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What I learned by putting GitHub Copilot behind a MitM proxy

The author intercepted GitHub Copilot's network traffic using a man-in-the-middle proxy to understand how the AI coding…

Nvidia's Risky Business

Jay Cooke revolutionized bond financing in the 1870s by selling Northern Pacific Railway bonds directly to retail…

More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts

More than 10 companies have signed up for Trump Media's Truth API service, which offers faster access to posts from…

London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces

OpenAI Freezes Astra Under Its Preparedness Framework

OpenAI has just suspended the internal development of Astra, its future artificial intelligence model.

Closing Canario Terminal source code

A developer has decided to close-source Canario Terminal, a project they built for personal use, citing the substantial…

Anthropic strikes $9B compute deal with Bitcoin miner Riot: Report

Anthropic reportedly struck a $9 billion deal with Riot for 191 megawatts of capacity from the Bitcoin miner’s Rockdale…

OpenAI wraps $7B share sale ahead of potential IPO

DeepSeek: Reverse Engineering an AI Assistant by Interviewing Itself

The author conducted an extended interview with DeepSeek, an AI assistant, asking it to explain how it works, then…

Show HN: Mcptoon – MCP CLI client that cuts tool discovery tokens by 97%

Mcptoon is a CLI client that dramatically reduces token consumption when using MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers by…

Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quiet Enterprise Install of Beta 'Photos' App

Updated GPG Key for Signing Firefox and Thunderbird Releases

Mozilla rotated its GPG signing key for Firefox and Thunderbird releases after an unencrypted copy of the previous key…

Why My Father Is Wrong: A Defense of Guitar Hero

The author defends Guitar Hero against her father's comparison of the game to generative AI, arguing that while Guitar…

Hyperspace

Hyperspace is a Mac application that identifies duplicate files and reclaims disk space by consolidating identical files…

Recycle – Floppydisks

A company buys sealed, new floppy disks in quantities of 100 or more and also operates a recycling program for used 3.5"…

Antirez/h3.c: MiniMax H3 inference engine for Mac computers

Antirez/h3.c is a native inference engine for the MiniMax-H3 model optimized for Apple Silicon Macs using Metal…

Chicken Scheme 6.0

Chicken Scheme 6.0 introduces major updates including full R7RS compliance with all small language modules now in the…

OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer

San Francisco's housing market is in trouble again.

As AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model

OpenAI is expanding its AI cybersecurity defense program Daybreak, and rolling out a new cyber-trained AI model with it.

Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states

A developer has created an interactive tool that allows users to browse through all possible Rubik's Cube…

World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world

World Train Map is an interactive atlas featuring 1,247 notable train routes across 120 countries, including high-speed,…

Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse

Google Search's reliability is deteriorating as its AI summaries produce factually incorrect information—such as…

Nvidia gets $500bn from major investors to develop AI infrastructure

The money will be used to develop new data centres to house, operate, and cool miles of stacked computer chips that…

Now Rippling is counter suing tiny startup Runlayer

This lawsuit follows one filed last month by Runlayer that accused Rippling of stealing its product ideas.

Ars Live: Ross Scott discusses the Stop Killing Games movement

Our discussion takes place live on August 11 at 3 pm ET.

With new open models, Meta pitches another reboot of its struggling AI strategy

Meta has been trailing competitors. Zuckerberg thinks he's found a way forward.

Show HN: AI Pulse a fake LED strip beside the macOS Dock that shows agent status

AI Pulse is a macOS app that displays a virtual LED strip beside the Dock to show the status of AI coding agents, with…

How Claude marks AI-generated content

Anthropic has committed under the EU AI Act to mark AI-generated content from Claude, implementing machine-readable…

We cut a 40-day financial integration down to 5 days using Google Anti

Inspired Entertainment reduced the time to integrate financial APIs with betting operators from 40 days to just 5 days…