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TikTok users don't have as much agency over their FYPs as they think

The "not interested" feature is your friend, but users must intentionally and constantly curate their FYPs

Miami-based City Labs achieves a first for commercial nuclear power in space

"The BOHR mission serves as a pathfinder for future nuclear-powered spacecraft."

Google updates Android Bench with new LLMs, but Gemini still lags behind

Android Bench is evolving, and developers can help guide that process.

Anthropic Removes Hidden Claude Code Tracker After Researchers Raise Privacy Concerns

The company says the tool was designed to stop abuse and AI model extraction, but critics questioned the use of…

All Cars Sold in the EU Now Require a Camera Aimed at Your Face

AI Is Changing the Workplace and Universities Aren’t Keeping Up, Study Warns

A University of Manchester researcher says schools should move beyond AI cheating concerns and prepare graduates for…

Re: I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home

The author argues that bringing AI note-takers to casual meetings and conversations is intrusive and unnecessary,…

Why the rise of open source AI isn’t hurting Anthropic … yet

Open-source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs.

Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models

Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending.

Bethesda, id Software reportedly hit hard by Microsoft layoffs

As much as 50 percent of some teams affected by reductions, and more could be coming.

China May Be Following US Lead With Quiet Crackdown on AI Exports

China is reportedly building the same power to cut off its AI that the US deployed against Anthropic in June.

Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images

Discord has acknowledged that a bug in its AI moderation system mistakenly banned more than 8,000 users over the past…

Google's Pixel 11 launch event is set for August 12, with possible price increases

Google's new phones could feature glowing LEDs and higher price tags.

Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

Mostly vibe-coded Apple Containers front-end that I'd like to use myself.

Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall?

From time to time, I check that our open-source project is still available to all users, and I've occasionally noticed…

Google’s Pixel event is set for August 12

Google's upcoming event in August will introduce new Pixel devices.

Figma acquires team behind a vibe-coding app

The Y Combinator-backed company started a vibe-coding platform and later built an agent-creation product.

AI Meets Cryptography 1: What AI Found in Cloudflare's Circl

zkSecurity's AI audit agent discovered seven real bugs in Cloudflare's CIRCL cryptography library, including critical…

Decrypting View State Messages

A security researcher describes how to decrypt encrypted ASP.NET view state messages using automatically generated…

Astro 7.0

Astro 7 has been released with significant performance improvements, featuring a rewritten Rust-based compiler, a new…

The Weather Channel increases streaming subscription prices by up to $20

Livestreaming the channel through its app now starts at $5 per month.

Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro

Kokoro is a lightweight 82-million-parameter text-to-speech model that generates high-quality, realistic speech in…

Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 the time and tokens

Docx-CLI is a command-line tool that enables AI agents to efficiently edit Word documents by working with plain-text…

The Nintendo Switch's days are numbered—but what is that number?

Ars analysis suggests the 9-year-old console could keep selling for years.

Notes on Software Quality

# Summary The article outlines a framework for understanding software quality, defining it as "the absence of problems"…

A new runtime for k and q: l

A new runtime called "l" has been released that maintains full compatibility with k4 and q while providing optimized…

Peter Shor’s algorithm could break the internet – but he's not worried

Few people have invented an algorithm with the potential to spark a worldwide crisis, so why is quantum computing…

Netflix dabbles in shorter video content with its new set of publisher deals with Variety, others

Netflix is bringing 2- to 20-minute videos to its platform through new partnerships with digital publishers, including…

Reducing Doom Loops with Final Token Preference Optimization

Researchers developed "Antidoom," a method that reduces repetitive text generation loops in language models by…