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The software group Palantir paid just £2M in corporation tax in the UK in 2024

Palantir paid just £2.1m in UK corporation tax in 2024 despite declaring profits of over £25m and holding hundreds of…

Musk’s SpaceX Tops Forecasts But Bitcoin Stash Sheds $540 Million

Elon Musk’s SpaceX beat Wall Street revenue estimates in its first earnings report since June’s initial public offering…

Durov Says Extortion Attack Triggered Telegram App Store Removal

Telegram founder Pavel Durov said Apple briefly removed the messaging app from its global App Store after one user…

Helsinki Hacker News Meetup

The Helsinki Hacker News Meetup is an unofficial coffee gathering for active Hacker News contributors in Helsinki,…

SpaceX Surprises Wall Street With Better-than-expected Results

The first quarterly results of a listed company are always closely scrutinized.

AI: OpenAI Takes Its Fight With Apple Public

OpenAI has published emails and messages from former Apple employees to contest a secret trade secrets lawsuit filed in…

The Sound and Music of 'Hyper Light Drifter' [video]

A GDC Vault session features composer Rich Vreeland (Disasterpeace) and sound designer Akash Thakkar discussing the…

Rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy

Five Rust project teams have adopted a new policy governing how Large Language Models can be used when contributing to…

You Can Now Rent a Humanoid Robot in China for $443 a Day. Thousands Already Have

More than 5,500 humanoid-robot rental orders landed in just three months after AGIBOT launched its SHAREBOT subsidiary…

Saudi-led group completes $55B purchase of gaming giant EA

A Saudi-led investment group, including the Public Investment Fund and Affinity Partners (led by Jared Kushner), has…

Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents

Zero-Mem is a new memory system for LLM agents that performs memory operations without consuming LLM tokens by…

An SLM trained on $8 ESP32-S3

A researcher successfully trained a transformer model from scratch on an $8 ESP32-S3 microcontroller, demonstrating that…

The auto industry is building for a past that's never coming back

Apple Pulls Telegram After Illegal Content Appears in Public Group

Apple briefly removed Telegram from the App Store after prohibited content surfaced in a public group.

Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice

Researchers conducted an empirical comparison of Zigbee and Matter over Thread protocols for IoT smart home applications…

Bugtraq Is Back

Bugtraq, the influential security vulnerability mailing list founded in 1993, has been revived after years of dormancy…

Flowise Is Shutting Down

Flowise, a low-code platform for building AI applications, is shutting down due to a shift in developer preferences…

Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI

IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay

Researchers discovered three WebKit features—DNS prefetching, WebAuthn Related Origin Requests, and WebTransport—that…

Cloudflare Unveils AI Wallets Built to Spend Without Humans

Cloudflare is rolling out a new payment system built specifically for AI agents, giving them the ability to sign up for…

Pass the Passkey: A Novel Attack Surface in Passwordless Authentication

Researchers have identified new attack vectors against passwordless authentication systems, particularly Google's synced…

FIPS 140-3 is not a security guarantee, and auditors know it

FIPS 140-3 certification validates only that a cryptographic module implements approved algorithms correctly and meets…

libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months

The City of Munich has begun funding Sebastian Pipping to work full-time on maintaining libexpat, a widely-used…

Most people prefer AI-written stories – and can’t tell when they are made by humans

People appear to prefer short stories created by AI over those written by humans.

Show HN: SIMD Viterbi Decoder in Rust

A Rust library called `fec` implements forward error correction codes used in software-defined radio and spacecraft…

Elon Musk repeatedly one-upped his execs on SpaceX’s first earnings call

Musk kept inflating the already-big promises being made by SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen and Gwynne Shotwell on the company's…

We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars

Web developers have long struggled with centering divs, but modern CSS (using `display: grid` and `place-items: center`)…

Lucid’s turnaround plan hinges on $1.4B in cash savings, robotaxis

Lucid's new CEO Silvio Napoli listed four must-win priorities, including the successful launch of its midsize EV,…

Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage

Pi, a minimalist AI coding framework with only 4 tools and under 1,000 tokens in its system prompt, outperforms larger,…