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Lenovo Stock Doubles in May on AI Server Boom—Best Month in 27 Years

The world's biggest PC maker surged 109% in May after AI revenue hit 38% of quarterly sales.

CVE-Bench: testing LLM agents on real-world vulnerability patches

Researchers evaluated five frontier AI models on their ability to fix 20 real-world security vulnerabilities (CVEs),…

Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots

AI startup Shift offers free home cleaning services in exchange for recording cleaners at work to generate training data…

On Rendering Diffs

Pierre Computer Company released a new CodeView component designed to render diffs at any scale with near-instant…

So you’ve heard these AI terms and nodded along; let’s fix that

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang.

Botnet of more than 17 million devices dismantled

The botnet was reportedly tied to a Russia-based residential proxy network.

Rothko for your current weather conditions

# Summary A digital tool matches Mark Rothko paintings to your current weather conditions and emotional state.

AI will be used to estimate age of asylum seekers from next year

The UK Home Office will deploy an AI age estimation tool at its borders from mid-2027 to identify adult migrants falsely…

What happens when companies become too AI-pilled?

The people deciding that AI can replace your job are also the ones least likely to understand what your job truly…

SQLite is all you need for durable workflows

SQLite can serve as a sufficient foundation for durable workflows by storing workflow state locally without requiring a…

What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?

Bank of Italy Engaging With Global AI Firms for Safe AI Integration

Bank of Italy Governor Fabio Panetta announced ongoing talks with international artificial intelligence (AI) technology…

After Nvidia’s $20B not-aqui-hire, AI chip startup Groq reportedly raising $650M

Chipmaker Groq is looking to raise $650 million in internal funding as it pivots from hardware to focus more on AI…

AI Models Can’t Agree on Basic Facts Most of the Time, Study Shows

A new study gave five frontier AI models 1,000 real-world claims to fact-check. They disagreed on 67% of them.

Microsoft under fire for threatening security researcher with criminal investigation

A public spat between Microsoft and an independent security researcher reopens a long-running debate over who is…

Rsync maintainer starts uses Claude, regressions mount

Show HN: TV Explorer. Adding advanced UI to free online TV

TV Explorer is a free, browser-based player offering 10,000+ live TV channels from around the world, featuring news,…

IG Japan Rolls Out Mandatory 2FA Amid Surging Phishing Attacks

IG Securities, a Japanese subsidiary of IG Group, a leading London-headquartered financial technology company, has begun…

Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris

Mistral AI is positioning itself as a full-stack European AI provider, differentiating from competitors like OpenAI and…

Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T

Liquid AI released LFM2.5-8B-A1B, an improved 8-billion parameter mixture-of-experts model trained on 38 trillion…

Startup offers free home cleaning—if it can record it all for robot training

The latest twist in paying humans to wear head cameras for robot training data.

Cognition’s Scott Wu says AI coding agents shouldn’t replace humans

Cognition makes Devin, the first and arguably most successful AI coding agent.

CAPTCHAs can still detect AI agents

# Summary While AI systems can now solve CAPTCHAs with human-level accuracy, researchers found statistically…

You can just say it

The author argues that rather than qualifying human value based on competitive advantages over AI—a position that…

GTA 6 Developers Unionize

GTA 6 developers have officially formed the Rockstar Game Workers Union under the Independent Workers' Union of Great…

The Framework 12 is dead. Apple killed it [video]

Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding

Bijou64 is a new variable-length integer encoding developed for the Subduction sync protocol that ensures each number…

It Will Never Be the Year of the Linux Desktop

# Summary Despite decades of predictions, Linux will never become a mainstream desktop operating system due to…

It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12

Apple's MacBook Neo at $499 significantly outperforms the Framework 12 ($749-$799) in speed, efficiency, display…