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How to Create a Tor Exit Node

Running a Tor exit node requires configuring a Linux machine to serve as the final connection point for anonymous Tor…

An open DNS recursive service for free security and high privacy

Quad9 is a free DNS service operated by the Swiss-based Quad9 Foundation that blocks malicious websites and protects…

Can AI design circuit boards yet?

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra demonstrated AI capability in circuit board design using KiCad, but researchers have developed…

Government Rails Site Hit Hours After CVE Patch

A critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2026-66066) in Ruby on Rails 8 was patched by Rietta across their…

Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean 4

Anthropic has released a complete, machine-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem formalized in Lean 4, based on the…

Shutting down our public encrypted DNS

Mullvad is shutting down its public encrypted DNS servers by November 2, 2026, and will instead financially support…

Hayes AT command set

The Hayes command set, developed by Dale Heatherington and Dennis Hayes in 1981 for the Hayes Smartmodem, is a…

Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allows ‘Tweet’ for now

A federal judge temporarily barred an X rival from using the Twitter name, but found that X was likely to have abandoned…

The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite

The Rust-based React Compiler is now available as native support in Vite v6.1.0, delivering dramatic build speed…

“Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs

Broadcom admits it put “too big a focus on VCF.”

Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages

Multiple AI services including OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and xAI's Grok experienced rare outages on Thursday…

Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers

A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.

Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer

OpenTrailPaper is open-source firmware for the LilyGO T5S3 e-paper display that turns it into a DIY bike computer…

What will Apple’s John Ternus era look like?

It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple.   Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former…

Georgi Gerganov on llama.cpp/ggml future after Nvidia acquisition of HuggingFace

Stop Thinking of LLMs as Next-Token Predictors

Large language models are fundamentally different from simple next-token predictors because they undergo reinforcement…

No little kids allowed, and other new info about Tesla’s Cybercab

The company says no children under 13 can ride -- even with a parent.

Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive

Strike 3 Holdings, an adult film producer, has unmasked an anonymous BitTorrent pirate as a Meta Reality Labs executive…

Valve secretly leaked a Left 4 Dead 2 trailer to dodge the ESRB

"I think we can't get in trouble for that now. It's like 20 years ago."

Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration

Project HydraFusion is a new research preview that automatically selects the best combination of AI models and execution…

Anthropic’s $2 trillion IPO puts powerful external trustees in spotlight

Public-market scrutiny will intensify pressure on the Claude maker’s unusual attempt to balance profit and purpose.

Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge

It's the latest failure of OpenAI's internal monitoring and security systems.

Musk wins court order to block use of “Twitter,” but not “tweet” and bird logo

Saying X is “formerly Twitter” in App Store lets Musk block use of Twitter name.

deSEC – Free Secure DNS

deSEC is a free, security-focused DNS hosting service built on open-source software and supported by SSE, accessible to…

OpenAI Agents Hack German Website to Share Rule-Breaking Tactics: Report

The activity began in May and remained undisclosed until Friday, a day after OpenAI launched Astra and U.S.

Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I

AEON Launches Agentic Checkout, Powered by AI Card for Autonomous Commerce

AEON, the settlement layer built for the AI economy, has launched Agentic Checkout, enabling AI agents to autonomously…

GMails custom domain "send as" discontinues January 2027

Starting January 2027, Gmail will discontinue support for the "Send as" feature for third-party email addresses like…

CD sales are making an unexpected comeback amid a retro tech boom

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