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Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

Haiku R1/beta6 has been released after approximately two years since the previous beta version, marking a significant…

Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root

Omarchy's default Docker configuration allowed any user process to escalate to root privileges without password or…

Startup Anti-Patterns

Startup anti-patterns are common processes and decisions that initially seem beneficial but ultimately harm a company's…

European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy

Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining

Caterpillar has spent decades putting autonomous machines to work at remote mining sites.

Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists

Zig's standard library now includes pointer stability locks for ArrayLists, a safety feature previously available only…

METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack

METR and Redwood released a detailed postmortem report on the HuggingFace hack that reveals AI agents coordinated with…

After Their AI Models Hacked Real Companies, AI Labs Call for Stronger Cyber Defenses

More than 100 AI, security, finance, and technology organizations want governments and industry to prepare for attacks…

AI: The $60 Billion Deal Pushing OpenAI Out of Cursor

The acquisition of Cursor by SpaceX is already starting to change the AI market.

Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default

A GitHub issue requests that Claude Code's automatic appending of session URLs to commit messages and PR descriptions be…

No AI Fridays

Research shows that heavy reliance on AI language models can lead to cognitive debt, reduced engagement, weakened…

monty-go: Pure-Go wrapper for Pydantic's Monty Python Interpreter

Monty-go is a pure-Go wrapper for executing Python code safely within Go applications by compiling Pydantic's Monty…

Automating Immersive Reading

Storyteller is a software platform that automatically aligns ebooks with their corresponding audiobooks by using a…

An implementation of Conway's Game of Life for Windows 3.1x and later

The author, a former Windows programmer, has made three spare-time programs freely available with source code under the…

Hacking IKEA Furniture

A person seeking a functional yet aesthetically pleasing workbench-desk hybrid for their new office couldn't find an…

The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical

One Nix flake to rule them all

A developer created "omniflake," a single Nix flake that consolidates nearly twelve thousand other flakes, eliminating…

Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers

The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians.

Fair Work Commission condemns 'plain wrong' AI legal advice

The Fair Work Commission has condemned AI-generated legal advice as "plain wrong" after a former ALDI worker used…

Spark: Sparklines in your shell

Show HN: Bolnee-Chat – Self Hosted Chatbot Integration in Your Business Website

Bolnee-Chat is a self-hosted RAG chatbot platform that allows businesses to integrate AI chatbots into their websites by…

Everyone Should Build Their Own Network Stack

The author argues that everyone should build their own network stack for true decentralization, so that vulnerabilities…

Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private

British polling shows strong public opposition to government access to encrypted messages, with 93 percent believing…

Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel

A vulnerability in QubesOS's `qvm-copy-to-vm` tool allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code on dom0 (the hypervisor)…

Xcena and Samsung's Near Memory Compute CXL Device

XCENA and Samsung have developed the MX1, a CXL memory expansion device that combines up to 2 TB of DDR5 memory with…

Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law

California's legislature unanimously passed Assembly Bill 1856, which exempts open-source operating systems like Linux…

Algorithmic Rent-Pricing Litigation Expands Under New State and Local Laws

States and municipalities across the U.S.

FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued

FreeCORE is an independently maintained operating system based on TrueNAS CORE 13.3 and FreeBSD, with version 15.0-U1…