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PACT: Anonymous Credentials for the Web – Mozilla Hacks

Mozilla introduces PACT, a protocol enabling anonymous credentials to verify human identity without compromising user privacy or requiring personal data disclosure. This solution addresses the growing...

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Amazon fixing bug that billed some AWS customers billions of dollars

Amazon is addressing a critical billing bug in AWS that erroneously charged some customers billions of dollars, causing significant financial shock upon login. This incident highlights severe vulnerab...

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The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science

A US National Academies of Sciences report confirms that climate attribution science has matured significantly, allowing for high-confidence links between human-caused emissions and extreme weather ev...

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Frame – Linux X server in Assembly

The article discusses 'Frame,' a Linux X server implementation written in Assembly language, highlighting its low-level optimization and technical complexity. This project represents a significant eng...

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The state of open source AI

This article provides a comprehensive overview of the current landscape of open-source artificial intelligence, analyzing trends in model availability, community contributions, and the tension between...

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EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams

A study published in PLOS Biology reveals that the human brain can simultaneously encode two distinct speech streams using electroencephalography (EEG). This finding provides new neural evidence for t...

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Freya 0.4 - Rust GUI library

Freya v0.4 introduces a significant architectural shift by rewriting its core to remove the dependency on the Dioxus framework, establishing a custom reactive and component model. This standalone appr...

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Enterprise Haskell at H-E-B

Joshua Miller details H-E-B's strategic migration from legacy COBOL mainframes to modern microservices using Haskell to handle complex supply chain demands. The article highlights the significant chal...

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Using GCC's Nested Functions with Wide Pointers and no Trampolines II

GCC 16 guarantees that nested functions without captured variables do not require trampolines, eliminating the need for executable stack memory and improving security. The author provides updates on a...

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Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla’s backyard

Agility Robotics is opening a 60,000-square-foot training facility in Fremont, California, strategically located near Tesla's expected Optimus production site. Unlike Tesla, Agility has already commer...

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AI-driven memory crunch jolts India’s smartphone market

The rapid adoption of AI features in smartphones is driving a significant shortage of memory components, causing supply chain disruptions and price volatility in India's consumer electronics market. T...

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Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them

Patreon has shifted from requesting AI bots to respect robots.txt to actively blocking them via Cloudflare to prevent unauthorized scraping for AI training. This move highlights a growing industry tre...

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Zoox issues software recall after a robotaxi got confused by heavy smoke

Zoox has issued a software recall for its robotaxis after one vehicle became disoriented by heavy smoke, highlighting a specific vulnerability in autonomous perception systems. This incident occurs am...

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SpaceX suddenly aborts second Starship V3 launch after ignition

SpaceX has aborted the second launch of its Starship V3 rocket shortly after engine ignition, though the specific cause remains unconfirmed. The incident triggered immediate market reaction, causing t...

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Hegseth wants a "High-T" military; doctors call it a clinical minefield

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a mandatory testosterone screening program for US military personnel aged 30 and older to optimize performance and health. Medical experts, including the Endoc...

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Firefox in WebAssembly

The Puter team successfully compiled Firefox into WebAssembly, enabling the entire browser to run inside another browser like Chrome. To work around browser network restrictions, all traffic is routed...

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We are Changing our Developer Productivity Experiment Design

METR is revising its methodology for measuring AI's impact on developer productivity after finding that recent experimental data is biased by participant attrition and payment changes. The organizatio...

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Stop the GUARD Act and age verification laws worldwide

The Free Software Foundation opposes the GUARD Act and similar global age verification laws, arguing that mandatory identity checks are fundamentally incompatible with user freedom and privacy. The or...

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Fubo hikes prices by $15 after restoring some NBCU channels lost in November

Fubo is increasing its subscription prices by $15 per month following a new carriage agreement with NBCUniversal that restores most, but not all, of the channels lost during the November 2025 blackout...

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2026 Lucid Gravity Touring review: A strong act 2

Ars Technica reviews the 2026 Lucid Gravity Touring, positioning it as a significant improvement for Lucid's second major vehicle release compared to their initial sedan. The test vehicle, equipped wi...

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SpaceX scrubs Starship launch after some of its engines didn't start

SpaceX scrubbed a Starship test flight after an automatic abort was triggered because some Raptor engines on the Super Heavy booster failed to start. Engineers are currently draining the propellant an...

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Apple’s plot to crush OpenAI

Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, prompting analysis from The Verge on whether this move signals genuine competitive anxiety or a strategic opportunistic play. The discussion explores Apple's ...

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Learning a few things about running SQLite

This article shares practical insights and lessons learned from running SQLite in production environments. It covers operational nuances that may not be obvious to developers new to the embedded datab...

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Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time

The article highlights HoneypotLive, a platform that visualizes real-time interactions between automated bots and SSH honeypots. It offers an engaging look into the constant stream of automated attack...

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Faulty Towers, vibe sickness, and the vibe bobsled

The author critiques the emerging 'vibecoding' paradigm where LLM agents build upon increasingly opaque codebases that humans can no longer fully understand. While some proponents accept this loss of ...

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A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp

The article provides a comparative overview of modern Lisp dialects, helping developers choose the right variant based on their goals and experience level. It evaluates key options like Common Lisp, S...

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Will Russia's answer to the Falcon 9 rocket ever take flight?

Russia's state-backed Roscosmos faces significant delays in its reusable 'Amur-LNG' rocket program, which was designed to compete with SpaceX's Falcon 9. While other nations like China, Japan, and the...

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Apple Music is getting a price hike

Apple Music has increased its subscription prices across various plans, including individual, family, and student tiers, citing rising licensing costs as the primary driver. This marks the first signi...

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LLM cliché highlighter

The "LLM Cliché Highlighter" is a browser-based utility designed to detect and visually flag repetitive, formulaic phrases commonly produced by language models. Users can paste text to instantly ident...

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New XTEINK X4 Pro and X4 Gen 2 Details Leaked Online

Leaks suggest Xteink is preparing to release the X4 Pro and X4 Gen 2 e-readers next week, with a placeholder page already visible on their official website. The X4 Pro appears to be a highly anticipat...