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.

In a bold move, Rocket Lab acquires Iridium Communications

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

2026-06-29 · 15:33 UTC
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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,…

Data breach exposes up to 14.2M email logins at six ISPs

2026-06-29 · 14:27

Japanese telecommunications operator KDDI Corporation disclosed a data breach affecting up to 14.2 million email logins…

A field guide to the modern front end for developers who hand-wrote HTML

2026-06-29 · 14:23

Why did one day of AI cost more than a month of servers?

2026-06-29 · 14:16

A SaaS application experienced a massive spike in LLM API costs on a single day—costing more than an entire month of…

You Don't Know Jack About Formal Verification

2026-06-29 · 14:12

RocketLab Acquires Iridium

2026-06-29 · 14:09

DocumentDB – a MongoDB compatible open-source database

2026-06-29 · 14:09

DocumentDB is an open-source, MIT-licensed database built on PostgreSQL that provides MongoDB compatibility with native…

Robot hand company settles Tesla trade secret suit and announces $11M raise

2026-06-29 · 14:00

The startup, Proception, is taking a unique approach to collecting training data to tackle one of the hardest problems…

CachyOS June 2026 Release

2026-06-29 · 13:56

CachyOS released its June 2026 update featuring performance improvements through extended Python PGO and GCC branch…

Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Mera Glasses

2026-06-29 · 13:26

Comcast is splitting its media and broadband properties

2026-06-29 · 13:25

NBCUniversal and Sky will be spun off into separate companies.

Building Principia for Windows XP

2026-06-29 · 13:23

The article describes efforts to rebuild the game Principia to run on Windows XP by developing a custom toolchain, as…

Counterexamples in type systems (2021)

2026-06-29 · 13:20

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Studio Canal Movies purchased on PlayStation Store removed without refund

2026-06-29 · 13:20

Starting September 1, 2026, PlayStation Store will remove all previously purchased Studio Canal movies and TV shows from…

Pocket raises $11M in bet on rising demand for AI note-taking devices

2026-06-29 · 13:16

Pocket sells a $129, credit card-shaped puck, which sticks to the back of your phone, and promises unlimited recordings,…

What happens when you run a CUDA kernel?

2026-06-29 · 13:11

When a CUDA kernel is executed, the nvcc compiler translates the program through multiple stages: host code goes to a…

Tidal AI Policy

2026-06-29 · 13:09

NixOS 26.05

2026-06-29 · 13:01

NixOS 26.05 "Yarara" has been released with support for seven months, featuring 20,442 new packages, 85 new modules, and…

Omen AI’s plan to optimize data centers is all wet

2026-06-29 · 13:00

Omen AI raised a $31 million Series A to monitor chip coolant and stop bacterial outbreaks in data centers.

Flipper Device’s new Busy Bar is a customizable display for productivity

2026-06-29 · 13:00

Flipper Device's new Busy Bar will retail for $249.

Reading the internals of Postgres: Database cluster, databases, and tables

2026-06-29 · 12:59

PostgreSQL organizes data hierarchically through a database cluster (one instance managing multiple databases), where…

Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Sued in US over Memory Price Fixing

2026-06-29 · 11:58

Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Micron have been sued by U.S.

Rebuilding the Computer Room

2026-06-29 · 11:34

# Summary The article traces how computing has evolved from fixed locations in dedicated "computer rooms" to portable…

DeepSeek V4 Peak Valley Pricing Change

2026-06-29 · 11:29

DeepSeek announced that V4 will launch in mid-July with a new peak-off-peak pricing model that doubles API costs during…

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