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Civilians under siege by Mexican cartel fight back with AK-47s, grenades

2026-08-06 · 20:48 UTC
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Sports

Irish boxer Reeves 'making progress' in hospital

2026-08-06 · 20:47

Queensberry promoter Frank Warren says Irish boxer Michael Reeves is "making progress" after being hospitalised…

Science

Astronomers capture highest-resolution image ever of the Sun's surface

2026-08-06 · 20:44

An international team of astronomers has released the highest-resolution image ever of the Sun's surface, captured by…

Tech

Meta Says Its AI Model Escaped and Hacked a Third-Party Company Too

2026-08-06 · 20:31

The company says a configuration error by an outside testing partner gave one of its Muse Spark models internet access…

Tech

X wants to keep suing advertisers, asks 5th Circuit to overrule district judge

2026-08-06 · 20:29

Musk continues appeal despite court loss and settlement with advertiser group.

Tech

AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon

2026-08-06 · 20:23

AMD has acquired Taalas, an AI chip startup that etches machine learning model weights directly into silicon to…

Tech

Quake – 30th Anniversary Update

2026-08-06 · 20:21

id Software and MachineGames have released "Dawn of the Machine," a free anniversary episode for Quake celebrating its…

World

Italy Bin Crew Recovers $1.15M Lottery Ticket Thrown Out Over One Word

2026-08-06 · 20:20

A player in Bitonto, near Bari, matched all five MillionDay numbers on July 31 for a $1.15 million (€1 million) prize,…

Tech

Suno hopes to go legit with watermarks for AI-generated music

2026-08-06 · 20:17

Suno plans watermarks and download limits to stop "large-scale abuse."

Tech

The Era of (Good) Personal Software Has Arrived

2026-08-06 · 20:16

Advanced AI coding models have made it feasible for individual developers to build high-quality personal software…

Crypto

Binance Confirms System Upgrade Ahead of Multiple Spot Pair Removals

2026-08-06 · 20:06

Binance will temporarily suspend part of its platform this week as it rolls out another planned system upgrade.

Crypto

Crypto: JPMorgan Warns About Growing Competition Around Hyperliquid

2026-08-06 · 20:05

Hyperliquid faces a more demanding phase of its development.

Tech

Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude

2026-08-06 · 20:03

Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to scale up while reducing dependence on Nvidia.

Crypto

MyTrade Founder Fined After Guilty Plea in Crypto Wash Trading Scheme

2026-08-06 · 20:00

MyTrade founder Liu Zhou was fined after pleading guilty to a crypto market manipulation scheme uncovered by an FBI…

Tech

State-oriented consistency: Why we stopped looking for one right answer

2026-08-06 · 19:54

A distributed systems team building a clustered message broker discovered that asking "which consistency guarantee does…

Crypto

Senators Push CFTC to Ban Wildfire Bets on Prediction Markets

2026-08-06 · 19:51

Democratic lawmakers say wildfire event contracts create risks of arson, insider trading, and disaster profiteering as…

Crypto

Solo Bitcoin Miner Defies the Odds, Lands $200K Block Reward Jackpot

2026-08-06 · 19:45

A single bitcoin miner solved block height 960804 on Aug.

World

Did Senate Democrats Block CLARITY Act Vote On Recess?

2026-08-06 · 19:42

Senate Democrats are lining up to block a key procedural vote on the CLARITY Act this week.

Tech

The DISTINCT in Your COUNT

2026-08-06 · 19:40

Adding the DISTINCT keyword to a COUNT aggregate in PostgreSQL disables parallel query execution, forcing a single…

Tech

Google says hackers are calling financial firm employees to hack and extort victims

2026-08-06 · 19:40

Groups of hackers are breaking into large U.S.

Sports

St Helens and Hull FC confirm Dublin double-header

2026-08-06 · 19:39

St Helens will face Hull FC in Dublin as part of a Super League double-header next April, the day after Warrington…

Tech

xAI Ignores Laws and Profits: Rules for Thee, Not for Me

2026-08-06 · 19:38

xAI and SpaceX built their Memphis Colossus data center in record time using dozens of unpermitted gas turbines, which…

Crypto

XRP Partnerships Grow as Price Tests Resistance

2026-08-06 · 19:30

XRP Ledger remains in focus as Ripple partnerships and enterprise blockchain initiatives continue drawing attention…

Tech

China-linked LightSpy spyware caught targeting victims in 13 countries, including the US

2026-08-06 · 19:22

Researchers linked the latest malicious activity to a Chinese company, after one of the spyware's operators placed an…