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Genesis joins the giant electric SUV club with new GV90

A retractable screen, a huge heads-up display, and an optional 4-seat VIP interior.

Ransomware crook poses as recovery firm to steal payments from fellow extortionists

Because apparently even ransomware gangs can't trust the people they do business with

SpaceX’s orbital data centers would create a new category of e-waste

The yeetcycling math resembles asteroid mining in reverse.

NetBSD 11 lands with RISC-V support and lightning-fast VM boots

Venerable Unix-like remains reassuringly old-school, if you're willing to put in the work

Apollo Atomics wants to make nuclear power cheaper by shrinking an overlooked part

Y Combinator alumnus Apollo Atomics is shrinking a key nuclear reactor part, which promises to slash the cost of electricity below natural gas.

Reverse-lookup service exposed millions of photos of people’s faces

People-search tool ClarityCheck left database containing more than 9M image files exposed.

£37M SAP overhaul could extend Capgemini's run with UK tax collector to 28 years

UK tax collector insists latest deal followed fair and competitive procurement

AI data giant Alation confirms cyberattack

The data search and AI giant confirmed unauthorized access to its systems during an incident on Tuesday, and said it was investigating the breach.

Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted

Cryptographic Context Injection is only the latest way to break an LLM safety guardrail.

Grok chat duped into swallowing injected instructions

A spoonful of encryption helps the malware go down

For a16z, AI gives foreign founders an advantage

a16z’s Borderless Founder network initiative supports immigrant and international founders. 'Having one foot in your home country, and one foot in Silicon Valley," is an advantage, the firm believes.

US says hackers are targeting vulnerable water systems with the help of AI

Hackers are targeting internet-connected Siemens controllers used in water facilities around the United States.

French tax authority says break-in exposed data of 600K, including some private messages

Stolen details range from contact information to household finances and withholding rates

Meta AI’s new Mac app wants you to talk to your apps

Meta said its Muse Spark model is powering the dictation feature.

OpenAI glitch locks out vetted cyber researchers – and some can't get back in

Affected users say support cannot restore their previous approval or override the new decision

Lear Data Structures and Algorithms Visually

Learning Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA) often feels like facing an challenging wall of complex jargon, syntax, and heavy mathematics. But don't worry because we just posted a course on the freeC

Microsoft probes reports of games taking exception to Windows 11's August update

Affected titles crash, freeze, or restart PCs while Redmond works out whether it is to blame

Software development and tech services in the cross-hairs as AI marches on

Analysts warn of disruption to long-established tech activity

No lift for Swift as NASA abandons orbital rescue

LINK will attempt a rendezvous, but its failed reaction wheels rule out grabbing and boosting the observatory

Binance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users

Binance's Agent OS works with tools including ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Cursor.

SparkyLinux 8.4 rekindles support for 32-bit PCs

Debian 13 derivative offers minimal x86 images and lets CDE ride again

AI agent suggested installing a malware package. Engineer almost took its advice

Fortunately, the company had a policy of checking source code on GitHub first

China marches towards re-usable rockets with successful first-stage landing

Red alert for rivals as LandSpace nails it after December disaster

IBM says super-chill boxes that connect through 'cryogenic tunnels' will get quantum computers scaling

Absolute zero inside is much cooler than Intel inside

Microsoft ends one of the last ways to buy VMware without big bundles

Broadcom’s VCF-or-nothing licenses are coming to Azure

NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift gamma-ray observatory

Without a rescue, NASA's Swift Observatory is expected to reenter the atmosphere later this year.

YouTube vs Netflix 🎬, Stripe declares Singularity 🤖, half-day vulnerabilities 👨‍💻

Harvest hikes bills by 1500% after purchased by Bending Spoons

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An elliptic curve of rank ≥ 30

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Bun 1.4

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Hacking with Claude on a $27 Smart Watch

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Stwipe Acquires OpenWouter

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Every Model Cheats

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CI jobs artifacts should not be difficult

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I Spent Twenty Years Becoming Good at the Wrong Game

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DiffusionGemma Technical Report

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Malicious Rust Crate Arrayref Runs a Build-Time Payload

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Canonical Backs New Project to Translate Large C Codebases into Safe Rust

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UK internet age checks have boosted rogue adult sites, says Pornhub

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Do Chatbot LLMs Talk Too Much?

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Why the Ocean Cleanup Hasn't Solved the Plastic Pollution Crisis

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Zellij 0.45.0: nested sessions, Kitty graphics, a fresh UI

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Browser De-Slop

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Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device

I trained a 125M-parameter transformer to autocomplete piano performances in real time (~108 notes/sec on an iPhone 15). The idea is basically GitHub Copilot or Tabnine, except instead of prompting it with code, you…

AI didn't erase the junior engineer's value, it increased it it

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Seeing beyond BMI: Estimating cardiometabolic risk with smartphone imagery

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Risk Engineering

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AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

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Don't paste the AI, please

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Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)

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Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex

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Why Microsoft Entertainment Pack had a sticker announcing that it had Tetris?

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Turns are Better than Radians (2022)

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