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Frontier LLMs can natively read and write neural network weights, demonstrating surprising proficiency beyond human or conventional algorithmic capabilities. This "Weight-Space Programming" enables ta...

Marvell has announced plans to acquire Lumentum in a deal valued at $115 billion, marking one of the largest acquisitions in tech history. Both companies share Nvidia as a strategic investor, adding f...

China has publicly released its most detailed timeline yet for a crewed lunar landing before 2030, outlining four key missions from uncrewed rocket tests in 2027 to the final crewed landing. The plan ...

Google revealed that its Android manufacturing partner Videostrong secretly installed a backdoor in 1.3 million Android TV set-top boxes, turning them into a botnet used for ad fraud, data exfiltratio...

The author investigates a production outage at Endcrawl caused by a bug in kill(1), a utility 50 years old, triggered by sending SIGTERM to a negative process group ID. The investigation revealed the ...

Polyend has released the firmware source code for its Tracker, Tracker+, and Tracker Mini on GitHub, along with Tracker Community Edition 1.0. The update enables users to install, modify, and share cu...

Research demonstrates that commercial WiFi devices can be repurposed to eavesdrop on keystrokes by analyzing signal reflections and interference patterns caused by finger movements near a keyboard. Th...

OpenAI shares how they scaled their Git infrastructure to support their engineering teams, addressing challenges of version control at large scale. The post covers the architectural and operational st...

Apple has issued hack warnings to German lawmakers and a filmmaker whose iPhones may have been compromised by spyware. The incident highlights growing concerns over targeted surveillance of government...

Anthropic has warned that it is approaching Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) capability — the point where AI becomes proficient enough at training itself to trigger a dramatic acceleration in AI capab...

Apple CEO John Ternus says the company cannot predict when supply constraints for the iPhone Duo will resolve, with some preorders now expected to ship in 2027. The foldable device launched at $1,999 ...

Apple reported a record-breaking $57.58 billion in iPhone revenue for Q4 2026, up 17% year-over-year, despite not releasing a new standard iPhone model. The gains were driven by the premium iPhone 18 ...

A Yakima County resident in Washington state has died from bird flu after exposure at an infected dairy farm, marking the third human death in the US since the H5N1 virus jumped to dairy cattle. Offic...

A guest post by Karthik C. S., Amit Sahai, and Jie Xue on Terry Tao's blog reflects on the philosophical purpose of mathematics in the AI era. The authors explore whether mathematical truths are inven...

Ubuntu has still not released patched kernels for CVE-2026-98432, a critical 0day RCE vulnerability rated CVSS 9.8, nearly three weeks after disclosure. The unpatched status affects Ubuntu 22.04, 24.0...

A critical CVSS 9.8 kernel TCP vulnerability (CVE-2026-98432), present since 2016, allows remote root takeover via an exploit demonstrated by Anthropic. While Debian and other volunteer-led distros pa...

Cloudflare has halved DNS build delays and reduced memory usage by 85% by introducing a targeted build planner that only rebuilds what changed, rather than full-zone rebuilds for zone setting updates....

A deep dive into the original malloc() implementation from Unix Version 4 (1973), exploring how Ken Thompson and colleagues handled memory allocation with a simple linear allocator that called sbrk() ...

The OEIS announced the winning sequences for its 400,000 celebration, with A400000 (Eric Fox's city-building sequence) taking first place as judged the most brilliant invention of 2026. Four runner-up...

Tor Browser 16.0 has been released for Desktop and Android, marking the first stable version based on Firefox ESR 153. The release includes a complete redesign of the Settings interface, improved navi...

A Kyiv startup has developed a pocket-sized receiver that allows Ukrainian troops to intercept and watch Russian drone video feeds. However, Russia's shift toward digital video transmission and AI-gui...

Y Combinator President Garry Tan revealed he spends up to $200K annually on AI tokens to power his extensive use of AI agents, jokingly describing symptoms of 'cyber psychosis' from the experience. He...

Trajectory, a Stanford-founded startup, raised $45M in a Series A at a $300M valuation led by Sequoia, with Nvidia, Bessemer, and Bain Capital Ventures participating. The company aims to automate AI m...

Snap has reached a settlement in a lawsuit alleging the platform contributed to teen depression and eating disorders. The case highlighted concerns over addictive design features like autoplay and inf...

The New York Times and other news outlets have filed a lawsuit against privacy-focused browser Brave, alleging the company scraped their copyrighted content and distributed it to third-party customers...

Readwise has launched a new app called Readwise Books, combining an e-book store, reading tracker, detailed stats, and AI features. The move is a direct challenge to Amazon's Kindle and Goodreads ecos...

SpaceX is reportedly considering acquiring Boost Mobile to gain a terrestrial cellular presence that complements its Starlink satellite network. The move would position SpaceX to directly compete with...

Elon Musk has reduced rate limits on xAI's Grok Bot due to what he described as unsustainably high costs, despite noting it has the fastest growth of any product he's ever seen. The move reflects the ...

42AI has emerged from stealth mode with a $62.5 million funding round, introducing a world model that claims the ability to predict human behavior in novel situations. The company's technology aims to...

Northwood Space, a space infrastructure company, has raised $375 million in a Series C funding round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and DFJ Growth, reaching a $2 billion valuation. The raise underscore...

Apple is developing an AI-driven home robot, code-named J595 and possibly named HomeView Ultra, expected to launch in 2027 at $1,000 or more. The robot would autonomously roam homes to support FaceTim...

Kimi Antonelli became Formula 1's youngest-ever World Champion at just under 20 at the Mexico City GP. Ferrari again squandered a strong race position, handing victory to Red Bull, while the event fea...

World leaders at the COP17 biodiversity summit in Yerevan acknowledged that the 2030 conservation goals will likely be missed due to insufficient funding and slow action. They adopted the "Yerevan Pat...

Meta will end OS updates for Quest 2 and Quest Pro headsets by March 2027, continuing only security patches and bug fixes through the end of that year. The company is positioning Quest 3 and 3S as its...

BMW plans to expand its navigation-guided Level 2 driver assist system into urban environments starting in 2027, beginning in Germany. The system will support steering, acceleration, braking, lane cha...

Subvocal is a new project allowing users to communicate with their computer silently, without producing audible speech. The system appears to use advanced signal processing or biosensing to detect sub...

The article introduces Bε-trees, a write-optimized variant of B-trees designed to reduce write amplification by deferring and batching updates. It serves as the theoretical foundation for the GEFS (Go...

The author discusses their experimentation with union types and option types across programming languages, particularly in their custom low-level language Copper. They explore how union types allow va...

Apple hinted during its earnings call that it is exploring ways to generate additional revenue through third-party AI app integrations on its platform. The company described these as potential new opp...

Apple acknowledges that iPhone Duo production is ramping up, but supply struggles to keep pace with demand. Shipping delays for the device are now expected to stretch well into next year, with no clea...

Apple's inventory has surged 154% to $14.5 billion as memory chip costs continue to climb, raising concerns about potential future device price increases. The unprecedented rise in memory chip pricing...

Omen AI is acquiring competitor Aquatic Labs for $16 million in cash and stock to combine their complementary real-time water sensor technologies for data center cooling systems. The move addresses gr...

A monthly science roundup featuring six diverse research stories including why large dogs age faster than small ones, invisible tattoos, identification of a medieval skeleton, and the successful trapp...

The Ninja Crispi Microwave is Ninja's first-ever microwave, featuring FusionCrisp technology that combines microwave speed with air-fryer-style crispiness. The article presents it as a kitchen applian...

Google is celebrating the upcoming Ocarina of Time remaster with a search Easter egg that transforms its interface into a 1998-style retro design when users search for "Zelda" or "Ocarina of Time." Cl...

The Smithsonian has completed a seven-year, nearly $1 billion renovation of its flagship National Air and Space Museum, culminating with the new "At Home in Space" exhibition that chronicles long-dura...

A study published in Nature reveals that three widely used measures of cognitive reappraisal — trait questionnaires, task-based affective ratings, and amygdala down-regulation — do not agree with each...

Anthropic has added new rules to Claude Code's system prompt to prevent the AI from recreating specific existing video games, a move confirmed by engineer Addy Osmani as an effort to avoid IP infringe...

Seeed Studio and TRMNL offer a $48 DIY e-paper display kit for always-on information dashboards, targeting users who want a passive, subscription-free screen for calendars, weather, and news. Unlike c...

The Apple Watch Ultra 4 is currently on sale at Amazon for $699.99, $100 off its regular price and matching its all-time low. The watch features Apple's new S11 chip, enhanced Apple Intelligence capab...

Ford has announced a new privacy commitment promising never to sell customer driving data to third-party data brokers. The automaker plans to use anonymization and aggregation techniques to protect us...

Anthropic has updated Claude Code's system prompt to prohibit the AI tool from being used to recreate existing video games, though original game development remains allowed. The move comes amid a grow...

OpenAI is launching a pilot program to free up to 1,000 megawatts of power from its data center in Effingham County, Georgia, during extreme weather or emergencies. The initiative aims to ease communi...

Xbox's former COO Helen Chiang has publicly shared that she has "serious concerns" about her abrupt departure from Microsoft, just weeks after being promoted to the role. In a LinkedIn post titled "Cl...

Simon Willison revisited a U.S. Census Bureau chart on corporate AI adoption and discovered the Bureau had updated its survey question wording to 'any business function,' significantly broadening what...

Musnap has released the Air Pro, an Android 14-powered e-reader and eNote featuring an 8.2-inch E Ink Carta 1300 display at 293 ppi with an adjustable color temperature frontlight and physical page-tu...

Momentic (YC W24) is an AI QA engineer that runs end-to-end tests on apps from a simple prompt, catching bugs before they ship. It reports over 70 million test runs executed and 117,000 bugs caught, w...

NIST has released a new cybersecurity guide (White Paper 50) tailored specifically for solopreneurs — sole proprietors with no employees. The publication is written in lay language and helps solo busi...

Intel's stock decline is intensifying as a broader semiconductor sector selloff expands to an estimated $3.5 trillion market value impact. The collapse reflects widening concerns across the chip indus...

An opinion piece arguing that the SEC should block Anthropic's planned IPO due to concerns about the company's financial transparency. The article highlights Anthropic's nearly $900 billion in long-te...