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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.

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The Browser's Main Thread Is Expensive

2026-09-01 · 14:00

The browser's main thread handles nearly all computational, rendering, and event-handling tasks, making it a bottleneck…

India’s Unacademy sells to rival upGrad for $206M, about 94% less than its peak valuation

2026-09-01 · 13:58

"We raised at a peak, but sold at a fraction of that," Unacademy co-founder and CEO Gaurav Munjal wrote.

Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

2026-09-01 · 13:46

Mozilla has introduced a built-in Ad Blocker feature for Firefox on iOS that blocks third-party ads and ad-related…

We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora

2026-09-01 · 13:41

Cloudflare is implementing a Cache Transcoding system using Zstandard compression within its Pingora proxy to reduce…

Io_uring Without Readahead

2026-09-01 · 13:19

Turso implemented readahead for its io_uring backend to improve performance by submitting multiple read requests…

EFF to Courts: Don't Rewrite Copyright over AI Hype

2026-09-01 · 12:53

The Electronic Frontier Foundation argues that courts should resist pressure to dramatically expand copyright…

Invisible Companies

2026-09-01 · 12:48

AI Rollups and similar business strategies have generated significant venture capital returns by identifying and…

Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs

2026-09-01 · 12:12

# Summary Tim Cook recently made a highly publicized visit to the White House where he flattered Donald Trump and…

AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link

2026-09-01 · 10:11

Google Play has rejected updates to AnkiDroid, a free open-source flashcard app with over 10 million installs, because…

44% on ARC-AGI-1 in 67 cents

2026-09-01 · 09:52

Mithil Vakde trained a small transformer model that achieved 44% accuracy on the ARC-AGI-1 benchmark in just 67 cents of…

The Algorithm Alliance Unites AI Builders, Engineers, and Innovators to Shape the Future of Data Science

2026-09-01 · 08:19

Algorithm Alliance has returned, a builder-first stage for those ready to trade ‘talk’ for ‘real trajectory’.

Apple’s Bitcoin Strategy Will Depend on More Than John Ternus

2026-09-01 · 07:30

If you’re looking to the next CEO, John Ternus, for clues about how crypto asset-related strategy might change at the…

1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe

2026-09-01 · 07:07

The article reports that 1Password committed $300,000 to the Omarchy Linux project, which is created and controlled by…

CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring

2026-09-01 · 07:01

CollectWise, a Y Combinator-backed startup using AI to automate debt collection, is hiring a Founding Customer Success…

Trump Condemns Growing US Data Center Backlash Amid AI Demand

2026-09-01 · 05:58

On August 31, 2026, President Donald J.

AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too

2026-09-01 · 05:32

Despite AI tools promising a 10x improvement in development speed, the expected wave of revolutionary tech companies has…

A Big Tech Company Buried 2,700 Early GUI PCs in 1989 and Shaped Today’s Desktop

2026-09-01 · 05:30

In September 1989, a Big Tech company sent 2,700 unsold GUI-era PCs to a landfill in Utah, with guards on site to stop…

Flock's rapidly expanding AI surveillance network facing growing backlash in US

2026-09-01 · 05:11

BBC Verify examines the expanding network of Flock cameras in the US and the backlash against it.

Magna increases bet on battery swapping in India with $35M for Yuma

2026-09-01 · 05:00

Magna's investment in Yuma Energy has reached $87 million as the Canadian auto supplier increases its majority stake in…

Vermell – Minimal, dependency-free C++ web framework using epoll

2026-09-01 · 04:56

Vermell is a minimal, dependency-free C++ web framework built on epoll that requires only one header file and one static…

GPU World

2026-09-01 · 03:16

A story contest invites writers to imagine a future where AI frontier progress plateaus by 2026 but hardware continues…

Shein shares slide in long-awaited stock market debut

2026-09-01 · 03:11

The firm's Hong Kong listing on Tuesday comes after a years-long quest to sell shares in New York and London.

Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost)

2026-09-01 · 03:05

Google Antigravity has introduced the /boost slash command, a multi-agent reasoning pipeline designed to tackle complex…

Is MCP Good Yet?

2026-09-01 · 02:56

The article evaluates the implementation status of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) across various AI development…

Fastpotify

2026-09-01 · 02:52

Fastpotify is a lightweight, native Spotify client for Linux, macOS, and Windows that offers local playback at up to 320…

EU Targets ChatGPT, Reddit, Roblox With Tougher DSA Scrutiny

2026-09-01 · 02:30

The European Commission has placed ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox under direct supervision, requiring each to assess and…

RotaryCell: Making an unmodified rotary phone work over LTE with an ESP32-S3

2026-09-01 · 02:29

RotaryCell is a project that converts a traditional rotary telephone into a portable cellular device using an ESP32-S3…

DoltLite: A SQLite fork with Git-style version control, built with 2k agent PRs

2026-09-01 · 01:25

DoltLite, a SQLite fork with Git-style version control built by AI agents through approximately 2,000 pull requests, has…

2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up

2026-09-01 · 01:01

In 2004, RuneScape achieved a remarkable feat by running a multiplayer RPG with thousands of concurrent players on 56k…

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