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Alleged Scattered Spider hacker arrested in Finland

The 19-year-old dual American-Estonian national has been extradited to the US, where he is facing federal charges.

The Fall of the Theorem Economy

David Bessis argues that the most valuable contribution of mathematics is not theorems themselves, but the conceptual…

Hyperliquid Strategies (PURR) Added to Russell 3000 and 2000 Indexes

Hyperliquid Strategies Inc (NASDAQ:PURR) has announced its common stock ($PURR) has been added to the Russell 3000 Index…

MarketFish – Simulate a market with 128 AI consumers before you launch

MarketFish is a market simulation tool that uses 128 AI consumers with distinct identities, budgets, and biases to test…

The gauge broke: devs felt 20% faster with AI, measured 19% slower

A controlled trial of experienced developers found they felt approximately 20% faster using AI coding tools while…

Indian tech tycoon bets $30M of his own money to build AI alternative to Microsoft Office

Neo is Bhavin Turakhia’s fifth venture and his latest involving enterprise software.

CursorBench 3.1

CursorBench 3.1 is a benchmark comparing various AI models on coding tasks, measuring both performance scores and…

Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot

Kimi K2.7 Code, an open-weight model, is now generally available in GitHub Copilot as a selectable option, providing…

Venice AI becomes unicorn after $65M Series A as AI privacy concerns grow

The funding round is Venice AI’s first external capital raise since it launched in May 2024.

Show HN: Meow – The 4th and final JavaScript runtime and toolchain

Yes, I said final.

A new Android malware from Google

Google is requiring all Android developers to register centrally through its Android Developer Verification (ADV)…

Senior SWE-Bench: open-source benchmark that assesses agents as senior engineers

Senior SWE-Bench is a new open-source benchmark that evaluates AI agents on realistic senior-level software engineering…

Bring Back Crappy Forums

# Summary The article argues for the revival of web forums, contrasting their strong sense of community with the hollow…

Avoiding Fallback in Distributed Systems

Did this AI anti-drug video make drugs look appealing?

Hong Kong’s Correctional Services Department removed a AI-generated K-pop video, after facing backlash that it made…

LibreCAD in the Browser

Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum – Meet Oomwoo

A maker is launching OOMWOO, an open-source robot vacuum that users can build themselves using affordable components…

Meta Caps Internal AI Token Spending After Costs Approach Billions in 2026

Meta has implemented spending controls on employee AI usage after internal token consumption reached 73.7 trillion…

Apple is reportedly planning new iPad Pro and MacBook Pro releases early next year

Apple is readying several new iPad Pro tablets, and a budget-friendly MacBook Pro, reports suggest.

The HTML Element

Chrome 151 introduces the `` HTML element, a declarative control that simplifies camera and microphone access by…

Bending Spoons defies SaaS slump, surges 40% on first day of trading

The company has grown rapidly by acquiring and revamping last-generation tech brands like AOL, Eventbrite, Evernote,…

The Underhanded C Contest

The 2015 Underhanded C Contest challenged programmers to write deceptive C code for a nuclear verification application,…

After $18B IPO, Bending Spoons founder says success comes from minimizing luck

The co-founders of Bending Spoons, the Italian company quietly buying beloved, ailing Internet brands, learned big…

Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance

Google has open-sourced its Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) libraries to enable privacy-preserving age verification and…

ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2

ZCode is a lightweight coding tool built for GLM that enables efficient iteration on small repositories, priced at…

WhatsApp usernames are already raising impersonation red flags

Meta says usernames improve privacy, but critics question whether its safeguards can prevent impersonation.

Chip Off the Old Block

# Summary Scott Alexander reflects on how having children has given him unexpected appreciation for poetry,…

T-Mobile moving tens of thousands of virtual machines off VMware amid lawsuit

T-Mobile wants Broadcom to keep supporting its VMware perpetual licenses.

Qualcomm Linux 2.0