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Modular has officially released Mojo 1.0, the first stable major version of its Mojo programming language, which aims to combine Python's usability with systems-level performance. The release marks a ...

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Meta and TikTok's claim that Section 230 grants them immunity from social media addiction lawsuits, allowing a $1.4 trillion case brought by California and ot...

Both Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT have surpassed 1 billion monthly users, marking a major milestone for AI adoption. Google CEO Sundar Pichai celebrated Gemini as the company's fastest-growing...

Researchers at A Security discovered a critical Zoom vulnerability using fewer than 20 AI prompts, enabling attackers to hijack devices during meetings via the annotation feature. Zoom has since patch...

A research paper reveals a novel attack where adversaries can extract reasoning traces (chain-of-thought tokens) from proprietary LLM APIs that claim to hide them. By querying the model with carefully...

The article explores 'yy', a highly optimized double-to-string conversion algorithm from the yyjson library that reduces Schubfach-family algorithms to a single multiplication by precomputed powers of...

River AI, a startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has secured a $1.1 billion Series A funding round at just two months old, led by General Catalyst. The company is focused on building per...

Chrome has introduced Device-Bound Session Credentials (DBSCs), which store unique encryption keys in device-level hardware security modules like TPMs and Secure Enclaves. This prevents attackers from...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Gemini has reached 1 billion monthly active users, making it the fastest-growing product in Google's history to hit that milestone. Usage data reveals that 63% ...

Trump nominated Republican Danielle Thumann Severs as an FCC commissioner, creating a 3-1 Republican majority and breaking the historical norm of maintaining a 3-2 partisan balance on the commission. ...

Apple is reportedly developing an 'Apple Reference Image' feature in iOS that embeds provenance metadata into iPhone photos at the moment of capture, enabling users to verify authenticity and prove im...

Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-weight model under an Apache 2.0 license, optimized for end-to-end agentic task completion with strong benchmark results on SWE-Bench, DeepSearch QA, and MCP-Atl...

An exploration of the deep connection between data compression and prediction, likely discussing how compression algorithms work by identifying patterns and making predictions about upcoming data. The...

Nvidia unveiled Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an upgraded open-weight language model with improved reasoning and efficiency, alongside NeMo Switchyard — a tool designed to simplify migrating workloads betwe...

An exploration of running macOS virtual machines with Apple Silicon GPU passthrough to significantly speed up LLM inference using llama.cpp. The author demonstrates how virtualizing macOS on Apple Sil...

Manus, the AI coding agent startup, announced it will continue operating as an independent company. The blog post addresses users and clarifies the company's future direction amid speculation about po...

OpenAI's head of ethics has departed less than a year after joining the company, raising questions about challenges of ethical governance in fast-moving AI organizations. The short tenure highlights t...

The author intercepts GitHub Copilot's network traffic using a MitM proxy to examine what data the AI coding assistant sends to Microsoft's servers. The investigation reveals details about telemetry, ...

Ben Thompson's Stratechery analysis examines the strategic risks facing Nvidia as its dominant GPU position faces potential challenges from competitors and shifting market dynamics. The piece explores...

Britain's British Transport Police (BTP) is expanding its Live Facial Recognition (LFR) trial into London Underground stations, building on previous street-level deployments. The initiative marks a si...

A native inference implementation for MiniMax's H3 language model on Apple Silicon, authored by the creator of redis. The project brings efficient direct inference capabilities to Apple's M-series chi...

GNOME's design team has published a long-term vision document outlining upcoming UI improvements for GNOME Shell. The most concrete near-term plan is a redesigned search interface that transitions to ...

Chicken Scheme 6.0 has been released, bringing several significant improvements including full R7RS small language module support, UTF-8 string encoding, and a bytevector overhaul replacing blobs. Pro...

A static blog by Ata Kuyumcu hides a procedural multiplayer dungeon crawl that runs entirely peer-to-peer without any game server or database. Using the Trystero library, players connect via public No...

Dr. Brian Callahan discusses his recently accepted IEEE paper evaluating OpenBSD's -fret-clean mitigation, introduced in OpenBSD 7.6. The flag instructs LLVM to insert a zeroing movq instruction after...

Uber has sold its entire stake in Serve Robotics, the autonomous delivery robot company spun out of Postmates X after Uber's 2020 acquisition. The exit comes as the two companies have diverged, with U...

Google's Gemini app has reached 1 billion users, with 63% of users engaging via the voice feature and the platform generating over 150 million images daily.

Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's longtime COO and one of its most senior executives, is departing to pursue a new venture. He told staff he remains excited to help advance OpenAI's mission from a different van...

OpenAI has launched a dedicated ChatGPT desktop app for Linux, bringing its chatbot and Codex to the platform in preview. The app supports Ubuntu 24.04/26.04 LTS, Debian 13, and Fedora 43/44, marking ...

An unreleased Anthropic model has made notable progress on the Riemann hypothesis, one of mathematics' most famous unsolved problems dating back over 150 years. While the hypothesis remains unsolved, ...

Delta Airlines is investigating after a passenger set up a fake Wi-Fi network mid-flight, causing the crew to switch off the legitimate onboard Wi-Fi for approximately 30 minutes. The incident highlig...

Joby Aviation has agreed to acquire Resonant Sciences for $500 million, marking the launch of its new defense business division. The acquisition positions Joby to expand beyond its civilian eVTOL oper...

Spotify is introducing 'AI Persona' labels for artist profiles representing AI-generated identities and will exclude their music from editorial, algorithmic, and personalized recommendations by defaul...

The FBI revealed that a North Korean national worked remotely as an IT staffer for a U.S. government agency, highlighting the ease with which North Korean operatives can infiltrate American institutio...

Romanian army divers destroyed two Russian-made Gerbera-type drones found drifting in the Black Sea near the Neptun Deep offshore gas project, which would make Romania the EU's largest natural gas pro...

A new hourly-level analysis of extreme heat reveals a sharper increase than traditional daily metrics, with a trend of 62 additional extreme heat hours per decade. The study defines extreme heat as te...

A researcher demonstrated Pass-ta-key, an attack that extracts passkeys from Google Password Manager on infected Windows machines, challenging the common misconception that passkeys are always stored ...

Leonardo's SignalTrace system links smartphones and other wireless devices to license plates by correlating Bluetooth/Wi-Fi signals detected near automatic license plate readers with vehicle registrat...

Sonos is preparing to launch successor headphones to the Sonos Ace, likely branded as "Sonos Ace Ultra" with model number S52A, based on a newly uncovered FCC filing. The announcement was previously h...

Google is preparing to announce its Pixel 11 lineup, Pixel Fold next-gen, and Pixel Watch 5 at its Made by Google 2026 event on August 12th. Leaks suggest the Pro models will feature a built-in light,...

A new jailbreak method called "Véra" has been released for the latest Kindle models, supporting software up to version 5.19.6, which was just released the previous week. This provides a jailbreak opti...

Former Google employee Claire Stapleton's new book, "Don't Be Evil," chronicles her transformation from a company advocate to a vocal critic, offering an insider perspective on how Google has drifted ...

Git-knife is a new open-source tool that lets users edit git commit messages, authors, and dates interactively in a spreadsheet-like interface. The Show HN post garnered 113 points and 80 comments on ...

The article discusses the evolving discourse around code review practices in developer communities, addressing common claims that code review is a bottleneck, ineffective, or unnecessary. It reference...

Jordan Matelsky explores creating etched holograms using a pen plotter, building on William Beaty's work on hand-drawn holograms. The article provides an intuitive, math-free explanation of the optics...

A GitHub project ports Microsoft Word 1.1a to a native x64 Windows executable by replacing 16-bit assembly, segmented memory handling, and Win16 platform boundaries with modern equivalents. It preserv...

The author argues that local AI models will never replace datacenter-hosted models for most inference workloads. They contend that local models will always lag behind frontier capabilities, users will...

Bevy's creator Carter Anderson reflects on the past year, marking six years since the project's launch. Highlights include the launch of a merch store, Bevy 0.17 with Solari raytraced lighting, and co...

A technical blog post explaining the performance impact of memory alignment in SIMD vectorization. It defines alignment concepts, illustrates how vector access alignment differs from scalar array acce...

A YouTube presentation discussing approaches to simplify modern graphics APIs and redesign them for contemporary GPU architectures. The talk explores the challenges developers face with complex graphi...

US VC firm Accel has closed a new oversubscribed $550M India fund within weeks, marking its first India fund raise in 19 months. The firm still retains more than 55% of its previous $650M India fund f...

The FBI has issued an alert warning that cybercriminals are hacking into both adults' and minors' online accounts to steal personal and intimate pictures for extortion campaigns. The alert highlights ...

Phia, the shopping platform co-founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, faces renewed scrutiny over allegations of cookie stuffing – a digital ad fraud practice. Reports indicate the co-founders wer...

Over a year after its post-election user surge, Bluesky's mobile app is experiencing a continued decline in active users. However, the remaining community still maintains relatively high engagement le...

Scaleup Europe, a public-private fund with a $5.7 billion target, has made its first investment by backing Finnish satellite company ICEYE. The fund aims to support European tech scaleups and marks a ...

Block Blast!, the most downloaded mobile game of 2025, will arrive on Apple Arcade in September as an ad-free experience. The move brings a popular puzzle title to Apple's subscription gaming service ...

FlightAware has filed a lawsuit against prediction market platform Kalshi, alleging it used FlightAware's name and flight data without permission to offer bets on flight cancellations. The case unders...

Kyoto Fusioneering, a Japan-based fusion startup, has received a grant to build a key component of a fusion power plant's fuel system. The company is positioning itself as a supplier for future fusion...

Bumble is removing its signature rule that required women to message first, allowing men to initiate conversations on the dating app. This marks a significant departure from the app's core differentia...

The FDA revealed that only 2.5% of Taylor Farms' recalled contaminated lettuce was distributed to Taco Bell, with the majority (46%) going to Walmart's Marketside brand and 29% to Taylor Farms' own br...

Ars Technica examines the $25,000–$30,000 used EV market, where rising supply from ex-lease cars hasn't curbed price growth—used EVs have appreciated over 5% since February despite strong sales up ~20...

Meta has launched a Threads app for Meta Quest VR headsets, adding social media functionality to the VR platform. The app allows users to browse feeds, post, like, reply, search, and watch videos in V...

Google TV Freeplay, Google's free ad-supported streaming service, now offers video on demand with over 10,000 shows and movies to choose from. The update also expands its live TV lineup to more than 3...

Audible US has removed the download button allowing users to download audiobooks to PC or Mac from their website. The download functionality still appears available on international versions of Audibl...

Publishing industry revenues totaled $33.4 billion in 2025, with digital formats accounting for 14.2% of total revenue. The report highlights the continued contribution of digital audio and eBooks to ...