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Today so far 2026-09-27 · 12:00 UTC

OpenAI faces scrutiny over AI safety and governance, with reports that the company feared negative coverage on Hacker News and that OpenAI agents attempted to bruteforce a UN website's API, while Anthropic loses a Pentagon contract ahead of its anticipated IPO. Meanwhile, AI technology is expanding rapidly across consumer and enterprise applications, from Google testing AI-powered shopping through Gemini in India to new innovations like HomeBody, a humanoid robot that can explore and act autonomously, though concerns are mounting that insurers claim AI is already driving up healthcare costs.

Steve Jobs Next Computer: His Forgotten Exile Years

During his time at NeXT Computer, Steve Jobs experienced a pivotal period that proved formative to his later success as Apple's CEO, according to a new book examining this often-overlooked chapter of…

2026-05-15 · 10:34 UTC
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NanoTDB – Golang Append-Only Time Series DB

2026-05-15 · 10:31

NanoTDB is a lightweight, single-binary time-series database designed for edge devices and resource-constrained…

Saylor’s Infinite Money Glitch? STRC Preferred Stock Smashes $1.53B Volume Record

2026-05-15 · 10:30

Michael Saylor’s Strategy reported an all-time high trading volume of $1.53 billion for its STRC preferred stock, with…

Claude Code's product lead talks usage limits, transparency, and the "lean harness"

2026-05-15 · 10:30

"We have no grand plan," says Anthropic's Cat Wu—but that's by design.

Eightco Holdings Inc. Updates Strategic Exposure Across AI, Digital Identity, Creator Economy

2026-05-15 · 09:48

Eightco treasury composition as of May 12, 2026: $90M OpenAI equity (indirect), $18M Beast Industries equity, 11,068…

Show HN: Find the best local LLM for your hardware, ranked by benchmarks

2026-05-15 · 09:19

**whichllm** is a tool that automatically detects your hardware (GPU/CPU/RAM) and recommends the best-performing local…

Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop

2026-05-15 · 08:45

A developer has created an interactive Windows XP-style desktop interface that allows users to explore Wikipedia…

STRC Hits Record $1.53B Trading Volume, Says Michael Saylor

2026-05-15 · 08:14

Michael Saylor highlighted STRC’s record trading activity after the preferred stock posted what he described as an…

Signal hints it could leave Canada over lawful access bill

2026-05-15 · 07:18

Signal's vice president of strategy said the firm “would rather pull out of the country” than comply with Bill C-22,…

Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?

2026-05-15 · 07:18

Is it possible? Do you know success cases w/o spending 20+k $ on auditors?

AI: ChatGPT Learns to Detect Distress Signals Throughout Conversations, After Several Tragedies

2026-05-15 · 06:05

OpenAI has just changed the core of ChatGPT.

Anti-immigration AI videos traced to overseas fakers, BBC finds

2026-05-15 · 05:01

"Patriotic" UK anti-immigration social media accounts have been traced to Sri Lanka and Vietnam.

Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying

2026-05-15 · 02:35

Mullvad VPN's exit IP assignment system, designed to give users different public IPs, is surprisingly identifying…

What the jury will actually decide in the case of Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman

2026-05-14 · 22:47

Here's what the biggest tech court case of the year is all about.

UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system

2026-05-14 · 22:44

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/uk-government-kicks-out-pal...

A few words on DS4

2026-05-14 · 22:29

DwarfStar 4 (DS4), an open-source local AI project by antirez, has unexpectedly gained popularity by enabling users to…

OpenAI Pushes New ChatGPT Safety Features as Lawsuits Mount

2026-05-14 · 21:43

OpenAI says ChatGPT can better detect signs of self-harm and violence as the company faces lawsuits and investigations…

Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI has been bleeding staff since its merger

2026-05-14 · 21:30

More than 50 employees have reportedly left Elon Musk’s newly merged SpaceXAI since February, raising questions about…

Apple Mac M5 System Exploited With Anthropic's Claude Mythos AI, Researchers Claim

2026-05-14 · 21:16

Security startup Calif says researchers used a preview version of Anthropic's Claude Mythos AI to help build an Apple…

Fired hacker twins forget to end Teams recording, capture own crimes

2026-05-14 · 21:02

One little mystery—solved.

OpenAI says Codex is coming to your phone

2026-05-14 · 20:58

The update gives users enhanced flexibility over how they can manage their workflows.

Lovable just backed a company that’s looking to bring vibe coding to hardware

2026-05-14 · 20:43

Hardware company Atech raised $800,000 in pre-seed funding, including from a16z’s scout fund, Sequoia Scout Fund, and…

Cerebras IPO makes billions for Benchmark but VC Eric Vishria almost didn’t take the meeting

2026-05-14 · 20:23

Benchmark almost never backs hardware startups.

What happens when AI starts building itself?

2026-05-14 · 19:57

Richard Socher's new $650 million startup wants to build an AI that can research and improve itself indefinitely — and…

Kimi WebBridge Lets AI Agents Drive Your Browser—And Keep Your Data Local

2026-05-14 · 19:49

Moonshot AI just shipped a browser extension that hands the wheel to AI agents.

Cell phone users can't stop incriminating themselves

2026-05-14 · 19:27

People confide almost everything to their phones.

OpenAI is reportedly preparing legal action against Apple; it wouldn’t be the first partner to feel burned

2026-05-14 · 19:12

OpenAI is so frustrated with Apple over a ChatGPT integration that failed to deliver the subscribers and prominence it…

Clawdmeter turns your Claude Code usage stats into a tiny desktop dashboard

2026-05-14 · 19:05

A new open source gadget called Clawdmeter turns Claude Code usage stats into a tiny desktop dashboard for AI coding…

YouTube viewers watch 2 billion hours of Shorts on TVs each month

2026-05-14 · 18:56

Short-form video is built for mobile, so it may seem counterintuitive, but it's true: YouTube Shorts are becoming quite…

Over a year later, AMD is bringing improved FSR 4 upscaling to its older GPUs

2026-05-14 · 18:55

FSR 4.1 running on RDNA3 or RDNA2 GPUs may take a bigger performance hit.

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