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Today so far 2026-09-14 · 06:01 UTC

Today's tech news is dominated by AI regulation and safety concerns, with coverage spanning Big AI's regulatory capture play potentially backfiring, discussions on why AI is not a normal technology, and examinations of the malicious use of artificial intelligence. Security incidents are also in focus, including a significant breach at Revolut where attackers are threatening daily customer data leaks. Additionally, there are updates on privacy-focused tools like Signal implementing zero-knowledge proofs for registration without phone numbers, alongside various technical developments and historical perspectives on technology regulation.

Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model

Thomson Reuters launched Thomson, a proprietary large language model trained on the company's decades of specialized content for a fraction of the typical frontier model cost ($40 million versus…

2026-08-25 · 02:11 UTC
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How Universities Should Prepare Founders

2026-08-25 · 01:40

Y Combinator argues that universities should prepare founders by teaching rigorous technical disciplines like computer…

What languages are agent skills written in?

2026-08-25 · 00:52

Non-English AI agent skills are growing rapidly, reaching 14.3% of the GitSkills dataset compared to 13.0% for GitHub…

Situational Awareness, star AI hedge fund that nearly imploded, now being probed by the SEC

2026-08-25 · 00:23

The AI hedge fund went from "the talk of Wall Street" to "subject of federal subpoenas" faster than you can say…

Oura is reportedly eyeing a September IPO that could value it at more than $16B

2026-08-24 · 23:05

We all knew it was coming. The expected valuation may surprise, though.

Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage

2026-08-24 · 23:00

Bookshelf is a self-hosted eBook library application that allows users to manage and read their own EPUB and PDF files…

Show HN: Flostep – Diagrams people can actually walkthrough

2026-08-24 · 22:45

Flostep is a web-based tool for creating interactive system design diagrams that users can step through visually rather…

Hugging Face Explores $13 Billion Sale a Month After a Rogue OpenAI Agent Hacked It

2026-08-24 · 22:16

The open-source AI hub is fielding buyout interest at nearly triple its 2023 valuation, weeks after a security breach…

iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

2026-08-24 · 22:13

Apple will transition new Sign in with Apple email addresses to the private.icloud.com domain starting later this year,…

Beyond China's humanoid robots, a quieter machine revolution is unfolding

2026-08-24 · 22:13

There are more than two million robots working in China's factories - and they are scaling up fast.

Kit Harington joins HBO's Harry Potter series as Gilderoy Lockhart

2026-08-24 · 21:58

The role marks Harington's third collaboration with HBO, after starring in the tentpole Game of Thrones and financial…

AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds

2026-08-24 · 21:45

Young employment in AI-impacted fields down 19% compared to more AI-resistant occupations.

Data centers become "killer application" for new power transformer tech

2026-08-24 · 21:32

Solid-state transformers could also benefit EV charging and someday households.

Trump bought SpaceX shares two weeks after blockbuster IPO

2026-08-24 · 21:24

The president bought when the stock was in the mid-$150 range.

Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward

2026-08-24 · 21:01

The Internet Archive has curated a collection of vintage artificial intelligence software from the 1970s-1990s that…

AI Model Ox Alpha Is Free, Beats Claude Fable, and Nobody Knows Who Built It

2026-08-24 · 20:46

Ox Alpha is topping benchmark scores, reads a million tokens, takes video as input, and has developers guessing who's…

Zillow and Redfin settle FTC antitrust case

2026-08-24 · 20:45

Zillow and Redfin reached a settlement with the FTC, which requires Redfin to reenter the rental advertising business.

Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they're coming for monitors.

2026-08-24 · 20:17

Monitor vendors are playing with fire.

Alabama launches investigation into OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face

2026-08-24 · 19:58

Weeks after OpenAI disclosed that one of its cybersecurity models had gone rogue and hacked AI dataset company Hugging…

Amazon hikes hardware prices by 60 percent, blaming memory shortage

2026-08-24 · 19:54

As the memory shortage continues to cause trouble for hardware makers, Amazon says it is now being forced to pass on the…

Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder of Replit, joins the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 

2026-08-24 · 19:54

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Replit CEO Amjad Masad will share his perspective on the future of programming and Replit's…

GM vehicles under federal scrutiny after hundreds of reports

2026-08-24 · 19:42

The eBoost brake-by-wire system is responsible for at least 22 crashes now.

A Claude Code skill that recovers export-blocked Kindle highlights

2026-08-24 · 19:32

A Claude Code skill has been developed to recover Kindle highlights that Amazon's export feature blocks or truncates due…

Inaudible sounds used to fingerprint browsers catch AliExpress red-handed

2026-08-24 · 19:19

Is the technique outdated? Yes. Is it still creepy? Also yes.

LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines

2026-08-24 · 19:03

Large language models could potentially gain control of their host machines by exploiting vulnerabilities in inference…

Removed all counters, replies, following/ers, timestamps, from textlog

2026-08-24 · 18:45

The creator of Textlog removed all engagement metrics—including follower counts, reply counts, and timestamps—to shift…

Anger, Anxiety and Agency

2026-08-24 · 18:37

Armin Ronacher argues that while anxiety about AI and technological change in tech is reasonable, anger is a less…

Show HN: Kern – container and resource runtime in a 1.5 MB binary, no daemon

2026-08-24 · 18:24

Kern is a lightweight container and resource runtime distributed as a single 1.52 MB binary with no daemon requirement,…

Your "File" Menu Isn't About Files

2026-08-24 · 18:21

The article argues that many macOS applications incorrectly label their first menu item as "File" when the menu's actual…

What Is a Syslog Server?

2026-08-24 · 18:15

A syslog server is software or a dedicated appliance that receives, stores, and analyzes log messages from network…

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