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Waymo – Dallas Open to All

Waymo has expanded its autonomous ride-hailing service in Dallas to all residents starting August 4, 2026, following a…

Web security is too hard

A security researcher nearly fell for what appeared to be a phishing attack on Cloudflare's new Wallet feature,…

Show HN: cMCP, deny an AI agent's tool call and get a signed receipt

cMCP is a secure gateway that enforces tool-call policies for AI agents by running policy evaluation inside a hardware…

The Judgment Reservoir

A company achieved record execution metrics and shipped three times more than usual following AI investments, yet…

AI Data Centers Are Driving Up Power Bills – This Map Shows Where

AI data centers have added $29-$30 billion in grid capacity costs over recent auctions, accounting for 46% of total…

Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game

Bitdeer Lands $4.7 Billion AI Deal as Shares Surge 12%

Bitdeer has signed a 16-year agreement to provide 121 megawatts of AI computing capacity at its Tydal campus in Norway.

Vlt 1.0 and Hosted Package Registries

vlt 1.0 is now generally available as a stable, security-first package manager that serves as a drop-in replacement for…

Waymo opens up robotaxi service in Dallas to everyone

Waymo has dropped the waitlist for its robotaxi service in Dallas, the latest step in the company's bid to scale its…

Dataset: Dead mental health startups, 2000-2026, coded on 18 fields

A dataset of 542 digital mental health startups that failed between 2000-2026 reveals that who pays for the service is…

Take an extra $100 off your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass: This week only!

Starting today, you can take an additional $100 off your founder, investor, or attendee TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass,…

Alibaba Just Gave Away Its Best AI Model For Free, Almost Matching Claude and ChatGPT

The first Qwen Max model with public weights is free to download next week.

The Warp Agent CLI

Warp has launched a standalone CLI agent that works across multiple terminal applications (Ghostty, iTerm 2, VS Code,…

TV Time co-founder launches Bingers to revive the beloved TV-tracking app

After TV Time’s shutdown left millions of users searching for an alternative, one of the app’s original founders is back…

Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead

Truemetrics, a YC-backed startup that provides navigation technology for last-mile delivery couriers, is hiring a GTM…

Show HN: SIEMatic, a fair-sourced observability and security platform

SIEMatic is an open-source, fair-sourced observability and security platform built with Django that collects, indexes,…

The Knowledge Chipper: An Agentic Coding Story

AI coding agents accumulate vast amounts of contextual knowledge while working on problems, but this information is…

Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation

Mistral has released Shieldstral, a 3 billion-parameter open-weights multimodal safety classifier that performs…

MariaDB: Promote getting to 10k GitHub stars in server log and client prompt

MariaDB has proposed a pull request to add promotional messages encouraging users to star the MariaDB GitHub repository,…

The Pixel 11's "glow" feature is actually called HiLight—here's what it does

The camera flash will evolve into a multicolor LED that illuminates when your phone is face down.

When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation

A systematic study of 60 language model benchmarks found that nearly half exhibit saturation—where models perform so…

The AI Demand Bubble

The article argues that reported AI revenue growth at major cloud providers (Amazon, Google, Microsoft) is largely…

Bitdeer expands AI infrastructure with long-term $4.7B data center lease

A 16-year agreement secures 121 megawatts of AI computing capacity in Norway, highlighting how crypto mining companies…

Spotify expands AI remix and covers project with Merlin partnership

Spotify says Merlin, which represents more than 30,000 independent labels and distributors, has joined Universal Music…

Perspec 1.0

Perspec 1.0, a desktop application for correcting image perspective primarily designed for photos of documents and…

Walmart completes its acquisition of TV advertising company Vibe.co

The acquisition, which was first announced in June, brings Vibe.co into Walmart Connect, Walmart's connected TV…

Elon Musk spends half his time talking robots and AI on Tesla earnings calls

An analysis of the last seven years of Tesla earnings calls shows just little attention Musk pays to Tesla's car…

Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones

A developer created a custom color space and procedural generation algorithm designed to generate diverse and inclusive…

Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees

Previous technological revolutions like the PC, email, and smartphones increased work speed and efficiency but…