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Mozilla Tests an AI 'Smart Window' in Firefox—But Only If You Opt In

The optional window puts an assistant of your choice next to your tabs, with a switch to disable it.

Programmable Property-Based Testing

Who owns the code?

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Cursor capitalizes on Github frustration, launches rival hosting platform

Cursor, known for its AI Code Editor, is launching a new code hosting platform to rival developers' long preferred…

Meta hooked children on Facebook and Instagram, court hears

Meta argued social media addiction does not exist, as a trial stemming from a major lawsuit brought by US states got…

AI usage patterns in software teams

Between January and June 2026, AI adoption among Linear's software development teams more than doubled across all…

GLM-5.3 Artificial Analysis Benchmarks

GLM-5.3 (max), released in August 2026, ranks #8 out of 181 models on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a…

fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent.

fx is a lightweight, open-source coding agent written in Zig that prioritizes minimalism and performance with a 6.39MB…

A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome

DesktopFly is a macOS application that renders a 3D fruit fly on your desktop powered by a real neural simulation of the…

Rare Books Traced to Amazon AI Training Facility to Be Scanned and Destroyed

A tracking device planted in a book order ended at a Las Vegas facility where Amazon strips bindings to scan pages for…

Arguing With People on X May Get You More Posts You Hate as Algo Feeds on Ragebait

X’s algorithm may turn argumentative replies into a feedback loop that serves users more content that clashes with their…

Claude Code Teaching macOS to Natively Print to the HP Laser 1008a

A developer successfully reverse-engineered HP's SPL3 raster language and ran HP's codec in a Linux container to enable…

DOJ’s probe into Andreessen Horowitz over board seats baffles VCs

Since portfolio companies often pivot and expand into competing markets, investors view occasional conflicts of interest…

TikTok explores peer-to-peer payments via DMs, report says

If rolled out, the feature would use the social media service’s TikTok Pay offering, which is already available in…

Norway Should Buy OpenAI

The author argues that Norway's sovereign wealth fund should purchase OpenAI to prevent the concentration of AI's…

Beware Management Consultants

This satirical parable illustrates how management consultants can overcomplicate obvious problems and enable poor…

llms.txt: a proposed standard no major AI platform has confirmed it uses

A proposed `llms.txt` file—a Markdown document listing a site's most important pages for AI systems—has gained minimal…

Markets Confident OpenAI Releases Its Next AI Model in Weeks

Traders are betting OpenAI's next frontier model lands within weeks—even after the company pumped the brakes.

Show HN: Argus, agentic QA for teams whose coding agents move faster than QA

Argus is an AI-powered visual UI testing agent that automatically tests web applications by describing desired behavior…

IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club Asia Pacific: Reflections

Naty S organized the first-ever Homebrew Website Club event for the Asia Pacific time zone, drawing 13 participants and…

Show HN: PantheonGPU – GPU health testing and AI workload benchmarking

PantheonGPU is a GPU health testing and benchmarking tool that supports both NVIDIA and AMD GPUs through 45 focused…

Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities

Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust

Turbovec is a Rust-based vector search library implementing Google Research's TurboQuant algorithm, offering significant…

OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach

The new safeguards include more detailed monitoring of models during the development process, as well as greater…

Show HN: macOS data protection keychain for Electron apps

Keychain-store is a new secure storage library for Electron and Node.js apps on macOS that leverages the native Data…

Etched’s valuation doubles to $21B in a month

Jane Street has installed Etched's first shipped AI cluster system, and was so impressed, it led another massive round,…

Google Is Paying $10 Million to Use Spirit Airlines Data to Train Its AI Models

The bankrupt airline’s internal communications and business records could soon be used to improve Google’s AI systems.

Apple overhauls its EU App Store fees, loosens rules for alternative app stores

Apple is simplifying its EU App Store fees, replacing its per-install fee with a 5% commission for apps distributed…

Claude Code weekly limits reduce by a third tomorrow

Anthropic is offering a limited-time promotion that increases weekly usage limits in Claude Code by 50% through August…