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SpaceX S-1

SpaceX has filed its S-1 registration statement with the SEC, taking a major step toward its highly anticipated initial public offering. The filing provides detailed financial and operational insights...

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An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

OpenAI has developed a model that successfully disproved a long-standing conjecture in discrete geometry, demonstrating AI's growing capability to contribute to pure mathematical research. The breakth...

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GitHub Source Code Breach - TeamPCP Claims Access to Internal Source Code

Hackers known as TeamPCP claim to have breached GitHub's internal systems, allegedly stealing source code from approximately 4,000 private repositories and offering the data for sale for over $50,000....

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Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users

Google has published exploit code for a critical unfixed vulnerability in Chromium that affects millions of Chrome, Edge, and other Chromium-based browser users. The exploit allows attackers to create...

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Google Declaring War on the Web

The article presents a critical analysis of Google's recent web platform changes, arguing that the company is undermining open web standards in favor of its own ecosystem. It discusses how Google's do...

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Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing

Scientists are using brain organoids - lab-grown, simplified versions of human brains - for drug testing, raising significant ethical questions about consciousness and the definition of life. These or...

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GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension

GitHub has confirmed that a malicious VSCode extension compromised 3,800 repositories, marking a significant supply chain security incident. The breach, which follows earlier reports of unauthorized a...

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Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier

Qwen3.7-Max represents a significant advancement in AI agent capabilities, featuring enhanced reasoning, tool usage, and code generation. The model demonstrates strong performance across various bench...

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XSS Is Deadly for Passkeys: The Hidden Risk of Attestation None

The article reveals a critical security vulnerability in passkey implementations where XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) can be exploited to register attacker-controlled passkeys, effectively creating persis...

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Everything in C is undefined behavior

The article argues that C and C++ are fundamentally flawed due to pervasive undefined behavior (UB) that makes it nearly impossible to write correct code, even for experienced programmers. The author,...

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Sam Altman makes ‘mic drop’ offer to every Y Combinator startup

Sam Altman has made a groundbreaking offer to all startups in the current Y Combinator batch, proposing that OpenAI will invest in every single company through a tokens-for-equity arrangement. This un...

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Buckle up: Google is set to remake search with agentic AI in 2026

Google is aggressively pushing forward with its AI-powered search transformation, with AI Mode usage doubling every quarter and now reaching over 1 billion monthly users. The company is integrating AI...

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China banned RTX 5090D V2 while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was visiting

China banned Nvidia's RTX 5090D V2 gaming chip during CEO Jensen Huang's visit, intensifying the tech rivalry between the US and China. The chip, specifically designed for the Chinese market to comply...

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SpaceX just filed for what could be the biggest IPO ever

SpaceX has officially filed for an IPO that could become the largest in history, with plans to list on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX. The company reported $18.67 billion in 2025 revenue, primarily from...

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Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling

A study by Beyond Plastics found that despite Starbucks' claims of using 'widely recyclable' cups, none of the tracked cups actually ended up being recycled. The investigation revealed significant fla...

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Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal)

Node.js 26.0.0 has been released, featuring the much-anticipated integration of the Temporal API for advanced date and time operations. The update also includes V8 engine upgrades, improved Web API co...

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SBCL: the ultimate assembly code breadboard (2014)

The article explores how Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL) serves as an excellent platform for experimenting with assembly code, offering direct access to low-level operations while maintaining high-level...

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Saying Goodbye to Asm.js

Mozilla's SpiderMonkey team has announced the deprecation of asm.js, a low-level subset of JavaScript that was a precursor to WebAssembly. The technology, which was crucial for enabling near-native pe...

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Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension

Railway's GCP account was unexpectedly suspended by Google Cloud, causing a major service outage for the platform. The incident highlights the risks of cloud provider dependency and the potential impa...

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Erasing Existentials

The article explores advanced Rust type system concepts, specifically existential types and their mathematical representation using existential quantifiers. It explains how Rust's `dyn Trait` and `imp...

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the may 2026 fedi software vulnerability

A significant security vulnerability was discovered in May 2026 affecting multiple Fediverse platforms including Mastodon, IceShrimp.net, and Misskey, related to the deprecated LD-Signatures protocol....

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How cross-thread double free detection could work in glibc malloc

This technical article explores a proposed method for implementing cross-thread double free detection in glibc's malloc implementation, specifically focusing on the tcache (thread cache) mechanism. Th...

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Nvidia posts another record quarter, reveals $43B of holdings in startups

Nvidia reported record quarterly revenue but signaled a potential slowdown in growth for the next quarter. The company also disclosed $43 billion in startup investments, highlighting its strategic pos...

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Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25B per month for compute

Anthropic has agreed to pay Elon Musk's xAI $1.25 billion monthly for compute resources, marking a significant partnership between two major AI players. The deal represents one of the largest known co...

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Microsoft’s carbon-removal plans aren’t dead after all

Microsoft has signed a new carbon-removal deal, countering previous reports that it was pausing its carbon removal purchases. The company, which accounts for over 90% of the carbon-removal market, aim...

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Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software is creeping into Europe

Tesla is gradually expanding its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software into European markets, starting with the Netherlands and Lithuania, with more countries expected to follow. This marks a significant s...

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Global EV market goes K-shaped as the US gets left behind

The global EV market is experiencing a K-shaped recovery, with strong growth in most regions except the United States. This divergence creates significant challenges for both traditional automakers an...

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OpenAI barrels toward IPO that may happen in September

OpenAI is reportedly accelerating plans for its initial public offering (IPO), potentially as early as September, following the resolution of Elon Musk's lawsuit against the company. The legal challen...

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Intuit to lay off over 3,000 employees to refocus on AI

Intuit announces plans to lay off over 3,000 employees as part of a strategic shift to streamline operations and prioritize AI development. The move, detailed in a memo from CEO Sasan Goodarzi, aims t...

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AI search startups are blowing up

The AI search market is heating up with significant funding rounds for startups like Exa Labs ($250M at $2.2B valuation) and Parallel Web Systems ($100M at $2B valuation), challenging incumbents like ...

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Stability AI releases a new audio model that can create 6-minute songs

Stability AI has launched Stability Audio 3.0, a family of four audio models capable of generating professional-grade music up to 6 minutes and 20 seconds long, more than double the length of its pred...

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NASA's Psyche spacecraft returns unfamiliar views of a familiar world

NASA's Psyche spacecraft successfully performed a gravity-assist flyby of Mars, gaining a 1,000 mph speed boost and adjusting its trajectory toward the metal-rich asteroid Psyche. The mission, launche...

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Leaving the V8 in the past: The all-electric Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door

Mercedes-AMG has unveiled its all-electric GT 4-Door Coupe, marking a significant shift from traditional V8 engines to electric performance. The vehicle incorporates advanced technology including new ...

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Chickens without eggs? De-extinction company creates artificial egg.

Biotech startup Colossal has developed an artificial eggshell that enables chicken embryos to develop outside of natural eggs, successfully producing healthy chicks. This breakthrough could significan...

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Minnesota prohibits prediction markets, promptly gets sued by Trump admin

The Trump administration has sued Minnesota over its new law banning prediction markets, with the CFTC arguing it oversteps federal jurisdiction and harms regulated markets. The law, which makes opera...

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Man jailed for posting Trump meme wins $835,000 settlement

A retired Tennessee police officer, Larry Bushart, has won an $835,000 settlement after being jailed for 37 days for sharing a meme of Donald Trump on Facebook. The meme accurately quoted Trump's 'we ...

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‘Solve all diseases,’ you say?

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis announced at Google I/O that the company aims to revolutionize drug discovery with the ambitious goal of 'solving all disease' using AI. The announcement highlights ...

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You can now remix other people’s YouTube Shorts with AI

Google has launched a new AI-powered YouTube Shorts Remix feature that allows users to creatively modify existing videos using Gemini Omni. Users can transform clips into different styles like pixel a...

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Google I/O, Gemini Spark, Antigravity

Google I/O 2026's most notable announcements include Gemini 3.5 Flash and the upcoming Gemini Spark AI agent, which integrates with Google's ecosystem. The article highlights confusion around Gemini S...

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Golfing Zig ELF Binaries (2025)

The article details an experiment in minimizing the size of Zig-compiled ELF binaries, starting from a 2180KB 'do nothing' program and reducing it to just 12KB through various optimization techniques ...

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C++26: More function wrappers

C++26 introduces two new function wrappers: std::copyable_function and std::function_ref, addressing limitations in the existing std::function. The new additions provide better const-correctness and m...

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Clouted wants to take the guesswork out of making short videos go viral

Clouted, an AI-powered startup from a16z's Speedrun accelerator, has raised $7M to help brands optimize short video marketing. The platform uses a network of 100,000+ gig creators for video clipping a...

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Customers say Trump Mobile is leaking their personal information

Trump Mobile is reportedly exposing customers' personal information including email and home addresses, with two YouTubers confirming the authenticity of the leaked data. The company has not responded...

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Moose-proof and megacasting: Ars drives the new Volvo EX60

Volvo has unveiled its new all-electric EX60, featuring the company's first SPA3 EV platform, megacasting manufacturing technique, and up to 400 miles of range. The vehicle includes 800V charging, cel...

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Vibe coding is coming to your phone

Google is introducing 'vibe coding' to Android, allowing users to create their own apps directly on their phones through AI-assisted tools. This development could democratize app creation and change h...

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Volvo is trying to put its EV stumbles in the rearview

Volvo is working to recover from significant setbacks in its electric vehicle strategy, including software issues with its flagship EX90 that required hardware replacements and tariff problems that de...

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Xbox hires game industry analyst Matthew Ball to lead strategy

Microsoft has hired prominent game industry analyst Matthew Ball as Xbox's new chief strategy officer. Ball, known for his influential annual gaming reports, brings experience from Amazon Studios and ...

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Flipper One Tech Specs

The article details the technical specifications of the Flipper One, a multi-tool device for hardware exploration and security testing. It lists the device's hardware components including processor, m...

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Map of Metal

Map of Metal is an interactive visualization tool that maps the evolution and connections between various metal subgenres. The project, which gained attention on Hacker News with 379 points and 137 co...

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llm-gemini 0.32

Simon Willison released llm-gemini 0.32, a plugin that enables access to Google's Gemini family of models, including the new Gemini 3.5 Flash model. The release is part of ongoing development in the L...