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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…

'The Government Doesn't Own Our Data': Prosecuted GrapheneOS User

Samuel Tunick, facing five years over a wiped phone, said he was secretly placed on a watch list as a suspected…

Graze Joins Flipboard

Graze, a company that builds tools for creating personalized social algorithms, is joining Flipboard to advance the…

CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela

CoMaps, an offline mapping app built on OpenStreetMap data, proved invaluable during Venezuela's earthquake response by…

US seizes domains of Chinese botnet used to hack NASA, Justice Department, and the Senate

The FBI has seized domains associated with a botnet that allowed Chinese-backed hackers to breach several U.S.

Twisteddoodles on a brand-new type of robot

This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles

Capital F closes $17M debut fund with goal to back the future of the ‘female economy’

Capital F, one of the few all-female-led VC firms, announced Wednesday the $17 million close of its debut fund.

The Harness Is the Thing

The author reflects on how AI-driven development tools have transformed software engineering, with the "harness"—a…

Xbox’s new disc-to-digital program gives physical games a digital future

"Most" Xbox One and Series X games are compatible; discs will still work after being claimed.

Apple is holding its iPhone launch event on September 9

The event is expected to be a notable one, as Apple is rumored to unveil its long-awaited foldable iPhone.

Show HN: Build your own theme park

A web application allows users to design and build custom theme parks by selecting attractions, rides, and themed areas…

Launch HN: Risklytics (YC S26) – Insurance brokerage for frontier tech companies

Hi HN, we're Sam and Alex, founders of Risklytics (https://risklytics.ai).

Meta agrees to sweeping changes to restrict kids’ access to its apps as part of settlement with states

One of the most notable changes is that Meta plans to implement a daily two-hour time limit for teens that can only be…

What’s driving Sweden’s startup boom, from Lovable to Legora 

Vibe-coding darling Lovable just raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, roughly doubling its worth in eight…

The turbulent AI era is here

Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents

Particle’s new podcast intelligence platform transcribes and analyzes more than 130,000 podcasts, making their…

It's so hard to finish an idea that is not yours (and suggested by AI)

The author argues against heavy AI integration in Obsidian note-taking systems, warning that AI-generated content…

Hunting Down a Go Runtime Bug on 32-Bit Embedded Systems

A Go runtime bug causing crashes on 32-bit embedded Linux systems (ARM and i386) was traced to the netpoll mechanism…

Disruption with Some GitHub Services

GitHub experienced a service disruption affecting some of its services on August 26, 2026, which was investigated and…

Show HN: TexLite – A lightweight self-hosted LaTeX workspace

TexLite is a lightweight, self-hosted web-based LaTeX workspace designed for small teams to collaboratively write and…