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NASA launches the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, designed as the next Great Observatory to study dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astronomy. The telescope's wide-field camera will capture dat...
Tim Cook announces his departure as Apple CEO on August 31, 2026, after nearly 15 years of leadership, handing the reins to John Ternus. In his final message, Cook expressed gratitude to the Apple com...
The EU has classified ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox as very large online platforms under the Digital Services Act, subjecting them to stricter obligations including removing illegal content and protecti...
The FTC and 22 state attorneys general are suing Amazon, alleging the company used a 'secret ad surcharge' to systematically inflate advertising prices on its platform. FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson cl...
Google has removed manifest version 2 (MV2) extensions from the Chrome Web Store, a move that notably affects the popular ad blocker uBlock Origin. This enforcement of MV3 migration signals a broader ...
Apple was caught by surprise by unexpectedly high demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio driven by growing AI workloads. The M-series chips have become attractive for local AI inference, prompting more us...
A security article highlights that adding any user to the Linux docker group effectively grants root privileges, since the Docker daemon runs as root and socket members can mount the host filesystem a...
C++26 introduces a 'hardened implementation' mode for the standard library that converts undefined behavior into well-defined contract violations. For example, std::vector::operator[] would trigger a ...
This article demonstrates a privilege escalation technique from IIS AppPool o NT Authority/SYSTEM in an Active Directory environment without relying on Potato-family exploits. The core insight is that...
Apple is presenting evidence that a former employee destroyed evidence of data theft after learning he was under investigation for allegedly exfiltrating company data to OpenAI. The case highlights on...
The author discovered that UTF-8 encoded emoji sequences happen to map to valid x86 machine code opcodes — the goat emoji encodes to 'lock lahf nop nop' on 8088. This inspired exploration into whether...
The FTC and 22 states have filed a lawsuit against Amazon, accusing it of operating a "secret ad surcharge scheme" that secretly charges businesses more for advertising on its platform.
Tim Cook has released his farewell memo to Apple employees, framing incoming CEO John Ternus as a hands-on product builder with extensive experience across iPhone, Mac, AirPods, and other major hardwa...
Hackers claim to have stolen millions of patient records during a data breach at McKesson, a major U.S. healthcare distributor of medicines and medical devices. The company confirmed the breach and wa...
Bentley has released the Supersports, a lightweight, stripped-out variant of the Continental GT featuring a V8 plug-in hybrid powertrain, rear-wheel drive, and rear-wheel steering. By removing all-whe...
Nvidia is investing $3.5 billion in Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek, signaling its strategy to remain integral to AI infrastructure as Big Tech companies increasingly build in-house AI chips. The partner...
The Trump administration is halting nearly all federal research on Cyclospora, a foodborne parasite, by defunding two of three USDA programs and relocating the remaining work to Iowa. All scientists c...
A new study from the Max Planck Institute reveals that raindrops can acquire charges up to 9,000 volts as they slide across surfaces, enabling them to electrically puncture protective insulating coati...
Security firm Plume published research revealing a vast malware ecosystem targeting users of media streaming devices like SuperBox that promise free pirated content. These devices secretly turn home n...
Music publishers including Sony, EMI, and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic, arguing that its $1.5 billion settlement for pirating 7 million books was insufficient given the company's $2 trillion va...
A study reconstructing 1,000 years of ocean surface temperatures from Galápagos corals found that current El Niño events are stronger than at any point in the past millennium. The research suggests gl...
Phil Schiller is stepping down from his roles as head of the App Store and Apple events, according to Bloomberg. He will retain his Apple Fellow title and continue working on unspecified initiatives. ...
Playa Phone is a new smartphone project that has generated significant interest on HackerNews, earning 479 points and 177 comments. The project appears to focus on rethinking the mobile phone experien...
A Substack post describes suspected hacking of military commissary freezers, raising concerns about IoT/industrial control system security in defense supply chain environments. The story garnered sign...
The curl project, after becoming a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA), has published 57 CVEs and explains its streamlined internal vulnerability assessment process, noting that some extremely low-risk issu...
The author critiques the design of Rust's RangeFrom iterator, pointing out that it fails to yield the maximum value when overflow checks are enabled due to an internal counter increment-before-yield i...
Prela is a new query language being developed at UCLA RePL that replaces traditional SQL with binary relations (tables with only two columns) and function composition. The tutorial demonstrates how a ...
Timothy Sample presented at FOSSY on bootstrappable builds, a concept where a tiny seed program progressively builds larger programs until the entire Linux user space is constructed from a minimal, fu...
Kale is a prototype spreadsheet system that prevents formula bugs by restricting reference types when table structures change. User studies show traditional spreadsheets are error-prone, while Kale en...
The author investigates whether Cargo's build scheduler could be improved by empirically analyzing its behavior from the outside. Using syscall tracing across 17 Rust projects, they reconstruct depend...
The article clarifies that the maximum DNS name length is 255 octets, not characters, explaining the binary label-based encoding format defined in RFC 1035. It resolves a common confusion where names ...
This article examines rootless Docker as an alternative to the traditional root daemon model, explaining how RootlessKit uses user namespaces and UID mappings to run dockerd as an unprivileged user. W...
The Pentagon has integrated its own versions of OpenAI's ChatGPT, SpaceXAI's Grok, and Google's Gemini onto a central AI tools portal for government use. The move represents an expansion of the Defens...
Prediction market platform Polymarket has raised $300 million from 1789 Capital, an investment fund where Donald Trump Jr. is a partner, as part of a larger funding round totaling approximately $1 bil...
Apple's longtime App Store executive Phil Schiller is seen as increasingly likely to retire, following a wave of senior leadership departures as CEO Tim Cook steps down. While Schiller has not officia...
Ryan Breslow, founder of once-$11B valued checkout startup Bolt, is raising up to $27M in pay-to-play bridge funding to sustain the company, contributing $5M of his own capital. The move signals finan...
Clipto, a three-year-old AI-powered video search startup, has reached a $250 million valuation after raising a $15 million funding round. The company also announced it hit $15 million in annual recurr...
AI tools are increasingly effective at discovering and exploiting software vulnerabilities, which could reduce governments' ability to use hacking tools and spyware against targets. This shift may rei...
President Trump demanded the FCC rebuke or punish NBC's Kristen Welker for describing his presidential endorsement record as having 'mixed results,' claiming her assessment was a 'purposeful inaccurac...
Meta has launched Pocket, a mobile app that lets users create interactive game prototypes using only natural language prompts, with no coding experience needed. The app leverages AI to generate functi...
JMGO's Iris Ultra Max is a 4K 120Hz all-in-one Google TV projector now available outside China, featuring a novel dual-iris system that achieves 10,000:1 native contrast by controlling light scatter m...
A JD Power survey of over 68,000 new 2026 vehicle owners found that the most appreciated car features are the subtle, background ones users barely notice—contrary to automakers' trend of adding large ...
YouTuber Mark Fischbach, known as Markiplier, has become GoPro's largest single shareholder with an 8.5 percent stake, citing the company as undervalued and his desire to make filmmaking more accessib...
Debian developers voted to allow AI tool usage in contributions for development, maintenance, and documentation, stating that responsible AI use can boost productivity without needing special rules be...
Graham Dumpleton introduces wrapture, a new Python library extending his wrapt monkeypatching work to combine testing and tracing capabilities. The project offers an alternative to unittest.mock with ...
The author built a DIY system that uses existing security cameras combined with BirdNET-Go, an open-source bird species identification model, to automatically detect and identify birds visiting their ...
RavynOS is a pre-alpha open-source operating system that combines Darwin (Apple's Unix kernel), FreeBSD components, and other Apple open-source projects into a unified OS. The project appears to be in...
An opinion piece examining how Network Address Translation (NAT) contributed to internet centralization, arguing that NAT was a foundational design flaw ('original sin') that shifted architecture towa...
Servo's July development highlights include support for additional platforms, faster Canvas rendering, web fonts in SVG, and other improvements. The update reflects ongoing progress in the open-source...
An engineer describes a geofencing issue where Puerto Rico's ISO 3166 country code (PR) caused video streaming content to be blocked despite it being a US territory. The article highlights that ISO 31...
A technical clarification article distinguishing synchronous cancellation, asynchronous cancellation, and graceful shutdown as three distinct concepts in concurrent programming. The author explains th...
A project tracking terminal emulator support for Unicode's 'Symbols for Legacy Computing' blocks, which contain graphical characters from 70s–90s computers used for terminal UIs, pixel art, and games....
The first release (v0.1.0.0) of ghcup-gtk, a GTK-based graphical wrapper around the Haskell ghcup toolchain manager, targeting newcomers to the language. Packages are available for various operating s...
Janet 1.42.0 is a bug-fix and documentation-focused release of the Janet programming language, addressing issues like GC fiber handling, channel threading, macro hygiene, and mmap return value checks....
Alteon, an Indian startup founded by a 20-year-old and backed by Lachy Groom, is developing autonomous aircraft designed to harvest wind energy to remain airborne for several months. The concept targe...
Andreessen Horowitz has increased its growth fund to $8.5 billion, just days after launching a new $1.1 billion fund. The moves reinforce its position as one of the largest and most active venture cap...
A pro-data-center advocacy group backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Sam Altman's Julia/HSDC is launching a multi-million dollar ad campaign aimed at swing-state voters during the midterms. The effort s...
Instagram is introducing new limits on the reach of undisclosed AI-generated profiles, responding to growing public frustration over AI influencers. The move signals Meta's growing effort to increase ...
Prediction market platform Kalshi has banned former congressman George Santos for life over bets placed on the State of the Union address. The ban comes two months after the CFTC settled charges again...
Blue Voice, an AI startup founded by a Harvard Law dropout, has raised $6M to build a specialized AI assistant tailored for police officers. The platform is trained on department-specific laws, local ...
Microsoft is testing a fix for widespread Outlook issues that have caused email delays and failures. The company is working to resolve the hours-long outage affecting its users.
Google Maps has renamed 'Lake Ontario' to 'Lake America' in its mapping service, rolling out the change on a Saturday. This update was implemented faster than the official US government maps, which ar...
Google has raised the price of its Google TV Streamer 4K box from $99 to $149, a $50 increase. The new pricing is live at the Google Store and Best Buy, while Amazon still lists the original price. Th...
The Verge tested Apple Vision Pro's immersive MLB streaming experience by watching a Red Sox-Yankees game in VR. While technically impressive and visually remarkable, the reviewer found the experience...
Amazon is reportedly preparing to launch the 2nd generation Fire 11 Max Tablet in the coming months, featuring a substantial upgrade over its predecessor. No official details on specs or pricing have ...
Remarkable's head of B2B business has left the company, raising doubts about the viability of its enterprise strategy. The paper tablet appears to fall short of what enterprise customers require, mark...