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A federal judge has ruled that Flock's surveillance practices constitute "indiscriminate mass surveillance," dealing a significant legal blow to the AI-powered home security company. The ruling highli...
Anthropic's blog post provides practical guidance on maximizing performance when using the Opus 5.5 model in Claude and Claude Code. It covers prompt engineering tips, system configuration optimizatio...
FTL (Faster Than Light) is a new microkernel-based operating system designed specifically for cloud infrastructure, offering capabilities like live migration, fault tolerance, and unified management a...
Aleph-Alpha has released Kolibri, a sovereign open-weight large language model aimed at providing European data sovereignty and reduced dependency on US cloud providers. The announcement includes a te...
Michael Catanzaro argues that AI vulnerability scanning has become essential for maintaining software quality in 2026, given human limitations in writing secure code in unsafe languages like C and C++...
The author demonstrates a proof-of-concept exploit of C2PA's Time Stamp Authority (TSA), showing how the second-layer cryptographic timestamp in C2PA manifests can be manipulated to assert pre-existen...
The article presents an efficient algorithm for maintaining sliding-window aggregations (like min, max, quantiles) where the operator lacks an inverse. Building on a technique the author previously co...
Google is donating the gVisor sandboxed runtime project to the CNCF, following the same path as Kubernetes. The project will transition to CNCF Sandbox status, shift to a maintainers-based governance ...
David Hewitt presented the Rust for CPython project at the Python Language Summit 2026, following up on initial testing at PyCon US 2025. The project, led by core developers Kirill Podoprigora and Emm...
Meta has launched Muse Gadgets, an open-source project allowing developers to build custom hardware that connects to its personal AI agent, Muse. The initiative includes open-source firmware, a Linux ...
The article explores why many web developers resist "using the platform" despite browser APIs being capable. The author identifies historical reasons—browsers lagged behind libraries like jQuery for y...
This 1989 paper presents compiler optimization techniques for the dynamically-typed object-oriented language SELF, extracting static type information from declaration-free programs by compiling type-s...
The author responds to growing anxiety among PL researchers about AI's disruptive impact, arguing that the field should shift from ego-driven defense to a spirit of exploration. They highlight that de...
David Robinson, an OpenAI safety employee, has resigned from the company, citing a broken culture as his reason for leaving. His departure echoes a common pattern of internal critics resigning from le...
Jack Dorsey's decentralized messaging app Bitchat has been removed from Apple's App Store and Google Play in India after the government issued a blocking order under Section 69A of the IT Act. The app...
Vessev showcased its VS-9 electric hydrofoil ferry during a demo ride in New York's East River. The 30-foot catamaran uses computer-controlled underwater foils to lift the hull above water, delivering...
Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the Ban Flock Act, which would prohibit federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) or accessing data from local police and private ALPR syste...
Exoskeletons are emerging as practical assistive technology across industries, from warehouse logistics (IKEA, Ford, Boeing) to military applications (Ukraine using Hypershell on front lines). Seattle...
Capcom's RE Project programmer Satoshi Ishida presented at Capcom Open Conference RE: 2026, outlining plans to integrate AI into development workflows to address time-consuming tasks in producing larg...
David Robinson, a former OpenAI safety employee who wrote safety reports for every major model release, has resigned and published an editorial in The Atlantic warning about the AI industry's broken s...
New video glasses from companies like Xreal, Meta, and Apple's Vision Pro are reviving the 3D movie experience by delivering high-resolution, bright stereoscopic viewing at home, addressing longstandi...
Simon Willison argues that pay-by-usage services and APIs should ship with hard budget caps by default, preventing runaway agents or services from accumulating surprise bills. He calls on platforms li...
Hole Punch is an interactive space simulation game where players slingshot a spaceship around gravitational fields. The game was discussed on Hacker News, garnering 208 points and 54 comments, indicat...
Kagi is ending development of Orion for Linux and Windows and open-sourcing both versions so the community can continue them. The small team will refocus entirely on improving Orion for macOS and iOS.
Kevin Boone outlines a method for system-level ad-blocking on Android in 2026, which works by overriding DNS to map advertising service hostnames to bogus IP addresses, protecting all apps rather than...
A YouTube video likely discussing the Rust programming language's reliability, robustness, and potential challenges in real-world usage. The title plays on the common phrase 'in sickness and in health...
Jamie Tanna shares his strong recommendation for Renovate as a dependency update tool over alternatives like Dependabot and Snyk, citing its deep configurability and flexibility across ecosystems. Hav...
The author reflects on Scott Jenson's talk about desktop UX stagnation and proposes a thought experiment: making tmux the basis for a modern desktop OS interface. They outline key problems with curren...
A revised technical write-up by Justin Ethier describing the architecture and internal components of Cyclone, a Scheme-to-C compiler. It covers the compiler pipeline including macro expansion, CPS con...
BSides Orlando 2026 released the open-source hardware and firmware for their conference badge, featuring a CH32V003 RISC-V MCU, RGB LEDs, capacitive touch pads, and an SAOv3 I2C expansion connector. T...
AWS CEO Matt Garman announced that Amazon has stopped using NDAs in its dealings with government agencies seeking approval for new data centers, responding to growing public backlash over transparency...
A curated roundup of notable AI agents designed to operate within text messaging platforms, covering general assistants as well as specialized options for families, travel, and work contexts.
Neko Health, a body scan startup backed by Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, has launched in the United States. Farooq Abbasi, an investor in the company, discussed its trajectory and future plans in an intervie...
Milt Windler, a NASA flight director who played a key role in the Apollo 13 rescue mission in 1970, has died at age 94. He was one of the original flight directors, leading shifts for Apollo 8 through...
Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava warns that AI-generated emails are degrading authentic creative conversations, reflecting broader concerns about automation eroding genuine human interaction in the creativ...