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What's Better Than Binary? – Advent of Computing Episode 187

This episode of Advent of Computing explores ternary (base-3) computing as an alternative to the binary systems that…

The Benchmarkpocalypse

The "benchmarkpocalypse" refers to the increasing ease of gaming benchmark performance metrics using AI and automated…

China’s 5,500 Robot Shipments Put US AI Hardware Rivals on Notice

Unitree’s 5,500-plus humanoid robot deliveries highlight China’s scale in humanoid robot manufacturing.

Google wins bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents

Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B

The model maker added $18 billion in annualized revenue in two months.

Puppy PPE

A dog owner in the Bay Area created custom 3D-printed protective gear for their dog Hildegard after she suffered a…

Kraken Parent Payward Joins Glasswing, Gets Access to Claude Mythos to Hunt Security Flaws

Payward is joining Project Glasswing, Anthropic’s program for giving vetted organizations access to its powerful…

Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

Bluesky displays its logo on screenshots by exploiting an iOS privacy feature that hides sensitive text fields.

scScript for Linux

scScript is a C-like scripting language for 64-bit Linux that compiles to efficient bytecode and runs on a fast virtual…

Minnesota Says xAI's Grok Created 'Marketplace for Digital Sexual Violence'

Elon Musk’s AI firm says the state’s first-of-its-kind nudification ban violates the First Amendment.

Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full

In 1996, id Software released Quake on CD-ROM with encrypted versions of their full game catalogue, hoping to bypass…

Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

A developer has successfully implemented a working main camera driver for the Fairphone 6 running PostmarketOS,…

'Buy Now, Pay Later' Lenders Pitch Loans for Needs Like Electricity and Rent

My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup

The author, who co-founded fast.ai a decade ago to democratize AI development and promote ethical practices, is joining…

AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team

Relay, which offered businesses workflow automation, will stop operating next month.

HIVE Digital Lands $350M AI Deal With 5-Year Cloud Contract

HIVE Digital Technologies’ BUZZ HPC unit has signed a five-year AI cloud services contract worth about $350 million.

Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts

“We're not necessarily building in a dogmatic fashion towards full autonomy.”

How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack?

The `alloca()` function allocates memory from the stack by calling the `__chkstk()` function to probe the stack and…

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%

OpenAI has cut the pricing for GPT-5.6 Sol, its flagship model designed for complex reasoning and coding tasks, by 50%.

Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots

Israel created a fake think tank called the Hanover Institute that has published over 100 articles designed to…

‘Unprecedented’ number of Apple users received recent spyware alert, say investigators

Cybersecurity experts who investigate spyware attacks say the number of people who received a recent threat notification…

As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value

"Network effect" can run in reverse.

GitHub degradation affects Cursor Origin, its new Git platform

GitHub experienced a service degradation on August 17, 2026, that impacted several Cursor services including…

OpenAI’s Answer to Rogue Agents and Hacks Is More AI, Not Less

OpenAI President Greg Brockman's new essay cites his company's own hack of Hugging Face to push urgent AI-powered…

Will you have spent more of your life with computers than your family?

A writer reflects on spending more time facing their computer than with family members, recognizing this as a troubling…

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

Rick Manelius advocates for the "AI;DR" (AI; Didn't Read) acronym as a response to poorly edited, unfiltered…

Save up to $300 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass until August 21 

If you’ve been circling around Disrupt, then now’s the best time to lock in your pass and start getting ready to join…

Spotify’s new Playlist Notes let users and editors explain their song picks

Spotify launches a new feature that gives users a chance to explain the stories and reasoning behind their favorite…

Higgsfield raises $400M Series B, quadrupling its valuation in 8 months to $5.4B

Higgsfield, founded by former Snap exec Alex Mashrabov, lets users create AI images and videos.