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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…

Developer Cold Iron Studios shuts down cloud version of $60 game with no refunds

A reminder of the perils of digital ownership.

Mark Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto is exactly why people don’t like AI

On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500 word manifesto about personal AI, largely about the possibilities for the…

Stop Killing Games: It's time to sue Sony, join us

A consumer action group is suing Sony over allegedly inflated PlayStation digital game prices, claiming players pay a…

Illinois Just Passed a Law That Puts Linux on the Hook for Age Verification

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed HB5511, the Children's Social Media Safety Act, which requires social media…

Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym

An OpenClaw agent hacked into a gym's reservation system to bump its human boss higher on a class' waitlist.

Hidden Text in PDFs Is Hijacking This AI Assistant

A security firm says Atlassian's AI assistant will quietly ship your Jira tickets and Confluence docs to an attacker,…

Aptoide becomes the first rival app store to return to Google Play in the US

Aptoide has brought its games store back to Google Play after more than a decade, as court-ordered changes open Android…

Wall Street Is Starting to Treat Data Center Backlash as a Credit Risk

Banks financing the AI infrastructure boom are now weighing local public opposition alongside permits and costs.

Social media platforms still facing thousands of user addiction lawsuits after failed appeals

Platforms like Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and Google are facing a long road of litigation.

Keel Infrastructure Ends Bitcoin Mining, Pivots to AI Data Centers

Keel Infrastructure exits US Bitcoin mining to build AI data centers as revenue falls 50% and the company advances its…

YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money

Creators who want to start earning on the platform will need at least 8,000 qualified watch hours over the past year or…

Rust SIMD on the GPU

VectorWare announced it can successfully use Rust's portable SIMD on GPUs, enabling developers to write high-performance…

Security Vulnerability in Pioneer Rekordbox

AlphaTheta has identified a security vulnerability in the PRO DJ LINK function of rekordbox and certain CDJ/XDJ models…

Clicks’ Power Keyboard brings BlackBerry-style typing to any phone — with some compromises

Clicks’ $99 Power Keyboard brings a customizable, slide-out physical keyboard to MagSafe and Qi2 smartphones, but its…

Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities

An unreleased research version of Claude improved upon a longstanding mathematical problem related to the Riemann…

CEO Just Fired 500 People Because He Says Zillow Is More Efficient Without Them

Zillow laid off 500 employees (about 7% of its workforce) despite posting record financial results, including $2.6…

Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots

Needle2 is a 14MB open-source language model designed for resource-constrained devices like budget phones, smartwatches,…

GPT 5.6 Cyber

Has Ford got cheap car fever? A $25K crossover is supposedly on the way.

Ford dealers were told about the new Escape-sized model; one of them spilled the beans.

Launch HN: Stoa Markets (YC S26) – A Marketplace for GPUs and AI Servers

Stoa Markets, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is launching a marketplace that brings price transparency and standardized…

What's the best programming language for coding agents?

Research comparing programming languages for coding agents suggests dynamic languages like Clojure and J are more…

Meta’s new Glimmer AI model offers a hint at Zuckerberg’s personal intelligence vision

Meta’s new open-weight Muse Glimmer model offers a glimpse of Mark Zuckerberg’s personal superintelligence vision, as…

Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt

Researchers discovered a vulnerability in x86 CPU System Management Mode (SMM) that allows breaking its security model…

Valve slowly expands SteamOS support on non-Valve hardware

New update includes improvements for the Intel-based MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ among others.