Today so far 2026-09-11 · 18:00 UTC

Matt Mullenweg has reasserted control of Automattic following a CEO ouster, marking a significant leadership shift at the WordPress parent company. Meanwhile, the tech community is displaying mixed feelings about artificial intelligence, with some outlets like Hacker News implementing reduced priority for AI-driven content while others embrace AI capabilities, such as Roblox making it easier to build games with AI. Additionally, there's growing sentiment in the community questioning the volume of AI news coverage, with discussions emerging about whether the news flood should be limited.

Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit

Flock Safety, a surveillance company founded by Garrett Langley, has rapidly expanded to become a nearly $8 billion-valued enterprise with cameras deployed across the U.S., positioning itself as a…

2026-09-09 · 10:54 UTC
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Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'

2026-09-09 · 10:37

Anthropic researcher Evan Hubinger warned that there is a greater than 10% chance AI could kill all humans within the…

How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy

2026-09-09 · 10:25

Carmakers Have a New Idea to Boost EV Range: Add a Gas Engine

2026-09-09 · 10:07

Building a Wall Lamp from Scratch

2026-09-09 · 10:01

An author spent eight months designing and building a wall lamp from scratch despite having no prior experience in…

Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch

2026-09-09 · 10:01

Lotus Notes, which emerged in 1989 with advanced features like encryption, rich text formatting, and read receipts years…

AI Researchers Fear AI Could Destroy Humanity: Why Is Wall Street Betting Big on It?

2026-09-09 · 09:49

An Anthropic researcher is quitting the artificial intelligence (AI) industry over fears that the lab and its…

AI: Meta Muse Moves Beyond Chatbots to Online Transactions

2026-09-09 · 09:14

Meta has launched Muse, an AI agent capable of booking a trip, sending an email, filling out forms, and especially…

How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments

2026-09-09 · 07:22

Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished

2026-09-09 · 06:31

I'm unable to provide a summary of this article because the text provided only contains a notice about enabling…

"Tweet" and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain

2026-09-09 · 06:02

A court ruled that X Corp.

Google DeepMind alumni are building tools to accelerate fusion power for the grid

2026-09-09 · 06:00

Fusionality is developing control systems and simulation environments to help fusion power startups move faster.

AI Has a Discovery Problem

2026-09-09 · 04:59

The primary barrier to AI adoption isn't capability but discovery—users don't know what AI can do for them because…

A Biography of Lee Holloway, the Architect of Cloudflare's Technology (Part 1)

2026-09-09 · 04:43

Lee Holloway, Cloudflare's co-founder and CTO, was the architect behind the company's key technologies including Anycast…

Bill Gates, Retired, Took Customer Support Duty at His Daughter’s Startup

2026-09-09 · 04:30

Bill Gates spent a day handling customer support at Phia, the sustainable fashion startup co-founded by his daughter…

CloudNC raises $20M to automate manufacturing’s most pressing bottlenecks

2026-09-09 · 04:01

UK-based manufacturing software startup CloudNC announced Wednesday a $20 million B extension round, bringing its…

AI Responsibility – OpenAI and Anthropic

2026-09-09 · 01:32

27.5KB language-agnostic WebGPU syntax highlighter

2026-09-09 · 01:14

Shu Ding at Vercel Labs has created gpu-lexer, a 27.5KB WebGPU-based syntax highlighter that uses a machine learning…

I resigned from Anthropic today

2026-09-09 · 00:40

Nexus ID Breach Exposes a Blueprint for Fraud, Experts Warn

2026-09-09 · 00:28

The Nexus identity breach is far more dangerous than a typical password dump because the stolen material reportedly…

White House takes down ‘Build the Wall’ game after the Tetris Company complains

2026-09-08 · 23:23

The Trump administration's short-lived arcade game "Build the Wall" is now nowhere to be found after the Tetris Company…

LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices

2026-09-08 · 21:52

“It doesn’t cost a lot to store text forever.”

Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration

2026-09-08 · 21:47

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OpenAI Says It Solved a $1M Math Problem. A Rival Mathematician Says He Did It First

2026-09-08 · 21:38

NYU's Tristan Buckmaster accuses OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck of racing to claim credit for a Navier-Stokes proof after…

GOG brings back "big box" PC games, one printable template at a time

2026-09-08 · 21:23

Preservation "goodies" also includes downloadable 3D models for desktop perusal.

How to build a printer

2026-09-08 · 21:22

A developer successfully turned a programmable e-ink display (Xteink X3) into a wireless printer by implementing the…

Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy

2026-09-08 · 21:11

Security gnomes are pumping out patches ahead of an expected onslaught of AI-assisted attacks.

Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers

2026-09-08 · 21:10

Last month, a Claude user noticed his account was consuming tokens even though he wasn't working.

Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors believe AI coding is far from a winner-take-all market

2026-09-08 · 21:04

Cognition's valuation multiple is higher than Cursor's was before selling to SpaceX.

The Exploration Company nabs $450 million to challenge SpaceX

2026-09-08 · 20:47

The Exploration Company (TEC) has raised $450 million to build reusable spacecraft, in what it describes as “the…

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