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Microsoft announces TypeScript 7.0, a significant update featuring a complete native port written in Go that delivers approximately 10x faster compilation speeds compared to previous versions. This re...

Bun's creator announces a comprehensive rewrite of the runtime in Rust, leveraging AI assistance from Claude Fable 5, following Bun's acquisition by Anthropic. This strategic shift aims to address lon...

Noma Security researchers identified a critical prompt injection vulnerability in GitHub's new Agentic Workflows feature, dubbed 'GitLost'. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to trick the AI a...

A significant cyberattack on a major U.S. insurance company has resulted in the exposure of millions of driver's license numbers, marking the largest such breach recorded in 2026. This incident highli...

A class-action lawsuit alleges that xAI's Grok AI was used to generate thousands of CSAM images of a minor, highlighting severe failures in content moderation and child safety protocols. The complaint...

Google paid a $250,000 bounty for CVE-2026-53359, a critical KVM vulnerability allowing guest VMs to escape isolation and gain root access on the host machine. Discovered by researcher Hyunwoo Kim and...

OpenAI introduces GPT-Live, a real-time voice interface that allows users to have natural, low-latency conversations with GPT models via phone or web. This feature enables dynamic interactions where t...

OpenBSD versions up to 7.9 contain a critical use-after-free vulnerability in the System V semaphore implementation (sys/kern/sysv_sem.c). This flaw allows local attackers to escalate privileges to ro...

Swedish AI startup Lovable is reportedly in talks to raise $300 million at a $13.2 billion valuation, doubling its previous worth. The company has reached a $500 million annualized revenue run rate an...

Following the loss of over $1 billion worth of Reaper drones in conflicts with Iran, the Pentagon is urgently seeking cost-effective, expendable 'hunter-killer' drones to overwhelm layered air defense...

French scientists successfully monitored a sudden, rapid spreading event at the mid-ocean ridge between the Australian and Antarctic plates, revealing that significant tectonic changes can occur witho...

Microsoft's ongoing Xbox restructuring and layoffs have led Obsidian Entertainment to cancel multiple projects, including an Avowed sequel, to pivot toward developing a new Fallout title. This strateg...

Cloudflare introduces Meerkat, a globally distributed consensus service designed to handle strong consistency across its 330+ data centers. Powered by the QuePaxa algorithm, Meerkat addresses the late...

Cognition has released SWE-1.7, a software engineering model that achieves performance comparable to GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8 while significantly reducing costs. The model, built on a Kimi K2.7 base, demo...

Fenris Creations has released the Carbon engine, the technology behind the long-running MMO Eve Online, as an open-source project on GitHub. The decision aims to foster community trust, encourage exte...

Nicolas Seriot demonstrates that Unicode's UTS #35 transliteration rules are Turing-complete, meaning they can simulate any computational process. This implies that determining whether a specific tran...

Frank Denis benchmarks WebAssembly-to-C compilation against modern runtimes like Wasmer and Wasmtime, finding that the C path remains highly competitive even with new 'wide arithmetic' features. By ad...

NASA/JPL has open-sourced SpaceWASM, a flight-compliant WebAssembly interpreter designed for on-board spacecraft sequencing. The tool features a decoder/validator that converts WASM bytecode into an o...

The NHTSA has issued a directive to autonomous vehicle developers, demanding they fix functional deficiencies that cause their vehicles to interfere with first responders. The agency cites a pattern o...

OpenMandriva reported that former contributor Davide Beatrici sabotaged its repositories following an internal dispute over infrastructure management and behavioral issues. Beatrici allegedly deleted ...

General Intuition proposes leveraging massive amounts of video game simulation data to train foundation models for physical AI, aiming to reduce reliance on scarce real-world robotic data. This approa...

SpaceXAI has released Grok 4.5, positioning it as a cost-effective and efficient alternative to leading AI models. Elon Musk characterized the new release as an 'Opus-class model,' indicating signific...

The article argues that current LLMs lack spatial-temporal reasoning needed for AGI, suggesting that video game data could fill this gap by teaching models how objects move through space and time. Thi...

Crypto venture capital firm Paradigm has raised $1.2 billion for a new fund that expands its investment scope beyond cryptocurrency into robotics and artificial intelligence. This move signals a strat...

Prime Intellect has secured $130 million in Series A funding to empower enterprises to develop and train their own autonomous AI agents independently of major frontier AI laboratories. Founded in 2024...

The article highlights a trend among several AI startups, including Mercor and Anthropic, where revenue growth is accelerating at unprecedented rates, with some doubling milestones within months. It n...

Apple has entered into a multi-year agreement valued at over $30 billion with Broadcom to manufacture more than 15 billion custom wireless connectivity chips within the United States. This significant...

An economics professor at Brown University discovered that student scores dropped by 50% on in-person exams compared to previous take-home formats, revealing widespread AI cheating among high-achievin...

A federal judge rejected Kalshi's argument that its CFTC registration preempts New York state gambling laws, ruling that Congress intended to leave room for states to regulate tangential issues like s...

City Labs has successfully launched BOHR, recognized as the world's first commercial nuclear-powered CubeSat, utilizing a betavoltaic battery powered by tritium decay. This milestone demonstrates the ...

Google has significantly updated its Android Bench benchmark to include eight new leading LLMs, adding metrics for cost and efficiency to better evaluate AI performance in Android development. Despite...

Despite administrative efforts to build a domestic rare earth supply chain, US miners are exporting significant volumes to Asian markets like Japan and South Korea due to sluggish local demand. This t...

Blue Origin is expected to raise $10 billion in private capital for the first time, achieving a $130 billion valuation led by Coatue Management and Jeff Bezos. This strategic shift aims to provide the...

Meta is developing prototype 'super sensing' smart glasses capable of continuous audio and photo recording, potentially every few seconds, to feed data into its Meta AI assistant. Reports indicate tha...

OpenAI has released GPT-Live-1, an upgraded voice model for ChatGPT designed to facilitate more natural, human-like conversations by reducing interruptions and handling pauses better. The model automa...

SpaceXAI has released Grok 4.5, positioning it as their most capable model for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work, trained in collaboration with Cursor. While the announcement highlights strong...

The European Parliament has approved an urgent procedure to fast-track legislation reviving the expired 'Chat Control 1.0' rules, which allow platforms to voluntarily scan private messages for child s...

OpenAI publishes an analysis of coding benchmarks, arguing that current evaluation methods suffer from data contamination and lack of real-world validity. The article proposes new methodologies to bet...

The author details the rigorous manual review process for Flathub submissions, highlighting how the rise of AI-generated code has overwhelmed volunteers with low-quality, non-compliant pull requests. ...

BotKit is a TypeScript framework that allows developers to create standalone ActivityPub bots running as independent servers rather than scripts tied to existing social media accounts. Built by the Fe...

This GitHub repository presents LisaFPGA, a project that implements the full hardware logic of the historic Apple Lisa computer within an FPGA. The creator provides comprehensive documentation for bui...

Google's deepfake detection technology was utilized to identify and debunk a viral AI-generated image depicting Senator Mitch McConnell in a fabricated hospital scenario. This incident highlights the ...

Autonomous drone delivery startup Manna is expanding its US presence by establishing a new operations and manufacturing hub in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This facility is projected to create 1,000 jobs, marking...

X is introducing a feature to send direct messages to users when posts they have engaged with receive Community Notes corrections. This update aims to mitigate the spread of misinformation by alerting...

Google Photos has introduced a new AI-powered 'Video Remix' tool that allows users to enhance their video clips with features like cinematic relighting, background swapping, and artistic styling. This...

Roost, a 'slow-cial' application designed to counteract the fast-paced nature of modern online culture, has unexpectedly grown to 300,000 users. The app enforces a deliberate delay in communication, m...

The Australian government's Measuring Broadband Australia program has concluded, resulting in thousands of functioning SamKnows test routers being remotely bricked after June 30, 2026. Volunteers rece...

Microsoft is significantly restructuring its Xbox division by cutting 3,200 jobs and closing four studios, citing an unhealthy business state and overextension. This move coincides with a strategic pi...

The Verge reviews the Mondo Robotics Beni, a bipedal robot dog capable of running, jumping, performing tricks, and filming, demonstrating impressive agility despite needing refinement. The reviewer wa...

Reports suggest Google may increase prices for the upcoming Pixel Watch 5 and Pixel 11 series, with the 41mm watch potentially rising by $50 and the 45mm model by $30. While specific details for the p...

Chatto, a self-hosted group chat application focused on privacy and performance, has been released as open source. The tool allows users to easily deploy their own communities with end-to-end encrypti...

Microsoft has released Flint, an open-source visualization language designed specifically for creating interactive charts and dashboards within AI agent workflows. The tool aims to bridge the gap betw...

Jim's TrueType QR Code Font is an innovative OpenType font that renders bracketed text as QR codes directly during text shaping, eliminating the need for separate image generation. It allows QR codes ...

NoiseLang is a niche programming language where every value is treated as a probability distribution, enabling seamless mathematical operations on random variables. The author revived the project afte...

German startup QuantumDiamonds has secured backing from the European Chips Act to accelerate semiconductor manufacturing through novel inspection technologies. This initiative aligns with broader EU e...

Meta is introducing safeguards to prevent secret recording with its AI glasses, addressing privacy concerns. However, this move contrasts with the company's broader strategy of expanding data collecti...

Ashley Smith's Vermilion Cliffs Ventures has closed its second $25 million fund, continuing its focus on technical founders in AI infrastructure, security, and developer tools. Building on her previou...

Two California teenagers were detained by police after Waymo's autonomous vehicle detected them drinking alcohol and shooting gel beads from the windows, triggering an automatic alert. This incident h...

Kenton Varda has implemented a moratorium on AI-generated commit messages and PR descriptions within his team, citing that such outputs often lack necessary high-level context while redundantly detail...