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Security researchers from Strix AI demonstrated how they gained admin-level access to Baseten's production GitHub organization within 25 minutes by exploiting a leaked Harbor CI/CD personal access tok...

The US has confirmed for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space, a disclosure prompted by China's publicized space weapon tests. This announcement marks a significant escalation in the m...

The Trump administration's EPA has announced a final plan to eliminate the 2024 Carbon Pollution Standards for power plants, arguing the rules exceed the agency's authority under the Clean Air Act. Th...

The article examines Jonathan Haidt's thesis that smartphones and social media are primary drivers of declining teen mental health, while exploring counterarguments challenging that causal link. It co...

A developer successfully built a Linux GPU driver for Apple's M4 Mac Mini in just one month, achieving functional GPU acceleration on Linux for Apple Silicon hardware. The work represents a significan...

Google has released two new variants of its Gemini 3.8 model: Gemini 3.8 Live for real-time interactive applications, and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, which adds deeper reasoning capabilities fo...

Swift 6.4 introduces several notable improvements including making Swift Build the default in Swift Package Manager, Subprocess reaching 1.0 for stable cross-platform process interaction, and enhanced...

Microsoft announced performance improvements in .NET 11, highlighting optimizations across the runtime including enhancements to JIT compilation, garbage collection, and overall throughput for both CP...

Trail of Bits criticizes 1Password's August 2026 AI patching benchmark, arguing its 26% clean-fix rate is misleading due to flawed experimental design including intentionally wrong prompts, inability ...

David Anekstein demonstrates how to perform Dijkstra's algorithm directly on algebraic graph representations without converting them to adjacency maps, avoiding O(n^2) edge materialization. The approa...

SpaceX is scheduled to attempt its first orbital launch of Starship on September 22, marking a major milestone for the super-heavy lift vehicle. The mission will also deploy the first V3 Starlink sate...

US data centers driven by the AI boom could become one of the world's largest natural gas consumers by 2035, surpassing Germany and Japan combined. The projection highlights the growing energy demands...

The U.S. military has officially acknowledged for the first time that it deployed on-orbit space control weapons designed to defend against hostile adversary actions in space. Air Force Secretary Troy...

Profound, an AI Engineering Operating System (AEO) startup, has raised $180 million in Series D funding at a $1.8 billion valuation. The round comes just seven months after its $96 million Series C, s...

India is ending free merchant processing for its Unified Payments Interface (UPI) network, implementing a 0.4% fee on transactions above ₹2,000 starting October 15. The move aims to make the system fi...

Agility Robotics has introduced its Digit 5 humanoid robot, engineered with advanced safety features that allow it to detect nearby humans and respond by stopping, avoiding them, or even squatting to ...

SpaceX has declared its Starship vehicle ready for orbital flight and set a launch date of September 22, marking the first attempt to reach orbit with the 14th Starship mission. The rocket will carry ...

Boston ended its trial with Flock Safety after the company inadvertently enabled a nationwide data-sharing feature for license plate reader data collected by the Boston Police Department, violating co...

A Mozilla report reveals the performance gap between US frontier AI models and Chinese open-weights models has narrowed to just 4.4 months, with top open models now costing only 30% of closed alternat...

Typesafe introduces System One Models and Jev, a new framework likely aimed at integrating AI model inference with type-safe software development practices. The announcement appears to target develope...

The Internet Archive posted an update regarding changes to Wayback Machine access, likely addressing recent policy adjustments around sign-in requirements and usage limits. The post responds to signif...

A creative e-ink display project that uses audio sensing to detect birdsong and automatically generates 19th-century style illustrations of the birds being heard. The hardware appears to be an Arduino...

WebKit is rejecting the W3C working group's push for developer-controlled APIs to install progressive web apps, arguing installation should be the browser's responsibility rather than exposed to devel...

A developer shares a balanced assessment of GDScript after porting a system from TypeScript to Godot, praising its game-focused design with native vector types, integer/floating-point distinction, use...

Philadelphia is facing a national backlash over plans to build AI data centers in neighborhoods already affected by a former oil refinery. The city's industrial history is colliding with the new AI in...

txcript is a Rust library and CLI that converts AI coding agent session transcripts between platforms like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenCode, enabling users to continue conversations across dif...

The author demonstrates that GitHub Pages and Releases can serve as a free Nix binary cache due to their lenient CORS policy and flat file serving. Building on tomberek's github-store, the technique i...

Meta has introduced a WhatsApp Business MCP server enabling AI coding agents (Claude, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT) to automate business account setup, messaging template management, testing, and troublesho...

A roundup of the most damaging cybersecurity incidents in 2026, including a major data breach linked to DOGE, compromises of critical infrastructure, and hacking of federal surveillance systems. The a...

Thatch, a health benefits platform helping employers manage rising healthcare costs through Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements (ICHRA), has reached a $1 billion valuation. The model...

Wonder, founded by e-commerce veteran Marc Lore, has secured a $425 million partnership with DoorDash as it expands its food delivery portfolio. The deal signals Wonder's aggressive push into building...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has enough fuel for 22 years of operation, double the agency's original expectations. The observatory is notable for being NASA's first designed with in-space ...

A private torrent tracker banned user posed as an independent filmmaker to sue PassThePopcorn and other trackers for copyright infringement, allegedly as an act of revenge. The real filmmaker disavowe...

AIUC, a startup founded by an early Anthropic hire and former METR COO, has developed a method to prevent rogue AI agents from acting outside their intended scope. The company raised $40 million in a ...

An unvaccinated 18-year-old in Pennsylvania died from acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM), a severe neurological complication of measles. This marks the fourth measles-related death in the sta...

A ChargePoint report highlights that EV charging infrastructure demand continues to outpace supply despite strong EV adoption growth, with over 1.8 million EVs sold in the US through August. ChargePoi...

GM is introducing redesigned user interfaces for the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks, featuring a more minimalist design with a black background and multiple display modes includ...

The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season has reached its traditional peak with no hurricanes forming, marking the latest start on record since 1941 when monitoring began. Saharan dust and wind shear are sup...

Volvo is refreshing its bestselling XC60 and XC90 plug-in hybrids for 2028 with significantly larger batteries that more than double the real-world electric range compared to earlier PHEV versions. Th...

Microsoft is hosting a Windows and Surface event on October 7th in San Francisco, focusing on how local AI will shape the future of PCs. Satya Nadella, Pavan Davuluri, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will...

Fujifilm has announced the Instax Pal 2, a follow-up to its quirky palm-sized camera from three years ago. The new version adds a screen and viewfinder, features a 1/3.06-inch sensor with an f/2.2 28m...

Meta is launching global subscription bundles called Meta One that combine its app subscriptions (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) with extra AI usage, following the launch of its Muse AI assistant. The...

German defense contractor Rheinmetall has open-sourced the onboard API documentation for its Battlesuite connected weapon system protocol, built on OMG's DDS standard with multi-language support. The ...

Amazon has switched all Kindle book and e-reader images to the AVIF format, replacing previous PNG and JPEG formats. This change is now live on Amazon's main website and aims to improve image quality ...

An article reflecting on the legacy and eventual fulfillment of the CSS Zen Garden concept, a pioneering web design experiment from the early 2000s that demonstrated CSS separation from HTML. The auth...

A developer built Capsule, a single-file SQLite-based application format that embeds HTML assets and data into one portable .capsule file. It offers localStorage-like and MongoDB-inspired APIs for dat...

The author demonstrates repurposing an inexpensive $20 4G wireless hotspot device into a text messaging capable gadget by modifying or hacking its firmware/hardware. The project shows practical revers...

An article by the Norwegian Consumer Authority advocating for higher product quality standards and making durability the norm rather than an exception. The piece addresses concerns around planned obso...

ORI from Eigenstate has released an early, buggy preview of GEFS (a crash-safe, snapshotting, copy-on-write filesystem originally written for 9front) ported to OpenBSD kernel. The filesystem is far fr...

An F-Droid user and FOSS maintainer investigates how many apps on F-Droid may have been generated or heavily assisted by LLMs, going through a long list of apps and evaluating them against self-define...

Victoria Lacroix documents her experience writing MoonForth, a Forth implementation in C built on Lua's C API. She started by studying JonesForth's source code as a reference, though she sidestepped i...

IBM designed and built a powerful Cold War-era cryptanalytic supercomputer exclusively for the NSA. The revelation highlights the deep collaboration between IBM and U.S. intelligence during the Cold W...

The AI Contact Hotline has been introduced as a discreet channel where AI agents can report observed misbehavior to authorities. The initiative aims to create accountability mechanisms as AI agents be...

TechCrunch compiles a running list of AI projects and startups that failed to meet expectations or shut down entirely, including notable mentions like Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI overhaul and O...

Meta is expanding its subscription model by introducing new AI-focused plans under the Meta One bundle, which combines premium access to its AI tools with enhanced features across Facebook, Instagram,...

Privacy-focused alternatives Nitter and XCancel have gone offline again following escalated legal action from X (formerly Twitter). The services allowed users to browse X content without creating an a...

OpenAI has confirmed it has been holding safety discussions with Anthropic and Google DeepMind for several weeks. Meanwhile, the Trump administration appears to be deprioritizing AI safety concerns in...

Former TikTok executives have launched Superpose, an AI-powered camera app that analyzes selfies or photos and generates four suggested poses to help users improve their photography framing. The app a...

Evvy, a women's health company focused on vaginal microbiome research, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by Catalio Capital Management. The funding will support further research i...

Kia unveiled its PV7 electric van at IAA Transportation in Germany, marking its second offering in the all-electric van segment. The reveal comes as minivan sales in the US have surged 21% in 2025, si...

A New York Times and Siena University poll of 1,503 likely voters found that 61% oppose the construction of data centers to power AI, with only 14% strongly supporting them. The issue splits along par...

The Oregon Trail evolved from an 1970s educational classroom game into a generational icon, with its legacy explored in a podcast episode discussing its academic origins, cultural impact, and infamous...

Light Phone is adding a Rideshare tool that integrates Uber and Lyft directly into its minimalist devices, allowing users to book rides, view ETAs and fares, and contact drivers. The feature serves as...