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Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen 3.8 27B, a 27-billion parameter large language model with FP8 quantization support. The model is now available on HuggingFace, featuring improved efficiency through m...

Dutch cyber officials warn that CVE-2026-65400, a critical macOS vulnerability rated 7.1/10, is under active exploitation by attackers exposing port 5900 to the internet. The flaw in macOS screen shar...

A Connecticut man attempted the first known US case of hiding invisible AI prompts in court filings to manipulate judicial AI systems, hoping to sway his healthcare records dispute. Judge Walter Spade...

A US judge has ordered Google to make it easier for users to download third-party app stores through Google Play, ruling that the current implementation adds unnecessary "anticompetitive friction." Th...

Google is releasing practical homomorphic encryption tooling to enable private AI inference, allowing users to run models on encrypted data without exposing raw inputs. The work builds on years of cry...

A community-driven discussion exploring why Claude Opus 5, despite potential benchmark improvements, feels less enjoyable or productive to work with compared to earlier versions. The article and its 6...

GLM-5.3 is a frontier coding model from Zhipu AI (z.ai) featuring emergent cyber capabilities. The announcement has generated significant community interest, with over 1,000 points and nearly 500 comm...

Bluesky has launched Bluesky Protocol Services, a new brand and documentation hub for its AT Protocol infrastructure, replacing the old docs.bsky.app. The headline feature is Jetstream v2, which adds ...

Hackers allegedly linked to the Iranian government have targeted and breached systems at multiple US water treatment plants over the past couple of weeks. The incident has raised concerns about threat...

Apple is asking a federal judge to be allowed to charge commissions of up to 15% on purchases made through external links within iOS apps. The move represents a significant expansion of Apple's moneti...

US courts will begin publicly disclosing the number of times judges authorize law enforcement to use spyware for wiretapping suspects. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts confirmed the transp...

Heart Aerospace's X1 demonstrator, the largest all-electric aircraft to date, completed its maiden 30-minute test flight in upstate New York for just $5 of electricity, delivering over one megawatt of...

A Washington state judge issued a preliminary injunction forcing prediction market Kalshi to halt sports betting and other wagers on elections, politics, entertainment, tech, and science within the st...

New research published in Economics Letters analyzes over 6,700 launches from 1960–2025, revealing how SpaceX's Falcon 9 and its reusable booster program have dramatically reshaped the global launch m...

OpenAI and Anthropic are engaging in aggressive price cuts on their AI models as Chinese rivals like Moonshot and DeepSeek gain market share with cheaper, capable open-source alternatives. US lab pric...

Czinger has unveiled its new BrakeNode, an integrated brake assembly for the 21C Spyder that combines the caliper, upright, and hydraulic fluid passages into a single topology-optimized structure made...

The MSI Claw 8 EX is praised as the most significant PC handheld since the Steam Deck, featuring next-gen Intel Panther Lake processing that delivers superior performance and the best battery life in ...

Firefox has officially committed to continuing support for uBlock Origin, becoming the last major browser to do so as Microsoft Edge transitions to Manifest V3, which restricts ad-blocking capabilitie...

AI by Hand is a project showcasing hand-crafted AI tools and workflows, emphasizing human oversight in AI development. The HackerNews post shows moderate community interest with 143 points and 12 comm...

RustDesk has added support for unattended remote access on Wayland, addressing a significant limitation of the open-source remote desktop tool on modern Linux desktop environments. This update allows ...

At FediForum 2026, ActivityPub co-author Evan Prodromou explained why the protocol succeeded: its core is intentionally ordinary and unexciting. By starting with a modest agreement to exchange activit...

Daniel Stenberg announces a new performance test suite for curl after years of considering and dismissing the idea. He explored existing tools like Grafana but found them too complex, deciding instead...

Thunderbird's design team has embarked on a comprehensive redesign of the desktop calendar, aiming to modernize its dated interface and streamline convoluted functionality. The project emphasizes serv...

A technical blog post exploring algorithms for computing graph dominators, covering the classic Lengauer-Tarjan algorithm and simpler alternatives like the 2001 paper's approach. The author compares i...

Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI have received official permits from the California DMV to test self-driving trucks on California highways. This marks a significant regulatory milestone for autonomous ...

Meta released Glimmer, an open-weight AI model that users can run on their own hardware, contrasting with its more powerful Muse Spark model locked behind APIs. The launch coincided with a Mark Zucker...

Google is making visible watermarks optional for AI-generated images, videos, and music from its Gemini, Nano Banana, Omni, and Lyria models. Invisible SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata will remain...

French startup Kog is challenging the common belief that GPUs are poorly suited for agentic AI workflows, claiming they can squeeze significantly more inference performance out of existing GPU hardwar...

A new forecast suggests natural gas prices could triple in parts of the U.S., potentially hitting hyperscalers hard as they rely on natural gas to power their rapidly expanding AI data centers. The ri...

Nine PBS, a St. Louis PBS affiliate, filed a lawsuit against Iron Mountain Data Centers to recover 50TB of irreplaceable data after its cloud storage provider Open Source Storage (OSS) went defunct an...

Ars Technica hosted a live discussion with Ross Scott about the Stop Killing Games movement, which advocates for keeping games playable after publishers shut down online servers. Scott criticized the ...

Rocket Lab announced GHOST (Global Hypersonic & Orbital Spaceport Technology), a portable spaceport system enabling flexible Electron rocket launches from new locations including Alaska. Despite opera...

Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra continues iterative improvements in foldable design rather than breaking new ground. The phone features a slimmer profile, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, and a top-tier disp...

Senator Elizabeth Warren is investigating Taylor Farms' connections to the Trump administration over the agency's handling of a Cyclospora outbreak that has sickened over 24,000 people. Warren questio...

Google now lets users remove visible "sparkle" watermarks from AI-generated images, videos, and music produced via Gemini and Flow. Visible watermarks are now optional, though invisible SynthID waterm...

CMF, Nothing's budget sub-brand, has launched its first clip-style earbuds called the Clip Pro, priced under $100. While clip earbuds inherently compromise on sound quality for comfort and ambient awa...

The article guides readers through jailbreaking Kindle devices using the newly released Vera Jailbreak tool, making the process accessible even for non-technical users. It includes a video tutorial de...

Anthropic published an official blog post with tips for getting better results from Claude Code sessions, covering prompt strategies, context management, and workflow optimization. The article aims to...

Mixedbread introduced Toast 1, a new product or tool from the AI/embedding-focused company. The launch has generated moderate interest on Hacker News with 152 points and 54 comments.

Every Fucking Website (2020) is a web-based project that catalogs or visualizes websites on the internet. It gained notable attention on Hacker News with 691 points and 388 comments.

A developer built an e-ink display that renders RSS feeds as a newspaper layout, creating a dedicated reading device to reduce time spent on smartphones.

An analytical piece examining how the Temu retail model—ultra-low prices, aggressive discounting, and thin margins—is spreading into software and digital services. The author draws parallels between T...

The article examines CHIP-8 as a historical programming language and virtual instruction set, highlighting the fragmentation caused by decades of diverging interpreter behaviors. The author discusses ...

Dmitry Grebennikov argues RISC-V has fundamental architectural contradictions — a single ISA cannot optimally serve both supercomputers and tiny microcontrollers simultaneously, as their design requir...

The author argues that the term 'technical debt' is a misleading metaphor when communicated to business stakeholders, as it implies intentional, manageable borrowing rather than simply poor code quali...

The article reflects on Fred Brooks' 1986 essay 'No Silver Bullet,' arguing it remains highly relevant to modern software engineering. It recaps Brooks' distinction between the 'essence' of software (...

Raymond Chen explains the distinction between PR descriptions, which justify why a change should be accepted, and code comments, which clarify what and why within the code itself. He emphasizes that a...

Simon Dobson discovers unexpected behavior in SBCL's Common Lisp array sub-typing: when using constrained types like (unsigned-byte 16) in defstruct with short-vector syntax #nA(), type checking fails...

The author reflects on how AI-generated technical descriptions and excessive jargon are making it harder for humans to read and navigate codebases. They contrast useful shorthand like 'bumped dependen...

EuroLLVM 2026 conference slides and talks are now available online, hosted on YouTube and a dedicated slides page. The author notes they delivered one of the presentations at the event.

Joshua Kushner of Thrive Capital issued his first-ever investment letter warning that excitement around AI should not weaken investment discipline. He acknowledged the massive AI opportunity but cauti...

Unforgetful is a new reminders app from indie developer Marco Arment, designed to make it harder for users to ignore or accidentally dismiss their reminders. The app targets people who frequently hit ...

Uber and Pony.ai are expanding their autonomous vehicle partnership beyond Zagreb, Croatia to four additional European cities, aiming to deploy 2,000 robotaxis across the continent. The move marks a s...

Ars Technica interviews Chris Carter about a newly released R-rated director's cut of the original X-Files film that restores his original horror vision. The article explores why Carter's darker versi...

Code strings in Samsung's Galaxy Wearable app hint at a new pair of over-ear Bluetooth headphones codenamed "Galaxy H1," potentially launching in 2027. If true, these would be Samsung's first over-ear...

The Verge's back-to-school laptop guide highlights a RAM and storage crunch driving up prices, making it harder to find budget-friendly options. Despite rising costs, recommendations include MacBooks ...

Lamborghini has introduced the Revuelto SV trim for its flagship V12 hybrid supercar, emphasizing an immersive driving experience through its 'quantum of driving' philosophy. The SV designation typica...

Google's Pixel 11 introduces Camera Looks, a sensor-level photo processing feature that produces images with a non-smartphone aesthetic, including styles like 'Digi' that mimic older digital cameras. ...

SlopScan is a Firefox addon that integrates with the SlopScan API to display a 'slop score' on public GitHub repositories, indicating the likelihood of AI/LLM-generated code. It builds on previously d...

The article discusses how PocketBook's Era Lite effectively fills the void left by Kobo's failure to release a black-and-white version of the Kobo Libra Colour, which was promised over two years ago. ...

Simon Willison describes a creative approach to blog tagging where LLMs hallucinate novel tags rather than matching against an existing vocabulary, then vector embeddings are used to map those halluci...