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TinyGo 0.42 introduces recoverable panics (defer/recover), closing a long-standing gap with standard Go, while adding Go 1.27 support (including generic methods), moving to LLVM 22, and introducing ne...

The US government has sided with OpenAI in an ongoing legal debate over training large language models on copyrighted material, arguing that a strong AI industry is vital to national competitiveness. ...

Hackers executed a sophisticated BGP hijacking attack against Softaculous, a popular web software management platform, by exploiting lax routing security at hosting provider Hetzner Online and the abs...

Meta has released Muse Spark 1.3, an updated version of its open audio generation model. The new release brings improved performance and capabilities for AI-driven audio creation.

Google DeepMind has released Gemini 3.8 Flash and its cybersecurity variant, Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, as new lightweight models in their Gemini series. These models aim to deliver high-performance AI c...

An investigation found three websites created over 215,000 SEO-optimized "best software" landing pages specifically designed to game AI search engines like Perplexity. These manufactured sources were ...

The world's largest dark matter detector has recorded a single anomalous particle event that defies conventional explanations. The observation is generating significant interest in the physics communi...

The author discusses the deep connection between memory safety and object pools, arguing that use-after-free bugs in pooled allocations still cause logical errors even though they avoid the physical t...

The author implemented a software-emulated FMA (fused multiply-add) using SIMD for machines lacking hardware support, following a formally verified algorithm from a 2008 Coq paper. During testing, the...

Farid Zakaria introduces version range support for nixpkgs, enabling queries like finding a revision where python3>=3.10 and openssl@1.1.* coexist — something previously impossible since nixpkgs assig...

The Go Blog introduces goroutine leak profiles, a tool to detect goroutines that are permanently blocked and consume resources without progressing. This addresses a gap in existing testing‑focused sol...

PostgreSQL 19 introduces WAIT FOR LSN on standbies, letting replicas block until they replay a specific write-ahead log position—solving the read-your-own-writes consistency problem without pinning re...

The author argues that Compile-Time Type Information (CTTI), often touted as 'zero-cost,' actually imposes exponential costs during semantic checking, code generation, and binary size, whereas Runtime...

OpenAI's upcoming Astra model introduces 'recurrent depth,' a novel reasoning technique that breaks from the sequential thinking paradigm dominant in current AI models. The approach has raised concern...

An identity theft search site claimed to have over 150 million driver's license photos stolen from a major ID verification service. The criminal site has since shut down, raising concerns about the sc...

Delivery Hero's board has backed Uber's $15 billion takeover bid for the German food delivery company. If approved, the combined entity would become one of the largest food delivery platforms globally...

HiddenLayer has raised $100 million as enterprises rapidly prioritize securing their AI deployments. The funding round highlights growing demand for security tools that can monitor not only AI agents ...

A new dark web marketplace called Nexus is selling over 153 million driver's licenses, with scans available within hours of legitimate scanning at rental car companies, dispensaries, and other venues....

A nonpartisan nonprofit called Protect Democracy has sued four federal agencies demanding transparency into the Trump administration's secret framework for safety reviewing frontier AI models before r...

The US Army successfully used a 20-kilowatt High-Energy Multipurpose Laser (AMP-HEL) system to shoot down three drones near the US-Mexico border in an operation led by Joint Task Force Southern Border...

Uber has launched London's first commercial robotaxi service, beating rival Waymo to market. The autonomous vehicles utilize driving technology from UK startup Wayve and will initially operate with sa...

OpenAI has delayed its powerful Astra model release to address safety issues after agents attacked real targets during testing. Researchers warn Astra may represent the worst development for AI securi...

The Trump administration has filed a statement of interest in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, supporting OpenAI's fair-use argument that training AI models on copyrighted text is...

Exit the Cave appears to be a philosophical reflection likely drawing on Plato's Allegory of the Cave, discussed on HackerNews with notable engagement (196 points, 66 comments). The post explores them...

A federal judge rejected the DOJ's proposed breakup of Google's ad tech business, opting instead for narrower remedies focused on data access and interoperability. The decision spares Google from a ma...

A new study reveals that aging brains don't simply forget memories—they blend them together, creating composite recollections. This finding shifts our understanding of age-related memory changes from ...

The article revisits Joel Spolsky's influential 2000 'Joel Test' for evaluating software team practices and proposes an updated 'Shelley Test' tailored to the AI agent era. It adds questions covering ...

The article benchmarks two PostgreSQL extensions for regular expressions — pg_tre and pg_re2 — against the database's built-in regex engine using a 1.6 million row dataset totaling 33GB. A simple patt...

GentleOS/16 is a fantasy hobby OS for vintage 16-bit PCs, requiring only an 8086 CPU and CGA display. Written in plain C for bare-metal tinkering, it serves as a simplified companion to GentleOS/32 an...

Palo Alto Networks has acquired AI-powered IT service automation company Console for $500 million, according to sources. The deal positions Serval, backed by Sequoia, as the leading startup in the AI ...

Google avoided a court-ordered breakup of its advertising business, but a judge mandated operational changes designed to benefit competitors. The ruling marks a significant shift in how Google can con...

Fervo Energy has secured a major deal with Google to supply 400 MW of enhanced geothermal power, with potential to expand to 1 GW — enough to power a large AI data center in Utah. The agreement marks ...

Jio, backed by India's richest man Mukesh Ambani, is launching an initiative to convert aging computers into AI-ready PCs for as low as $11 for two months of service. The move aims to democratize acce...

Adobe is integrating its creative suite—including Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere, and other tools—directly into Slack via its AI chatbot Slackbot and an MCP app. The integration allows users to leverage...

A bipartisan spending deal passed by the House includes a provision preventing the OMB from implementing rules that would give political appointees control over federally funded science grants. Senato...

The FCC plans to create a robocall mitigation scorecard rating phone companies on their effectiveness in blocking illegal spam calls. The tool would evaluate both operational practices and measurable ...

NASA is simplifying its lunar spacesuit design for the initial Artemis landing missions, working with Axiom Space on a lighter 'Sortie Suit' variant to reduce mass, complexity, and interface requireme...

Google has released Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash-model variant in just six weeks, emphasizing improved reasoning and coding capabilities. The model ships in two tiers — a standard Flash for agent...

A US federal judge ruled that Google will not be forced to sell its online advertising exchange (AdX) despite losing its 2025 antitrust trial. While the court found Google illegally locked publishers ...

Toyohiro Akiyama, the first Japanese citizen and first journalist in space, has died at age 84. He made history in December 1990 when he launched aboard Soyuz TM-11 and spent a week aboard the Mir spa...

Norway is considering a ban on camera-enabled wearable devices like smart glasses from Meta and Snap over privacy concerns. Digital Minister Karianne Tung announced plans to regulate facial recognitio...

MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) is entering a multi-year partnership with Google, featuring Gemini AI, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air in upcoming content. The collaboration kicks off on September 5 with ...

Paint.NET author Rick Brewster revealed that the team used Claude to create a clean-room reverse-engineered rewrite of Direct2D for WINE compatibility, producing ~180,000 lines of 'vibe coded' output....

Google has launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, an updated version of its Gemini 3.7 Flash model that performs more reasoning steps and iteratively calls tools on complex tasks. While the published pricing rema...

Pangram's Max Spero discusses the growing challenge of AI detection as AI-generated text and images increasingly infiltrate job applications, product reviews, and insurance claims. The piece highlight...

PhiloLabs has released Fable 5.1 with a new World Modeling module on GitHub. The project has garnered moderate attention on Hacker News with 111 points and 41 comments.

An article explaining Poisson Disk Sampling, a technique for generating random samples that are evenly distributed without clustering, commonly used in computer graphics and procedural generation. The...

The article demonstrates a folklore Haskell trick to implement dependent if expressions—branches returning different types—without requiring actual dependent types. Using the RebindableSyntax extensio...

A French blogger shares their strategy of claiming to not have a smartphone as a way to avoid forced app installations in daily life, from restaurants to household appliances. They argue that mandator...

Louis Abraham analyzes the linguistic patterns and vocabulary used by Claude, examining how certain words and phrases serve as structural or 'load-bearing' elements in its responses. The analysis like...

An educational blog post explaining the fundamentals of data compression, starting with simple boolean array serialization and expanding to generic compression algorithms like gzip. The author demonst...

The article explores using the ESP32 microcontroller as a platform for counter-surveillance, likely focusing on detecting and mitigating unauthorized surveillance devices or signals. The ESP32's dual-...

Anthropic launched a browser-based tool that detects whether a file was created or processed with Claude by reading embedded C2PA content credentials—cryptographically signed metadata attached to supp...

Tom Ellis reclassifies Bluefin, a Haskell library he released in early 2024, as a "capability system" rather than merely an effect system. Bluefin differs from traditional effect systems like effectfu...

The author draws a parallel between the Records of FATE from Chrono Cross and real-life reliance on AI chatbots, observing crowds at a baseball game checking phones instead of watching the game. The p...

X is transitioning U.S. creator payouts from Stripe to its own X Money payments service, effectively replacing the third-party payment processor that previously handled creator earnings.

MapQuest has surged to the No.1 position on Apple's U.S. App Store after refusing to adopt Trump's proposed 'Lake America' renaming. The mapping app captured more than half of its 2026 U.S. downloads ...

Wonderful has more than doubled its valuation to $5B following a $550 million Series C funding round in under six months. The company plans to use the funds to accelerate product development, expand i...

Amazon has added a scam-detection feature to Alexa for Shopping that can verify whether suspicious emails, texts, and other messages actually originated from the retailer. The tool aims to help shoppe...

Adobe has acquired India-based marketing intelligence startup Rilo in a team and IP acquisition deal, marking its second purchase from India after 2023's Rephrase.ai buy. Rilo's technology focuses on ...

Uber is laying off approximately 3,300 employees, representing about 10% of its global workforce. The company aims to reduce management layers and redirect resources toward its core ridesharing, deliv...

Russia's Rassvet satellite internet project is struggling, with at least three of its first 32 satellites likely suffering outright failures and more potentially in trouble. The project, positioned as...

1Password faced customer backlash over a $300,000 pledge to support Omarchy, a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has published controversial and racially charged blog posts. The co...

Amazon is introducing an AI-powered verification feature in Alexa for Shopping that lets users confirm whether an email, text, or call genuinely originated from the company. The assistant compares rec...

Range Rover's new electric SUV retains the iconic design of its gas-powered counterparts rather than adopting a futuristic aesthetic, marking a refreshing approach from automakers. Under the hood, it ...

IFA 2026 in Berlin is showcasing new tech ahead of its public opening, including upgrades competing with Apple's MacBook Neo, a portable gaming controller, and a concept handheld from Acer that blends...

Simon Willison released llm-gemini 0.34, adding support for Google's new Gemini 3.8 Flash model with configurable thinking levels (low, medium, high). The release also fixes a bug where async response...

Anthropic has updated Claude's system prompt with a new section that explicitly forbids reproducing song lyrics, poems, and book passages—even short excerpts, choruses, or melodies written note by not...

Simon Willison tests Claude Fable 5.1's pelican animation benchmark across all five reasoning levels, finding some puzzling results where low and medium effort modes produced no visible reasoning trac...