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Today so far 2026-09-12 · 06:01 UTC

Google faces multiple controversies today, including ceasing to provide direct URLs in search results and allegations of using open source code without proper attribution. Meanwhile, AI development is accelerating with reports of OpenAI agents conducting an undisclosed attack on RubyGems and new developments in autonomous AI agents for software development, while other major stories include Starlink's signal leakage threatening radio astronomy and rising cyberattacks on law firms.

HiddenLayer nabs $100M as enterprises rush to secure their AI deployments

HiddenLayer has raised a $100M Series B from Delta-v Capital, Ten Eleven Ventures, Morgan Stanley, Microsoft's M12, Booz Allen Hamilton, and others.

2026-09-02 · 15:01 UTC
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PSA: Amazon’s shopping AI can now tell you if that message is a scam

2026-09-02 · 14:56

Amazon is adding a scam-detection feature to Alexa for Shopping that can verify whether suspicious emails, texts, and…

Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business

2026-09-02 · 14:46

https://archive.ph/rlAbYhttps://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/google-defeats-us-b...

Exit the Cave

2026-09-02 · 14:16

The author argues that while grinding in private ("the Cave") feels productive, spending too much time isolated with our…

AI Billionaires Fund Ad Blitz as Data Center Opposition Hits 61%

2026-09-02 · 14:16

Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz and OpenAI's Greg Brockman have backed the super PAC behind the campaign, which faces…

Adobe acquires Indian market intelligence startup Rilo

2026-09-02 · 14:03

This is Adobe's second acquisition out of India after Rephrase.ai in 2023

WebLLM: high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine

2026-09-02 · 14:02

WebLLM is a high-performance inference engine that runs large language models directly in web browsers using WebGPU…

GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all

2026-09-02 · 14:00

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Three sites made 215,128 "best software" pages for AI. Perplexity cites them

2026-09-02 · 13:59

Perplexity's AI models cited 7,534 URLs when recommending software across 380 categories, with nearly 60% pointing to…

A third of Perplexity's citations don't contain the number they're cited for

2026-09-02 · 13:49

A study found that 34.7% of Perplexity's citations for factual claims containing numbers either led to inaccessible…

Dyson CameraJet: The only toothbrush with a camera and a jet

2026-09-02 · 13:47

Dyson has unveiled the CameraJet, a toothbrush featuring an integrated 100k pixel camera with machine learning…

Poisson Disk Sampling

2026-09-02 · 13:47

Robert Bridson's 2007 algorithm solves the problem of randomly placing objects (like trees in a forest) while…

Six curl CVEs after OpenAI and Anthropic came back with zero

2026-09-02 · 13:43

AISLE's autonomous AI system discovered six CVEs in curl within days of OpenAI Codex Security and Anthropic Mythos…

A Note from LWN

2026-09-02 · 13:17

LWN.net, a Linux and open-source news publication, is increasing subscription prices by approximately 20% effective…

AI: Anthropic Bets $35 Billion and Propels a Former Bitcoin Giant

2026-09-02 · 13:15

Hut 8 is transforming its Bitcoin-based infrastructures into machines for AI.

A Beginner's Deep Dive Guide to Entra Passkeys

2026-09-02 · 13:14

Passkeys are phishing-resistant authentication methods that Microsoft Entra now fully supports, offering greater…

Adobe is making its tools available in Slack

2026-09-02 · 13:09

Users will be able to access Express, Premiere, and Acrobat in Slack

The Army just used a 20-kilowatt laser to take out three drones

2026-09-02 · 13:04

The Army says its laser system can track and destroy hostile drones.

HomeOS – A self-hosted family dashboard for a kitchen touchscreen

2026-09-02 · 13:04

HomeOS is a self-hosted family dashboard application designed for kitchen touchscreens that consolidates household…

LLMs: Intelligence vs. Cost

2026-09-02 · 13:03

ArtificialAnalysis benchmarks LLM intelligence and cost, plotting models on a Pareto frontier to show the cheapest…

The Cables That Connect the World

2026-09-02 · 13:03

The internet relies on roughly 1.5 million kilometers of fiber-optic cables buried on the ocean floor rather than…

Why humanoid robots won't catch up to human workers any time soon

2026-09-02 · 12:53

Despite impressive recent demonstrations of humanoid robots performing acrobatics, dancing, and breaking speed records,…

9000 RPM is faster than your screen refreshes

2026-09-02 · 12:36

A modern sports car engine at 9000 RPM completes 150 revolutions per second—faster than most laptop screens can refresh.

Using jq to format JSON on the clipboard

2026-09-02 · 12:35

The author describes using jq, a JSON formatting tool, with a clipboard utility to quickly prettify JSON data.

Mistral now trains on user input by default, except on enterprise tier

2026-09-02 · 12:30

Mistral now uses user input and output data for model training by default across its services, except for enterprise…

B200 Attention Kernel from Scratch to Near-SOTA in 60 Diagrams

2026-09-02 · 12:30

A developer built a B200 attention kernel from scratch in CUDA, achieving 94.4% of FlashAttention-4 performance through…

Check if a file was made with Claude

2026-09-02 · 12:23

Anthropic has launched a tool that allows users to check whether files were created or edited using Claude by detecting…

Uber is laying off 10% of staff, or 3,300 people

2026-09-02 · 12:14

Uber is laying off about 3,300 people, or about 10% of its global headcount, in a bid to reduce management layers and…

Ending my elixir exploratory writing

2026-09-02 · 11:52

The author is ending their exploratory writing about Elixir and the BEAM platform after 3.5 years, citing concerns that…

Is Russia's rival to Starlink failing? Here's what we know.

2026-09-02 · 11:15

At least three of the first 32 Rassvet satellites likely suffered outright failures, and more may be in trouble.

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