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The Voice of Google

The author describes starting at Google in 2007 as a communications associate and attending the company's iconic weekly…

Inference startup Infinity raises $15M from Touring Capital, OpenAI and Anthropic researchers

AI infrastructure company Infinity announced Monday a $15 million raise at a $100 million valuation from investors…

Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling

Two new state-of-the-art AI models—Moonshot Labs' Kimi K3 and Alibaba's Qwen 3.8—were recently launched and will have…

Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012)

Sean Barrett argues that screenspace ambient occlusion (SSAO), a popular rendering technique in games, produces…

Hackers stole ‘significant’ amount of data from tech firm relied on by thousands of US hospitals and pharmacies

Edinburgh-based tech firm Craneware said customer data was stolen during a cyberattack.

I Tracked 997 Chrome Extensions That Changed Their Titles

A developer analyzed 997 Chrome extensions that changed their titles and found that title changes made rankings 4x more…

NYC Subway Signals: A Complete Guide

The New York City subway system uses wayside color-light block signalling, a technology unchanged since 1904, which…

Morgan Stanley Edges Past Goldman Sachs as Wall Street’s Top AI Debt Bank: Here’s What It Means

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) has become Wall Street’s leading bank for artificial intelligence (AI) debt deals,…

Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs

OpenAI's recently released GPT-5.6 model family features multiple reasoning-effort settings, marking reasoning models as…

Watch Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley discuss the future of surveillance at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Flock Safety sits right at the center of the debate over where the line should be drawn between privacy and public…

American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing

China is gaining ground in AI competition by releasing open-source models that are increasingly competitive with…

Perfection Is Not Over-Engineering

The article argues that perfection and over-engineering are not the same thing—over-engineering means solving the wrong…

Tested Kimi K3 for Coding

The newly released Kimi K3 AI model successfully optimized a Rust function using SWAR (SIMD Within a Register) technique…

Show HN: The0 – self-hosted runtime for trading bots, bring your own language

The0 is an open-source, self-hosted algorithmic trading platform that allows users to build and deploy trading bots in…

Show HN: OTP Inspired actor supervisor based full stack templates

ShipStacks is a pre-built SaaS template marketplace offering production-ready full-stack templates across multiple…

Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding

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Shinjuku Station in 3D

Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

A hacker breached Romania's cadastre agency and deleted the country's entire land registry database after a failed…

Inertia-1: An Open Exploration to a Unified Motion Foundation Model

Inertia-1 is a unified motion foundation model trained on wearable sensor data that generalizes across different body…

Soofi – Sovereign Open Source Foundation Models

The Soofi Consortium has unveiled Soofi S, Europe's first sovereign open-source foundation AI model designed for…

Annoying and alarming things about OpenCode

OpenCode, a popular open-source AI coding agent with 161k GitHub stars, has significant security and usability flaws…

Hugging Face confirms breach affected internal datasets and credentials, urges users to take action

Hugging Face is urging users to rotate any access tokens stored on the platform and review account activity.

StrictlyVC returns to New York City September 10 to celebrate a huge year for the city’s startup community 

For the first time since 2024, StrictlyVC is coming back to New York City — and we're bringing the kind of access you’d…

The footprints of every building in NYC – updated weekly

New York City's Office of Technology and Innovation publishes a weekly-updated dataset containing footprints and details…

Beyond grep: The case for a context-rich AI coding harness

Augment Code's Vinay Perneti talks models, harnesses, and context.

Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25

A security researcher discovered a critical WordPress remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability using OpenAI's GPT5.6…

EU Exempts Apple Watch and AirPods from Battery Removal Requirements

The European Commission has exempted Apple Watch and AirPods from EU battery replacement requirements, citing safety…

Kaspersky Uncovers a New Malware Capable of Stealing Your Digital Assets

The cryptocurrency sector continues to attract cybercriminals, who perfect their methods to deceive their victims.

How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in

Microsoft's proprietary document formats (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX) create vendor lock-in by design, making documents…