Today so far 2026-09-20 · 06:00 UTC

The tech industry is grappling with AI security and safety concerns, as reports suggest that OpenAI and Anthropic oversold AI security breaches while the Hugging Face hack wasn't what it was cracked up to be, indicating potential gaps between public perception and reality in AI company security incidents. Meanwhile, AI continues to expand into new domains, with developments ranging from an open source locally usable AI platform to AI being introduced in schools, alongside government-level moves like Trump's announcement of a US "AI Force" and appointment of an AI tsar. The headlines also reflect broader tech sector activity, including workforce adjustments at companies like Flock and continued discussions about AI's existential risks versus practical applications.

Hackers stole ‘significant’ amount of data from tech firm relied on by thousands of US hospitals and pharmacies

Edinburgh-based tech firm Craneware said customer data was stolen during a cyberattack. The company makes software that thousands of U.S.

2026-07-20 · 15:01 UTC
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I Tracked 997 Chrome Extensions That Changed Their Titles

2026-07-20 · 15:00

A developer analyzed 997 Chrome extensions that changed their titles and found that title changes made rankings 4x more…

NYC Subway Signals: A Complete Guide

2026-07-20 · 15:00

The New York City subway system uses wayside color-light block signalling, a technology unchanged since 1904, which…

Morgan Stanley Edges Past Goldman Sachs as Wall Street’s Top AI Debt Bank: Here’s What It Means

2026-07-20 · 14:45

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) has become Wall Street’s leading bank for artificial intelligence (AI) debt deals,…

Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs

2026-07-20 · 14:35

OpenAI's recently released GPT-5.6 model family features multiple reasoning-effort settings, marking reasoning models as…

Watch Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley discuss the future of surveillance at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

2026-07-20 · 14:30

Flock Safety sits right at the center of the debate over where the line should be drawn between privacy and public…

American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing

2026-07-20 · 14:21

China is gaining ground in AI competition by releasing open-source models that are increasingly competitive with…

Perfection Is Not Over-Engineering

2026-07-20 · 14:10

The article argues that perfection and over-engineering are not the same thing—over-engineering means solving the wrong…

Tested Kimi K3 for Coding

2026-07-20 · 14:01

The newly released Kimi K3 AI model successfully optimized a Rust function using SWAR (SIMD Within a Register) technique…

Show HN: The0 – self-hosted runtime for trading bots, bring your own language

2026-07-20 · 13:49

The0 is an open-source, self-hosted algorithmic trading platform that allows users to build and deploy trading bots in…

Show HN: OTP Inspired actor supervisor based full stack templates

2026-07-20 · 13:47

ShipStacks is a pre-built SaaS template marketplace offering production-ready full-stack templates across multiple…

Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding

2026-07-20 · 13:47

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Shinjuku Station in 3D

2026-07-20 · 13:43

Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

2026-07-20 · 13:28

A hacker breached Romania's cadastre agency and deleted the country's entire land registry database after a failed…

Inertia-1: An Open Exploration to a Unified Motion Foundation Model

2026-07-20 · 13:11

Inertia-1 is a unified motion foundation model trained on wearable sensor data that generalizes across different body…

Soofi – Sovereign Open Source Foundation Models

2026-07-20 · 12:52

The Soofi Consortium has unveiled Soofi S, Europe's first sovereign open-source foundation AI model designed for…

Annoying and alarming things about OpenCode

2026-07-20 · 12:45

OpenCode, a popular open-source AI coding agent with 161k GitHub stars, has significant security and usability flaws…

Hugging Face confirms breach affected internal datasets and credentials, urges users to take action

2026-07-20 · 12:39

Hugging Face is urging users to rotate any access tokens stored on the platform and review account activity.

StrictlyVC returns to New York City September 10 to celebrate a huge year for the city’s startup community 

2026-07-20 · 12:30

For the first time since 2024, StrictlyVC is coming back to New York City — and we're bringing the kind of access you’d…

The footprints of every building in NYC – updated weekly

2026-07-20 · 12:25

New York City's Office of Technology and Innovation publishes a weekly-updated dataset containing footprints and details…

Beyond grep: The case for a context-rich AI coding harness

2026-07-20 · 11:20

Augment Code's Vinay Perneti talks models, harnesses, and context.

Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25

2026-07-20 · 08:13

A security researcher discovered a critical WordPress remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability using OpenAI's GPT5.6…

EU Exempts Apple Watch and AirPods from Battery Removal Requirements

2026-07-20 · 07:10

The European Commission has exempted Apple Watch and AirPods from EU battery replacement requirements, citing safety…

Kaspersky Uncovers a New Malware Capable of Stealing Your Digital Assets

2026-07-20 · 06:05

The cryptocurrency sector continues to attract cybercriminals, who perfect their methods to deceive their victims.

How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in

2026-07-20 · 04:49

Microsoft's proprietary document formats (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX) create vendor lock-in by design, making documents…

Xiaomi-Robotics-1

2026-07-20 · 04:45

Xiaomi-Robotics-1 addresses the scarcity of robot training data by combining 100,000 hours of embodiment-free…

LoRA Speedrun – a public wall-clock leaderboard for fine-tuning techniques

2026-07-20 · 04:24

LoRA Speedrun is a public leaderboard that benchmarks the speed of fine-tuning techniques for large language models on…

Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight

2026-07-20 · 00:16

Moonshine is a PC game streaming application for Linux that allows users to stream games from their PC to any device…

Grok-iOS – remote Grok Build from your iPhone over ACP

2026-07-19 · 21:51

Grok-iOS is an open-source iOS app that allows users to remotely control Grok Build from their iPhone over ACP (Agent…

Netflix paid $587M for Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup

2026-07-19 · 21:45

Netflix revealed that it paid $587 million in cash for InterPositive, a startup co-founded by Ben Affleck.

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