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Please Stop the AI Confidence Theater

The author critiques the cycle of AI hype and "confidence theater," where breathless headlines repeatedly predict AI…

Program-as-Weights: A Programming Paradigm for Fuzzy Functions

Researchers propose Program-as-Weights (PAW), a new programming paradigm that compiles natural-language specifications…

Goodebye Forever Probably: Why I’m leaving developer relations

A developer relations professional is leaving the field after five and a half years, citing a disconnect between the…

Inside the Luddite festival harnessing Gen Z’s rage against Big Tech

New York City’s Summer of Ludd festival is teaching people how to live offline.

Amazon has enough satellites to launch its Starlink competitor

Amazon has deployed 396 Leo satellites in low-Earth orbit, reaching the threshold needed to launch continuous internet…

Visiting the stars (and planets, and telescopes) in VR

Walkthrough experience includes visits to stars, exoplanets, and observatories.

Wing Commander IV and the FMV future that never quite was

C:\ArsGames takes a look at the time Chris Roberts more or less made a whole movie.

Commodore 64 Basic for PostgreSQL

A developer has created PL/CBMBASIC, a PostgreSQL extension that allows users to write database functions using…

Wordgard: The new in-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror

Wordgard is an open-source, in-browser rich-text editor library created by the developer of ProseMirror that allows…

OpenAI: Sam Altman proposes 5% stake to the US government

Sam Altman offers 5% of OpenAI to Uncle Sam, fearing the administration might crack down harder than expected.

Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says

Half-Baked Product

A founder with no baking experience launches an oven startup based on a spreadsheet projection of capturing 10% of…

Alibaba to Ban Claude Code in Workplace Over Alleged Backdoor Security Risks

Alibaba will reportedly prohibit employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code in workplace settings from July 10 due to…

Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?

I'm a bit annoyed by the feeling that we're kind of stuck when it comes to using LLMs for programming.I use Claude Code…

AI agent development hasn’t accelerated as expected, Zuckerberg says

Mark Zuckerberg’s comments came on the same day that Meta expanded its Meta Business Agent globally for businesses on…

VAP Group Unveils VAP Ventures to Back 100 Startups by 2030, Marking Its Next Chapter in Building the Global Innovation Ecosystem

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | 30 June 2026: VAP Group announced the launch of VAP Ventures, its dedicated investment arm,…

The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't

Switzerland achieves superior internet speeds (25 Gbit) and competitive pricing by treating fiber infrastructure as a…

Every AI Visibility Tool Is Lying to You

AI visibility measurement tools claim to show brands their ranking within ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI systems, but…

Instagram running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India, BBC finds

The ads use terms including “rape” and “child video” and link to content on the messaging app Telegram.

14× faster embeddings: how we rebuilt the ONNX path in Manticore

Manticore Search rebuilt its ONNX model inference path and achieved approximately 14× faster embedding performance…

AI is 'not smart' so what's next in artificial intelligence?

Yann LeCun, former Meta chief AI scientist, argues that current large language models like ChatGPT lack true…

The Safari MCP server for web developers

Apple has introduced the Safari MCP server, a Model Context Protocol tool that allows AI agents to connect directly to…

India Issues Notices to Telegram and Signal Over Username Features Amid Impersonation Concerns

The Indian government has reportedly issued notices to Telegram and Signal over username features, warning they could…

CarPlay Is Additive

Casey Liss argues that Rivian should support Apple CarPlay in its vehicles, countering the company's claims that screen…

GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM

An American Privacy Emergency

# Summary A Trump administration directive (DAO 216-26) has banned differential privacy and modern noise-infusion…

Last chance to apply — Startup Battlefield Australia applications close July 6

If you're going to apply for Startup Battlefield Australia, now is the time.

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Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped

At an internal meeting, the Meta CEO reportedly said that AI development efforts were not moving as quickly as…