The daily ledger

Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B

The model maker added $18 billion in annualized revenue in two months.

US vaccination rates fall again as exemptions continue to rise, CDC data shows

Again, the CDC did not publish a full report and instead simply put the data online.

Almost nobody pays attention to web standards anymore

Screen readers suffer as nearly 90% of top websites tested contain HTML spec violations

How to Work with Subqueries in SQL

Whenever you see a query nested inside another query in SQL, that's a subquery. A subquery is also known as an inner query while the one that contains it is called the main or outer query. Subqueries

AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team

"We have some really ambitious plans to help you work with AI in Chrome to get things done, and I’ll have more to share soon," Jacob Bank, Relay founder and CEO, said.

Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts

“We're not necessarily building in a dogmatic fashion towards full autonomy.”

How to Scale LLM Inference for AI Agents Using vLLM

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to scale LLM inference for AI agents using vLLM. I'll help you build an intuition for how LLM inference works, explore why agent workloads create GPU scheduling and

The Moon's shadow raced across the heart of Spain, and I was there to see it

Here's what it was like watching a total solar eclipse 90 minutes north of Madrid.

‘Unprecedented’ number of Apple users received recent spyware alert, say investigators

Cybersecurity experts who investigate spyware attacks say the number of people who received a recent threat notification from Apple is unusually high.

As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value

"Network effect" can run in reverse.

Payments giant Stripe is about to drop over $7 billion to become a gateway to AI token sales

AI gateways look promising as companies struggle with model orchestration

Supreme Court rejects Verizon bid for $47 million refund of FCC fine

Despite loss, carriers still claim selling device-location data isn't illegal.

Spotify’s new Playlist Notes let users and editors explain their song picks

Spotify launches a new feature that gives users a chance to explain the stories and reasoning behind their favorite music. Editors will be using the feature, too, on top playlists like RapCaviar and others.

Higgsfield raises $400M Series B, quadrupling its valuation in 8 months to $5.4B

Higgsfield, founded by former Snap exec Alex Mashrabov, lets users create AI images and videos.

Petlibro accused of “gaslighting” users over smart pet feeder outage

Petlibro says feeders perform scheduled feedings offline. Users report otherwise.

Reddit begins testing a new audio and video experience, similar to popular TikTok videos

Reddit is beginning to test video and audio versions of popular posts, allowing users to watch or listen to Reddit stories instead of just reading them.

Sound-powered fire protection startup gets $15M to snuff out fires before they turn catastrophic

Sonic Fire Tech raised its new funding to help get its sound-powered fire protection system into everything from commercial kitchens to apartment buildings.

Siemens and Reinhausen turn up the voltage for hungry AI racks

Not a German cop show, but a pair of engineering firms aiming to feed 800 VDC to next-gen kit

Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI

Amazon’s team uses a T. rex preparing to devour a book as its logo.

YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing

The change comes a year after YouTube applied the same approach to counting views on Shorts videos.

Feedly attributes weeklong slowdown to bug, not its AI pivot

Feedly says a bug is behind the performance issues that have made its web app nearly "unusable" for some users, while complaints about its mobile apps and customer support are adding to frustrations.

Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI

Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.

An AI broke Snowflake's code. Then another AI agent exploited it

Don't worry, this one was via a bug bounty program

Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud

Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footprint.

Mozilla adds ad blocking to Firefox for iOS

Experimental feature to block some, but not all, ads

Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project

Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.

Terra Industries closes $52M seed round to build defense infrastructure for the Global South

African defense tech company Terra Industries announced an additional $18 million in funding, bringing its seed round to $52 million.

GitHub has Issues as repo downloads hit 50% error rate

Copilot also wobbles as another outage tests developer patience

$1K laser mosquito zapper promises precision strikes as backers itch for answers

After raising $2.8M, the project has entered production, but company comms have done little to reassure buyers

This sub-$7,000 sportscar might be just what the future needs

The Gasolini AR1 uses 2-cylinder Honda bike engine, and an EV is underway, too.

WordPress.com targets the next generation of web creators with a free student plan

WordPress.com Education lets teachers offer their students free domains, plug-in support, and professional website-building tools.

Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX

Filing comes after Elon Musk announced exclusive arrangement to kit out its data centers.

How to Manage Context Files in Your Codebase and Get Better Output From AI Coding Agents

You ask a coding agent for a new endpoint, and ninety seconds later you have a working endpoint. Then you read the diff, and you find that it pulled in a validation library that's not in your package.

Windows 11 movable taskbar edges closer to general release

Preview also brings compact icons, Start menu sizing, and the final shove for WMIC

Meet the only known trebuchet casualty in history

"It highlights the brutality of medieval warfare," said paleopathologist Jo Buckberry.

Uber adds Zipline drones to its Eats delivery network

Uber is also making investing in Zipline a part of the tie-up.

Capita handed vital role in next pandemic despite civil service pension failures

Initial £31M deal comes with scope to scale sharply during a major outbreak

Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation

The funds will allow Wispr to increase its footprint as it ventures into new areas, such as meetings, with its newly released note-taker tool.

Crypto hardware wallet owners face fresh security risks after recent spate of personal data thefts

The hacks at shipping companies used to mail out hardware wallets puts crypto owners at greater risk of real-world attacks.

Agentic AI costs set to balloon fivefold by 2028

Cheaper tokens won't help when complex workflows consume so many more of them, Gartner warns

Crook hawks millions of records allegedly plundered from corporate Azure tenants

McDonald's, Vodafone, TCS, Kyndryl, and others named as researchers point to compromised credentials

Satellite operators are in panic mode due to a worsening launch crisis

What happens if the Falcon rockets stop flying?

Excel's Copilot function is headed for the Recycle Bin

Microsoft realizes the side pane should be enough for anyone

Be a hater all you want, AI's here to stay

The good news? One of the worst bits, tech giants controlling it all, might soon be over

Code fixers have fired up the AI warp drive. Strange new worlds await

With more patches per month than at a pirate convention, the bug must be an endangered species. Well, about that

Black Hat and DEF CON are AI conferences now, too

On this week's episode of The Reg's Kettle podcast, we revisit 'hacker summer camp,' where the hottest topic was ... sigh... agentic AI

Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard

Whatever it was broke a PC and led to a face-saving lie

Linux 7.2 debuts, Linus Torvalds says ‘new normal’ means he had to do it now ... or never?

Say hello to smarter use of caches to speed things up, and a very odd gaming controller. Say goodbye to some PCMCIA support

Sainsbury's staff eject wrong shopper after facial recognition alert – again

Facewatch says its technology worked as intended before humans mishandled the result

Microsoft blames AI for delayed Exchange update, can’t say when it will arrive

Dealing with machine-made bug backlog makes it hard to find a moment to deliver promised subscription service

Chinese AI company Zhipu claims its new model is a better bug-finder than Anthropic, OpenAI

PLUS: HCL, TCS, admit data breaches; South Korea to fine Apple, Google; India bans some rideshare tips; and more!

Stripe buys OpenRouter 🔀, Anthropic Model 2 🤖, zero knowledge proofs 🧠

Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items

Hacker News discussion (122 points, 22 comments)

How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

Hacker News discussion (666 points, 418 comments)

scScript for Linux

Hacker News discussion (24 points, 10 comments)

Nation's Largest Reservoirs Are Drying Up, Threatening Life in the Southwest

Hacker News discussion (16 points, 19 comments)

Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full

Hacker News discussion (459 points, 202 comments)

Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

Hacker News discussion (212 points, 48 comments)

How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack?

Hacker News discussion (44 points, 16 comments)

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%

Hacker News discussion (472 points, 296 comments)

Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots

Hacker News discussion (574 points, 347 comments)

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

Hacker News discussion (908 points, 553 comments)

How I Under-Engineered My Book

Hacker News discussion (53 points, 14 comments)

India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions

Hacker News discussion (159 points, 193 comments)

Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia

Hacker News discussion (149 points, 54 comments)

Roboflow Playground: Try and Compare 30 Computer Vision Models

Hacker News discussion (33 points, 3 comments)

We Are Forking dotenvy into dotenv-ng

Hacker News discussion (34 points, 33 comments)

GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast

Hacker News discussion (221 points, 45 comments)

Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months

Hacker News discussion (422 points, 345 comments)

Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis

Hacker News discussion (266 points, 122 comments)

An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail

Hacker News discussion (251 points, 157 comments)

Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

Hacker News discussion (421 points, 333 comments)

Buy Your Friends Batteries

Hacker News discussion (62 points, 64 comments)

Sun Clock

Hacker News discussion (236 points, 80 comments)

Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data

Hacker News discussion (169 points, 64 comments)

Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study

Hacker News discussion (415 points, 556 comments)

Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI

Hi HN! I'm Bek, founder of Speko, a platform that finds an optimal combination of speech-to-text, LLM, and text-to-speech models, given your constraints, among all our public benchmarked options, and tells you why.…

Anthropic's War on open source AI

Hacker News discussion (65 points, 22 comments)

Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

Pretty self explanatory. Could you folks shed some light on why these issues keep happening? I’ve noticed most posts and replies are just people coming to their own conclusions based on whatever published data. I think…

OpenClaw is bringing back the joy of tinkering

In this clip from our OpenClaw fireside chat, Dave Morin explains why software development is shifting away from 2010s grind culture and back toward open exploration. He compares today's wave of open AI tools to the…

Show HN: Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized

Hi HN, like many of you talented folk, I’ve been building more, faster than ever. I built Saggar after my terminal stopped feeling like a tool and started feeling like a tab-management problem. Let me know you think!

How to put 170 atoms in an atom

Hacker News discussion (96 points, 20 comments)

AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira

Hacker News discussion (379 points, 145 comments)

Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz

Hacker News discussion (27 points, 13 comments)

Apple's App Tracking Transparency treated its own apps better than rivals

Hacker News discussion (195 points, 70 comments)

How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

Hacker News discussion (306 points, 181 comments)

Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

Github has been down consistently over the last few months - does it make sense to switch to alternatives?

How to ship a database every day

Hacker News discussion (46 points, 6 comments)

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

Hacker News discussion (647 points, 116 comments)

Incident with Github.com

Just got this message: "No server is currently available to service your request. Sorry about that. Please try refreshing and contact us if the problem persists." Edit: at the time of posting there was not an incident…

Online clinics and influencers are promoting Cialis as a longevity drug

Hacker News discussion (80 points, 58 comments)

Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver

Hacker News discussion (66 points, 38 comments)

Stripe to Buy OpenRouter for $7B

Hacker News discussion (15 points, 6 comments)

Mexico crackdown on coastal development

Hacker News discussion (91 points, 23 comments)

GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

Hacker News discussion (341 points, 162 comments)

Who Owns Commodore? The Retro PC Brand Still Exists, but a Lot Has Changed

Hacker News discussion (13 points, 0 comments)

Self hosted email continues to steeply decline

Hacker News discussion (85 points, 115 comments)

Pi coding agent: config folder is out of place on Linux

Hacker News discussion (13 points, 1 comments)

Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS

Hi HN, in my last vacation, I built desktopcolors.com as a place to collect iconic solid background colors. Let me know what you think.

$12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake in PJM

Hacker News discussion (25 points, 10 comments)

Linear algebra done right

Hacker News discussion (208 points, 79 comments)

GIMP Development Update

Hacker News discussion (50 points, 5 comments)

Strong gravitational lensing and microlensing of supernovae (2024)

Hacker News discussion (9 points, 1 comments)

On AI regulation and messaging

https://xcancel.com/DarioAmodei/status/2088758816376807762

AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64

Hacker News discussion (107 points, 15 comments)

Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees

Hacker News discussion (37 points, 1 comments)

Rhombus 1.1 is now available

Hacker News discussion (98 points, 30 comments)

Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye”

Hacker News discussion (57 points, 20 comments)

The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]

Hacker News discussion (179 points, 84 comments)

The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding

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Webmaster a Manifesto for Everyone

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