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Google Maps adds agentic features, including food ordering and hotel bookings

The launch of these new features reflects Google’s ambitions to transform Google Maps from a navigation tool into an…

Omilia raises $67M to scale its customer support platform

The Series B is the company's second fundraise since it last raised capital in 2020.

Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs

A browser-based game testing human oversight of AI coding agents revealed that players missed approximately 1 in 3…

Show HN: Skyline Co-op is like SimTower, but built around democratic socialism

Skyline Co-op is a tower-building game inspired by SimTower but centered on democratic socialism rather than profit…

Show HN: demake – one source project compiles to any retro game console ROM

This started life as a graphics tool for a specific problem: gen AI can make retro-styled sprites but can't follow exact…

Mario Meets Pareto

Mario Kart 8 players face thousands of possible character and vehicle build combinations, making optimal selection…

AI isn’t enough to protect social media communities from AI

Why humans need to moderate humans.

Situational Awareness returns with $400M investment after nearly collapsing: Report

Situational Awareness reportedly made a $400 million investment in an undisclosed company, days after the hedge fund…

Meta Takes on Claude Code and Codex With a Low-Cost AI Coding Agent

Meta launches Muse Code in beta on August 5, 2026, its first coding AI agent, in a market already dominated by Claude…

What I love about Django

Django's greatest strength is its invisible elegance—a balanced level of structure and opinion that seamlessly…

Let's all meet up in the Y2K

The author recalls their experience working at a London digital agency called Blueberry during the dot-com boom around…

On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails

On non-rooted Android 17, uninstalling system apps via ADB encounters failures, prompting a feature request to make…

China Says It Cracked the Chipmaking Tech the West Spent Billions Trying to Keep From It

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics built a laser-produced…

Meta latest AI firm to see model go rogue during testing

The incident reportedly stemmed from a misconfigured testing environment, adding Meta to a growing list of AI firms…

Ship Safe, an open source security scanner for coding agents

Ship Safe is an open-source security scanner designed to detect vulnerabilities in AI agents, application code,…

Show HN: Wallfacer – A terminal session manager for Claude Code, and more

Wallfacer is a terminal session manager that indexes and organizes conversations from multiple AI coding agents (Claude…

Governments are making a dangerous bet on the AI boom

Meta says AI model accessed the internet and hacked another firm

Meta is the latest company to disclose an AI agent breach, raising cyber-security concerns.

Virginia Orders Data Centers to Pay for Dedicated New Electric Infrastructure

Virginia's State Corporation Commission has ordered large data centers to pay for the dedicated electrical…

LLMs won't break symmetric crypto

Anthropic announced that their LLM Claude discovered new cryptanalytic attacks, including a meaningful (though…

Block raises 2026 outlook on strong quarter, says AI touches nearly all code

Cash App and Square drove better-than-expected results, while the company said it expanded its use of AI across software…

Mysten Labs tech chief joins Anthropic to work on AI security

Mysten Labs’ co-founder Sam Blackshear said he is joining Anthropic as AI shifts the balance between attackers and…

Block raises 2026 outlook on strong quarter, says AI touches nearly all code

Cash App and Square drove better-than-expected results, while the company said it expanded its use of AI across software…

Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers

Baseboard management controllers from the world's biggest manufacturers are a security mess.

Moca Network CEO Explains Why AI Agents Will Need Provable Identity

Artificial intelligence (AI) agents will increasingly need verifiable proof of who they represent, what they may access…

AI or real? BBC analyses viral China disaster videos

As weather events become more extreme, fake videos are being shared rapidly online, and it’s causing real world problems…

Nikita Bier steps down as X’s head of product

The serial entrepreneur is stepping down a little over a year after taking the "24/7 job" of overseeing X.

The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing

Blade Runner's title sequence demonstrates masterful typography design using a single typeface, Goudy Oldstyle, with…

Travis Kalanick’s robotics startup Atoms taps former Uber finance chief as CFO

Kalanick continues to get the band back together, after acquiring Anthony Levandowski's autonomy startup, and even…