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Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber

Google has introduced three new Gemini models to improve AI agent development: Gemini 3.6 Flash, which reduces output…

Light made a flip phone. It’s colorful and it’s cheap.

Light co-founder Kaiwei Tang helped create the Motorola Razr, and he's as surprised as anyone that over twenty years…

Gemini 3.6 Flash

The Google Cloud Console is experiencing loading issues due to JavaScript source failures from www.gstatic.com, which…

After TikTok, Snap settles social media addiction case

Snap is the latest big tech company to settle a lawsuit that claimed social media platforms are harmful to children and…

Claude Is Not a Compiler

The author argues that Claude and similar LLMs should not be viewed as "compilers" that simply convert natural language…

AI music generator Suno breach affects 55M users, per Have I Been Pwned

A hacker took names, phone numbers, and physical addresses of millions of customers who used AI music generator Suno.

Sarah's Wager

In November 2025, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5, an AI model that fundamentally transformed AI capabilities by…

SpaceX Slide and Kimi K3 Launch Fuel Fears of AI Stock Bubble

SpaceX’s 47% retreat from its post-IPO high and Moonshot AI’s low-cost Kimi K3 model are challenging premium AI…

Apple Defeats Liability for Not Scanning iCloud for CSAM

A federal court ruled that Apple is not liable under Section 230 for failing to implement CSAM (child sexual abuse…

Over 400 Linux CVEs published in the last 24 hours alone

I cannot provide a summary of the article's key news because the text provided is only a bot-blocking challenge page,…

What to know about the landmark Warner Bros. Discovery sale

Learn more about Paramount's planned acquisition of Warner Bros.

The Xteink X4 Pro could be the tiny e-reader of your dreams

Xteink makes its pocket-sized e-reader even better with a touchscreen and front light.

PCjs Machines

PCjs is a JavaScript-based emulator that allows users to experience classic computers and software from the 1970s-1990s…

Why Are There No Empires in Age of Empires? (2019)

An empire is defined as a state where a core ruling population exercises control and extracts resources from a…

When your vehicle outlives its cloud: What happens next?

Automakers love connected vehicles, but support isn't open-ended.

Music streamer Deezer says more than 50% of daily uploads are AI-generated

Deezer said more than 90,000 AI-generated tracks were uploaded daily on the platform in June

Bluecore Energy raises $10M to build portable nuclear reactors on barges

Maritime nuclear energy startup Bluecore Energy has raised $10 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Slauson & Co.

Apps targeted at US troops contain Chinese and Russian code

More than one-eighth of apps analyzed contained foreign code.

The Great Steam Deck Crash of 2026: How the New Pricing Decreased Demand by 80%

In May 2026, Valve raised Steam Deck prices by approximately 40% and discontinued the cheaper LCD model, resulting in an…

2027 Kia Seltos first drive gives you plenty of SUV for not much $

It starts at just under $25,000, but the hybrid won't arrive until next year.

ARK Buys the Dip on Musk’s SpaceX for $20.5 Million While Cathie Wood Trims Robinhood Stake

Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest bought 170,634 shares of SpaceX (Nasdaq: SPCX) worth $20.5 million on July 20 as the stock…

Israeli spyware vans infiltrate American streets and your phones

Gritt exits stealth with $34 million for robots to build solar plants—then, everything else

Gritt is coming out of stealth with $34 million and plan to automate the hardest tasks on construction sites.

Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge

Linux kernel will support $ORIGIN, sort of

A Linux kernel patch series leveraging eBPF and binfmt_misc will enable support for $ORIGIN in binary interpreters,…

Reverse-engineering is cheap now

Coding agents have dramatically lowered the cost and effort required to reverse-engineer and automate home devices,…

Do we just want slaves?

Show HN: Ex Situ – open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts

Hi, I designed and developed a spatial index that maps museum artefacts as connecting arcs/hyperlinks from their origin…

Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65T on opaque AI funding

Hidden debt at five major U.S.