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Updated: about 1 hour ago
- The Roboguard Revolution Is Short-Circuiting
- Taxi Drivers Rarely Die of Alzheimer's
- Cyber Vulnerability Sweep Picks Up Royal Navy Drones Sending Data To China
- A Data Breach At Shipping Giant Ceva Logistics Is Rippling Across Banks, Retailers, Steam Gamers, and Beyond
- Valve Slowly Expands SteamOS Support On Non-Valve Hardware
- First Rival Android App Store Arrives In the US Play Store
- Wall Street Giants Partner With Nvidia On $500 Billion AI Financing Deal
- Meta's 'Open' Muse Glimmer Model Can Run On a Single Computer
- Taiwan 'Throttles' Mobile Internet For First Time During Annual War Games
- AI Assistant Hacks Gym Website In First Known Australian Autonomous Cyber Attack
Updated: about 13 hours ago
- AI professors are negotiating the new realities of academic research
- The Download: AI agents for science, and the “censorship-industrial complex”
- These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs
- AI for science needs reasoning, not just data
- The Download: a censorship conspiracy theory and the first virus created by AI
- How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy
- The Download: Google’s AI shake-up and Meta’s rogue model
- Puzzle Corner
- The Download: NASA’s new telescope and Chinese tech import curbs
- NASA’s new dark energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids
Updated: about 10 hours ago
- OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-Cyber with reduced refusals, 95% completion on advanced cybersecurity tasks
- AWS Continuum integrates with OpenAI Codex and Anthropic Claude Code in major AI security push
- Brex assumes its AI agents could do anything — so it watches the network, not the code
- Meta returns to open source with Muse Glimmer, an Apache 2.0 licensed 30B parameter AI model optimized for agents — available now
- Token-maxxing is dead. Agentic memory is what comes next.
- Your agent didn’t hallucinate; it exceeded its authority
- Four AI agents coordinating in real time outperformed Claude Opus 4.8 on enterprise coding tasks
- Stanford is running 37,000 AI agents as a virtual biotech — and one of its drug designs got independently confirmed by Merck
- Tencent's Team Memory shares AI agent memory across a team — with no governance yet for when it's wrong
- No cloud, no GPUs, no problem: Liquid AI's new model LFM2.5-2.6B brings powerful AI agents to devices as small as a Raspberry Pi
Updated: about 2 hours ago
- Better browser?
- real linux p*rn
- Moving integer division to floating-point is trivial
- Gnome Audio Player
- Is the "average" of this function non-zero and finite?
- The two branches of computing
- What is the current status of age verification in systemd?
- Recordings of the GNUstep online meeting of 2026-08-08 are online
- On comments
- Xbox PC and Game Pass games are being worked on for Linux - VideoCardz.com
Updated: less than an hour ago
- OpenAI’s Only Ethicist Reportedly Left Last Month. She Wasn’t Replaced
- If AI Helps People Work Less, Why Are AI Lab Employees Working So Much?
- Apple Reportedly Testing Controversial Chinese Chips as Memory Supply Crunch Intensifies
- Top Wall Street Firms Reportedly Partnering With Nvidia for $500 Billion AI Investment
- This Deadly Drug-Resistant Fungus Can Lurk in Your Skin. Scientists Just Discovered How
- ‘You Can’t Get Food Out of a Data Center’: Family Rejects Tech Company’s $26 Million Offer for Their Farm
- An AI Hacked Into a Gym to Secure a Spot in a Class, but Can It Cancel a Membership?
- House Democrats Want Tech CEOs to Testify Under Oath Following Recent AI Hacks
- Mark Zuckerberg’s Answer to Growing AI Safety Concerns Is to Just Trust People to Do the Right Thing
- Sony’s Next Pair of Wireless Headphones Might Actually Fit Your Budget
Updated: about 1 hour ago
- Microsoft’s Azure Linux 4.0 Is Publicly Available, But Still Preview-Only
- Transmission 4.1.3 BitTorrent Client Fixes Remote Access Security Issue
- Wine 11.12 Released with Bundled FFmpeg Libraries and Mono 11.2
- Git 2.55 Lands with Big Speedups for Large Linux Repositories
- Kali Linux 2026.2 Released with GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6, Kernel 6.19
- Juno Tab 4 WiFi Brings Intel Core Ultra Power to a Premium Linux Tablet
- BOSGAME VTA-439 Mini PC running Linux – Easy Diffusion
- How to Downgrade and Lock Packages With dnf in RHEL Systems
- Mageia 10 Revives the Mandrake Spirit with Plasma 6 and Kernel 6.18
- Kodi 22 Beta Improves Linux Support for Remote Keys and HDR Profile Support
Updated: about 6 hours ago
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- OpenAI gives Daybreak partners access to a more powerful cybersecurity model
- Apple may introduce a photo authentication tool in iOS 27
- NYC Mayor Mamdani announces support for the Delivery Protection Act
- YouTube is making it harder for creators to start getting a cut of ad revenue
- What does a $100 smartphone get you in 2026?
- Before you throw out your old USB drives, do this first
- What's the difference between MagSafe and Qi wireless charging?
- An OpenClaw agent reportedly hacked a gym's booking system and kicked someone off a waiting list
- Here's how to pair your Roku remote
- Data of European Steam hardware customers 'likely compromised', Valve says
Updated: about 5 hours ago
- Navigating the Pivot From Tech Expert to Organizational Leader
- Cars Communicating Badly Is an Already-Solved Problem
- IEEE Course Teaches How to Use AI to Modernize Power Grids
- Why R&D Waste Persists Despite Widespread AI Adoption
- The System That Turned Paper Charts Into Digital Medical Records
- Identifying the Root Cause of Electronics Failures With Simulation Apps
- This Hi-Fi Tape Recorder Changed Radio Forever
- Fridays With Bob
- IEEE Publishing Ethics Team Upholds Research Integrity
- Detect Dark Matter’s Mark From Your Backyard
Updated: about 7 hours ago
- Fauci’s Senate Hearing Shows How Conspiracy Theories Have Become Political Weapons
- SpaceX’s Earnings Show Elon Wiped Out Two-Thirds Of Twitter’s Ad Business
- Trump Doubles Down On Conspiracy Theories After DOJ Drops Reflecting Pool Vandalism Charges
- New Mexico Judge Appoints Himself Meta’s New Product Manager
- It’s Official: Flock Is For Stalking
- Comcast Sued For Punishing Employees With Pies To The Face
- This Week In Techdirt History: August 2nd – 8th
- Buc-ee’s Shies Away From John Oliver Challenge, Sues Tiny Ohio Convenience Store Instead
- Farmers Are Getting Control Of Their Equipment Back
- Ctrl-Alt-Speech: In The Modi For Takedowns
Updated: about 11 hours ago
- Ars Live: Ross Scott discusses the Stop Killing Games movement
- With new open models, Meta pitches another reboot of its struggling AI strategy
- Trump signs bonkers order that cuts vaccines, promotes ones that don't exist
- Developer Cold Iron Studios shuts down cloud version of $60 game with no refunds
- Zuckerberg’s superyacht ignored emergency channel, failed to aid stranded boat
- Has Ford got cheap car fever? A $25K crossover is supposedly on the way.
- Taylor Farms recalls jalapeño products for Salmonella amid Cyclospora outbreak
- Valve slowly expands SteamOS support on non-Valve hardware
- Following Epic loss, Google has started hosting rival app stores in the Play Store
- One of China's workhorse rockets just exploded in flight
Updated: less than an hour ago
- There's a dungeon under this blog
- Reviewing code is a skill
- Solving Advent Of Code on FPGAs with Haskell Clash
- Bevy's Sixth Birthday
- No, local models will not win
- Odd Comments and Strange Doings in Unix
- Chicken Scheme 6.0 released
- Watch out for cache read costs
- Making Need For Speed 2015 with Game Maker
- Breaking up (lines) is hard to do
Updated: about 15 hours ago
- JanSport Cool Backpack, with 15-inch Laptop Sleeve - Large Computer Bag Rucksack with 2 Compartments, Ergonomic Strap... ($54.95)
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- The North Face Women's Jester Everyday Backpack, Blk-NPF, OSFA | Commuter Travel Bag, Laptop Sleeve, Water-Repellent ($74.98)
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- JanSport Cool Backpack, with 15-inch Laptop Sleeve - Large Computer Bag Rucksack with 2 Compartments, Ergonomic Strap... ($54.99)
- JanSport Cool Backpack, with 15-inch Laptop Sleeve - Large Computer Bag Rucksack with 2 Compartments, Ergonomic Strap... ($59.02)
- Ailun 2Pack Screen Protector for iPad A16 2025 11th 11"/10th Gen 2022 10.9" | Tempered Glass, Face ID Compatible, App... ($6.98)
- JanSport Cool Backpack, with 15-inch Laptop Sleeve - Large Computer Bag Rucksack with 2 Compartments, Ergonomic Strap... ($56.58)
Updated: about 19 hours ago
- New GLP-1 pill delivers up to 12% weight loss in 36 weeks
- 1 in 5 people may carry this hidden genetic heart risk
- Scientists discover a hidden switch inside silver nanocatalysts
- 240-million-year-old reptile fossil reveals a lost chapter before dinosaurs and crocodiles
- Potatoes may have given Indigenous Andeans a digestive superpower
- The sun will vanish over Europe in a rare total solar eclipse: Watch live
- Voyager 2 was running out of power. NASA just bought it more time
- For 15,000 years, humans and dogs have been changing each other
- Cassini reveals a surprising twist in Saturn’s magnetic shield
- A daily glass of fruit juice was linked to lower depression scores
Updated: less than an hour ago
- How Social Media Sparked a Refugee Crisis Between Spain and Morocco
- Waymo Is Growing Faster Than Ever. So Are Its ‘Edge Cases.’
- Meta Unveils ‘Open Source’ Version of Its Most Powerful A.I. Model
- A.I.-Driven Chip Crunch Leads to New Rush of Lobbying in Washington
- Can A.I. Get You Where You Want to Go for Less?
- Why Are So Many People Upset About Flock Cameras?
- Flock Cameras Can Track Every Car in America. Police Love Them. Citizens Don’t.
- The Surprising Truth About Instagram’s VHS Dates Videos
- New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
- The White House’s Secret A.I. Rules + The State of Model Alignment With METR’s Chris Painter + The Final Hot Mess Express
Updated: about 12 hours ago
- Cookies are not needed for fingerprinting and tracking
- First version of Word for Windows ported to modern 64bit Windows
- Idol Mahjong Final Romance: a slideshow disguised as a video game
- Thanks to the EU’s Digital Markets Act, EU citizens are getting copy and paste between iOS and Windows
- IceWM 4.1.0 released
- Microsoft CVP explains why killing Windows legacy code takes so long
- Developing a windowed OS for a homebrew Am29000 computer
- How to make a Nintendo 64 game in 2026
- Tribblix Milestone 41 for x86 released
- Corporate players in Amiga community sign various agreements to clear up some of the decades-old licensing and ownership mess
Updated: less than an hour ago
- France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls
- The Water Footprint of AI
- DeepSeek: Reverse Engineering an AI Assistant by Interviewing Itself
- Show HN: Mcptoon – MCP CLI client that cuts tool discovery tokens by 97%
- Updated GPG Key for Signing Firefox and Thunderbird Releases
- Why My Father Is Wrong: A Defense of Guitar Hero
- Gulf States Accept a New Normal in Hormuz: Iran Is in Control
- Hyperspace
- Recycle – Floppydisks
- Antirez/h3.c: MiniMax H3 inference engine for Mac computers
Updated: less than an hour ago
- A look at London-based AI startup Cosine, which is building a frontier model with UK government backing, as some question if it has the talent and resources (Financial Times)
- Intel raised $20B in an upsized share sale, up from the $15B it was targeting; sources say the sale drew $100B+ in demand; INTC is up ~146% in 2026 so far (Bloomberg)
- A look at Western Australian police's first live facial recognition trial, which has scanned 130,000+ people since June, raising accuracy and privacy concerns (ABC)
- Owner of 1.5M-page site PatronView on a year of fighting scrapers: 214:1 bot-to-human page loads, 35K Claude crawls per referred user, Amazon bot referred none (Nick Gray/PatronView)
- Singapore raises its 2026 GDP growth forecast to 4.5%-5.5% from 2%-4%, citing stronger-than-expected global AI investment and improved external demand (Bloomberg)
- Anthropic says Claude models in the EU will now add invisible watermarks to generated text and C2PA metadata to generated files, to comply with the EU AI Act (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
- Sources: Anthropic is courting investors for what could be the biggest IPO ever, touting rapid growth and plans to address mounting public backlash against AI (Wall Street Journal)
- Sources: investor interest in Situational Awareness surged after it nearly blew up on leveraged positions; the fund says it's not accepting new capital for now (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)
- Sources: Anthropic agreed to a 20-year, $9.1B compute deal with Riot Platforms for 191 MW of capacity at a Rockdale, TX campus; RIOT jumps ~25% after hours (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
- How a clause in Elon Musk's Tesla pay package, worth up to ~$1T, could provide him a shortcut around lofty performance targets if Tesla merged with SpaceX (Wall Street Journal)
Updated: about 7 hours ago
- Apple’s 20th-anniversary iPhone redesign reportedly remains on track
- Jefferies downgrades Apple stock, cites all-glass iPhone cancellation rumor
- 9to5Mac Daily: August 10, 2026 – Apple Watch rumors, more
- Apple settles lawsuit over alleged discrimination against Jewish employee
- ChatGPT users can now book tables and join restaurant waitlists through Yelp
- WhatsApp’s latest beta for iOS adds references to an in-chat search tool
- MagSafe Monday: The TESSAN AERO 5000 brings a titanium finish to an ultra thin battery
- Apple TV teams up with Academy Award-winning director for the second time
- Apple official refurb store: Save hundreds on our top picks of the week
- Apple is working on a way to authenticate that a photo came from an iPhone camera
Updated: about 12 hours ago
- You Can (Maybe) Run Meta's Latest AI Model Locally on Your Computer
- This Portable Vlogging Camera Is $130 Off Right Now
- This Solar-Powered Garmin Smartwatch Is 50% Off Right Now
- 10 Shows Like 'Sugar' You Should Watch Next
- The Best Apps to Use After Gmail's 'Send As' Feature Goes Away
- This Is Google Play's First Third-Party App Store
- You Can Get the Samsung Galaxy S26+ for Over $250 Off Right Now
- The Feature-Packed Pixel Buds 2a Are $30 Off Right Now
- 10 Screenshot Hacks Every Mac User Should Know
- Apple Just Added These New Android Devices to Its Trade-In List
Updated: about 9 hours ago
- OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer
- As AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model
- Jeff Bezos might finally get his hands on a sports team
- Now Rippling is counter suing tiny startup Runlayer
- Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight the billionaire tax
- Mark Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto is exactly why people don’t like AI
- Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym
- Aptoide becomes the first rival app store to return to Google Play in the US
- Social media platforms still facing thousands of user addiction lawsuits after failed appeals
- YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money
Updated: 4 days ago
- Fast fashion is terrible for the planet. Can wardrobe cataloging apps help?
- AI models have learned how to cheat. That might actually be a good thing.
- Hackers just broke into America’s tap water
- Rise of the AI-ristocracy
- The US might lose the AI race to China. Should Americans care?
- Can knowing less make you happier?
- Can the internet survive rogue AI?
- The four most important words in healthcare right now
- The iPhone lease is too good to be true
- AI could end up too cheap to control
Updated: less than an hour ago
- Microsoft reportedly raises Windows 11 license price significantly more than expected
- Unreleased Claude model makes breakthrough on century-old Riemann Hypothesis math problem
- NVIDIA teams up with Wall Street giants to finance over $500 billion for AI infrastructure
- Microsoft's new MAI‑Image‑2.6 outperforms all rivals except GPT‑Image‑2 on Arena leaderboard
- Audio-Technica's open-back reference headphones drop to their lowest price yet
- Microsoft Edge users may soon be able to sign in using Apple account
- Edifier S3000MKII, S355DB high end PC audio speakers are discounted right now
- New Forza Horizon 6 update sets the tone for the Mascot Party event and fixes known bugs
- Microsoft explains the recent Xbox outage and outlines upcoming fixes
- Save 15% on GEEKOM IT13 MAX: with this cost-effective Intel U9 Back-to-School special offer
Updated: less than an hour ago
- A New Rumor Says Dean Devlin Chatted With David Tennant About a Return to ‘Doctor Who’
- James Norton on Ormund’s Gruesome ‘House of the Dragon’ Scene
- ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Stars Always Believed the World Deserved to See It in Theaters
- Phia Saban on How ‘House of the Dragon’ Changed Helaena From Page to Screen
- Can’t Attend D23? Disney Is Live Streaming Some of Its Biggest Panels
- Christopher Nolan Reveals a Surprising ‘Star Wars’ Inspiration in ‘The Odyssey’
- Emma D’Arcy on Rhaenyra’s Fierce Makeover in the ‘House of the Dragon’ Finale
- ‘Hellboy in Hell: Parade of Horrors’ Is Mike Mignola’s Next Hellboy Comic [Exclusive]
- ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 3 Bids Farewell With Plenty of Brutal Chaos
- A ‘Puppet Master’ Remake Is in Development at Blumhouse
Updated: about 4 hours ago
- Atomic Kitsch: The Allee Willis Collection
- Cattle farmer plants 14,000 trees to help slow flow of flood water
- Mort the Shortles
- An insane megalomaniac with no conscience, no shame and no limits
- Free thread: Share your favorite current memes
- ...a garden weed that lets you conjure the ghost of a whale
- The media backlash against Abdul El-Sayed
- The struggle must be an essential part of the true value
- Millions of tiny engineers help to restore health of marine ecosystem
- A letter to those from the 80s
Updated: less than an hour ago
- AI Is Helping Solve the Intricate Genetic Puzzle of Schizophrenia
- Booking.com Promo Codes: 20% Off | August 2026
- PlayStation Discount Code: Save on PS5 Games August 2026
- 30% Off Samsung Promo Code | August 2026
- Best Casetify Promo Codes | 15% Off July
- Skullcandy Discount Code: 30% Off | August 2026
- Orange Crush: TAG Heuer Drops a Bright Revamp of the Original Metal F1 Watch
- The Best Portable Solar Panels: My Take After Years of Testing
- The Outlaw Chemist Teaching People How to Make Drugs From Scratch
- The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact
Updated: about 12 hours ago
- Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live
- Anker’s travel charger works in almost any country and is down to $20
- Bluesky now lets you hide reposts from that annoying person you follow
- Costco’s great Switch 2 console bundle includes over $100 in free stuff
- What to expect from Google’s 2026 Pixel hardware launch event
- YouTube is making it harder to earn money on YouTube
- Four takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s massive AI manifesto
- Apple will stream Friday Night Baseball live in Vision Pro
- Keychron’s wireless Hall effect keyboard is back to its lowest price
- Bose CEO Lila Snyder on the fight for high-quality audio
Updated: less than an hour ago
- DIY modder creates 'heat engine computing device' powered by a Stirling engine, can run Tetris, Snake, and Pong — 80 MHz processor operates on just 150 milliwatts of power
- Xbox PC and Game Pass titles are coming to Linux through 'Xodus' — Heroic Launcher devs embark on new open-source reverse-engineering project
- GeForce RTX 50-series GPU prices spike as much as 39% as Blackwell price hikes hit the US — RTX 5070 gets a 36% hike, RTX 5060 up 27% at the median of Newegg listings
- Nvidia reportedly testing lower memory configs of Rubin Ultra as memory shortage bites back — designs tested include as little as 192 GB and step back to HBM4
- Rogue AI agent tasked with booking a gym class hacks system, removes other participant — says 'sorry about that' after trying to bump user up the waitlist
- Intel's Core Ultra 5 250K Plus is down to its lowest price ever at $154 — get a 20-core midrange CPU with 5.5 GHz boost for an entry-level price
- Acer Swift Go 16 AI (AMD Gorgon Point) Review: A balanced, affordable, big-screen portable
- AI data center bans surge past 500 nationwide as local US politicians begin blocking new developments — growing public outrage and bipartisan pushback threaten big tech expansion plans
- Hyperscalers commit nearly $2 trillion to secure AI hardware and memory — Google leads $811 billion spending surge while Apple trails at $57 billion
- GeForce NOW exploit lets you access the full Windows desktop through a simple file swap — Modder runs local AI models on Ultimate tier with 48GB of VRAM and no restrictions
Updated: less than an hour ago
- Bluesky Now Lets You Hide Reposts From Specific Users in Your Feeds
- Apple Still Planning 'Glass-Centric' iPhone Redesign for 2027
- iOS 27 Hints at 'Apple Reference Image' Photo Authentication
- Everything New in iOS 27 Beta 5
- iOS 27 Beta 5 Brings New Icons for Siri, Safari, Settings and More
- Latest iOS 27 Beta Expands Siri AI Voice Customization
- Apple Cutting Back 2026 Hardware Shipments Due to Memory Shortage
- Apple Releases macOS Golden Gate Beta 5
- Apple Releases macOS Tahoe 26.6.2 Beta With Security Fixes
- Apple Releases iOS 26.6.1 and iPadOS 26.6.1 Betas With Security Fixes
Updated: about 8 hours ago
- Open-Source NVIDIA "Nova" Driver Sees More Functionality For Linux 7.3
- Fedora CoreOS To Enable systemd-oomd & zRAM Swap By Default
- Five More Lenovo Laptops To Report Fan Sensors With Linux 7.3
- Linux 7.3 Bringing A KCFI Optimization To Benefit Older Intel CPUs
- Qt Toolkit To Introduce Edge AI Submodule, Initially For Vision AI With Qt
- Intel Xeon 678X Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 26.04 Performance With The HP Z4 G6i
- Linux Mint Improves Kernel Management & Setting System-Wide Environment Variables
- Meta Publishes Muse Glimmer As 30B Open Agentic Model
- Minor Optimization Coming For AMD Athlon XP Era Systems Running Linux
- Apple M1 Series SoCs To See ~1 Watt Power Savings With Linux 7.3
Updated: less than an hour ago
- Gitar - AI code review that fixes what it finds
- Xirp - The agentic development environment built by Spotify
- ScreenMark - Menu bar app for live annotations, whiteboard overlay + more
- Lexi - The operating system for legal work
- AdmitRaven - Duolingo for college applications
- Gotcha - World's First AI Copilot for Android. You talk. It acts.
- Prime Agent - A coding agent that can refine its own harness
- SecondBrain Note by GenSpark - A MagSafe AI Recorder That Acts for You
- Gutta - A tiny, offline task list for your Mac menu bar
- AI Group Call - Type a goal, join a live voice call with six AI minds
Updated: less than an hour ago
- Smile, You’re on Camera. Part 2: Hiring Lazarus APT’s IT Workers in a Fake DeFi Startup
- How GetQR Is Rethinking QR Code Use for Businesses and Companies
- How PrimePDF Is Rethinking PDF Workflows
- Top Fintech Software Development Companies in USA: Shortlist for 2026
- Yatin Garg On Widespread Adoption Defining Enterprise Financial Innovation
- Architecting iOS Dynamics With Prasenjit Sinha
- Why Enterprises Need Dedicated Data Synchronization Engines
- AI Has Reinvented Drug Discovery. Now Come the Borders
- AI in Luxury Travel: Why Virtuoso Travel Advisors Who Use AI Will Replace Those Who Don’t
- AI Is a Backhoe, Not a Magic Wand