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eBay pays $46M to journalists it targeted in bizarre harassment campaign

eBay sent bloody pig mask and other macabre deliveries to journalists' home.

Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9

Half-Life has been successfully ported to Mac OS 9 for PowerPC-based Macintosh computers by GitHub user doctashay, using…

OpenAI just open-sourced Codex Security

OpenAI has open-sourced Codex Security, a CLI and TypeScript SDK tool designed to find, validate, and fix security…

MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea

Runlayer is suing Rippling after Rippling evaluated the startup's MCP gateway product and then opted to build one…

Philly suburb: Sure, build that data center—but first meet our 43 demands

The final condition will shock you! (It won’t. It’s taxes.)

Toolcraft

Toolcraft is a platform that provides AI agents like Codex and Claude with a complete application architecture for…

Recursion Is Lying to You

Recursive functions that appear logically correct can crash with stack overflow errors when given large inputs, even if…

Despite AI hype, Google's data shows workers aren't automating themselves away

Analysis of 15 million real AI interactions finds most tasks at most jobs are unaffected.

Sam Altman is ready to decelerate

His change of position comes after "the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally."

Pacing the frontier

Over 1,100 employees of leading AI companies have signed a statement urging the U.S.

Teacher Arrested for Clapping at AI Data Center Public Hearing

The arrest of a Kansas teacher at a public hearing highlights growing resistance to AI data centers across the United…

Hulios: An eBPF-powered, transparent Tor gateway for Linux

Hulios is an eBPF-powered, transparent Tor gateway for Linux that routes TCP traffic and DNS queries through an embedded…

Granola for Apple Watch

Granola has launched a new Apple Watch app that lets users take notes during in-person meetings by simply tapping their…

uv 0.12.0

uv version 0.12.0 was released on July 28, 2026, introducing several breaking changes aimed at improving correctness and…

Ozlo’s Sleepbuds 2 build on Bose’s sleep earbud legacy

Ozlo’s first major update to its sleep earbuds introduces longer battery life, improved connectivity, enhanced audio,…

Waymo, robotaxi operators face fresh scrutiny over emergency response failures

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GrapheneOS, an open-source security-focused operating system project, accepts donations through multiple channels…

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eBay reaches $56M settlement with e-commerce newsletter writers it terrorized in 2019

Ina and David Steiner inspired the ire of high-level eBay executives after occasionally criticizing the company in their…

MCP 2026-07-28 Specification: transport going stateless

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification version 2026-07-28 introduces a major shift from a stateful bidirectional…

These App Store hidden gems prove there’s still room for great software in the AI era

Despite predictions that AI agents could make traditional apps obsolete, developers are shipping new software faster…

X Money Expands Despite Political Pressure

Elon Musk accelerates his offensive in finance.

The Dumbest-Looking AI Prompt Just Beat Months of Careful Game-Design Prompt Engineering

The dev told Claude Opus 5 to be "utterly perfect" and left the rest up to the model—the results turned out to be…

HBO Max embraces vertical video with a new ‘Shorts’ feed

HBO Max, like other streaming platforms, is rethinking content discovery as large libraries are making it hard for…

iPhone Upgrade Program

Apple is discontinuing its iPhone Upgrade Program and introducing Apple Upgrade, a new leasing option that allows…

Saudi prince buys 5% stake in Lucid Motors

The investment comes after speculation that Saudi Arabia may take Lucid Motors private -- which the EV maker has denied.

Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude

Researchers at Anthropic using Claude Mythos Preview discovered mathematical flaws in cryptographic algorithms…

Scientific computing in the age of agentic AI

Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7

Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL) version 2.6.7 was released on July 28, 2026, introducing a new SB-MANUAL contrib module…