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The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't

Switzerland achieves superior internet speeds (25 Gbit) and competitive pricing by treating fiber infrastructure as a…

Every AI Visibility Tool Is Lying to You

AI visibility measurement tools claim to show brands their ranking within ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI systems, but…

Instagram running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India, BBC finds

The ads use terms including “rape” and “child video” and link to content on the messaging app Telegram.

14× faster embeddings: how we rebuilt the ONNX path in Manticore

Manticore Search rebuilt its ONNX model inference path and achieved approximately 14× faster embedding performance…

AI is 'not smart' so what's next in artificial intelligence?

Yann LeCun, former Meta chief AI scientist, argues that current large language models like ChatGPT lack true…

The Safari MCP server for web developers

Apple has introduced the Safari MCP server, a Model Context Protocol tool that allows AI agents to connect directly to…

India Issues Notices to Telegram and Signal Over Username Features Amid Impersonation Concerns

The Indian government has reportedly issued notices to Telegram and Signal over username features, warning they could…

CarPlay Is Additive

Casey Liss argues that Rivian should support Apple CarPlay in its vehicles, countering the company's claims that screen…

GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM

An American Privacy Emergency

# Summary A Trump administration directive (DAO 216-26) has banned differential privacy and modern noise-infusion…

Last chance to apply — Startup Battlefield Australia applications close July 6

If you're going to apply for Startup Battlefield Australia, now is the time.

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Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped

At an internal meeting, the Meta CEO reportedly said that AI development efforts were not moving as quickly as…

crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C

A developer has created "crustc," a fully functional Rust compiler translated into 46 million lines of C code that can…

Thiel Capital’s Jack Selby nabs stakes in hot startups like Etched through Arizona connections

Selby's VC firm Copper Sky Capital is currently raising a $300 million second fund, according to a regulatory filing.

Simple, beautiful Emacs modeline: modusregel

modusregel is a lightweight Emacs mode line package written in pure Emacs Lisp that provides a clean, customizable…

OpenAI Offers US Government a $42 Billion Slice of Itself: Report

Sam Altman is pitching a 5% equity stake in OpenAI for the U.S.

BlastRadar – paste a Git diff, get a production risk score in 10 seconds

BlastRadar is a tool that analyzes Git diffs to provide a production risk score within 10 seconds, helping developers…

Virginia bans sale of geolocation data

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signed S.B.

IQM, Europe’s first public quantum company, admits the future of the tech is uncertain

IQM, a full-stack quantum company out of Finland, went public on the Nasdaq today at a valuation of about $1.9 billion.

Jersey Mike’s IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become

Just for kicks, I took a look at Jersey Mike's IPO documents. Surely a sandwich shop would have no need to mention AI.

Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Manager (LMDB) 1.0

LMDB 1.0 is a high-performance, memory-mapped Btree-based database library that offers full ACID transactions,…

Newly discovered PamStealer isn't your typical macOS malware

The discovery underscores the increased effort being poured into Mac infostealers.

AI Researchers Got Chatbots to Share Cocaine Recipes Using This One Wild Trick

Researchers say a new jailbreak technique tricked AI models into treating attacker-written text as their own reasoning,…

Wireless LAN SD

The Wireless LAN SD standard integrates IEEE 802.11 wireless capability directly into SD memory cards, allowing devices…

Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager

I'm currently working on Bramble, an open source password manager with P2P cross-device sync.

EFF letter to FTC on X consent order (2 July 2026) [pdf]

A warning sign about AI’s real cost, courtesy of Google and Amazon

AI has made it a lot harder for tech companies like Amazon and Google to deliver on their net-zero pledges.

The Short Leash AI Coding Method for Beating Fable

A software developer describes the "Short Leash Method" for using AI coding agents to produce high-quality software in…