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Part 2 of the PwnEscape series details a VM escape vulnerability in AWS Firecracker, building on the first part to demonstrate a complete exploitation chain. The research highlights critical security ...

Google has introduced Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, an updated version of its fast and capable Gemini model optimized for development tools and coding workflows. The release brings improvements in code gener...

GitHub unveiled a new Git storage architecture designed to support massive scale for agentic development, handling 5,000 concurrent agents and 7,200 pushes per second with low-latency reads. The desig...

OpenAI has been valued at $1.25 trillion in a new funding round that raised another $11 billion, making it one of the world's most valuable companies. The company was originally targeting a $30 billio...

Sodium-ion batteries are approaching cost parity with lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries, with 70 GWh of supply already covered by long-term agreements. This signals a potential inflection point f...

The article discusses how AI tools are being used to automate and accelerate various stages of AI research, from literature review to experiment design, potentially leading to faster breakthroughs. It...

Mitchell Hashimoto announced libghostty 1.0, a portable high-performance C terminal emulation library extracted from Ghostty, with now-stable C ABI. The library is already powering terminals in JetBra...

The author discovered that port 0, traditionally avoided by tools and scanners, can actually be used for network communication since TCP headers accept it as a valid destination. After scanning the en...

A security researcher achieved arbitrary code execution on Meta Ray-Ban smartglasses by reversing the Meta AI app to intercept OTA firmware update requests. The vulnerability was reported to Meta ahea...

OpenAI is reportedly raising an additional $11 billion in a funding round expected to close in the coming weeks, pushing its valuation to $1.25 trillion. The round has not yet officially closed but si...

Apple announced over 100,000 Duo-optimized apps are now on the App Store for its new foldable iPhone Duo, with major updates from Microsoft, Zoom, NBA, NHL, and more rolling out. The company also host...

The Pentagon has conditionally approved a $250 million loan to battery startup 6K to scale its microwave-plasma battery material manufacturing process. The funding will help build a new US-based facto...

Fox has completed its $22 billion acquisition of streaming platform Roku, months after DOJ investigators probed the deal for antitrust concerns. The merger brings together a major media company and on...

Palo Alto Networks is in talks to acquire AI agent security startup Clutch for $500M in cash plus milestone payouts. The three-year-old startup, which secures AI agents' access to company systems, rec...

Iran-linked ships have been tracked loitering near subsea internet cables in the Gulf of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz, raising concerns they may be mapping or preparing to sabotage critical undersea...

Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis confirmed hackers stole credentials, password hashes, and live tokens for all customers, including high-profile government agencies (FBI, ICE, US Air Force) and p...

A shipment of Nvidia hardware valued at $11.4 million disappeared in transit from Oakland to Fort Worth, Texas, with no arrests or recovery after over two months. This incident is part of a broader wa...

Wisconsin has reported its first measles death in over 35 years—a baby dying amid an outbreak affecting over 430 people across 13 counties. The death adds to a national surge of measles fatalities thi...

Meta has indefinitely delayed controversial commercial terms updates that would have required business accounts to allow extensive AI training on their linked external websites, including forcing publ...

Top Republican lawmakers have summoned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang for a closed-door Congressional briefing over concerns that Chinese intelligence targeted him through a spy operation linked to Alice Hua...

Elon Musk announced that Tesla will end Cybertruck production by mid-2027, redirecting factory capacity toward Cybercab development. The vehicle, launched in 2019 with ambitious stainless-steel monoco...

China's Ministry of State Security recruited Megaspeed executive Alice Huang to spy on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, aiming to obtain information about American AI chips and influence Nvidia to export its ...

SpaceX announced plans to become a major US mobile carrier, partnering with Qualcomm to deploy 5G technology across tens of thousands of cell sites starting in 2027. The company is reportedly explorin...

Security firms Layer3 Intel and Synthient discovered residential proxy activity on the White House network, allowing outsiders to rent access to presidential IP addresses for just a few dollars. The p...

A new Nature study proposes that convection currents in Earth's mantle uplifted and then subsided entire continents over hundreds of millions of years, exposing ancient rocks to glacial erosion before...

A new approach uses a cheaper Jev model as a judge to evaluate outputs from the more expensive Opus model, achieving comparable accuracy at 4x lower cost. The technique involves having Opus defer to J...

Anthropic's IPO buyers are pressuring the company's valuation downward, with expectations now as low as $1.1 trillion, reflecting market caution after a broader AI sector selloff. The shift signals gr...

Devvm.dev presents a tool that provides one virtual machine per project, simplifying development environment management. The project has garnered moderate interest on Hacker News with 109 points and 4...

Tesla is reportedly scaling back Cybertruck production due to persistently poor sales and market reception. The decision reflects broader challenges the company faces with the polarizing electric pick...

Rune is a new native GPU-rendered UI framework written in Rust, targeting macOS, Windows, Linux, and the web. Built by Anomaly Co, it aims to bring high-performance, hardware-accelerated rendering to ...

A Chimera Linux developer details their effort to make musl-based distributions work with proprietary NVIDIA drivers, which are traditionally built only for glibc. The post provides a comprehensive ov...

The Futhark language author reflects on floating-point nondeterminism after being inspired by Michael Haddon's Replay Lattice type system presented at IFL2026. The post classifies reproducibility into...

Datadog engineers describe their approach to continuously validating formal specifications in production using techniques like property-based testing and formal methods. The blog details how they inte...

Jo Turk recounts the 10-month journey of implementing DTLS 1.3 for the Pion Go WebRTC library, resulting in over 400 commits and making DTLS 1.3 the new default. The implementation adds post-quantum k...

A deep dive into how glibc's getaddrinfo() accepts IPv4 addresses in wildly unconventional formats — mixed bases (hex/octal/decimal), Unicode digit variants, invisible characters, and odd part counts ...

Security researchers discovered hundreds of servers hosting the penetration testing tool Artex exposed directly to the internet, granting unrestricted access to the AI-powered hacking tool. The miscon...

US midterm election results may significantly impact the AI industry, as voters approved restrictions on 40 out of 41 data center ballot measures. The regulatory shift could constrain AI infrastructur...

New Ramp data reveals a divergence where AI usage continues to grow but corporate spending on AI has plateaued, driven by aggressive price cuts from cloud providers and tighter cost controls among ent...

Physicl has raised $10M to bridge the sim-to-real gap in robotics using a pipeline originally developed for e-commerce product visualization. The company aims to make digital simulations realistic eno...

Amazon is launching a text-based Alexa shopping feature that lets U.S. customers interact with the AI agent via text messages to search for items, add to cart, and make purchases using natural languag...

Tesla will halt Cybertruck production in 2027 following underwhelming sales since its launch. The factory space will be repurposed to manufacture more Cybercabs, according to Elon Musk.

At least 10 local governments have moved to end or restrict their use of Flock Safety surveillance cameras since summer, citing concerns over mass surveillance, data privacy, and data sharing practice...

The FAA is replacing outdated floppy disk technology in its air traffic control systems with the new Enterprise Information Display System (E-IDS), set to deploy across 435 facilities. The upgrade add...

AST SpaceMobile, known for building direct-to-cell communication satellites, announced it is developing its own medium-lift rocket called Blacklift with a 20-ton LEO capacity, targeting commercial lau...

AI data centers are facing growing opposition due to their massive energy consumption and impact on local communities and power grids, with voters rejecting expansion in the 2026 midterms. Tech giants...

Meta's Muse AI assistant now supports customizable 'spaces'—personalized, app-like experiences built through natural language prompts. Users can connect external services like Gmail, Notion, and Googl...

A bipartisan permitting reform bill advancing through Congress aims to accelerate energy project approvals, potentially lowering utility bills but also raising concerns from environmental advocates ab...

Nilay Patel argues that the AI industry has failed to deliver products whose benefits justify their enormous costs, criticizing AI overviews, deepfake content, and the gap between AI hype and reality....

A filfre.net article discusses the Deus Ex franchise, likely exploring its cultural impact, game design philosophy, or legacy in the cyberpunk RPG genre. The piece appears on Hacker News with moderate...

The US FAA has announced plans to phase out floppy disks from its air traffic control systems by 2028, addressing long-standing security and obsolescence concerns with the aging media still used in cr...

The article introduces a generic MustCreate helper pattern in Go tests that eliminates repetitive error-checking boilerplate when constructing known-valid values. By leveraging Go 1.18 generics, it re...

An introduction to Clojure's core philosophy emphasizing that learning difficulty stems from new problem-solving paradigms rather than syntax. The guide advocates for functional programming's immutabi...

An exploration of how volunteer-driven communities have built foundational internet infrastructure, from the Linux operating system to Wikipedia. The article examines the collaborative models that ena...

The author provides a practical guide to implementing out-of-tree Linux security mitigations, assuming systemd-based systems. The article explains the core principle of least privilege and begins deta...

The author critiques the conventional value proposition of property-based testing research, arguing that bug-finding is merely the method rather than the ultimate goal—true value lies in building reli...

Meta has introduced Spaces, a new collaboration feature designed to enhance interaction between users and their Muse AI agents. The update continues Meta's ongoing expansion of its Muse agent capabili...

Underdog AI has released Woof, a 32MB open-source text-to-speech model with 31 million parameters that can run entirely offline on local devices. The company showcased it through an interactive browse...

A man in his 20s in the UK survived a knife that pierced through his right eye, traveled through his brain's frontal and temporal lobes, and exited at the top of his skull—all without damaging critica...

EA has lightly remastered and re-released 25 classic 1990s games, including the Wing Commander series (I–IV, Prophecy, Privateer 2, and more) and nearly the entire Ultima series, now available on Stea...

Artist Jim Sachs ended his decade-long licensing deal with Roku after Fox acquired the streaming platform, removing the popular ad-free Aquatic Life screensaver by December 1. Sachs cited Fox News' co...

Former Rockstar tech director Obbe Vermeij suggests AI-generated clones of GTA VI could pressure the developer to accelerate its official PC port, continuing a long pattern of prioritizing console rel...

Blue Origin announced a new kick stage and engine design for New Glenn, along with a delay of its return-to-flight mission from December to January. Meanwhile, Argo Space, founded by three former Spac...

The Criterion Collection 4K Blu-ray of KPop Demon Hunters is on sale for $24.99 at Amazon and Barnes & Noble, down from $49.95. The set includes a 4K disc with Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos, two 10...

A 2026 comparison review between the new Kindle Colorsoft and Kindle Paperwhite, noting that apart from their screens the two devices are nearly identical. The article also covers differences between ...