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Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor

Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API significantly outperforms both its predecessor (SFSpeechRecognizer) and OpenAI's Whisper…

A "disaster waiting to happen"? Industry officials worry about Crew Dragon availability.

"It's very clear that in the United States there is a big need for an additional crew vehicle."

Wikipedia escapes Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act for now

Wikipedia has temporarily avoided Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act following a July 2026…

Go-Flavored Concurrency in C

Go's lightweight goroutines and channels provide an appealing concurrency model that's difficult to replicate in C,…

Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code

Jacquard is a new programming language designed for AI-generated code that is reviewed by humans, featuring a compact…

As TV-tracking app TV Time shuts down, its founder builds Bingers, a new home for fans

The creator of TV Time is building a successor app that will let users import their watch histories and preserve the…

Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US

Claude users in India are starting to see Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans.

Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too

"Context bombing" tricks hacking agents into shutting down before they can do harm.

The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed

Sega's Mega-CD add-on for the Genesis suffered from CD-ROM's severe speed limitations (800ms access time, 150 KiB/s…

Precursor

Cloudflare has launched Precursor, a client-side verification system that continuously monitors user behavior throughout…

Waze adds new AI-powered features and customization updates

Some of the new features are powered by Google's Gemini AI assistant, which reflects the the tech giant's broader push…

LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire, citing ‘serious concerns’ over civil liberties and privacy

The LAPD, one of Flock's biggest government customers, is ending its contract with the company citing civil liberties…

Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop

Clawk is a tool that provides coding AI agents with their own disposable Linux virtual machine instead of direct access…

Nokia's 14 Years of Mobile-Phone Supremacy Ended in an Afternoon

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Benchmarking 15 "E-Waste" GPUs with Modern Workloads

A researcher benchmarked 15 decommissioned NVIDIA enterprise GPUs (K80, P100, V100) to evaluate their viability for…

Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers

Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS

A Farewell to ARPs: IPv4 Service on IPv6-Only Networks

An IETF proposal (draft-vanmook-intarea-ipv6-resolved-gateway) aims to eliminate the need for parallel IPv4 subnets and…

Uber’s robotaxi lobbying effort puts it on a collision course with Waymo

Washington D.C. has become a battleground for Uber and Waymo's competing views.

Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance

San Francisco Police Department accidentally leaked real-time surveillance footage from five of its Skydio drones on a…

Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT)

DOM-docx is an open-source MIT-licensed tool that converts semantic HTML fragments into native, editable Word documents…

An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop

A longtime Photoshop user who subscribed to Adobe Creative Cloud since 2013 uninstalled the software in July 2026 due to…

Control the Ideas, Not the Code

Antirez, a veteran programmer, argues that modern developers should focus on controlling the ideas and design of…

A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

A new tool allows learners to study Japanese while taking a virtual ride on Tokyo's Yamanote train line through a…

Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models

Experts explain how they work, what they can do, and what's still unsettled.

Aurra Markets Strengthens MENA Presence Following Money Expo Abu Dhabi 2026

ABU DHABI, UAE, July 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Aurra Markets, a global multi-asset CFD brokerage, concluded its diamond…

Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke

Anthropic is leveraging its massive $132 billion in funding and projected $1 trillion IPO valuation to promote…

Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" if

A developer optimizing a domain-specific compressor discovered that adding a simple conditional check to predict when a…

Beavis Ultrasound PnP ISA Sound Card Replica

The Beavis Ultrasound PnP is an open-source replica of the Gravis Ultrasound sound card that includes complete…