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Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45 billion deal with Nscale

The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.

AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”

Reuters report shows Meta's challenges replacing people with AI agents.

Clerky Is Joining Stripe

Clerky, an online legal service platform for startup formation and paperwork, has agreed to join Stripe.

WebMCP Challenge – OpenAI

New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name

Judge hasn't ruled on X Corp’s preliminary injunction, but Operation Bluebird plows ahead

Show HN: Every push-up becomes an attack in a camera-counted RPG game

A camera-based RPG game counts push-ups in real time using on-device pose detection to power combat against 48…

What will be left for us to work on

Arvind Narayanan argues that despite rapid AI advances, researchers and developers will have substantial work ahead,…

Show HN: We built the smallest dual-band aircraft tracker

We've been building open source embedded ADS-B receivers for a while, and spent the past 8 months smallifying our…

mold: A Parallel Linker

Mold is a new Unix/Linux linker that uses data parallelism across its entire pipeline to dramatically speed up the…

Product Development is being Rewritten

Coding agents are advancing rapidly and becoming efficient enough for production use, fundamentally changing how…

IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor

IBM has unveiled a dual-architecture processor that will enable IBM Z and LinuxONE mainframes to run both Arm-native and…

76% of 623 EU software vendors have no security.txt ahead of the CRA 24h rule

A scan of 623 European software vendors found that 76% lack a security.txt file, leaving researchers without a standard…

Meta settles states' child-safety claims for $18B; Florida rejects deal as "peanuts"

Meta to impose daily limit on child social media use in deal with nearly every state.

Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers

Websites can serve Markdown versions of their content to AI agents using the Accept: text/markdown header, allowing…

The risks of AI are real but manageable (2023)

GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked?

GitHub has experienced 1,125 incidents since March 2016, averaging 24 per month with a recent 5% decline, and currently…

Google’s Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI

Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture.

How do we explain OpenAI’s executive exodus?

Was Greg Brockman the right executive all along?

Dallas startup enriches Uranium

Actinide, a Dallas-based startup, has become the first private company to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium…

Google announces Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for AI-powered speech-to-text

The AI that powers Gboard's Rambler is coming to more Google products, including Chrome.

The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead

A Thread-Register Decoupled GPU Execution Model for Efficient Tensor Computation

Researchers propose FIBER, a new GPU architecture that decouples execution threads from private register ownership to…

OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach

The report, which spans several discrete cybersecurity compromises, is the most complete accounting of the incident to…

Flipboard acquires Graze, the feed builder working to monetize the open social web

Flipboard is acquiring Bluesky feed-building startup Graze, bringing its privacy-friendly ad technology and creator…

Medical device maker Boston Scientific says a cyberattack is causing a ‘global disruption’ to its operations

The company won't say if medical devices are affected or if any customer data was exfiltrated.

Tailcat: Secure Tunnels in Seconds (Tailscale)

Tailcat is an open-source tool by Tailscale that enables secure point-to-point encrypted tunnels between machines using…

An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation

Bambu Lab, a 3D-printer company, is violating the Affero General Public License version 3 (AGPLv3) in a way that…

Show HN: I made a retirement simulator: 125 years of data, 25 countries

A developer created a retirement simulator that tests financial plans against 125 years of historical market data across…

YouTube Format IDs

A GitHub gist documents YouTube format IDs (itag codes) used to specify video quality and codec options when downloading…