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Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang

According to WSJ reporting, NVIDIA is reportedly preparing to remove co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang from his leadership role amid a leadership transition. The news comes after recent legal scrutiny a...

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OpenAI’s quarterly revenue reportedly crosses $10B for the first time

OpenAI's quarterly revenue has reportedly surpassed $10 billion for the first time, marking a significant milestone for the AI company. This represents nearly a 50% increase from its $6.7 billion seco...

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Loot boxes, influencers, and addictive features face an EU crackdown

The EU Commission has proposed the Digital Fairness Act to target exploitative online practices such as misleading pricing, addictive features like loot boxes, and undisclosed influencer marketing. Ai...

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Lock Your GitHub Actions

The article explains how to lock GitHub Actions to specific SHA checksums instead of branch references or mutable version tags, mitigating tampering risks from compromised repositories. It provides pr...

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Faster Retrieval for Better, More Efficient RAG

Apple researchers published work on improving retrieval speed in RAG systems, focusing on making vector search more efficient while maintaining quality. The research addresses the growing need for sca...

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AWS emulator

AWS has launched AWS Emulator, an open-source tool that runs local emulators of key AWS services to help developers test their applications locally before deploying to the cloud. The project is availa...

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Can a Linear Program Do Weight-Space Programming?

Nathan explores whether classic linear programming frameworks can be repurposed to navigate neural network weight spaces directly—offering a fresh angle on interpolation, merging, and understanding mo...

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My AI agents found an unmapped Maya site?

The author used AI agents to analyze satellite imagery and identify previously unmapped Mayan archaeological sites in Guatemala's rainforest. The AI-suggested locations were then verified through fiel...

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For the first time, a C++ standard failed to pass the national bodies

For the first time in history, the C++26 standard failed to pass national body voting, receiving 12 votes in favor and 9 against from participating member bodies, with 12 countries abstaining due to i...

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The unfolding Jensen Huang scandal: a timeline

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang faces allegations of an affair with a Chinese spy, raising national security concerns amid the intensifying US-China AI infrastructure rivalry.

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Congress to call Jensen Huang in to answer for alleged Chinese spy affair

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been summoned by House Republicans for a closed-door briefing regarding his alleged romantic relationship with a person linked to Chinese espionage. The deadline for his re...

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Anduril says its first satellite can see adversaries maneuver in orbital night

Anduril demonstrated its Anduril-216 satellite equipped with a long-wave infrared sensor capable of tracking other spacecraft during orbital night when they are hidden in Earth's shadow. The demo, fun...

7.0

Trump admin loses fight to spy on random journalists’ LinkedIn DMs

A federal appeals court blocked the Trump administration's overly broad request for LinkedIn to hand over 18 months of communications from multiple journalists in connection with a leaked classified m...

7.0

Google DeepMind just mathematically verified key parts of Signal

Google DeepMind researchers used their AlphaProof Code agentic AI framework to formally verify key cryptographic guarantees of the Signal protocol, marking a significant milestone for both cryptograph...

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IBM to offer access to a dual-processor quantum system in 2027

IBM announced at its Quantum Developer Conference that it will offer access to a dual-processor Nighthawk quantum system in 2027, each housing over 500 programmable qubits. The company scaled back its...

7.0

Anthropic's IPO roadshow video

Anthropic has launched its IPO roadshow, revealing previously unpublished details about its multi-chip training and inference strategy. The company trains and serves Claude across four major chip fami...

6.0

Gemini Decisions API

Google introduced the Gemini Decisions API, enabling developers to integrate structured decision-making capabilities into applications powered by Gemini models. The announcement generated significant ...

6.0

Atuin Threads: All your agent sessions on every machine

Atuin introduces Threads, a feature that synchronizes AI agent session state across all your machines, allowing seamless continuation of sessions regardless of which device you're on. The update expan...

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Hyper-Realistic Sand with WebGL2

This project demonstrates hyper-realistic sand simulation rendered in real-time using WebGL2, showcasing advanced GPU-accelerated techniques for particulate physics visualization. The work highlights ...

6.0

Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining card

A hardware hacker demonstrates using voltage glitching techniques to unlock A100 GPU capabilities on their mining card, bypassing hardware-determined feature restrictions. The post details the physica...

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Tim Peters has died

Tim Peters, the Python developer best known for creating TimSort and penning the Zen of Python (PEP 20), has died at age 73. His contributions to sorting algorithms and Python's guiding principles hav...

6.0

How I accidentally became a millionaire

Security researcher Lyra Rebane reveals how AI-generated disinformation falsely claimed she became a millionaire after a $1.3M Google Chrome bounty, while her actual 2022 vulnerability report only ear...

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Monads in Lean

Eli Bendersky's tutorial demonstrates how monads in Lean 4 can elegantly handle failure propagation in expression evaluators, replacing tedious nested match statements with cleaner compositional patte...

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No Effect Before Its Cause: From Einstein to Lamport

The article traces how distributed systems solved event ordering problems by drawing parallels between Einstein's relativity and Lamport's logical clocks, ultimately leading to CRDTs for conflict-free...

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The Myth of Neutral Code

The author challenges the nostalgic narrative that open source was once a politically neutral meritocracy, arguing instead that early free software movement was explicitly moral and ethical from its o...

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Databricks’ new AI agent tells CEO Ali Ghodsi the unvarnished truth

Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi leverages the company's updated Genie AI agent to gather candid internal feedback from its 12,000-person workforce, filling information gaps that no leader could cover alone....

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CEO Jensen Huang's job is suddenly on the line at Nvidia

Nvidia's board is holding urgent talks about CEO Jensen Huang's future after revelations of his affair with Kimberly Powell, the company's healthcare vice-president. The scandal deepened as former Pre...

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Taiwan’s chipmaking giant TSMC to invest $1B in Anthropic, OpenAI

TSMC's board has approved a $1 billion investment split between $500 million in OpenAI preferred stock and $500 million in Anthropic common shares at its expected IPO price. The move gives the world's...

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Why the data center you dread might never even be built

Data center projects face mounting real-world obstacles including local opposition, permitting delays, and electricity shortages, but a more fundamental issue is that many announced AI infrastructure ...

6.0

Trump wanted little Kei trucks for America, Toyota makes it happen

Toyota is reviving its Scion brand with the KEI-01, a right-hand-drive Kei-class mini-truck, responding to President Trump's push to legalize Japan's tiny 'Kei' vehicles in the US. While Trump wants t...

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United won’t let your AI agent book your flight

United Airlines has announced it will block personal AI agents from booking flights on its platform, citing privacy risks and potential circumvention of federal regulations requiring customer attestat...

6.0

Hands on with Home Assistant’s new ‘smart home multi-tool’

Home Assistant has released the Connect Aux-2, a $69 multi-function hub featuring Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Ethernet, USB, audio jacks, and a Grove port to bridge non-smart devices into smart home ecosystems....

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llm 0.37.2

llm 0.37.2 is a security-focused release that fixes two vulnerabilities (GHSA-v9h7-jj4g-f862, GHSA-r639-rr7r-x72w) reported by Daniel de Araujo, where configured OpenAI API keys could accidentally be ...

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Emacs in the Age of Magic

This Hacker News post discusses Emacs's place in the modern programming landscape, likely contrasting its traditional text-editing philosophy with emerging "magic" tools like AI assistants and LLM-pow...

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Show HN: Yogurt – Free, private, open-source alternative to Granola

Yogurt is a free, open-source Electron desktop app that uses local AI models to transcribe, summarize, and chat with meeting recordings entirely on-device. Built by Eric at FrigadeHQ, it leverages whi...

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About the downtime and security incident

Danbooru was shut down for a week after an attacker used an AI-discovered XSS worm in a malicious Flash post to steal viewer IPs and hijack accounts during a 6-minute exposure window. The team patched...

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Writing a SIGGRAPH paper from scratch

Alexander Goslin shares his personal journey of writing a SIGGRAPH 2026 paper on Terrain Diffusion, a learned procedural terrain generator developed as a college side project. The paper went viral, ga...

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Modding Linux to use SIGKILL on every process

An engineer modifies the Linux kernel to explore what would happen if normal processes could catch or mask SIGKILL — a signal traditionally guaranteed to be unstoppable. The post walks through signal ...

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Meta is losing its longtime head of infrastructure

Meta's longtime head of infrastructure Santosh Janardhan is stepping down and will be replaced by Dave Brown, formerly an Amazon vice president with expertise in compute, cloud, and AI. Janardhan will...

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Siri co-founder backs Helix for its voice ID tech

Siri co-founder backs Helix, a voice biometrics company, as AI agents become more prevalent online. The move underscores growing industry concern about human identity verification in an era where AI c...

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Apple is shuttering its 28-year-old online community forum

Apple is closing its 28-year-old Apple Support Community forum on November 20, 2026, moving users to official Apple Support channels. The peer-to-peer forum, dating back to 1998 as Apple Tech Exchange...

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Audible will provide audiobooks for underrepresented youth

Audible has launched Imagine Louder, a global social impact initiative offering free six-month Premium memberships to 15,000 underrepresented young people. The program aims to increase access to audio...

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Kobo OS Beta and Send to Kobo Launches in US

Kobo has launched its Kobo Stack subscription service in the US, featuring a new 'Send to Kobo' function that allows syncing non-Kobo ebooks directly to devices. Alongside this, the latest Beta OS for...

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First Look at the Kindle Paperwhite 2026 e-reader

A first look and unboxing of the Kindle Paperwhite 2026 e-reader covering its hardware and software features. The article previews what buyers can expect from Amazon's latest-generation e-reader.