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Debian has disclosed a critical man-in-the-middle vulnerability in its apt package manager that allows arbitrary code execution. The flaw enables attackers on the network path to inject malicious pack...
Binance revealed that North Korean hackers spent months planning a $6.34 billion cryptocurrency theft, the largest ever targeted in a crypto heist, using social engineering, compromised Homebrew insta...
Ripple-65B is an open-weight 65B-parameter language model positioned as a state-of-the-art option for agentic coding tasks, developed in the U.S. The preview release marks a notable entry in the open-...
Go has introduced a new json/v2 package as part of its standard library, bringing an improved JSON API with better error handling, performance optimizations, and a cleaner encoding/decoding experience...
AMD projects it will outsell Intel in Q4 2025 for the first time in company history, driven by strong CPU demand and its competitive Ryzen lineup. If AMD hits its $17B revenue guidance, it would excee...
Moonshot AI has released the model weights for Kimi K3.1 Pro on HuggingFace, making the powerful large language model openly available for the community. The release has garnered significant attention...
AMD reported a record Q3 revenue of $13.4 billion with data center business nearly doubling to $8.5 billion, driven by EPYC CPUs and Instinct MI450 GPUs. Q4 guidance of ~$17 billion means AMD could su...
Apple will scan iCloud items shared via 'Anyone with the Link' for harmful content starting with iOS 27.3, meaning such content will no longer be end-to-end encrypted. The company's support document d...
Qualcomm has introduced the Cloud AI 100 Ultra, a 150W AI accelerator card featuring 128GB of memory and a bandwidth of 548GB/s, targeting data center and cloud AI workloads. The card continues Qualco...
Research from Layer3 Intelligence reveals that residential proxies were detected on the White House's internal network, raising serious concerns about potential data exfiltration channels. The finding...
Anthropic published research on provable inference for large language models, exploring methods to make LLM reasoning more verifiable and reliable. The work addresses the challenge of ensuring LLM out...
AI-powered security analysis tools are unearthing decades-old vulnerabilities in legacy software, forcing organizations to confront years of accumulated technical debt. The php2shell vulnerability hig...
Tencent has released Hy4, a new research model from Tencent AI Lab, showcased on their research website hy.tencent.ai/research/hy4. The model has generated notable interest on Hacker News with 184 poi...
A developer discovered their ISP was hijacking DNS queries and returning tampered IP addresses instead of legitimate results, detected when Cloudflare's DoH returned a different IP than other resolver...
WebKit introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in Safari 27.3 beta, which automatically adapts light websites to a dark theme. The feature analyzes page colors and transforms luminosity while preserving hue, re...
C++26's draft international standard (DIS) was disapproved for the first time in C++ history, with national bodies rejecting the Contracts feature as not ready. The failure requires WG21 to address co...
Declarative Dragging, a model-driven framework award-winning at UIST 2026, simplifies drag-and-drop development by letting authors specify target states rather than hand-coding visual behavior. The en...
After the 2026 midterms, Democrats gained full control of Congress while Republicans hold the White House, setting up a potential clash over data center regulation. Voter opposition to local data cent...
Sequoia Capital is reversing two decades of geographic expansion by consolidating into a smaller, Bay Area–centered firm and shutting down its overseas programs and offices. At the same time, the firm...
Revolut completed a secondary share sale valuing the fintech at $115 billion, a 53% increase from its prior valuation, as it prepares to launch a U.S. national bank in 2027. Major investors led the sa...
Hackers allegedly linked to Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service exploited previously patched iOS and Android vulnerabilities to compromise phones via malicious websites. The campaign used reverse pr...
Macronix, Nintendo's primary ROM chip supplier for Switch and Switch 2 cartridges, announced it is winding down ROM chip production to focus on more profitable memory products driven by AI demand. Nin...
New research published in PNAS Nexus reveals that Nazi Germany's WWII nuclear program lacked sufficient uranium and heavy water to achieve criticality in their B8 pile reactor, contradicting Werner He...
Researchers discovered SR-17018, a compound that relieves pain without causing respiratory depression—a major advantage over traditional opioids—and showed promise in helping mice overcome morphine de...
Voters across the US have overwhelmingly approved ballot measures restricting data centers, with 38 of 44 measures passing in 10 states. The election of Democratic Governor Gina Hinojosa in Texas — th...
Nothing CEO Carl Pei announced the company's first AI-native device will ship in December, revealing it will be a screen-free hardware product that "couldn't have been an app." The announcement comes ...
A study finds that insects do not swarm around LED lights in the way they do around traditional high-pressure sodium and mercury vapor lamps. The research suggests LEDs may have significantly less eco...
A developer spent over a decade reverse-engineering the classic DOS-era Wing Commander to implement cooperative multiplayer gameplay. The project, shared on GitHub Pages, demonstrates significant effo...
Conductor, an open-source build system originally developed by Google for large-scale monorepo builds, is being transferred to Meta for continued maintenance and development. The move is significant f...
OpenAI has announced the acquisition of Pierre Computer Company, a small but notable developer known for building innovative AI-related tools and applications. The deal marks OpenAI's continued strate...
A developer discovered that Zig's libc rewrite introduced a Shlemiel-the-Painter bug causing SQLite INSERT operations to degrade from milliseconds to minutes under load. The quadratic complexity emerg...
Nicholas Nethercote reports on Rust compiler performance optimizations from his first month at Hexcat, focusing on improved span compression that reduces interning from 20-40% to ~1% in incremental bu...
Namespace shares insights into deploying hundreds of MacBook Pros in datacenter racks for iOS development workloads, addressing Apple's supply chain delays and Mac Mini unavailability. They explain ho...
Trail of Bits examines how cryptographic protocols like Helios and ElectionGuard aim to protect ballot secrecy and enable verifiable electronic voting, but concludes these systems cannot fully replace...
The author developed catlang, a programming language that compiles to SQL via an intermediate category theory representation. The language uses abstract category theory constructs as its core semantic...
Snapchat has surpassed 30 million paid subscribers, a milestone reached one year after the company began limiting free storage for its Memories feature and introducing paid tiers at $1.99/month or a S...
OpenAI's Chris Lehane is advancing a proposal for a new AI social contract aimed at shaping the 2028 U.S. election discourse. The initiative claims to benefit Americans but also aligns with OpenAI's s...
DreamHost reported that hackers exploited a vulnerability to access customer emails and files during a months-long deliberate attack. The breach compromised customer inboxes and stored files over an e...
The Elizabeth Holmes documentary 'You Can See Everything' will be released in low Earth orbit via the International Space Station before it hits European theaters. The unconventional release strategy ...
Waymo has confirmed it will restructure its partnership with Uber starting in January 2028, which will create direct competition in shared markets since Uber already partners with multiple autonomous ...
Apple's AI-powered Siri Recaps feature impressed the reviewer within a single day of use, offering surprisingly useful functionality despite raising privacy concerns. The feature shows promise but sti...
Google is facing criticism from progressive politicians over a plan to disable Search access for schools that impose restrictions on AI use. NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani and former FTC chair Lina Khan hav...
Canva is cutting 22% of its workforce, laying off over 1,200 employees amid its first growth slowdown in a decade. The company is merging product, growth, and platform teams, reducing subspecializatio...
VMware is launching vSphere Express, a lower-cost virtualization offering targeting SMBs alienated by Broadcom's push toward pricier VCF and VVF bundles. It supports up to 128 cores with basic feature...
Elon Musk has heavily invested in Texas over six years, relocating SpaceX's headquarters to Starbase and planning massive manufacturing facilities like Terafab. However, Texas's recent Democratic shif...
Ars Technica tested a Slate Auto electric truck prototype, driving it nearly 6,000 miles on a DC-to-Maryland route. The reviewer praised the truck's ergonomic manual controls, good visibility, and str...
Qualcomm is pivoting toward data centers as smartphone sales drop ~20% year-over-year, aiming to generate $5B in data center revenue by end of 2027 and $15B by 2029, backed by partnerships with Amazon...
The article explores PostgreSQL's TOAST (The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique) system, explaining how it handles large column values by storing them in separate shadow tables with chunked pointer...
AT&T's Connected Life smart home security system now integrates with Google's Gemini for Home, marking what the company calls the first home security product to work with Google Home Premium. The inte...
San Francisco officially adopted guerrilla bike lanes created by citizens who painted their own protected cycling infrastructure without permits. The city reversed its stance and made these unauthoriz...
A cryptography blogger addresses common conspiracy theories about NSA and NIST backdoors in cryptographic standards, acknowledging political distrust while arguing that the technical arguments behind ...
Zig 0.17.1 is a bug fix release addressing over 57 issues following the 0.17.0 launch, with emphasis on regressions and upgrade blockers. Most users who could not upgrade to 0.17.0 should now be able ...
The author revived the dormant wasp-os project to run MicroPython on a PineTime smartwatch, migrating it to mainline MicroPython and improving buildability. The article details the device's severe har...
Apple is reportedly significantly reducing its spending on AI tools for engineering teams internally. The move signals a strategic reassessment of AI's role within the company's development workflows,...
AI industry political action committees spent millions trying to influence the 2026 midterm elections, achieving mixed results in shaping Congress. Political groups tied to the AI sector are already s...
Nothing CEO Carl Pei has announced that the company will release a new AI-first device next month, though details remain scarce. The product is reportedly designed to leverage AI to boost productivity...
DuckDuckGo is targeting K-12 schools looking for alternatives to Google's increasingly restrictive AI policies, positioning its privacy-first search engine as a more educator-friendly option. The move...
Open source AI models are gaining mainstream adoption among enterprises, governments, and startups due to their lower costs, greater control, and flexibility. Hugging Face explores how companies can c...
Titan OS, a Barcelona-based smart TV operating system company, has raised $46 million in combined equity and debt funding, bringing its total to $110 million. The startup, which now serves 30 million ...
Senator Ted Cruz is pushing to confirm Trump's FCC nominee Danielle Thumann Severs during the lame-duck session, which would give Republicans a 3-1 majority on the commission. Senator Ron Wyden warned...
The Enough Phone is a compact 5.3-inch smartphone launching with preorders at $399 (MSRP $599), featuring mid-range MediaTek specs, a user-replaceable battery, and Android 17 or OdysseyOS. Positioned ...
X is rolling out an updated web app that dramatically reduces load times, cutting initial content display from over 22 seconds down to just 2.7 seconds. The improvement comes from consolidating three ...
Microsoft is previewing two new cloud gaming features: the Xbox Nano controller connecting directly to cloud servers via Wi-Fi instead of Bluetooth, and using a phone as a controller on smart TVs. The...
Amazon Kindle+ offers access to millions of eBooks, audiobooks, comics, manga, and magazines for $11.99 per month plus taxes. The service provides an all-in-one subscription model for digital reading ...
The article explores how artificial intelligence is transforming digital reading, learning, and information organization, building on the evolution of digital reading beyond simply displaying books. I...
A comparison review between the new 2026 Kindle Paperwhite (sometimes called Paperwhite 7) and the 2024 Paperwhite (Paperwhite 6 / 12th generation Kindle). The review covers differences between the tw...