Breaking news, curated around the clock
Home/Tech News

Tech News

Today so far 2026-08-12 · 17:13 UTC

Google has unveiled its Pixel 11 lineup along with new AI-powered Gemini features and an AirTag rival at its Made by Google 2026 event, marking a major product refresh from the tech giant. Meanwhile, AI-related concerns are mounting across the industry, with booksellers suspecting AI firms of buying and destroying rare books and a German advocacy group filing a criminal complaint over Meta's AI glasses, while Facebook has rolled out its standalone Creator Studio app with AI tools. On the security front, a researcher published a Windows zero-day vulnerability after Microsoft threatened legal action, and Tailscale traced database corruption to a 16-year-old SQLite bug.

Java 27: What's New?

Java 27 has reached feature completion with 9 JEPs bringing incremental improvements rather than major new features.

2026-07-10 · 10:08 UTC
Read article →

Jensen Huang Reveals How AI Agents Are Redefining the Role of Software Engineers

2026-07-10 · 10:00

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said AI is changing software engineering by moving developers away from repetitive coding.

LTP Launches the World’s First AI Agent Live Trading Championship — 200+ Teams, $300K+ in Prizes

2026-07-10 · 09:04

Hong Kong, July 10th — LTP today announced Liquidity Arena 2026, the world’s first live quantitative trading…

In Emacs, Everything Looks Like a Service

2026-07-10 · 08:21

Emacs functions like an operating system by orchestrating applications and services above the OS kernel level, allowing…

Cloudflare, OpenAI Test New AI Search Discovery System

2026-07-10 · 07:00

Cloudflare and OpenAI have launched a research pilot to improve how AI search tools find and deliver information online.

EU parliament passes ‘chat control,’ allowing private chat scans until 2028

2026-07-10 · 06:05

EU lawmakers have again allowed tech firms to scan chats for abuse material, but exempted end-to-end encrypted messages.

After Apple, India’s smartphone manufacturing boom enters new phase with Vivo JV

2026-07-10 · 04:36

Vivo's joint venture could become a template for Chinese smartphone makers in India.

Chip giant SK Hynix raises $26.5bn in mega US share sale

2026-07-10 · 02:48

The shares are set to start trading on the Nasdaq on Friday in what will be the largest ever debut by a foreign firm.

Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust

2026-07-10 · 02:39

Former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke has been appointed to Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust, an independent…

Build your own vulnerability harness

2026-07-10 · 01:28

Anthropic's security research demonstrates that effective vulnerability detection requires a model-agnostic "harness"…

Focus

2026-07-10 · 00:40

A former early Facebook engineer reflects on the startup's early days, highlighting how extreme focus on core…

Elon Musk Says SpaceX Could Be Worth More Than Everything Else on Earth if Goals Are Met

2026-07-10 · 00:30

Elon Musk said SpaceX could one day be worth more than the rest of Earth if the company achieves its goals, shifting a…

Show HN: I built a free app for New Yorkers to save money on groceries

2026-07-10 · 00:17

I built this because I see that grocery savings are achievable in NYC.

OpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the ‘preferred model’ for Microsoft Copilot 365 amid breakup chatter

2026-07-10 · 00:16

OpenAI's new family of models will continue to power Microsoft's suite of workplace and productivity apps.

Don’t want to invest in Elon Musk? Two new ETFs explicitly exclude him

2026-07-10 · 00:13

The new exchanged-traded funds exclude companies that are founded, controlled, or led by Elon Musk.

Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s no. 2 role

2026-07-09 · 23:38

OpenAI's No.

OpenAI launches its new family of models with GPT-5.6

2026-07-09 · 22:24

OpenAI's latest family of models promise improvements across a range of areas, including cybersecurity.

How an app in South Korea will let victims track their stalkers

2026-07-09 · 22:09

Officials say the app will help stalking victims, but some experts question the impact it might have.

An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100 million fundraise

2026-07-09 · 22:08

Lyzr, a startup that builds AI agents for enterprises, used its own AI agent to raise a $100 million round — proof,…

OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing

2026-07-09 · 22:03

OpenAI is sunsetting its AI-powered browser after less than a year.

Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to ‘cut off’ Anthropic

2026-07-09 · 21:57

Should Anthropic trust Elon Musk to host its models?

Can AI answer the $3 trillion question?

2026-07-09 · 21:47

The AI ROI debate has returned and the numbers are even bigger, as are, perhaps, the consequences.

AI Agents Could Be Turned Into Botnets Through Hallucinations, Researchers Warn

2026-07-09 · 21:45

Researchers warn AI agents could be tricked into downloading malicious code by exploiting the same hallucinations that…

OpenAI wants its new tool to do your work for you and with you

2026-07-09 · 21:25

Rebranded Codex promises independent workflows that can run "for hours if needed."

Show HN: Rubiks Cube Solver

2026-07-09 · 21:09

Speedcube is an open-source platform for speedcubers featuring a Rubik's Cube solver, competition timer, algorithm…

Patch for Windows Defender 0-day could allow attackers to fill hard disk

2026-07-09 · 20:52

The feud between NightmareEclipse and Microsoft shows no signs of resolving soon.

Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds

2026-07-09 · 20:51

Developers building an AI tutor for young children discovered that sub-second response times are critical for…

How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner

2026-07-09 · 20:47

GitHub addressed a critical infrastructure gap by establishing clear ownership for all 11,000+ of its active internal…

Show HN: RandoFont, a browser for Google Fonts

2026-07-09 · 20:46

Inevitably when starting a new web project I want to pick the perfect font.

Perplexity Fine-Tuned a Chinese AI Model to Match Claude Opus 4.8 at One-Third the Cost

2026-07-09 · 20:40

The company's post-trained GLM 5.2 preview pairs a cheaper open-source base with a frontier advisor—and it's already…

Read the daily news roundup →