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Electronic Arts is shutting down BioWare, the legendary RPG studio behind franchises like Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and Knights of the Old Republic. The closure marks the end of an era for one of gamin...

DuckDB announced version 2.0.0 LTS codenamed "Cinnamon Teal," marking a major milestone with long-term support for its analytical database. The release likely introduces significant performance improv...

A compromised version of LiteLLM (1.107.0) on PyPI was found to install a credential stealer and backdoor, posing a serious supply-chain attack risk to downstream users. The incident highlights ongoin...

eMudhra, a Certificate Authority trusted by major browsers, has had its private signing keys cracked in milliseconds due to weak cryptographic implementation. This allows an attacker to forge valid TL...

Electronic Arts has shut down legendary RPG studio BioWare after over three decades, laying off 400 employees across the company with 50 at BioWare specifically. The next Mass Effect project has been ...

PHP maintainers announced imminent release of two critical security patches rated 9.2/10, affecting all PHP versions since 2004. Security firms confirmed real CVEs and warn of immediate mass exploitat...

Two critical PHP vulnerabilities discovered with AI assistance have caused widespread site outages across major platforms including 4chan, DeviantArt, Wikipedia, and WordPress-powered sites. Governmen...

GitLab has released a critical patch update for version 19.5.1, addressing important security and stability issues. This patch release is part of GitLab's ongoing commitment to maintaining secure and ...

OpenAI announced that its models will be available on Google Cloud, expanding distribution beyond Azure which has been its primary cloud partner. The partnership gives Google Cloud customers access to...

OpenAI demonstrates scaling thousands of AI agents to autonomously explore complex biological datasets, identifying novel research leads and hypotheses. The multi-agent approach leverages parallel exp...

CVE-2026-107891 reveals multiple integer overflow vulnerabilities in musl libc's regcomp() function that can cause incorrect memory allocations and out-of-bounds heap writes. The exploit conditions ar...

Node.js released security updates for versions 26.x, 24.x, and 22.x on October 21, 2026, addressing four high-severity vulnerabilities including remote code execution via the Brotli decoder, TLS certi...

Researchers demonstrated that Turing-complete programs can be embedded inside PyTorch's backward pass using a loss function that evaluates to zero, bypassing all standard training metrics. The exploit...

Meta has been ordered to pay $25 billion in a trial centered on its data privacy practices, marking one of the largest penalties in tech history. The ruling is connected to the ongoing legal fallout f...

Anthropic has launched Claude Duet, a new product offering likely focused on collaborative AI workflows. The announcement has drawn significant attention on Hacker News with 293 points and 248 comment...

OpenAI has launched Patch the Planet, a coordinated disclosure initiative for critical AI vulnerabilities discovered by agents. The program aims to establish a global framework for responsible reporti...

Josh W. Comeau shares his top 10 CSS feature picks for the upcoming Interop 2027 initiative, a cross-browser collaboration project that has successfully driven near-universal adoption of web technolog...

Firefox security team now requires tests for security fixes to be held back until at least a week after the fix ships, to prevent attackers from learning exploit details through test code. This applie...

Tesla announced it will begin selling its Cybercab to customers by the end of 2026, despite ongoing federal investigations into whether the steering-wheel-less autonomous vehicle meets safety standard...

Flapping Airplanes, an AI lab only 9 months old, has raised a $1 billion Series A at a $6 billion valuation, building on a $180M seed round from early last year. The company's core mission is developi...

Amazon is blocking AI agents from shopping on its platform while Walmart embraces the trend, introducing new technology that allows AI agents to make purchases on behalf of customers with spending con...

Legal AI startup Legora has closed a $550 million Series E funding round, bringing its valuation to $8.8 billion. The massive raise underscores continued investor confidence in AI-driven legal technol...

AI systems from OpenAI and Google's Wiz have discovered ancient security vulnerabilities in PHP, sending shockwaves through the internet. The discovery highlights the dual nature of AI as both a secur...

Tesla reported a 43% drop in Q3 2026 net profit to $787 million despite flat revenue of $28 billion, driven by lower average selling prices, fewer car sales, and declining regulatory credit income. Op...

According to a Wall Street Journal report, Elon Musk personally ordered a speed cap on Ukraine's military Starshield connections, limiting drones to 160 kph and effectively blinding their air assault ...

A federal judge rejected Trump's attempt to have the EPA unilaterally dismiss a Clean Air Act lawsuit brought by the NAACP against SpaceXAI over unpermitted gas turbines at its Colossus data center in...

Research from Northeastern University found that smart TVs from major brands like Samsung, Vizio, and Roku continue sending data to automatic content recognition (ACR) endpoints even after users opt o...

SpaceX plans to attempt catching both the Super Heavy first stage and Starship upper stage on its 15th test flight, targeted for November 2026, following successful data collection from the recent 14t...

Miami-based OpenEvidence, an ad-powered AI search tool for medical professionals, has reached a $15 billion valuation after two-thirds of US doctors began using it to scour clinical literature for pat...

Meta revealed in its Q3 2026 earnings that it would have reported $22.89 billion in operational income without a $9.89 billion payment toward a nationwide child safety settlement. The broader $17.1 bi...

PHP released an emergency security update across the entire 8.x line addressing two remote code execution vulnerabilities, after coordinated disclosure was compromised by leaked CVE IDs and a security...

Railway published a security disclosure covering incidents or vulnerabilities addressed during their Wednesday security update. The post, which garnered 246 points and 113 comments on HackerNews, high...

AWS published a security bulletin disclosing two CVEs (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) affecting PHP web runtimes. Organizations running PHP workloads on AWS infrastructure should review and appl...

PHP 8.2.35 is a security release addressing vulnerabilities in the language. The release accompanies discussions on strengthening PHP's overall security posture and response processes.

ZLS 0.17.0 introduces improved symbol renaming behavior and a new build system protocol for better editor integration. However, the Zig 0.17 development cycle broke several critical build system featu...

Michael Tsai warns that passkey attestation gradually strips users of control over their credentials, as websites can later require attested passkeys and reject non-attested ones. While not yet widely...

The article discusses the performance criticism of immediate-mode UI frameworks, where the interface is rebuilt every frame even when unchanged. The author presents a caching approach that attaches a ...

Nix flakes are an experimental feature of the Nix package manager that enables self-contained and reproducible builds, gaining popularity among open-source projects for providing predefined developmen...

Blackstone's Jas Khaira says fears about excessive debt in AI infrastructure buildouts are overblown, positioning the $1.3 trillion firm as a key capital provider. Blackstone has become the largest ow...

Recursive has launched Flint, a free coding model designed to run on laptops, which it says was largely developed using its own AI research system. The release serves as an early demonstration of self...

Tesla has begun production of its Optimus humanoid robot at a California facility, marking a significant milestone for its robotics ambitions. The launch comes as the company reported a 43% drop in pr...

Cybersecurity teams are dealing with multiple vulnerabilities this week, including AI-discovered PHP flaws, security issues in Node.js, and a recently disclosed vulnerability in the popular AI proxy t...

GM is integrating an agentic AI assistant into its OnStar connected car service, debuting first in the 2027 Cadillac Lyriq EV. The company also plans a unified OnStar mobile app in 2027 that will repl...

Blacksmith, an AI coding platform that helps companies build and test AI code more effectively, has raised a $66 million Series C led by Sequoia, pushing its valuation to $1 billion. The funding round...

Foursquare's co-founder claims equity holders received no returns from the company's final acquisition, despite the startup raising $411 million in total funding. The revelation highlights growing con...

Microsoft is rolling out paid Cloud Playtime purchases on Xbox, charging $0.24–$0.40 per hour to stream games you already own. The move follows September's restriction of streaming access for Game Pas...

A survey of 2,018 enterprise IT leaders found that companies waste an average of 28% of their software budgets on unwanted upgrades, migrations, and licensing changes, often driven by vendor pressure....

Tesla announced that customers will be able to add their own vehicles to the robotaxi fleet starting in Q2 2027, as confirmed by VP Ashok Elluswamy during the company's Q3 2026 earnings call. The same...

Meta is issuing a new class of non-voting shares to fund its AI initiatives, potential acquisitions, and employee compensation, with trading set to begin in 2027. The move was announced as part of the...

The surge of new AI data centers in Texas threatens to reverse decades of air quality improvements, potentially pushing pollution back to 2000s levels. The environmental outcome hinges on whether mass...

Bose has acquired Skullcandy, a competitor in the consumer audio market, as part of its premium consumer audio business. The two brands already partnered on integrating Bose's spatial audio and ANC te...

Jared Forsyth discusses a paper introducing flow typing as a solution to the threading problem in linear type systems, using lenses from functional programming to mutate stateful typing contexts. He r...

Google published an official Rust style guide for its internal codebase, providing coding conventions and best practices for Rust development within the company. The guide covers formatting, naming, i...

Oregon lawmakers have approved funding to purchase a privately owned iconic waterfall that was listed for sale on Redfin, removing it from the real estate market and placing it under public stewardshi...

Firefox Local Mode, shipped in Firefox 153, allows developers to map local folders to custom HTTPS origins via DevTools, eliminating the need for a local HTTP server and enabling testing of Secure Con...

An exploration of 2D vector graphics in Lil, an APL-influenced scripting language within the Decker ecosystem. The article covers foundational concepts—points, strokes, and paths—and demonstrates draw...

Airbnb has updated its platform policy to prohibit hosts from requiring guests to perform cleaning chores such as bed stripping, sparking significant backlash from hosts. Some hosts are threatening to...

Meta announced during its Q3 earnings that its AI app Muse has surpassed 10 million users, with shopping and personal productivity emerging as top use cases. The milestone signals growing adoption of ...

GM is developing a new central computer and electrical architecture for its fourth-generation EV platform, set to debut in 2028 on the Cadillac Escalade IQ. The move is aimed at helping the automaker ...

Automattic has started laying off employees across multiple teams, including WordPress.com and its enterprise business, after a board shakeup and executive departures. Sources indicate further cuts ma...

Waymo has begun offering rides at Las Vegas' airport, just one month after launching its public ride service in the city. The company is already covering a 24-square-mile service area across Las Vegas...

Apple unveiled a new Liquid Glass-themed brand identity for Apple Music, accompanied by an elaborate promotional video produced with a design agency, music producer Fred again.., and a custom mineral ...

YouTube has publicly denied testing the removal of the dislike button from regular viewers, stating via spokesperson Kimberly Taylor that no such experiment is underway. The company is only introducin...

Tesla reported flat Q3 2026 revenue of $28 billion with net income of $1.7 billion, slightly above Wall Street estimates but below its own guidance. Profits dipped 4% year-over-year despite revenue co...

Airbnb has updated its house rules policy to ban hosts from requiring guests to perform time-consuming chores like washing dishes or taking out the trash. The new rules, effective for reservations boo...

Amazon is releasing an AI-powered voice recorder that magnetically attaches to smartphones instead of the long-rumored mini Kindle, signaling a pivot from e-reader hardware to AI audio accessories. Th...

Amazon has removed the USB-C charging cable from the box for its new 13th-generation 2026 Kindle lineup, joining the trend of companies eliminating included accessories. The move has sparked reader de...