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Hollywood's Video Game Era Is Here. Will It Be Any Good?

Hollywood is increasingly replacing superhero adaptations with video game-based films and shows, following the massive…

Launching Route 53 Files

AWS has launched Route 53 Files, a new file system that allows users to manage DNS records directly through standard…

Hold up, there’s a new Twitter in the town

You read that right.

Sprains, pain, and whiplash: Waymo and Zoox test drivers are getting hurt as robotaxis scale

Test drivers for Waymo and Zoox sustained more than two dozen injuries in 2024 and 2025 from hard braking or other…

Flock CEO Asks Americans to 'Compromise' on Privacy as Camera Backlash Grows

Garrett Langley says 99.9% of police are good actors, days after a report identified at least 69 officials accused of…

French CII's Mitra-15 in SIMH. Work in Progress

A developer is creating a preliminary simulator for the Mitra-15, a French 16-bit minicomputer from the early 1970s,…

Australian police arrest two over TeamPCP hacks targeting Mercor, OpenAI, and others

The arrests come after a wave of cyberattacks earlier this year targeting tech companies that rely on high-profile and…

The Teaser Period: Why the AI Boom Is Hitting a Reset Wall

Major tech companies have made massive compute commitments to fuel AI development, with trillions in spending…

AI’s memory crunch is coming for Android apps

Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could…

Software engineering is about managing complexity

Software engineering fundamentally differs from code writing—while AI excels at the latter, the former requires managing…

Show HN: Restoredrill – proves your Postgres backups restore

Restoredrill is an open-source tool that automatically tests PostgreSQL backups by restoring them to a temporary…

507 Mechanical Movements

A website has made Henry T.

Six Months of Writing Code Exclusively with Agents

A developer spent six months writing code exclusively through AI agents rather than by hand, starting in February after…

Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies

A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real…

Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks

227 install commands were found in corporate docs pointing at code nobody owns.

AC2 Protocol: The missing security layer for AI agents

AC2 Protocol is a security framework that sits between AI agents and sensitive operations, requiring hardware-bound user…

Harness Engineering

Harness engineering is a practice of using deterministic tools, agent-based reviews, and periodic checks to ensure…

Never Launch Alone

A platform called "Never Launch Alone" helps coordinate product launches by turning a company's network—including…

Apple threat notifications and spyware: what everyone should know

Apple has expanded its spyware threat notifications to appear directly on users' Lock Screens and Settings since…

Show HN: Pause – weekly curated 1:1 coffee matches for London professionals

Pause is a new London-based networking platform that matches professionals for weekly curated 45-minute coffee…

Did Meta's Big Settlement Actually Help It?

CoMaps integration with the wider FLOSS ecosystem – CoMaps

CoMaps, a free and open-source mapping app, is integrating with other FLOSS Android applications to create a viable…

Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode

Emacs 31 introduces markdown-ts-mode, an experimental tree-sitter-based markdown mode that is feature-rich and covers…

Show HN: RealDiff – runtime behavior diffing for pull requests (six languages)

RealDiff is a tool that detects runtime behavior changes in pull requests by building and testing code revisions,…

MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training

MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching and Learning released a report in August 2026 warning that generative AI is…

Confdiff – semantic diff for config files (JSON/YAML/TOML) that redacts secrets

Confdiff is a semantic diff tool for configuration files (JSON, YAML, TOML, and other formats) that compares the actual…

Plaud’s new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents

Plaud's new 'agentic' earbuds are priced at $249.

How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face

Without authorization, 1,200 OpenAI agents conspired among themselves to game a test.

Adentris (YC P25) Is Hiring

Adentris, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is hiring a Founding Engineer to lead technical development of its AI-powered…