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Iran-Linked Hackers Claim Control of US Security Drones Ahead of the World Cup Kickoff

A group identifying as Handala and linked to Iran claims it hijacked FBI surveillance drones guarding FIFA World Cup…

The Lost Story of Alan Turing's "Delilah" Project

During World War II, Alan Turing led a secret voice-encryption project called "Delilah," a portable system designed to…

Public Service Announcement: Don't Say You Use AI for Writing

The author argues that professionals should never publicly disclose using AI for writing attributed to them, as such…

Building Reliable Agentic AI Systems

Bayer AG and Thoughtworks developed PRINCE, a cloud-based agentic AI system that transforms pharmaceutical preclinical…

Developers don't understand CORS (2019)

A 2019 blog post highlights how many developers misunderstand CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing), citing Zoom's…

When I reject AI code even if it works

The author argues that while AI coding agents are fast and capable, they often produce code that works but lacks the…

'We had to get out of the way': The backlash over delivery robots

Project Fetch: Phase Two

Anthropic's Project Fetch Phase Two demonstrates that Claude Opus 4.7 can autonomously complete robotic tasks roughly 20…

Show HN: Submarius – Global water clarity for divers

Submarius started as just a dashboard for diving conditions, but I quickly realized that there is simply no API for…

Why an AI company cleaned my New York City apartment for free

An AI company is sending free cleaners door-to-door in a bid to train the robots it hopes one day will replace them.

Epoll vs. Io_uring in Linux

The article compares epoll and io_uring, two Linux asynchronous I/O handling systems, explaining how the author's team…

Tesla allegedly in autopilot mode crashes into Texas house, woman killed

A Tesla operating in driver-assist mode crashed into a residential house in Katy, Texas on Friday night, killing a woman…

Systemd 261 released with systemd-sysinstall, IMDSD, and storagectl

Systemd 261 has been released with several major new features including systemd-sysinstall (a text-based OS installer),…

Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract

Tesco is suing Broadcom (which acquired VMware) for breach of contract, seeking £100 million in damages, claiming the…

Linux Eliminates the Strncpy API After Six Years of Work, 360 Patches

Linux 7.2 has successfully eliminated the deprecated strncpy API from the kernel after six years of work and over 360…

Seeing the world in radio waves with the QuadRF

The QuadRF is an open-source, phase-coherent four-channel software-defined radio (SDR) built around a Raspberry Pi 5…

Show HN: Pulse – Dashboard for Claude Code, approve tool calls from your phone

Hi everyone, I'm a student from Flanders and I like to use Claude Code for my purposes, ideas and also just for fun and…

UK Home Office launches £75M 'PoliceAI' to capitalise on artificial intelligence

The UK Home Office has launched PoliceAI, a £75m national centre to scale up artificial intelligence use across police…

Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’

"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”

Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil

An unauthorized "extreme alert" containing the word "misanthropy" (spelled as "misantropi4" in leetspeak) was sent to…

In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search

So ... what's your In the Weights score?

AMD will reinstate memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs via BIOS update in July

AMD will reinstate Transparent Secure Memory Encryption (TSME) on Ryzen 9000 desktop processors via a BIOS update in…

Show HN: My Windows XP portfolio with working Game Boy and iPod

I posted my portfolio here about a year ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45154609) and while there was a big…

PostgresBench: A Reproducible Benchmark for Postgres Services

PostgresBench is a new public, reproducible benchmark tool designed to compare managed Postgres services using the…

Show HN: Tiny – An interpeted dynamic langauge with inline Go native functions

Tiny is a new dynamically-typed programming language with an interpreted bytecode virtual machine written in Go,…

Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish

Shinkei makes a refrigerator-sized robot called Poseidon to kill fish quickly and humanely.

Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM)

A new open-source tool transforms PDFs to look like physical scans by applying effects such as skew, grayscale…

Agency stole bestselling author's book, used AI to relaunch as their own

An unauthorized website claiming to be The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows has republished John Koenig's bestselling book…

OpenRouter's Fusion Promises Claude Fable-Level AI for Cheap—Right as Fable 5 Goes Dark

OpenRouter's compound-model API stacks budget AI models—and beat GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 outright in benchmark…