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OpenAI has published what appears to be a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, one of the seven most important unsolved problems in mathematics. The article has generated significan...
Levent Alpöge and Tristan Buckmaster announced a major breakthrough proving finite-time blowup with smooth forcing for the 3D incompressible Euler, Boussinesq, and inviscid primitive equations (IPM). ...
Meta failed to detect and remove 332 ads this year promoting AI nudify apps that digitally altered real children's photos into CSAM content, including images of a young European royal and a preteen In...
Google DeepMind has released the AlphaGenome Atlas, a comprehensive resource mapping the functional elements of the human genome using AI. The atlas provides predictions of regulatory activity across ...
Tristan Buckmaster, a NYU mathematician, has released a statement/paper related to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the seven Clay Mathematics Institute Millennium Prize prob...
Samsung and TSMC have announced plans to adopt ASML's high NA EUV lithography machines, joining Intel in agreeing to a crucial technology change that could boost chip production by 40%. This marks a s...
OpenAI claims to have solved the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems that has stumped mathematicians for nearly 90 years. The company used an internal AI model more power...
Meta has unveiled Muse, a personal AI agent designed to assist users across their digital workflows. The platform integrates with Meta's ecosystem and aims to provide a more personalized and context-a...
A project called Deltafin demonstrates running the massive Kimi K3 2.8T parameter model on a MacBook Pro at 1 token/s by streaming weights from four SSDs. This showcases impressive optimization for lo...
Jellyfin 12.0 is a major stable release that completes the database conversion started in 10.11, delivers significant performance improvements, and adds long-awaited support for books and comics. The ...
Ladybird browser's August 2026 update brings significant improvements including Twitch video playback, expanded YouTube codec support (AV1, H.265, H.264), CSS scroll snap, JavaScript debugging in DevT...
The author factored RSA keys from a 1990s Certificate Authority by extracting old root certificates from archived browser installers on archive.org. Using modern computing power, small RSA keys from t...
Cognition, the startup behind AI coding assistant Devin, raised $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation, up from $26 billion just four months earlier. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, Fo...
The Exploration Company (TEC) has raised $450 million in what it calls the largest-ever Series C by a European space company, aiming to build reusable spacecraft and challenge SpaceX's dominance. The ...
Google is reviving a nuclear power plant in Iowa, and the U.S. Energy Department has approved a $1.9 billion loan to support the project. The initiative marks a significant step in Google's efforts to...
Chrome has officially switched from a four-week to a two-week release schedule with the launch of Chrome 153, accelerating its update cadence to better address AI-driven security threats. The faster c...
French AI lab Mistral has raised €3 billion in a Series D round at a €21 billion valuation, led by Samsung, Scaleup Europe, and PSG Equity. The funding underscores the growing commercial momentum behi...
A white hat hacker exploited a bug in Blockstream's Liquid Network to steal approximately $340M in Bitcoin, then agreed to return most of the funds after the bug was fixed. Around 3,400 of the roughly...
The Supreme Court ruled that broadcast TV stations must extend the "lowest unit charge" ad discounts to political parties and joint fundraising committees, not just individual candidates. The decision...
Google released WeatherNext v3, its AI weather forecast model, with a key upgrade that now ingests raw satellite data alongside reanalysis data. This reduces the lag time between current atmospheric c...
Google has complied with EU Digital Markets Act requirements by restructuring its travel search results in Europe, but claims the changes significantly degrade user experience. Features like instant p...
Chinese scientists have developed a new aluminum material inspired by eggshell mechanics that could provide enhanced protection against space debris for next-generation spacecraft. The design leverage...
Stoke Space raised $1 billion in Series E funding, bringing total capital to $2.3 billion despite not yet attempting an orbital launch. The company announced plans for a larger Block 2 Nova rocket (15...
OpenAI has released ChatGPT Images 2.5, featuring improved instruction-following across multiple turns, faster response times, and better subject preservation in reference photos. Two new API model ID...
Inception Labs introduces Mercury 2.5, an updated version of their AI product. The release represents a notable iteration in their product line, building on previous versions with likely improvements ...
Quesma benchmarks Qwen3.8 27B model across different quantization levels, finding that 4-bit quantization maintains strong performance while 1-bit quantization severely degrades model quality. The ana...
Blackmagic Design released DaVinci Resolve 21.1, a minor update to their professional video editing and color grading platform. The release typically includes bug fixes, performance improvements, and ...
FreeBSD 14.5-Release has been announced, continuing the 14.x stable branch with routine updates and improvements. This release follows the standard FreeBSD release cycle for the 14.x series.
Copperhead is a new AI-powered tool that brings Cursor-like intelligent code assistance to circuit board design, allowing hardware engineers to use AI for PCB layout and design tasks. The project was ...
The author transformed an Xteink X3 e-ink display into a network-accessible printer by implementing the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) server, enabling macOS to print directly to it via Bonjour disc...
Rust 1.100 introduces the empty type (! or never) to all type annotations, not just function return types. The article explains the key distinction between the empty type and the bottom type: Rust's !...
CERN is migrating some of its accelerator control systems from CentOS Linux to Debian, as presented at MiniDebConf Winterthur 2026 by engineers Federico Vaga and Nikos Tsipinakis. The migration addres...
Austin Henley argues that type inference, while widely adopted across modern languages, may hinder code comprehension and increase cognitive load rather than simplify it. He points out that developers...
A developer and collaborator DNEK code-golfed a fully functional Minesweeper game into just 247 bytes of JavaScript, featuring an 8x8 board, left-click to open, right-click to flag, recursive cell ope...
Hackers are exploiting Claude subscriptions to consume tokens without user activity, as first reported by a user last month. Anthropic has since issued a warning to its user base about the unauthorize...
Meta has launched Muse, a personal AI agent that seeks access to users' email, calendars, payments, and health services, marking its most ambitious consumer AI initiative to date. The move represents ...
An NYU mathematician has accused OpenAI of unethical conduct in relation to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the most prestigious unsolved math problems with a $1 million Cla...
Poseidon Aerospace has secured $60M in funding ahead of its first pilotless test flight, aiming to revolutionize cargo aviation economics by eliminating pilots from aircraft operations. The startup is...
Stoke Space has completed the initial closing of a $1 billion Series E funding round, aimed at reaching orbit with its reusable rocket and developing a larger next-generation vehicle. The company posi...
Nuclear energy startup Bluecore Energy has raised an oversubscribed $50 million seed round, just two months after its launch and a prior $10 million pre-seed raise. The rapid funding signals strong in...
Eric Wu, the founder of Opendoor, is leading NavigateAI, which builds AI copilots providing hands-free guidance to construction workers via smartphones and Meta AI glasses. The company has raised $25 ...
The White House created and published an anti-immigration-themed Tetris clone called 'Build the Wall,' which was quickly removed after The Tetris Company threatened copyright action. The game asked pl...
Free Stars: Children of Infinity, the official sequel to The Ur-Quan Masters by the original creators, has released a free combat demo on Steam and GOG. The demo features arcade-style fleet combat wit...
A new study indicates that EV batteries retain approximately 90% of their original usable capacity even after 150,000 km of driving, challenging common concerns about battery degradation. This finding...
Sony clarified that its Thalgau disc manufacturing plant will only reduce production by 10% in 2028, not the previously reported 90%. The company is still committed to phasing out game discs by Januar...
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Images 2.5, introducing a new Sketch feature that lets users draw doodles directly in ChatGPT to generate detailed AI images. The feature is activated by typing @Sketch, an...
Meta is launching Muse, a personal AI agent designed to autonomously handle everyday tasks such as online shopping, emailing, and trip planning. The product is part of a multi-billion-dollar strategy ...
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Anthropic by Claude subscribers who claim the company deceptively advertised the limits of its Max subscription tier, promising more than users actually r...
Nintendo is confidently showcasing its Legend of Zelda franchise at a 30-minute Switch 2 event, directly competing with the upcoming GTA VI release window. The showcase highlighted a Switch 2 remake o...
Tesla Cybercab riders have discovered a hidden virtual joystick on the central display that allows manual vehicle control, despite the vehicle being designed without a steering wheel or pedals. The fe...
Amazon has removed the Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition from sale across multiple regional websites including the US and UK, marking it as currently unavailable. While this could simply be a supply ...
A Hacker News post showcasing an LLM attention visualization tool hosted at ishamf.dev. The project allows users to visualize how attention mechanisms work in large language models, likely providing a...
A GitHub project called 'I-have-ADHD' provides a skill designed to help coding agents deliver concise, well-structured answers instead of overwhelming users with excessive detail. The tool addresses a...
Ricky Mondello, who works at Apple in password management, shares a personal guide on switching between password managers using iOS data portability features. He demonstrates exporting from 1Password ...
Developer Henri Bergius explains his decision to switch his default software license to EUPL-1.2, citing dissatisfaction with permissive open source licenses that he believes have benefited large corp...
The article explores the concept of Extreme Server Side Rendering (XSSR) by first reviewing traditional old-school and new-school SSR approaches, then investigating what happens when HTTP responses ar...
The article explains how to obtain a free .arpa domain by registering an IPv6 address through Hurricane Electric's tunnelbroker.net service and leveraging the ip6.arpa reverse DNS records to host a we...
Ben reverse engineered the hardware and firmware of his Egret GT e-scooter, analyzing component communication and discovering firmware update capabilities over Bluetooth. He explored the mobile app's ...
Bedrock 2.0, a minimal starter-kit for Emacs, has been released, requiring Emacs 31. The update introduces lexical-binding across all .el files, improved tree-sitter configuration, and several simplif...
The article explores obsolete HTML snippets that persist on websites as relics from browser wars and third-party integrations, such as the X-UA-Compatible meta tag used to target specific Internet Exp...
As part of GSoC 2026, Henrique Brito worked on testing NetBSD's compat_linux syscall compatibility layer using the Linux Test Project (LTP). The project involved compiling LTP tests under NetBSD, fixi...
The author describes a DIY solution for serving web from a homelab behind a volatile dial-up IP by using a cron job that polls connectivity and SSHes into a reverse proxy VPS to update its config when...
Rivian's micromobility spinoff Also has apologized for delays in shipping its high-tech TM-B electric bike, which features a software-controlled pedal-by-wire system and USB-C chargeable battery. The ...
Razer's BlackShark V3 Pro gaming headset with ANC is on sale at Woot for $164.99, a $100 discount from its $249.99 price. The Xbox version is recommended as it also works with PlayStation, PC, Switch,...
Simon Willison released llm 0.35, an update to his popular command-line tool for accessing large language models. The release adds support for OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra model, accessible via the identi...
The Bigme B6 Pro Color is a compact 6-inch e-reader running Android 14 with full Google Play Store access, a sharp display, and expandable storage. It positions itself as a versatile e-ink device comb...