Today so far 2026-09-01 · 15:07 UTC

India's education sector saw major consolidation as Unacademy sold to rival upGrad for $206M, representing a dramatic 94% decline from its peak valuation, highlighting ongoing challenges in the edtech market. In policy and regulation, the EFF urged courts to resist rewriting copyright law in response to AI hype, while Google Play faced scrutiny over restricting donation links for open-source projects like AnkiDroid. Meanwhile, AI capabilities continued advancing with reports of 44% performance on the ARC-AGI benchmark for just 67 cents, and concerns mounted over Flock's expanding AI surveillance network in the US.

Watch out, Amazon: the Kobo eReader now has a Goodreads rival

Kobo users can now automatically sync their reading progress to StoryGraph, making it easier to track books, reading stats, and challenges without relying on Amazon’s Goodreads.

2026-06-29 · 19:06 UTC
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JumpServer: Open-Source Privileged Access Management

2026-06-29 · 19:06

JumpServer is an open-source Privileged Access Management (PAM) platform that enables secure, on-demand access to SSH,…

.garden TLD's change to a bad neighborhood

2026-06-29 · 18:49

The .garden top-level domain has experienced a dramatic surge in malicious activity, with registrations jumping from…

Meta Unveils New Tech That Uses AI to Translate Brain Activity Into Text—Without Surgery

2026-06-29 · 18:47

Meta says its latest Brain2Qwerty system translates brain activity into sentences using non-invasive brain recordings,…

Waymo and Uber quietly part ways in Phoenix

2026-06-29 · 18:45

The companies confirmed to TechCrunch that their unusual partnership in Phoenix recently ended after nearly three years..

The 80% Problem: The Last 20% Is Where the Engineer Used to Live

2026-06-29 · 18:35

# Summary AI tools can rapidly generate the first 80% of working code—the basic logic and demo-ready scaffolding—but…

Anthropic and Gov. Newsom forge deal allowing California government to use Claude at half price

2026-06-29 · 18:10

As Anthropic forges a closer relationship with the state of California, the federal government has made an enemy out of…

South Korean tech giants commit over $550B to ease ‘ RAMageddon’

2026-06-29 · 18:07

The world's two largest memory chip companies vow to build more memory lab fabs as South Korea positions itself as an AI…

Micro-Agent: Beat Frontier Models with Collaboration Inside Model API

2026-06-29 · 18:03

Routers in AI inference are evolving from simple model-selection tools into orchestration layers that can improve model…

Quantum computing startup says it will leapfrog everybody

2026-06-29 · 17:59

But the system would require a massive leap from any of its existing hardware.

Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, is now a $100M business

2026-06-29 · 17:39

The startup, which runs a popular free AI leaderboard, launched its commercial service just last September.

Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding

2026-06-29 · 17:16

Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development

2026-06-29 · 17:05

Qwen3.6 27B is a powerful open-source local language model that delivers impressive performance for its size, excelling…

Cursor now has a mobile app for guiding your coding agent on the go

2026-06-29 · 17:03

Cursor has launched a new mobile app for remote oversight over coding agents.

California Strikes Deal With Anthropic to Bring Claude AI to State Agencies

2026-06-29 · 16:54

Anthropic’s agreement makes Claude the first AI tool available to all state agencies and local governments, at half…

TIDAL cracks down on AI music by cutting off monetization

2026-06-29 · 16:29

TIDAL's new policy will prevent AI-generated music from making money on its service.

In San Francisco, Even $180k Tech Salaries Are No Longer Enough

2026-06-29 · 16:20

In major privacy win, Supreme Court rules geofence warrants are protected by privacy rights

2026-06-29 · 16:05

The Supreme Court's decision to limit geofence warrants is a win for privacy advocates, who called their use…

HamsterOS: A graphical desktop OS that fits on a 1.44MB floppy

2026-06-29 · 16:04

Developer John Swiderski is creating HamsterOS, a full-featured 32-bit graphical multitasking operating system designed…

WhatsApp not lets you reserve usernames

2026-06-29 · 16:00

WhatsApp username can be between 3 to 40 characters length

US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections

2026-06-29 · 15:54

The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that law enforcement's use of geofence warrants—which collect smartphone location data…

Wildwood featurette lifts the veil on building its stop-motion world

2026-06-29 · 15:43

Director Travis Knight is also the creative mind behind 2016's Oscar-nominated Kubo and the Two Strings.

A native graphical shell for SSH

2026-06-29 · 15:42

The author proposes a new architecture where servers and edge devices can provide browser-based graphical shells…

In a bold move, Rocket Lab acquires Iridium Communications

2026-06-29 · 15:33

"We believe this will be one of the most transformative deals in the space industry."

Microsoft Needs Windows Lite

2026-06-29 · 15:30

Rocket Lab continues buying spree by acquiring satellite company Iridium

2026-06-29 · 15:02

The all-stock deal values Iridium at $8 billion, and gives Rocket Lab even more firepower to compete against Amazon and…

WATaBoy: JIT-Ing Game Boy Instructions to WASM Beats a Native Interpreter

2026-06-29 · 15:02

A Game Boy emulator called WATaBoy was built to demonstrate that JIT-compiling CPU instructions to WebAssembly bytecode…

Linux for the Sega MegaDrive

2026-06-29 · 15:01

https://hackaday.com/2026/06/29/its-linux-on-a-sega-megadriv...

WebGL Without a GPU

2026-06-29 · 15:01

Microlink reduced WebGL rendering time on GPU-less servers from 24 seconds to 6 seconds by switching from Chrome's…

Working With AI: A concrete example

2026-06-29 · 14:53

The author describes investigating and fixing a parsing bug in Hyperscript, an experimental web scripting language,…

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