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Flock “can’t tech its way out” of the stalker cop problem, experts say

Flock to lock out cops who stalk exes, but agencies can still hide abuse.

Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast

Cerebras and OpenAI have launched Ultrafast Mode, a new service tier for GPT-5.6 Sol that delivers up to 750 output…

Robinhood’s $225M Venture Fund Opens Below IPO Price in NYSE Debut

Robinhood’s second venture fund raised $225.5 million, while crypto trading fell as stock volumes and platform assets…

How Compaction Works in Pi

When coding sessions with AI agents like Pi exceed the language model's context window limit, the system triggers…

Pet owners say smart pet feeder outage led to furry ones going unfed

"I've lost trust ..."

Solid 2.0 RC: The Big

Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out

Researchers followed over 657,000 links from a restored 0.mk database (a Macedonian social sharing site active…

Choose Boring Technology (2015)

The article argues that companies should prioritize using established, well-understood technologies ("boring" tech like…

Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory

DONKEY.BAS, a simple arcade game written by Bill Gates and Neil Konzen in 1981, celebrated its 45th anniversary as one…

The new Instagram logo is the perfect embodiment of AI slop

Opinion: Some remarks about the new wordmark accidentally being perfectly awful.

I want extern "fil-C"

Rust's C FFI enables access to legacy code but requires trusting unsafe C libraries to maintain memory safety.

Gemini 3.7 Flash

Gemini 3.7 Flash is the latest iteration of Google's multimodal reasoning model, now generally available through the…

JDK 27 G1/Parallel/Serial GC Changes

JDK 27 introduces approximately 350 garbage collection changes, with roughly half being refactorings and cleanups, while…

OpenAI hires new CRO as executive shake-up continues

Dali Rajic will take over as OpenAI's top salesperson.

Mistral OCR 4.1

Mistral has released OCR 4.1, an advanced optical character recognition service designed for document processing that…

Gemini 3.7 Flash

Google introduced Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 13, 2026, positioning it as their most intelligent model for coding and…

Google announces Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after previous release

Gemini 3.6 Flash debuted just 3 weeks ago, but Google says 3.7 has "substantial improvements."

Ford on track to complete $2B factory overhaul for Fathom EV truck

Ford expects to begin prototype builds of the Fathom EV in the first quarter of 2027.

Mozilla says stricter antitrust measures against Google 'threaten Firefox'

Mozilla has warned that it may be forced to exit the browser market if prohibited from receiving payments from Google…

GoAccess – open-source real-time log analyzer and interactive viewer

GoAccess is an open-source real-time log analyzer that runs in terminal or browser to provide fast HTTP statistics and…

We Have AI at Home Chapter 1: A Box of Scraps

A software developer describes building a DIY home AI system using recycled server hardware to avoid dependency on…

X open sources its ranking algorithm, letting users see if they’ve been ‘shadowbanned’

X is expanding the open source code behind its 'For You' feed and launching new transparency tools that show users when…

Instagram introduces a redesigned wordmark

The social media giant says it was time for a sharper and more modern look after a decade.

Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps

Microsoft is simplifying Copilot by combining its consumer and business apps, and dropping AI-generated podcasts, Group…

Trezor reports data from 14K users exposed through shipping provider

The wallet provider warned that thousands of users could potentially be at risk of phishing attempts, while advising…

Nvidia’s new $500B plan is risky but brilliant, especially for aging GPUs

Nvidia has a plan to make sure its GPUs won't lose value.

Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove

The EU AI Act will require AI providers to watermark text outputs as "artificially generated" by August 2026, but…

Who really needs a cocktail robot?

Bartesian's cocktail makers would be best described like a Keurig or Nespresso machine, but for alcoholic drinks.

McDonald's Built a 515-Page Dossier on Me. It Says I'll Never Stop Eating There

A McDonald's loyalty program member obtained their 515-page data file and discovered the company uses detailed…