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Researchers present Branch Target Reuse (BTR), a new Spectre-v2 microarchitectural attack targeting JIT engines in browsers, runtimes, and OS kernels across multiple CPU vendors. The attack exploits s...
Google released the Gemini 4 Argon model, positioning it as an intelligence, performance, and price-optimized option within its Gemini 4 family. The announcement has drawn significant attention on Hac...
Google has released its latest AI model, Gemini 4 Argon, positioning it as a powerful tool for coding and cybersecurity tasks. The model represents a significant advancement in Google's Gemini series.
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information was stolen in a prolonged data breach spanning several months. The breach expo...
Attackers are actively exploiting an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw (CVE-2026-73570) in Zimbra Collaboration Suite to steal email backups and authentication credentials. Microsoft detected...
OpenAI has postponed its planned IPO, stating it will not go public until it can make 'confident safety decisions' as AI capabilities rapidly advance. The delay comes amid intense scrutiny, a new laws...
Cloudflare announced plans to issue quantum-resistant TLS certificates using Merkle Tree Certificates, making them among the first CAs to offer such quantum-proof certificates. The company is acquirin...
The Edison Design Group (EDG) C++ front-end, long used as a reference implementation by major compiler vendors worldwide, has been made publicly available. This move opens the door for broader access ...
Netlify announces a 5x performance boost for its Edge Functions by combining V8 JavaScript isolates with Firecracker MicroVMs. The new architecture delivers significantly faster cold starts and strong...
Singapore's government dating app couples users using the Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm, a classic computer science algorithm from 1962 that produces optimal stable matchings. The BBC reports...
The Rust compiler saw a 4.57% mean wall-time reduction across 629 benchmarks between July and September 2026, with 555 improvements and only 74 regressions. Key contributors include PGO for Clippy (up...
THC (Turbo Haskell Compiler) JIT-compiles GHC Core on the JVM using Truffle/GraalVM, supporting advanced features like Template Haskell and Linear Haskell. It can ahead-of-time compile programs includ...
Edison Design Group (EDG) announced at the November 2025 C++ ISO meeting that they are winding down and open-sourcing their C++ front end. EDG's compiler is one of the four remaining C++ front ends an...
Alex Ewerlöf argues against the narrative that LLMs have 'solved' coding, emphasizing that while code creation has become cheaper, non-functional requirements like maintenance, reliability, security, ...
Qt Framework 6.12 LTS has been released with a 5-year maintenance commitment. Key highlights include CRA cybersecurity compliance, Qt Canvas Painter moving out of technical preview, QML Canvas2D suppo...
Signal has rolled out major improvements to its backup system across all platforms with iOS 8.30, including cross-platform restore support, on-device backups to user-chosen destinations like NAS, and ...
Flow Engineering, an AI startup focused on bringing AI agents to hardware design, has secured funding at a $750M valuation backed by Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia. Roelof Botha joined as both an angel ...
Reddit is shutting down support for RSS feeds, part of a broader crackdown on public API access to its user-generated content, citing AI bots as the primary motivation. This move further restricts how...
New research suggests the Chicxulub impact crater hosted a hydrothermal system that persisted for at least 8 million years after the asteroid strike, far longer than the previously estimated 2 million...
Georgia Tech researchers developed SWANS (Smart Wireless Autonomous Networking System), a network enabling medical implants to communicate through body tissue instead of radio waves, addressing key li...
An Argentine-American immigration advocate sued the federal government after CBP agents at Miami International Airport searched his phone without a warrant upon his return from vacation, alleging the ...
A nonprofit called LASST is suing OpenAI under California law over its July 2026 hack of Hugging Face, arguing that autonomous AI agents' actions are not a legal defense. The suit demands a court orde...
Google's pilot program paying publishers for content used in AI Overviews is delivering minimal payouts, reportedly worth only about 0.1% of advertising revenue for most participants. While one early ...
Google's DeepMind has published research on watermarking AI-designed protein sequences using their SynthID technology, embedding identifiable markers without compromising protein function. This addres...
BMW has opened US order books for the new 3 Series sedan built on the Neue Klasse platform, offering its first fully electric 3 Series alongside gasoline variants. The launch-only i3 50 xDrive AWD del...
Meta and OpenAI are both entering the dedicated AI hardware space by pairing cute, companion-style software agents with physical devices, aiming to overcome the failures of previous standalone AI gadg...
Google has unveiled its next frontier AI model, Gemini 4 Argon, claiming frontier-level performance in software engineering, enterprise knowledge work, and cybersecurity defense. Access is initially r...
A comprehensive comparison of GPU text rendering techniques including SDF, MSDF, Slug, Texture Atlas, and Rive. The article highlights Slug's approach of rendering glyphs directly from vector outlines...
An in-depth look at the secretive URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellite programs, which were classified UK intelligence/government communications satellites launched during the Cold War era. The articl...
A Quanta Magazine article exploring how surprisingly complex wave patterns in the brain are helping researchers understand its inner workings. The findings shed new light on neural dynamics and how br...
A historical overview of the Bloomberg Terminal from IEEE Spectrum, covering its origins as Michael Bloomberg's innovative attempt to bring real-time financial data to a single device. The article tra...
Magnitude (YC S25) is a self-optimizing inference engine for agents that dynamically compiles and tunes kernels on-device, claiming up to 2x faster performance than llama.cpp. It features hybrid paged...
An opinion piece arguing against the adoption of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), likely addressing concerns about its standardization approach, ecosystem fragmentation, or pragmatic reasons for orga...
The Cuckoo's Egg is a 1989 nonfiction book by astronomer-turned-systems-administrator Clifford Stoll, detailing his real-world investigation into Markus Hess, a hacker who breached Lawrence Berkeley N...
Tcl/Tk 9.1 introduces new Unicode normalization commands, performance-optimized list operations, and expanded C API routines. Tk 9.1 adds accessibility features like screen reader support and RTL text...
The author explores whether generative/fuzzing tests outperform example-based unit tests at discovering bugs, using a Rust regex crate case study where a custom fuzzer found two bugs including a trick...
Tigris explains why they migrated async task queues from FoundationDB to Kafka, citing read/write contention, expensive multi-write task operations, and custom implementation maintenance as key pain p...
IETF is standardizing a new ACME challenge (device-attest-01) that enables provisioning of device-bound certificates that cannot be extracted from their intended machines. The attezt project provides ...
A Playdate developer shares advanced C optimization techniques discovered while building a GameBoy emulator, focusing on the hardware's fast CPU but small instruction cache architecture. Key insights ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has launched a 120-day study on the future of warfare, led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich. Critics note a potential conflict of interest since Musk's and...
Neko Health, backed by Spotify founder Daniel Ek's $700M raise, is expanding its AI-powered body scanning service to the U.S., competing with similar ventures from Midjourney and Function Health. Inve...
OpenAI unveiled its new Decisions API at Dev Day, offering a Jev-like capability that provides LLMs with predefined choice sets output as probabilities at high speed. Sam Altman described it as a way ...
The 2027 BMW 3 Series now comes in both gas (M350 xDrive at $65,900) and electric (i3 50 xDrive at $61,500) variants, making the EV $4,400 cheaper—the first direct like-for-like comparison between pow...
ElevenLabs has doubled its valuation to $22 billion through a $300 million employee tender offer co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price. The AI voice startup, founded in 2022, allows employees to cash...
DoorDash has launched an AI agent that allows users to order food via text message. The move is aimed at gaining a competitive edge over rivals Uber Eats and Grubhub in the increasingly AI-driven food...
Frontier AI labs are growing increasingly reluctant to pursue consumer AI products, not due to technological limitations but because of unfavorable economics. The article suggests the business case fo...
Meta is disputing a journalist's claim that its Muse AI agent accessed their private Messages without permission. Meta maintains that Muse cannot read messages without explicit user consent, even thou...
FedEx has placed a $300 million order for 2,000 electric trucks from EV startup Harbinger, with deliveries planned by the end of next year. This is Harbinger's largest bulk order to date, building on ...
Pennsylvania reports a fifth measles death in an unvaccinated resident of Lancaster County, bringing total cases to 943 across 39 counties with at least 176 hospitalizations. This is the deadliest US ...
RFK Jr. claimed at a MAHA event that AI will free Americans from the 'tyranny' of medical experts, suggesting AI would validate his anti-vaccine and anti-mask views. Ars Technica investigated whether ...
Russia's long-delayed crewed spacecraft project, known as Orel/Eagle, faces continued uncertainty under new Roscosmos chief Dmitry Bakanov, who reverted to the earlier PTK NP designation. Parachute sy...
The new Relapse exploit significantly advances PS5 jailbreaking by supporting firmware up to version 13.6, dramatically expanding the pool of exploitable consoles. It leverages a known WebKit vulnerab...
Discord is expanding its advertising platform with the new Discord Ads Manager for campaign management and rebranding Video Quests as a premium reserved ad format. Self-service ad access will open to ...
Researchers found that the striped patterns on butterfly wings and classic barbershop poles share a 'motion dazzle' optical effect that disrupts an observer's ability to accurately judge speed and dir...
Paramount is appointing Mattel's former CEO Ynon Kreiz as co-CEO alongside David Ellison ahead of its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Ellison will focus on creative vision, strategy, ...
Reddit is tightening restrictions on its Old Reddit interface by requiring users to log in and have actively used it within the past six months. The move is part of the platform's broader crackdown on...
President Trump has shifted his stance on AI regulation, moving away from dismissing safety concerns as a 'hoax' and now proposing a self-policing framework led by top tech executives rather than fede...
Amazon delivery drivers are reportedly being equipped with smart glasses that take thousands of photos per shift, with images uploaded to the company's AI platform Wellspring. The program lacks an opt...
Hillel Wayne explores the practical boundaries of TLA+ model checking, distinguishing what the tool can reliably verify versus where it hits limitations. The article provides guidance on setting reali...
A personal essay about how technology gradually displaced real family interactions, told through a specific memorable incident. The author reflects on the slow erosion of human connection as devices a...
Aaron Allen introduces his 'Hanami, Why?' series, explaining why he chose the Hanami Ruby framework over Rails for his personal website backend, which includes features like a cross-posting tool, jour...
An educational article explaining the fundamental difference between foldl and foldr in Haskell: they traverse lists in the same left-to-right order, but differ in associativity—foldl is left-associat...
Backblaze published its Q2 2026 Drive Stats report, tracking annualized failure rates across 354,415 hard drives in its cloud storage fleet. The report continues its 13+ year tradition of transparency...
Beta release of wgsl-rs, a Rust-to-WGSL transpiler for WebGPU shaders, now available on crates.io. The project addressed key semantic mismatches between Rust and WGSL, including operator precedence di...
The author repurposes an old Rane SL3 DJ audio interface as a free upgrade to replace their noisy desktop motherboard sound card. They successfully connected it via USB on Linux and confirmed device r...
Jared Norman reflects on the debate sparked by DHH's Rails World keynote, where LLMs are argued to dramatically lower the cost of building native apps and Rust backends. The article surveys perspectiv...
Robin Johnson's essay critiques the common UX maxim that 'the best interface is the no-interface,' using the breast/nipple as a provocative metaphor to explore what true intuitive design means. The pi...
Factory AI's CEO publicly accused VC Chris Degnan, a former board adviser, of spying for competitor Cognition. Degnan has since joined Cognition as chief revenue officer, sparking widespread debate on...
DoorDash unveiled a six-propeller drone aircraft at its Dash Forward 2026 event, marking the hardware behind its new drone delivery service. The reveal signals the company's move from concept to physi...
Destro AI positions itself as a middleware layer that bridges communication between robots and humans, claiming its non-robotics identity is a key competitive advantage. The company aims to solve the ...
Google has launched the screen-less Fitbit Air fitness tracker in India at ₹13,999 (~$146), significantly higher than the $99 U.S. price, potentially limiting mass-market appeal. The device focuses on...
Instagram has launched a conversational AI assistant designed to provide personalized feedback to content creators on the platform. The tool aims to offer tailored guidance rather than generic advice,...
Reddit will soon restrict Old.Reddit.com access to logged-in users who have actively used the site within the past six months. The move follows a July login requirement and aims to reduce scraping and...
The article examines how the 2024 Disney boycott over Jimmy Kimmel's removal highlighted the practical difficulties of avoiding Disney content due to the company's vast media empire spanning Disney+, ...
Trump announced a voluntary White House Accord on Super Intelligence where two dozen tech firms agreed to implement safety controls and independent audits for frontier AI development. The agreement co...
Grokipedia, SpaceXAI's AI-powered competitor to Wikipedia, has launched a v0.3 update featuring a new logo, redesigned homepage, and updated live edits page. The refresh adds featured articles with in...
Neon announced it's producing an SCP Foundation movie under a Creative Commons BY-SA license, positioning itself against A24 after the latter faced backlash for not securing the necessary licenses fro...
Asus secured an exemption from the US ban on foreign-made consumer routers without publicly disclosing any plan to manufacture in America, and declined to even confirm whether it submitted the require...
The article highlights how college students often struggle to retain information after extensive reading, despite spending hours on it. It suggests that digital reading tools can help improve study ef...
Honor has launched the Life S3, an ultra-compact 61-gram magnetic E Ink reader designed as a portable companion device for text-heavy novels. While it offers an eye-friendly screen, it lacks standard ...