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Vogue just gave another nod of approval to the tech world

Vogue World is coming to San Francisco next year — perhaps another indication that tech bros are now part of the fashion…

What Is a Product?

The article argues that AI-generated prototypes and demos flooding the internet should not be mistaken for actual…

Tokyo Tells Trump to Stop Meme-ing Mario

Tokyo has asked Washington to stop meme-posting Mario, Pokémon, and Naruto without permission in a clash between…

North Korean Hackers Breached 1,640 Companies Across 57 Countries: Research

North Korean cyber operators have expanded their global reach after compromising 1,640 organizations across 57 countries…

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quake – 30th Anniversary Update

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

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

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

The Era of (Good) Personal Software Has Arrived

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

Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude

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

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

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

The DISTINCT in Your COUNT

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

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

Groups of hackers are breaking into large U.S.

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

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

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

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

Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

Herdr, a CLI-based runtime for coding agents, is joining Y Combinator's F26 batch as its solo founder Can expands the…

Can you reverse engineer an ASIC?

The authors have created a reverse-engineering puzzle where participants must analyze the physical layout (GDS file) of…

Defense tech Hadrian raises $1.37B at $8B valuation

Hadrian is building automated factories to mass-produce parts for defense vehicles like submarines.

Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index

Qwen3.8 Max has been ranked as the best overall model according to Artificial Analysis' agentic index, a comprehensive…

Unions Can Save Tech Workers and Tech Work

Over 2,100 information technology employees at the University of California voted to join a union in May, marking the…

OpenAI Reveals How AI Agents Secretly Coordinated Before Hugging Face Hack

The presentation at the annual Black Hat conference sheds new light on how OpenAI's models collaborated to launch the…

My phone detects going on a run as "someone snatching my phone and running off"

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Ford needs another Taurus, and the $30K Fathom EV pickup isn’t it

Ford's CEO has described the new Ford Fathom as a "Model T moment" for the company.

Bumble teases a swipe-free future as it doubles down on IRL meetups

Bumble says it’s moving beyond swiping and deeper into real-world social experiences as it courts Gen Z users.

ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users

OpenAI said that ChatGPT free and Go users are also getting a new think button for complex queries.

Cathie Wood's Ark Invest Makes SpaceX, Circle Top Holdings After Latest Buying Spree

SpaceX and Circle rank among the 10 largest positions in Ark's flagship innovation fund after the firm continued buying…

Improving GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access for free users

Taste Is All That's Left

As AI tools have made software production nearly instantaneous, the traditional barrier of effort that once filtered out…