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A researcher discovered they could intercept and log hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases through flaws in E.164/ARPA telephone numbering routing protocols. The vulnerability highlig...
The Rust compiler team is enabling the next-generation trait solver by default on nightly after nearly 4 years of development, as part of the largest single change to rustc since its initial release. ...
A US citizen faces felony charges after reportedly deleting data from their phone at a US border crossing during inspection. The case raises significant Fourth Amendment questions about digital privac...
DeepSeek has released an experimental vision model, v4-flash-vision-exp, with API documentation now available. The release indicates DeepSeek's continued expansion into multimodal capabilities alongsi...
In 1984, Japan launched TRON, an ambitious operating system project aiming to replace traditional file systems with a hypermedia document model and support 1.5 million characters for Japanese text. Th...
Cassandra 6 introduces strictly serializable cross-partition transactions via Accord, completing a multi-year evolution from eventual consistency to ACID compliance. The article traces Cassandra's tra...
Atproto has launched the alpha of Spaces, a new protocol extension that enables non-public data storage and syncing while maintaining portable identity and interoperability. This marks the biggest upd...
Rillet, an AI-powered accounting startup, unexpectedly secured a $100 million funding round in just 48 hours after CEO Nicholas Koop shared impressive growth metrics at a board meeting, triggering int...
TikTok has agreed to a $400 million settlement after the U.S. Department of Justice alleged it violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) two years ago. The resolution concludes a l...
KIO Snapshot is a newly released KDE integration that brings Btrfs snapshot functionality directly into Dolphin and other KDE software, allowing users to browse and restore previous versions of files ...
The DOJ is investigating Andreessen Horowitz under a century-old antitrust law for having partners sit on the boards of competing portfolio companies—Ben Horowitz at Databricks and Martin Casado at Fi...
The Nevada Transportation Authority unanimously approved permits for Tesla, Uber, and Waymo to operate up to 8,000 robotaxis in Clark County over the next 12 months. Tesla's permit allows 5,000 vehicl...
AI data startup Micro1 has reached a $500M gross annual run rate, growing from $100M just eight months ago, fueled by surging demand for specialized AI training data. The company retains roughly 60-70...
Chinese regulators are ordering Tesla to recall nearly 3 million Model 3 and Model Y vehicles in China over safety concerns about electronically controlled doors that may fail to open during emergenci...
Romania deployed F-16 fighter jets to disable a Russian explosive-laden drone boat near the Neptun Deep offshore gas platform in the Black Sea, marking the second such incident this month. The drone w...
The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys team has released the largest 2D color map of the universe, containing 5.6 trillion pixels and nearly 4 billion celestial objects. The publicly available map serves as ...
Cobalt is an open-source project that enables apps to run on Kobo e-readers, expanding the device beyond its traditional e-reading capabilities. The project was shared on Hacker News and received sign...
Kagi has added a new setting that filters out paywalled links from search results, giving users more control over accessible content. The feature aligns with Kagi's ongoing mission to deliver a cleane...
The article warns that AI companies are purchasing physical books in bulk to use as raw material (likely for energy or disposal), urging the preservation community to digitize rare and out-of-print bo...
Rust 1.98.0 introduces algebraic floating-point methods (algebraic_add, etc.) for f32/f64 that allow the compiler to optimize operations using algebraic properties like reordering. It also begins intr...
Rust Glancer is an early-stage alternative Rust LSP designed for low memory usage, targeting under 100MB and offering immediate index persistence across editor restarts. Benchmarks show it outperforms...
The article explains Go's memory model and why data races occur when sharing variables between goroutines without synchronization. It demonstrates how a seemingly correct program can fail due to compi...
A homebrew Motorola 68000 computer built by [maniek86] features a PCI bus implemented via a Xilinx Spartan II FPGA (XC2S100), providing two 32-bit 5V interrupt-capable PCI slots. The 10 MHz 68K system...
Bazzite has released its biggest update yet, Deck 44, which also marks the end of image decoupling so future updates will deploy simultaneously across all Bazzite images. The release coincides with Un...
Apple is reportedly laying off hundreds of employees from its Siri and Vision Pro teams as the company shifts focus away from certain initiatives. The cuts reflect a broader realignment of Apple's pri...
Nvidia research demonstrates that well-designed AI agent harnesses can enable strong task performance through fine-tuning, even when the underlying base model lacks native capability. The findings hig...
Tesla is winding down its Solar Roof product line, marking the end of a long-running experiment in integrated rooftop solar technology. The discontinuation raises questions about the broader viability...
The Pebble Time 2 launches at $225, bringing back the beloved Pebble brand with its signature e-paper display, physical buttons, and weeks-long battery life. The watch emphasizes quirky watch faces, a...
A lawsuit alleges that Oura rings cannot measure the physiological signals required to assess sleep quality or determine sleep stages. The suit claims the company has been misleading consumers about t...
Starcloud has secured a $250 million funding extension to its existing Series A, valuing the orbital AI inference startup at $2.3 billion. The capital will fund expanded manufacturing and its largest ...
Walmart will begin accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay at select stores on August 24, 2026, with a full rollout to all stores by year-end and fuel stations by mid-2027. The move marks a major reversal ...
Apollo, a major private equity firm, has confirmed it suffered a data breach amid a broader hacking campaign targeting financial institutions. The disclosure comes weeks after Google security research...
Researchers at Penn State have developed a model to interpret the complex seismic signals generated by thunderstorms, termed "thunderquakes," and used fiber-optic cabling to reconstruct the terrain be...
New data suggests OpenAI is closing the gap with Anthropic in attracting business users, as companies frequently switch between AI providers with each new model release. This volatility raises questio...
A class-action lawsuit accuses Compass of delisting thousands of NYC rental units from Zillow to create an artificial supply shortage, allegedly to drive up rents and broker fees. With an estimated 80...
Motorola and GrapheneOS are partnering to bring the privacy-focused OS to Moto devices in 2027, with pricing expected to exceed Google Pixel phones. The Moto devices will be premium flagships, potenti...
Meta AI glasses' booming popularity increases risk of nonconsensual recordings, prompting bans in venues like schools and DEF CON. Privacy advocates warn that future features like facial recognition c...
Waymo, Alphabet's self-driving vehicle subsidiary, has doubled its lobbying expenditure as competition intensifies with Uber in the robotaxi market. The increased spending targets US regulators to cle...
The Pixel 11 introduces Camera Looks, a new suite of photography features designed to reduce the over-processed aesthetic common in modern smartphone photos. The update allows users to customize image...
ChatGPT search has begun using domain-specific filtering at scale, with Promptwatch data showing site:operator usage jumped from ~0.5% to 16-17% following the GPT-5.6 rollout on August 8. The change a...
Take-Two Interactive has subpoenaed Microsoft and Discord to identify users behind GTA VI gameplay leaks, demanding compliance by September 4th. The leaked clips, watermarked by a figure known as 'Cyb...
The author argues that the debate over whether standard libraries should be minimal or encompassing misses the point — what matters is the social architecture behind them. Using Python, Go, and Rust a...
Felony Bench appears to be an independent data journalism or open-data project hosted on its own domain. The article gained moderate traction on Hacker News with 396 points and 183 comments, suggestin...
An article teaching music theory from first principles through coding, starting with how sound works as air pressure changes. It derives the twelve-note system, scales, and chords computationally, aim...
Francis Irving shares three personal mobile apps he built using vibe coding in 2026: a Places app for tracking restaurant recommendations, a People app using spaced repetition to help with face blindn...
Waymo has submitted responses to NHTSA's inquiry into a collision involving a child, but all redactions cite 'confidential business information.' The heavily redacted filings limit transparency into t...
The Idaho National Laboratory is conducting a security review of Chinese lidar systems for the electric and autonomous vehicle industries. The research, funded by companies in the EV and autonomous ve...
Tesla is recalling 3 million cars in China as part of a broader regulatory push requiring automakers to address hidden door handles. Tesla and eight other automakers will install warning labels to hel...
Senator Ron Wyden has requested the U.S. federal watchdog to conduct a comprehensive review of how agencies including the FBI, DEA, ICE's HSI, and the Secret Service deploy hacking tools and spyware a...
A proposed class action lawsuit demands Logitech refund customers the tariff-related portion of price increases, arguing that tariffs the Supreme Court declared unlawful should result in reimbursement...
The FTC is seeking public comment on a proposed policy to limit personalized pricing, arguing that businesses using customer data to set individualized prices without disclosure may violate the FTC Ac...
Sasha Orloff, CEO of Puzzle, shares insights from raising over $1B in funding, emphasizing that VCs want founders who deeply understand the financial reality of their business. She warns that messy da...
SpaceX lands on the Moon while ULA appoints a new CEO. Meanwhile, China's Long March rockets bounce back quickly from a rare failure, with the YF-100 engine flying again within six days and the Chang'...
LinkedIn's new 'Seems like AI slop' button has been clicked over a million times since its launch on July 30th, according to chief product officer Hari Srinivasan. The feature was introduced amid find...
Apple is cutting over 200 jobs from its Siri and Vision Pro teams, including largely shutting down its Vision Pro gaming team and reducing its immersive content team. The company stated the changes ai...
Best Buy is offering $100 gift cards for $60 during its 60th anniversary one-day sale on August 22nd. The discounted gift cards can be combined with other promotions and apply to products like the iPa...
Google's Pixel 10A is currently on sale for $424 (down from $499) across Amazon, Best Buy, and the Google Store. It features a Tensor G4 chip, Satellite SOS, faster wired charging, and new AI tools li...
Prominent YouTube filmmakers Matti Haapoja and Sam Kolder faced backlash after fans discovered they were paid by PR firms representing AI video platform Higgsfield to promote its Seedance 2.5 features...
Netflix has announced that Blue Eye Samurai's second season will arrive in January 2027, alongside releasing the first trailer. The series has also been renewed for a third and final season. Co-create...
Simon Willison released llm 0.32.1 to fix a broken dependency issue where fresh installs of his command-line LLM tool stopped working after the OpenAI Python library dropped its usage of httpx. The pa...
Simon Willison highlights Thomas Ptacek's argument that developers should stop building TUIs and instead create native GUI apps, as AI coding agents have made it nearly free to ship usable interfaces....
Amazon has increased Kindle prices overnight, with the Kindle Paperwhite rising from $159 to $199 (a $40 increase) and the Signature Edition now at $249 (a $50 increase). The price hike affects the e-...