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Google announced its next-generation TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max chips, representing a major leap in AI training infrastructure with significantly higher compute density and energy efficiency for large lan...

Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, significant updates to their Claude model family. The release follows a major launch event with substantial community engagement on Hacker News.

James Gunn and Peter Safran are stepping down from their leadership roles in the DC Universe following a merger shake-up at Warner Bros. Discovery. Producer Jeremy Latcham, formerly a protege of Kevin...

Infineon has unveiled the world's first 300-millimeter silicon carbide (SiC) power wafers, marking a major scaling step for wide-bandgap semiconductor manufacturing. The shift from 150mm to 300mm subs...

Node.js 27 launched in October 2026 as part of a new annual release schedule, introducing a null prototype for req.headers, a 4 GB heap default, V8 15.6, and powerful Iterator methods (zip, zipKeyed, ...

Geothermal company Fervo has accumulated $12 billion in orders for its drilling technology while simultaneously targeting the natural gas market by reducing geothermal drilling costs at its 8.4 GW Uta...

A critical vulnerability known as sshole is under active exploitation, allowing attackers to gain privileged SSH access to Linux systems using OpenSSH and musl libraries. Security firm Greynoise has t...

Nvidia is investigating whether Chinese intelligence operatives targeted CEO Jensen Huang through a romantic relationship as part of an espionage operation. Huang has admitted to the affair as the com...

Researchers have developed semi-transparent, colored cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic panels for agrivoltaic applications, potentially allowing selective light transmission that benefits crop gro...

Security researchers collaborated to investigate the connected car platform of a major automaker, focusing on internet-facing web infrastructure rather than hardware. By decompiling the mobile app APK...

blqsort is a high-performance C++ quicksort implementation that uses branchless partitioning, sorting networks for small subarrays, and robust pivot selection to achieve roughly 2x speedup over std::s...

PyPI has completed its redesign of project pages featuring clearer security signals, including a new Security tab that displays release provenance states and per-file digital attestations. The update ...

Anthropic is advancing its IPO plans despite market volatility and recent scandals in the AI sector, according to The Wall Street Journal. The company will set its valuation range this week with tradi...

Nvidia's stock dropped over 4% after its board launched an investigation into CEO Jensen Huang's alleged ties to a suspected Chinese spy. A securities law expert warned that the company's prior charac...

Wyndham Hotels left a hardcoded credential in its customer-facing app, exposing sensitive customer data to anyone who discovered it. The company declined to confirm whether it has detected any past un...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has withdrawn from the ElevenLabs Summit and other speaking engagements following public admission of an extramarital affair and the launch of an internal investigation into hi...

Anthropic has purchased billions of dollars' worth of natural gas turbines in what could prove to be a costly commitment given current market conditions. The deal highlights the growing tension betwee...

NHTSA has opened a new investigation after discovering that most Waymo robotaxis continued illegally passing stopped school buses even after a software update was deployed to fix the issue in November...

The Pentagon is exploring the notion of deploying a constellation of military satellites in lunar orbit, signaling growing U.S. interest in cislunar military infrastructure. The move reflects broader ...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has acknowledged an affair with Alice Huang, an executive at Megaspeed who was identified by US intelligence as an alleged spy for China's Ministry of State Security. Nvidia la...

Claude Fable 5.2 has topped the Artificial Analysis leaderboard with a score of 65, marking the highest rating achieved by any model on the platform so far. The achievement highlights ongoing progress...

The author recounts how Fable 5.2's major performance improvements allowed their nephew to finally achieve playable frame rates in a self-developed dream game built in F# targeting JavaScript. The upd...

E-means is proposed as an improved variant of the k-means clustering algorithm, claiming convergence in approximately one-tenth of the epochs typically required by standard k-means. The work has garne...

A GitHub repository documents that Google Gemini routes users' personal Drive files and emails to human annotators, raising privacy concerns about how AI training data is sourced from private cloud st...

Meta AI released Muse Ember, their smallest and most efficient model yet, aimed at enabling capable AI inference on resource-constrained devices. The announcement highlights Meta's continued push into...

OT cybersecurity faces mounting pressure from high-impact vulnerabilities targeting critical infrastructure including water utilities, refrigeration systems, and healthcare facilities. The article tra...

Docker's engineering lead reveals that Docker Desktop has been using microVM technology since 2016, originating from the acquisition of Unikernel Systems. The article traces how unikernels—minimal VMs...

YouTube will resume sharing streaming data with Billboard in 2027 following a resolution of their long-standing dispute over chart methodology. The updated chart formula now places greater weight on f...

Anthropic has released two new AI models named Mythos and Fable, claiming improvements in coding, reasoning, vision capabilities, and clearer user communication. The launch comes amid growing concerns...

AI hardware startup Nominal has raised another significant funding round that triples its valuation to $3 billion within eight months. The company provides an AI platform for hardware engineering and ...

Allegations that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had an affair with a suspected Chinese spy have emerged, potentially complicating Nvidia's lobbying efforts to ease U.S. chip export restrictions to China. The...

Meta has released Muse Ember, a new lightweight AI model optimized for agent execution tasks. Priced at just 10 cents per million input tokens, it positions itself as significantly more affordable tha...

Meta is rolling out its AI-powered age-verification technology globally on Instagram, designed to detect teenagers even when they provide a false adult birthday during account creation.

Automattic has launched Spacefast, a new platform enabling users to deploy vibe-coded websites and applications with built-in infrastructure like databases, authentication, analytics, and CDN. Origina...

A Washington man who lost $308,000 on sports bets through Kalshi is suing the prediction market for violating the state's online gambling ban, seeking over $580,000 in restitution. The case tests whet...

Security researchers at Apiiro discovered Claude Code's local settings files are being committed to public GitHub repositories, leaking database passwords, API tokens, and root logins. The issue arise...

SpaceX vice president Kiko Dontchev announced the company has shifted focus from being primarily a rocket manufacturer to functioning as an infrastructure company building systems on Earth, in low Ear...

Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison predicted that AI has the potential to be the biggest creative unlock in modern history, comparing its impact to the advent of CGI in the early 1990s. He made thes...

Jensen Huang, Nvidia's CEO, has become a high-value target for foreign adversaries like China due to Nvidia's dominance in AI chips and his close relationship with President Trump. The article explore...

President Trump confirmed during a White House press briefing that he had been briefed on intelligence regarding Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's relationship with Alice Huang, who is alleged to be a Chinese...

Apple is introducing $49.99 'Intelligence Usage Packs' for Logic Pro, allowing users to bypass cloud-based AI feature limits imposed by OpenAI and Google Gemini reliance.

The author expresses skepticism about a new UN Climate Change Conference (COP31) pledge to use AI for environmental benefit, calling it feel-good but potentially hollow. Over 190 countries gathered in...

CUI is an open-source library providing native UI components for the C programming language, enabling developers to build desktop applications with system-native widgets. The project has gained modest...

The USPS now officially publishes ZIP Code boundary polygons through its Postal Pro platform, making geospatial data freely available for developers and researchers. This long-awaited public release p...

Payments Canada has announced the launch of the Real-Time Rail (RTR), a new nationwide payment infrastructure offering 24/7 real-time payments. The system marks a major modernization of Canada's payme...

A developer released 'Watched Earth,' a browser-based tool that traces every satellite passing over any location in the past week using SGP4 propagation on ~17k CelesTrak objects, then retrieves real ...

An educational deep-dive into the internals of malloc and system-level memory allocation. The author likely explains how standard library functions map to OS syscalls like brk/mmap, including heap man...

The author creates a 'protest certificate' for their website that uses a deliberately weak, vanity public key (prime 313333333337) to embed a visible encoded message into the certificate itself. This ...

An open-source developer measured the electricity consumption of their Casuarina Linux package build server over seven months, totaling 98.4 kWh for approximately 5,000 package builds. The project hig...

Apple introduced "Adaptive Dark Mode," pushing a browser-level forced dark mode feature into the mainstream. Author David Bushell reconsidered his stance and re-added dark mode support to his website,...

Aurimas Gasiulis introduces S9, a new interpolating spline designed to automatically produce visually smooth curves based on curvature variation minimization. The article explains how osculating circl...

The article explores how DNS and DNSSEC can be used to securely bind structured key-value records to domain names, proposing solutions similar to existing protocols like SRV and DMARC. It acknowledges...

The article argues for running multiple applications within a single process to eliminate duplicated resources such as separate JVMs, GC pools, and HTTP servers. The author claims this approach reduce...

Ken Shirriff reverse engineered a vintage ST680A integrated circuit from Signetics' 1965 600 series, revealing it as a diode-transistor logic (DTL) quad NAND gate chip. The article also highlights Sig...

A developer shares their positive experience with Gleam, a functional language targeting the BEAM VM and JavaScript, praising its simple syntax, type safety, and familiarity for Rust developers. The a...

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang reportedly hired a crisis PR firm known for handling high-profile sex scandals, according to Wired. The move came after an October 2025 New York Times report covered Alice Huan...

France blames Iran for at least two waves of cyberattacks targeting industrial refrigerated units and freezers across the country and wider Europe, affecting grocery stores and blood banks. The incide...

Uber has officially launched its Parking service, expanding beyond its core ride-hailing business. The move follows Uber's acquisition of SpotHero, signaling ambitions to integrate parking solutions i...

Medium has launched a new writing application called TK that integrates AI assistance directly into the writing workflow. The move comes as the publishing industry faces growing controversy and debate...

A newly Democratic Congress is expected to reshape Trump's Golden Dome missile defense program by stripping its most controversial component—the boost-phase interception capability—and renaming the in...

The 2026 Brazilian Grand Prix delivered one of the season's most exciting races, driven by unpredictable wet-to-dry track conditions, a jumbled qualifying order, and penalties for top drivers Max Vers...

A Newegg promotion offers three months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for $57.99 (about $19/month) after applying coupon code BNWF2656. The deal brings a discount to Microsoft's top-tier subscription, whi...

Instagram is launching its Effect Builder, an AI-powered tool that generates custom Story filters from text prompts, available now in the US for users over 18. Users can describe their filter ideas, a...

Simon Willison responds to Paul Ford's 'The Web Is More Than Enough' by demonstrating that Claude Opus 5.5 can port a Three.js 3D project to pure Vanilla JS + WebGL. While the output isn't identical, ...

Simon Willison used Claude Code to build 'Beep Locator,' a web-based triangulation system that uses multiple networked devices as synchronized listeners to pinpoint the source of an intermittent beepi...

Simon Willison added support for Anthropic's newly released Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 models to his llm-anthropic tool. He tested image generation across all reasoning levels and discovered a new bug i...

Metalio is entering the budget mini e-reader market with its new E Ink 4 Plus model, featuring a 4.7-inch display at 297 PPI, now appearing on Amazon listings. The release adds to a growing wave of in...

Kobo Stack is a feature that allows sideloaded books to sync reading progress and annotations across devices, mimicking the behavior of store-bought books. It remains the only option for achieving cro...