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This $9 key physically locks your most addictive apps

This $9 NFC key requires you to physically scan it to unlock distracting apps on your phone.

Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]

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Nvidia, Industry Leaders Launch Open Secure AI Alliance for AI Security

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Minecraft Java raises recommended memory to 16GB ahead of Vulkan transition

Tokio Gives Progress, Not Ordering: Scheduling 1M Tasks

The author describes how their Rust service using Tokio spawned ~1 million short-lived tasks during event bursts (1000…

Exploiting Volvo/Eicher's fleet platform to gain control over all users/vehicles

A critical vulnerability was discovered in Volvo/Eicher's My Eicher fleet management platform used by Indian commercial…

Framework Laptop 13 Pro review: Much better battery, much worse price

Framework's latest modular laptop trades one set of problems for another.

Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research

After two years in stealth, Safe Superintelligence has announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia as it prepares to…

Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts

Ed Zitron argues that the AI industry operates on fundamentally broken economics, as Large Language Models consume…

AI companies spend record sums on Washington lobbying

CME Launches Single-Stock Futures on 50-Plus Top US Stocks as Its Crypto Derivatives Arm Keeps Growing

CME Group launched single-stock futures on more than 50 of the largest U.S.

We Tested Nonstick Cookware: Coatings Don't Need to Look Worn to Shed Particles

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Elon Musk Predicts the End of Work and Money in 10 years

In an interview with The Economist, Elon Musk predicts that money will disappear by 2036.

Enigma raises $70M to make controlling a robot as easy as adjusting the volume

The massive seed round was led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sarah Guo's Conviction…

Snapchat now lets you share what you’re listening to in real time

Starting with Spotify, Snapchat users will be able to link their accounts, choose who can see their listening activity,…

108 PRs in eight days: Accidentally discovering loop engineering

A developer created an AI agent that completed 108 pull requests in eight days—roughly 10-20 times their previous…

AI companies are shredding rare books

AI companies are purchasing rare books, scanning them with machines that destroy the spines, and shredding the originals…

The Proof Machine (2016)

The Incredible Proof Machine is an interactive visual tool that allows users to create formal proofs in various logics…

Worse on Purpose

Elevated errors on Claude Opus 5

Claude Opus 5 experienced elevated error rates across multiple services including claude.ai, the Claude API, Claude…

Google Chrome Arrives on ARM64 Linux, Widevine DRM Included

Google Chrome is now officially available for ARM64 Linux devices, including Raspberry Pi, with the build recently added…

How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going?

Jarred Sumner of Bun announced a rewrite of the JavaScript runtime in Rust completed in 11 days using Anthropic's AI at…

Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template

Meme generator may have screwed up by using templates in outputs, expert says.

KB Kookmin Taps JPMorgan’s Kinexys as South Korea’s Largest Bank Pushes Instant Dollar Payments

KB Kookmin Bank, South Korea’s largest lender by assets, will launch a corporate cross-border payment service in August…

Libsm64: Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines

libsm64 is a library that extracts Super Mario 64's movement and rendering code from the SM64 decompilation project,…

Europe got its own TBPN-style live show, and everyone’s angling for a guest spot

On Monday, the network announced a $1.6 million seed round from top players in the media ecosystem, including Powerhouse…

Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity

Misago, a forum platform, is removing React.js from its codebase in favor of Htmx, a lightweight library that enables…

Why I Left Google DeepMind

A former Google DeepMind employee left the company after learning that Google Cloud services were being used by the…

Millions see leaked copy of The Odyssey movie on X

Film studio Universal takes down a high-quality bootleg version of the film, which appeared on X.