Today so far 2026-09-12 · 00:00 UTC

The AI robotics space is heating up with Mecka AI nearing a $500M valuation in a Sequoia-led funding round as competition intensifies for robot training data, while tensions continue to mount over AI development practices, including OpenAI's escalating feud with mathematicians and a cautionary tale of a lawyer being punished for relying on ChatGPT's fabricated legal testimony. On the venture capital front, Khosla Ventures is expanding beyond Silicon Valley with a new New York office, signaling growing investor interest in tech markets outside the traditional tech hub.

Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft

Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI.

2026-09-05 · 22:49 UTC
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OKF Agent Memory – Git-native persistent memory for AI coding agents

2026-09-05 · 22:15

OKF Agent Memory is a Git-native persistent memory system for AI coding agents that stores knowledge as plain Markdown…

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About LANs

2026-09-05 · 22:08

Programmers commonly make incorrect assumptions about Local Area Networks (LANs) across multiple categories including…

America's Two Largest School Districts Impose AI Moratoriums

2026-09-05 · 21:43

New York City and Los Angeles, the nation's two largest school districts, have imposed new restrictions on artificial…

The revolt of the reader

2026-09-05 · 21:37

Readers are increasingly frustrated with LLM-authored content and can easily detect its characteristic stylistic…

Lazygit

2026-09-05 · 21:08

Lazygit is an open-source terminal UI for Git that simplifies complex version control operations through a…

How AI is breaking the British state

2026-09-05 · 21:05

Isar Aerospace launch into orbit [video]

2026-09-05 · 20:25

I cannot provide a summary of this article because the text provided only contains a YouTube footer with links and…

Everything is free now, so why not a floating orb in my IDE

2026-09-05 · 20:15

The author showcases a custom IDE they built that features a floating orb screensaver in the center panel, designed as a…

LLMs as a Cognitive Virus

2026-09-05 · 20:02

Researchers model large language model adoption as a viral spread through populations, showing that social transmission…

Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning

2026-09-05 · 19:35

The sheriff’s office said the hikers “were advised by Gemini to bring far less food and water than their group…

OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure

2026-09-05 · 18:05

OpenAI acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki forum.

Clucky’s new alarm app wakes you up with a crowing rooster

2026-09-05 · 17:00

Clucky's new alarm app has an option where users are woken up to the sound of a rooster.

Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop

2026-09-05 · 16:48

A Wisconsin Navy veteran was unlawfully arrested by a sheriff's deputy after recording a traffic stop from a private…

Learn Programming with OCaml

2026-09-05 · 16:45

"Learn Programming with OCaml" is an English translation of a French programming book by Sylvain Conchon and…

Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA

2026-09-05 · 16:13

U.S.-based workers at the Wikimedia Foundation have voted overwhelmingly to form a union with Communications Workers of…

SHAKA Festival 2026: The Startup Challenge that Puts Founders Face to Face with Investors

2026-09-05 · 16:05

In Biarritz, the SHAKA Festival stage is not reserved for headliners.

Rebuilding a 1995 GPS Time Server so I don't get Telstra'd

2026-09-05 · 15:22

A developer rebuilt a 1995 TrueTime GPS time server using a Raspberry Pi 5 and GNSS HAT to create a stratum 1 NTP time…

Tesla’s Cybercab has been deployed, and it’s already under investigation

2026-09-05 · 15:17

The US government is investigating whether the Cybercab meets vehicle safety standards.

Poetry book that Anthropic tried to censor

2026-09-05 · 15:04

Stanley Kunitz's 1930 debut poetry collection *Intellectual Things* explores themes of mortality, the body, and reason's…

Update Your Browser: Google Patches Chrome Flaw Hackers Were Already Using

2026-09-05 · 15:01

The update fixes a high-severity flaw in Chrome’s V8 engine, but Google has not revealed who is using it or whom they…

Oura is going public, but these smart ring companies are coming for its crown

2026-09-05 · 15:00

While Oura has largely dominated the smart ring market for years, a growing number of rivals are now racing to dethrone…

There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get

2026-09-05 · 14:13

Technical debt in software has no natural limit or "floor"—unlike physical structures that eventually collapse under…

Indian CBI Raids 89 Locations Across 20 States Under Operation Chakra-VI 

2026-09-05 · 14:05

Indian Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has launched a nationwide crackdown under Operation Chakra-VI.

The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)

2026-09-05 · 13:36

The AMD BC-250 is a repurposed cryptocurrency mining board containing a cut-down PlayStation 5 APU that can be purchased…

Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory

2026-09-05 · 13:31

The article explores how Rust's `dyn Trait` implements runtime polymorphism through virtual tables (vtables) in memory,…

.gitignore Everything by Default

2026-09-05 · 13:19

The article proposes reversing the typical .gitignore approach by ignoring everything by default and explicitly allowing…

A bizarre Commodore 64 peripheral, a mime, and some pretty bad ads

2026-09-05 · 12:23

Mimic Systems Inc.

Trusting-Trust Attack against an Entire Linux Distribution

2026-09-05 · 11:25

Researchers demonstrated a trusting-trust attack on the NixOS Linux distribution by compromising GNU strip, a standard…

LG TVs aren't the only ones spying on you [video]

2026-09-05 · 10:36

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