 2MB and increasing resolution to 4000px. The update also introduces a swipeable carousel for mixed aspec...

Meta is rebranding its Accounts Center to Meta Account, aiming to streamline user management across its various apps and devices. This update focuses on improving the user experience by simplifying ac...

X is shutting down its Communities feature due to low user adoption and significant spam problems. The company confirmed that only a small fraction of users engaged with Communities, with much of that...

Scientists continue to struggle with precisely measuring the gravitational constant 'Big G', one of physics' fundamental constants. Recent experiments have failed to produce a more accurate value desp...

WhatsApp is introducing prepaid phone recharge services in India through a partnership with PayU, allowing users to top up mobile plans for major carriers directly within the app. This move aims to bo...

Remarkable is laying off 200 employees including its CEO due to economic pressures and declining sales. The job cuts represent a significant workforce reduction for the e-paper tablet company. This re...