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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…

Xiaomi-Robotics-1

Xiaomi-Robotics-1 addresses the scarcity of robot training data by combining 100,000 hours of embodiment-free…

LoRA Speedrun – a public wall-clock leaderboard for fine-tuning techniques

LoRA Speedrun is a public leaderboard that benchmarks the speed of fine-tuning techniques for large language models on…

Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight

Moonshine is a PC game streaming application for Linux that allows users to stream games from their PC to any device…

Grok-iOS – remote Grok Build from your iPhone over ACP

Grok-iOS is an open-source iOS app that allows users to remotely control Grok Build from their iPhone over ACP (Agent…

Netflix paid $587M for Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup

Netflix revealed that it paid $587 million in cash for InterPositive, a startup co-founded by Ben Affleck.

What to watch for after Jensen Huang’s Japan visit

Jensen Huang left Tokyo with deals spanning Japan's entire tech ecosystem.

Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans?

On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether Apple's lawsuit will cast over OpenAi's much-discussed plans to get…

Orion Browser by Kagi

Orion is a privacy-focused web browser by Kagi that uses WebKit for speed and compatibility with Safari, Chrome, and…

HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router

The author set up a MikroTik router (L009UiGS-RM) for their homelab to gain better control over home network traffic and…

HMD Touch 4G

HMD Touch 4G is a hybrid phone currently available in India that combines feature phone simplicity with smartphone…

TechCrunch Mobility: The battle over robotaxi rules

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is…

C64 Basic Dungeon Crawler: Goblin Attack (C64 Basic Part 8)

‘Odyssey’ director Christopher Nolan calls AI an obvious ‘Trojan horse’

"Everybody knows the Greeks are inside."

Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s

A site reliability engineer replaced a $120,000 bowling center scoring system with custom hardware built from ESP32…

Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for all

Current AI, a non-profit building AI that leaves no one culture behind, has made remarkable progress across devices, AI…

I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens

A researcher at Quesma burned through their entire Claude Max subscription limit in 30 minutes while researching AI…

Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3

I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

The IndieWeb is a people-focused movement founded in 2010 that promotes independent, decentralized websites as an…

The death and rebirth of my home server

After a power outage damaged his Raspberry Pi's microSD card, a user's home server failed to boot and the card became…

What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard

The author successfully launched Jamcorder, a MIDI recorder for pianists, selling 2,500 units while discovering that…

Save GPT-5.5

The author passionately advocates for preserving OpenAI's GPT-5.5 model, expressing deep attachment to its performance…

Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now

Claude Code v2.1.181 and later versions now use Bun written in Rust instead of the original JavaScript version, with the…

Qwen 3.8 Max Preview

Alibaba's Qwen has launched a new Token Plan with upgraded pricing and expanded model access, offering both Individual…

Half a Second – a book about the XZ backdoor

In March 2024, a Microsoft engineer discovered a sophisticated backdoor hidden in XZ Utils, a compression tool used…

Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon

Perforce charges $500 for training training videos.. and it's AI narrated

OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k

OpenAI reduced the Codex model's context window from 372k tokens to 272k tokens in a metadata update merged to version 0.

AI Market Outlook Lifts Equity Expectations

AI Market Outlook supports stronger equity expectations while gold retreats after extended gains and portfolio…