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Wall Street Banks Tighten Rules on Prediction Market Trading 

Wall Street banks are tightening rules on employees’ use of prediction market platforms as regulators pay closer…

What's the best way to do authentication in modern applications

Modern authentication in frontend applications involves trade-offs between different token storage approaches, each with…

US cyber agency CISA had to build its incident playbook during the incident, agency reveals

CISA said it "missed" an opportunity to get ahead of the security incident by not creating a response plan ahead of time.

FreeCAD in the Browser

FreeCAD, a complex parametric 3D CAD application with over 2 million lines of code, has been successfully ported to run…

Choosing the Right AI Agent Memory Strategy: A Decision-Tree Approach

The article provides a framework for designing effective memory systems in AI agents by classifying information into…

Meta pulls new AI image feature after days of backlash

Meta has removed a new AI image generation feature called Muse Image after just days of backlash over privacy concerns.

Phia accused of ‘cookie stuffing,’ taking affiliate credit on purchases it didn’t earn

Phia, the shopping startup founded by Bill Gates’ daughter, Phoebe, and her friend, Sophia Kianni, is under fire for a…

Show HN: We beat Cloudflare's bot detection (open-source stealth browser)

Developers building AI agents face a critical problem: Cloudflare and other bot-detection services return block pages…

Meta pulls new AI image feature after days of backlash

Meta's release this week of an AI feature that let people alter Instagram content drew swift blowback.

Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash

Meta told Dylan Byers, of Puck News, that it had nixed the feature after backlash from its user base.

Apple sues OpenAI, its employees claiming theft of trade secrets

Apple said in a Friday lawsuit that OpenAI’s nascent hardware business is “rotten to its core.”

AI Can't Recreate the Thrust Game (But It Can Help You Understand It)

When asked to recreate the classic 1986 game Thrust in the browser, Claude AI produced poor-quality output that captured…

Bluesky’s interim CEO, Toni Schneider, drops the ‘interim’

Schneider, who formerly served as the CEO of Automattic and is a partner at True Ventures, says he is "all in" on the…

Apple Sues OpenAI, Claims Former Employees Stole Trade Secrets

Apple alleges former employees took confidential designs, supplier information, and engineering files before joining…

Apple Sues OpenAI, Accusing It of Stealing Company Secrets

Moss (YC F25) Is Hiring

Moss, a Y Combinator-backed startup providing real-time semantic search for conversational AI, is hiring a Senior or…

Prismata: Confining cross-site prompt injection in web agents

Researchers have developed Prismata, a security system that protects autonomous web agents from cross-site prompt…

GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps

Twelve AI models were tested building the same four applications to compare their coding capabilities, including…

Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets

Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that former Apple employees, including ex-VP of product design Tang…

GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in ALL Linux distributions for 15 years

GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499) is a critical Linux kernel vulnerability that has existed in all major distributions since…

Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft

Apple alleges the misconduct was directed by OpenAi's senior leadership, including a long-time former employee.

Software Engineer's Firing Ruled Illegal in a Rare Win for a Tech Worker

Don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash

Users are urging Google to maintain Gemini 2.5 Flash, reporting that newer models like Gemini 3 Flash and 3.1 Flash Lite…

Ransomware negotiator hired to represent victims was working for the attackers

Six years in prison for man who "sold out the very victims he was hired to represent."

An Update on the scraper situation

Web scraping attacks targeting sites for AI training data have intensified over the past year, with coordinated requests…

Capitalism Gone Wrong

Meta executives publicly acknowledged that AI improvements to their feeds directly increased user engagement—8% on…

45% of Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony for PC

GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]

I cannot summarize this article because the provided text appears to be corrupted or unreadable PDF binary data rather…

New York City to become first in US to ban deceptive subscription practices

New York City is adopting rules to ban deceptive subscription practices and "junk fees," becoming the first U.S.