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Chrome is now shipping updates every 2 weeks as AI changes the security landscape

Google is speeding up Chrome’s release schedule to ship security patches and new features faster.

Reverse engineering the 2008 LogiCola, a logic drill program

A developer has released an updated version of LogiCola, a logic drill program originally created in 2008, making it…

ZX Spectrum: Experimenting with 1-Bit Sound

A developer working on ZX Spectrum sound synthesis successfully implemented multichannel 1-bit sound playback…

Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses

A benchmark study of Qwen 3.8 27B quantizations found that 4-bit Q4_K_M quantization (17 GB) maintains full model…

Mistral raises €3B as sovereign AI becomes big business

The French AI lab has raised €3 billion at a €21 billion valuation in a Series D round led by Samsung, Scaleup Europe…

I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop your coding agent from burying the answer

The "i-have-adhd" project is a skill/plugin for coding assistants that reformats their responses to be more direct and…

Nuclear startup Bluecore Energy raises $50M seed round, just two months after launch

Bluecore Energy announced Tuesday an oversubscribed $50 million seed round — just months after raising a $10 million…

LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

LibreOffice 26.8 achieved record downloads (over 1 million in one week) partly due to its explicit commitment to…

We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person

This is a satirical piece by Jonathan Zeller published on McSweeney's in September 2026, depicting a dystopian corporate…

DaVinci Resolve 21.1

Show HN: Copperhead – Hardware as Fast as Software

Copperhead is an open-source AI engineering platform that automates circuit board design, verification, and production…

Show HN: DriveSync – fast Git-styled Google Drive sync CLI

DriveSync (dsync) is a fast, Git-styled command-line tool written in Rust that synchronizes a local folder with Google…

Poseidon Aerospace lands $60M ahead of first pilotless test flight

The startup is trying to rethink the economics of cargo aircraft by removing pilots from the equation entirely.

FreeBSD 14.5-Release

FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE was announced on September 8, 2026, as the sixth release of the stable/14 branch, focusing…

Telegram’s Asia-Pacific Outage Exposes the Risk of Regional Infrastructure Failure

Telegram’s Asia-Pacific outage disrupted messaging across several countries after problems emerged at the platform’s DC5…

Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts

The article examines obsolete HTML snippets and workarounds that accumulated in websites due to browser competition,…

Maak.el: Lisp machine command runner in Emacs, infinitely extensible and Scheme

Maak.el is an Emacs integration tool that brings Maak—a command runner and project automator written in GNU Guile…

AI: Anthropic Now Targets Mid-October for Its IPO

Postponed to mid-October, Anthropic's IPO could become the biggest test in history for AI valuations. The details!

Stoke Space raises another billion to rival SpaceX at re-flying rockets

Stoke has "completed the initial closing" of a $1B Series E round intended to help it reach orbit and prepare a new,…

Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare

Among 44,143 European companies detected using a CDN, 89.6% sit behind Cloudflare, making it overwhelmingly dominant in…

UAE-based Falcon AI NSFW classifier among top global open-source models (2025)

Falcons AI, a UAE-based company, has developed an NSFW image classifier that has become the sixth most downloaded…

'Good to have choice': Australians on opting out of social media algorithms

The BBC spoke to people in Sydney about Australia's plans to force social media companies to allow users to easily opt…

Can the CLARITY Act Pass? We Asked 5 Top AI Models to Predict the Crucial Sept 15 Senate Vote

The CLARITY Act faces a decisive procedural test on September 15, and available AI forecasts lean toward failure.

Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework

TradingAgents is an open-source multi-agent framework that uses specialized large language models to simulate real-world…

Mistral raises €3B to make sovereign, open-weight AI the technology frontier

Mistral raised €3 billion in Series D funding at a valuation exceeding €21 billion, making it the largest equity…

We have a year to fix security everywhere

Cheap, unrestricted AI models like GLM 5.3-flash are now accessible to anyone and capable of assisting with dangerous…

The VMs Powering Mobile Agents (Instinct, Claude Code)

Mobile AI agents like Claude Code are shifting from local computers to run on cloud-based virtual machines, enabling…

Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU: desktop-class mobile gameplay with AI-native graphics

Arm has unveiled the Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU, the first AI-native mobile graphics processor designed to deliver…

I tested 10 model/harness combinations on the same Three.js task

A developer tested 10 different AI model and harness combinations on a complex Three.js task to build an interactive…