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OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer

San Francisco's housing market is in trouble again.

2026-08-11 · 00:03 UTC
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As AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model

2026-08-10 · 23:56

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

2026-08-10 · 23:16

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

2026-08-10 · 22:42

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

2026-08-10 · 22:36

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

Now Rippling is counter suing tiny startup Runlayer

2026-08-10 · 22:26

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

2026-08-10 · 22:23

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

2026-08-10 · 22:13

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

2026-08-10 · 22:07

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

2026-08-10 · 21:36

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

2026-08-10 · 21:27

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

2026-08-10 · 21:26

A reminder of the perils of digital ownership.

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

2026-08-10 · 20:53

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

2026-08-10 · 20:47

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

2026-08-10 · 20:20

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

2026-08-10 · 20:04

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

2026-08-10 · 19:56

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

2026-08-10 · 18:31

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

2026-08-10 · 18:31

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

2026-08-10 · 18:30

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

Keel Infrastructure Ends Bitcoin Mining, Pivots to AI Data Centers

2026-08-10 · 18:28

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

2026-08-10 · 18:27

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

2026-08-10 · 18:12

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

Security Vulnerability in Pioneer Rekordbox

2026-08-10 · 18:11

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

2026-08-10 · 18:00

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

2026-08-10 · 17:41

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

2026-08-10 · 17:29

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

2026-08-10 · 17:22

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

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

2026-08-10 · 17:07

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

2026-08-10 · 16:35

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

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