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Yearslong fight over users' right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial

Access to TV OS's source code could allow users to limit ads, tracking.

GitHub says hackers stole data from thousands of internal repositories

The code hosting giant GitHub said it was investigating a breach, but said there was no evidence of customer data theft.

China banned RTX 5090D V2 while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was visiting

The chip was added to a list of banned goods at China’s customs checkpoints last Friday.

Quartermaster is building a maritime hive mind

The Arlington, Virginia-based startup has raised $42 million to equip ships with sensors that blow the current AIS tech…

Figma adds an AI assistant to its collaborative canvas

Figma's new AI assistant will be first available on Figma Design

Anna's Archive Hit with $19.5M Default Judgment and Global Domain Takedown Order

A federal court in New York issued a $19.5 million default judgment against Anna's Archive, a shadow library that…

Morning Minute: Markets Flip Green Overnight Ahead of NVDA Earnings

Crypto majors and stocks are back in the green, while Polymarket just opened private company prediction markets to…

Saying Goodbye to Asm.js

Firefox 148 has disabled asm.js optimizations by default, with plans to remove the technology entirely in a future…

College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos

College students at multiple U.S.

The Internet can't stop watching Figure AI's humanoid robots handling packages

Figure AI's 24/7 livestream showcases human soft spot for humanoid robots.

GitHub Breached: Malicious VS Code Extension Exposes 3,800 Repos

GitHub confirms employee device compromise via poisoned VS Code extension, impacting internal repositories.

Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back

Google and other AI companies are addressing a vulnerability where AI chatbots can be manipulated to spread…

Map of Metal

This interactive map provides a visual overview of metal music history, showcasing the influential bands that shaped…

Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier

No way to parse integers in C

The article argues that C's standard library functions for parsing integers are fundamentally broken or unreliable:…

Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)

A developer used AI coding agents to build a modern, production-grade Rust implementation of Azure's multi-Paxos…

AI: A Study Reveals That Consumers Are More Willing to Lie to Chatbots Than to Human Agents

Artificial intelligence is already transforming customer service, payments, and online commerce.

OpenAI launches overseas AI lab in Singapore with $234M commitment

OpenAI is opening its first overseas applied AI lab in Singapore through a $234 million partnership expected to create…

Show HN: The AI Quant Desk for Onchain Finance

Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report

Previous thread: Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved] -…

Trump orders review of fintech firms' access to Fed payment services

Financial regulators are also asked to review regulations that could be amended to streamline applications for eligible…

GitHub Worm Hits npm Packages With 16M Downloads

A self-replicating worm that hijacks GitHub Actions pipelines to publish malicious npm packages has struck again,…

GitHub investigates unauthorized access to internal repositories

GitHub said the activity involved the exfiltration of about 3,800 internal repositories, and it removed the malicious…

Moose-proof and megacasting: Ars drives the new Volvo EX60

Volvo is coming for its competitors with more efficient production and newer tech.

Meta begins 8K global job cuts, starting in Singapore

Approximately 49,000 workers were laid off in 2026 as companies adopted a more AI-reliant business model.

OKX’s Gracie Lin Says AI Agents Need Sub-Cent Payments as Bank Rails Slow Tasks

Global laws are still trailing the technology when it comes to determining who is liable if an artificial intelligence…

Everything in C is undefined behavior

The author argues that virtually all non-trivial C and C++ code contains undefined behavior (UB), making it nearly…

Ex-Apple engineer says Apple deliberately slows older phones via updates

‘Ask YouTube’ brings AI-powered conversational search to video, adds Gemini Omni to Shorts

Google is completely revamping its search experience, and that doesn't stop at YouTube.