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Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, has paused withdrawals following a suspected cyberattack on Thursday. Hackers are believed to have stolen billions in crypto assets, marking one o...
Qwenputer embeds a fully functional RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5's Gated DeltaNet attention layers, using them as RAM. It can execute arithmetic operations, C code, and MicroPython entirely within the mo...
A hacker identified as 'Binance-hacker-1029' stole approximately $5.6 billion from Binance, one of the largest cryptocurrency hacks in history. The incident was tracked and reported on the ARKM blockc...
Mistral has released the open weights of Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk), a 1-trillion-parameter multimodal model with improved coding, cybersecurity, and reasoning efficiency. The model is European-traine...
Dream Research discovered a Chinese AI-assisted campaign that rooted 25 servers, including US government systems, by chaining a custom PHP2Shell exploit with a kernel privilege escalation against Palo...
A security researcher discovered an XSS vulnerability in yarr, an open-source Go-based RSS reader. The issue stems from a flaw in the HTML sanitization logic where the `iframe` tag and `src` attribute...
Several PDF implementations including MuPDF and Foxit generate their AES-256 encryption keys from predictably weak random state. MuPDF seeds its drand48 generator with only the current epoch in second...
Deno's integration into Cloudflare marks a significant consolidation in the JavaScript runtime landscape, leaving only Node.js, Bun, and Cloudflare's workerd as major general-purpose runtimes. The aut...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy declared AWS is on track to become a $1 trillion revenue business, positioning the company as the leader in AI cloud computing. To reach that milestone, Amazon will sustain its a...
Amazon's Q3 2026 earnings missed analyst expectations for total revenue and EPS, despite AWS cloud revenue surging 39% to $45.98 billion. Free cash flow turned deeply negative at -$42.4 billion over t...
Reddit is moving to a logged-in experience for much of its platform as AI-driven search and other changes dry up organic web traffic. The move marks a significant departure from Reddit's open-web root...
Open firmware is emerging as a significant trend in electronic music hardware, pioneered by the M-Vave FM-1's thriving community-made alternate firmware ecosystem. Major manufacturers including Akai P...
Mistral has released the weights for its trillion-parameter AI model, specifically designed for cybersecurity applications. The open-weight approach gives organizations greater control over their cybe...
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman confirmed the platform will transition to a logged-in-only experience, starting with tests in select non-US markets in Q4 2026. The move aims to improve ad targeting, boost en...
President Trump declared foreign-made industrial robot imports a national security threat, ordering new trade negotiations and signaling potential tariffs. The move targets robots critical to US manuf...
Report claims Trump was briefed about a Chinese spy with direct access to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang but took no action, partly to protect Nvidia's stock and the US-China trade truce. The alleged spy, Al...
Google acknowledged that its AI-powered search features generate less revenue compared to traditional search results, prompting the company to increase ad integration within AI responses. The admissio...
Kalshi and its co-founders face 13 felony charges and one misdemeanor each in Utah for allegedly offering sports bets that violate the state's total gambling ban. Meanwhile, the Trump administration h...
A massive leak dubbed "Icepick" has exposed personal and operational details of over 41,000 DHS employees and contractors, including undercover ICE agents. The data, obtained from DHS's Okta login sys...
SpaceX has fundamentally shifted from being a contractor dependent on NASA to an indispensable partner that increasingly operates independently of US government contracts outside of niche services lik...
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman stated during an earnings call that Google's AI-powered search modes are not driving traffic to Reddit, attributing a drop of over 1 million weekly referral search visits. The...
Reddit is forcing all users to log in before browsing, eliminating the ability to view content as a guest. The move comes amid rising scraping and automated traffic issues, prompting lawsuits against ...
Apple's new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display is the first laptop and only the second product overall to support Apple CMF 2026 color modes, a mathematical representation of human color perception t...
Spawn is a multiplayer gaming environment where players prompt an AI agent named Savi to modify the game world in real time. The development itself is increasingly autonomous, run by a swarm of Fable-...
The fan-fiction site Archive of Our Own (AO3) could face up to 4 weeks of downtime due to an undisclosed issue. The announcement triggered massive user reaction, with the status page garnering million...
Y Combinator Labs ran experiments with multi-agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry to study emergent coordination, roles, and hierarchies. They built and open-sourced a Minecraft agent harness suppo...
DoorDash announced a definitive agreement to acquire Instacart for approximately $17 billion, offering $65 per share at a 26% premium. The combined company will merge DoorDash's delivery network with ...
SkyPilot addresses the GPU allocation inefficiency problem in NVIDIA Grace Blackwell NVL72 systems by introducing a topology-aware scheduler that keeps multi-node jobs rack-local, achieving 27% more u...
A Trakkr Research study traced 1,285 statistics cited by major AI assistants (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Google AI Overviews) back to their original sources, revealing many are "zombie stats...
NetBSD has introduced atto, a new Emacs-like text editor designed to help ease the transition for new users. The announcement was made via the NetBSD Foundation's Mastodon account, highlighting the ed...
A hobbyist developer reports successfully booting classic Mac OS on a Nintendo Wii, marking the first time since the CHRP clone era that someone outside Apple brought classic Mac OS to the desktop on ...
The article examines how the C2PA ecosystem would handle certificate compromise by drawing parallels to the eMudhra Web PKI incident. It highlights that current C2PA media verification tools largely l...
The article introduces Nixtamal as an input pinner tool for managing NixOS configurations without relying on the discouraged nix-channel command. It highlights NixOS 26.05's new system.nix entry point...
The article discusses a limitation in Rust's Future trait: calling poll() after a future returns Poll::Ready is undefined behavior, often causing panics. It highlights the usefulness of being able to ...
Nim 2.4.0 brings major new features including SSO-based strings, parallel incremental rebuilds, a new cycle collection garbage collector supporting multi-threaded cycles, and support for cyclic module...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy stated that Prime Video is on track to generate tens of billions in revenue, driven by blockbuster hits like Project Hail Mary and Verity. The announcement highlights Amazon's gr...
Vladimir Putin publicly praised Elon Musk as a 'genius' and disclosed that he and Musk maintain close contact regarding Rassvet, Russia's domestic satellite connectivity project comparable to Starlink...
General Motors has agreed to a $220 million settlement over allegations it sold drivers' private driving and location data without proper consent. Under the agreement, GM must obtain drivers' express ...
Rivian is expanding its $5.8 billion joint venture with Volkswagen Group to include licensing its AI voice assistant technology to VW's vehicle lineup. The AI assistant could debut in the VW ID EVERY1...
Rivian's new R2 SUV has become the automaker's best-selling vehicle, reflecting strong consumer demand. The robust sales have prompted Rivian to raise its financial guidance for Wall Street for the se...
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings is acquiring home security company ADT in a $15.3 billion deal, with plans to integrate AI into its home security operations. The acquisition marks a significant move by ...
A top executive of a Singapore AI cloud company, accused of illegally selling Nvidia chips to China, may also have been involved in espionage against Nvidia's CEO, according to sources speaking to the...
Mintive, an AI agent identity startup, has secured funding from Cowboy Ventures, Coatue, and angel investors including Jeff Dean and Andrej Karpathy. The company was co-founded by engineers with exten...
SuperMe has secured $20M in funding to expand its platform that aggregates AI profiles from real-world experts. When users submit questions, the system identifies the most relevant experts and generat...
Microsoft is rolling out a Windows 11 preview update (KB5127936) that addresses long-standing power-user complaints about the right-click context menu by adding a 'customize menu' button for toggling ...
Intel's Wildcat Lake budget laptop chips are now sold out as demand outpaces supply, according to CEO Lip-Bu Tan and CFO David Zinsner. The cost-optimized chips are powering affordable Windows laptops...
General Motors has agreed to pay $220 million to settle a complaint from 36 US attorneys general over illegally selling driver and location data through its Smart Driver program. The settlement requir...
OpenAI is now offering API credits equivalent to subscription tiers for its $100, $200, and $500 ChatGPT plans, mirroring a similar benefit Anthropic announced earlier in October. The credits are expi...
A developer created a tiny world model using looped transformers that runs entirely on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W microcontroller. The system uses two small neural networks—one generates game frames by p...
An in-depth technical walkthrough explaining the remarkable efficiency of the H.264 video compression codec. The author demonstrates that a 300-frame H.264 video of the Apple homepage (175KB) is five ...
US intelligence allegedly identified Alice Huang, a Chinese executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed (an Nvidia cloud partner), as funneling information to Beijing. Photos surfaced of her with Nvidia CE...
SLCR is an open-source format for writing software requirements that are readable by both humans and coding agents, addressing the common problem of AI agents drifting from specifications over time. L...
The Redox OS team completed a grant-funded project to implement io_uring-like ring buffer support at the system task level, enabling asynchronous I/O communications between applications and system ser...
David Durman, a University of Kentucky administrator, obtained a religious exemption from being required to use AI at work. The case highlights growing workplace tensions around AI adoption and how re...
Granola is adding dictation features to its meeting notetaker app, directly countering Wispr's recent move to add meeting notes to its dictation app. The competition between voice AI tools for meeting...
Meta has quietly launched an AI-powered fashion app called Style Sketch, which integrates with Instagram to automatically build a virtual closet from users' previously shared photos. The app also allo...
Ex-Palantir executives have launched Dream, an AI company raising $17M from a16z to build world models for the construction industry. The model is trained on over 100 million square feet of real build...
The Pentagon Inspector General declined a bipartisan congressional request to investigate temporary speed restrictions imposed on Ukraine's military use of SpaceX's Starlink and Starshield services. U...
A small company is developing a hybrid concentrated solar system where a fossil-fueled backup shares most of the generating hardware with the solar side, potentially eliminating the need for separate ...
Google Gemini now supports generating, previewing, and editing various file types directly within its chat interface, including Google Docs, Sheets, PDFs, slide decks, Markdown, TXT, and code files. T...
Amazon is offering previous-generation Kindles at discounted prices, marketed as "like-new" units rather than refurbished. The sale covers the Kindle Colorsoft, Paperwhite, and Kindle Scribe models, p...
Martin Fowler discusses the recognizable 'voice' of LLM-generated prose and the uncanny valley reaction it provokes in readers. He advises authors to avoid using LLMs for drafting or even rephrasing, ...
A visualization project redraws the world map so that each country's size reflects its share of IPv4 addresses rather than actual land area. The analysis reveals significant distortions: Asia gains dr...