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A Go grandmaster named Shin has defeated the powerful AI engine KataGo using a two-stone handicap, marking a notable moment in the ongoing human-versus-AI competition in Go. The game has drawn signifi...

Tesla has launched a website form to collect interest from individuals looking to purchase and operate Cybercab vehicles in fleets, indicating a potential decentralized rollout of its autonomous taxi ...

Reports allege RFK Jr. directed CDC director Erica Schwartz to remove two measles deaths from the agency's public data, which CDC staff had already reviewed and confirmed as measles-related. An intern...

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, a new model competing with Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, available to ChatGPT Plus/Pro/Business/Enterprise users and via API at $10/million input and $50/million output. The...

Audacity 4.0 has been released, marking a major milestone for the popular open-source audio editing software. The update brings significant performance improvements, new features, and long-requested e...

CERN is transitioning its 2,200+ industrial accelerator-control computers from RHEL/CentOS to Debian Linux, ending a long-standing relationship with Red Hat-derived systems. The decision was driven by...

Rust 1.98.1 is a point release that fixes a miscompilation in vtable generation from Rust 1.98.0, where rustc could incorrectly generate trait object vtables with null pointers instead of function poi...

Go 1.24 replaces its old map runtime implementation with a Swiss Table-based design, improving performance. The article provides a gradual, visual walkthrough of how Go maps work internally, starting ...

Virtualizor disclosed that between August 28-30, 2026, their Softaculous IP range (162.55.80.0/24) was targeted in a BGP hijack by AS62390 (NexonHost), diverting traffic through an attacker's server. ...

Thinking Machines, the AI lab founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is in talks to raise $1 billion at a valuation of at least $40 billion, with Accel leading the round. The company's annual reven...

OpenAI has launched Astra, a new model it claims represents a significant leap forward in computer and browser automation tasks. The company touts its speed, accuracy, and safety, though the release h...

Google has released WeatherNext 3, its latest deep learning-based AI weather model, which will integrate into Google Search, Google Maps, and Gemini. This represents a continued evolution in Google's ...

Microsoft is introducing strict monthly time limits for Game Pass game streaming starting in November, capping access at 15 hours for Ultimate, 10 hours for Premium, and 5 hours for Essential subscrib...

New Jersey has petitioned the Supreme Court to allow states to regulate sports betting on prediction markets like Kalshi, challenging a 3rd Circuit ruling that placed such bets under exclusive federal...

Over 150 research primates suffered a Shigella outbreak at a research center, but the resulting immunological data has provided crucial insights for vaccine development. Published in Science Translati...

The article discusses the termination of the .name top-level domain, a controversial gTLD that faced long-standing issues including abuse and low adoption. Neil Fraser's post likely covers the end of ...

K2 Horizon introduces a connected fleet of six open AI models designed to work collaboratively. The release represents a notable step toward multi-model AI systems where specialized open models can co...

Polars, the high-performance DataFrame library, has announced a pre-release of version 2.0. The announcement has generated significant interest on Hacker News, with 377 points and 128 comments, indica...

The article documents the newcomers-presets theme introduced in Emacs 31 (released Aug 2026), designed to make the editor more approachable for new users. It covers how to enable and persist the theme...

The article explains why the browser's main thread is a critical bottleneck for frontend performance, especially on highly interactive pages with live data, animations, and scrolling. It categorizes s...

Electric utilities are increasingly partnering with fusion energy startups to meet surging power demands from AI data centers. Realta Fusion is the latest startup to benefit from these utility partner...

Meta is offering a ~95% discount on its new Muse Spark coding agent model to users who opt in to share their prompts and model outputs, which will be used to train future iterations. The program expli...

Circular has unveiled its Ring 3 series, introducing contactless payment capabilities and on-finger vibration alerts. The launch comes amid intensifying competition in the smart ring market following ...

TikTok withdrew from a scheduled congressional roundtable before the House Select Committee on China, citing concerns about facing questions on child safety practices. Committee Chair John Moolenaar a...

Google has updated its Terms of Service to suspend accounts involved in third-party usage of its 'antigravity' (anti-gravity/Levitation) technology, indicating tighter control over experimental featur...

A Hacker News discussion thread explores why OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and xAI's Grok experienced simultaneous outages. The post links to status pages for all three services, with the asso...

An indie developer ported their 1993 Amiga game from MC68000 assembly to Godot using Claude Sonnet 5 as an assistant. The LLM successfully assembled the original code to be byte-identical to the shipp...

An unsubstantiated claim suggests that military commissary freezers may have been compromised by hackers. The article, published on Brian Krebs' Signal and Silence Substack, investigates potential IoT...

Jim Nielsen argues that uptime percentages are a poor way to communicate service reliability to non-technical audiences, noting that 99.9% and 99.99% look similar but represent a 10x difference. He su...

Mark Moxon documents his process of hacking the BBC Micro version of Elite (the 6502 Second Processor edition) to support two-player gameplay. The project required significant modifications including ...

Amazon's Zoox is expanding its robotaxi service to Las Vegas airport, shortly after it began charging for rides. The move marks Zoox's growth into a high-traffic transportation hub.

Ugreen has launched the MagFlow Pro, a $149.99 10,000mAh magnetic wireless power bank featuring what it claims is the world's first liquid-cooling system with a micro-pump circulating coolant to draw ...

Netflix is developing a live-action 'Ravenloft' series based on the iconic Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting, with Alfonso Cuarón and John August attached as executive producers. The series will rep...

Circular announced its Ring 3 Series featuring two models — Pro and Slim — with health-tracking features including FDA-cleared atrial fibrillation detection. Both models add vibrating alerts for alarm...