Today so far 2026-09-02 · 00:00 UTC

The most significant development today is OpenAI's Astra model advancing toward release, with the company publishing details on its critical capabilities and frontier safeguards, while separately Apple reveals evidence from an ex-employee's MacBook in its OpenAI lawsuit. Meanwhile, major tech companies continue expanding their ecosystems, including Nvidia investing $3.5 billion in MediaTek to diversify beyond GPUs and Reliance's JioHotstar taking its streaming service global without sports, alongside security concerns as X reports attackers targeting user accounts following the launch of X Money.

The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted

The github repo under eigenpal is gone. The web site at docx-editor is 503. No idea what's going on. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692474 Points: 22 # Comments: 18

2026-06-26 · 21:54 UTC
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The Nationwide Backlash Against Cameras Watching Your Car

2026-06-26 · 21:23

A C++ implementation of a fast hash map and hash set using hopscotch hashing

2026-06-26 · 21:18

The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs

2026-06-26 · 21:14

We Can Still Stop California's 3D Printer Surveillance Scheme

2026-06-26 · 21:13

Streaming services’ obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California

2026-06-26 · 21:12

Illinois passed a similar law, giving services more incentive to make ads less booming.

Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring

2026-06-26 · 21:00

Russian citizens told "switch to Android" after Apple blocks key Russian apps

2026-06-26 · 20:58

Russian government lashes out at Apple's "bizarre" decisions.

PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts

2026-06-26 · 20:07

NYT slams Microsoft for building copyright-infringing supercomputer for OpenAI

2026-06-26 · 20:04

NYT shifts OpenAI/Microsoft copyright claims after SCOTUS ruling against Sony.

Linux Foundation, Tech Giants Launch Akrites to Defend Open Source Against AI-Powered Attacks

2026-06-26 · 19:23

A coalition of 19 organizations—including every major AI lab and Wall Street banks—just built the security team that…

Long Wave radio era set to end with Droitwich switch-off

2026-06-26 · 19:12

OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-5.6—But Only for Some Users Due to Trump Admin

2026-06-26 · 19:06

OpenAI introduced the GPT-5.6 family of AI models on Friday, but only limited users can access them for now thanks to…

FCC accused of hiding Chairman Carr's messages with DOGE and Musk

2026-06-26 · 18:51

FCC refuses to provide messages, has "wasted a year" of court's time, filing says.

Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory

2026-06-26 · 18:32

OpenAI limits GPT-5.6 rollout after government request, says restrictions shouldn’t be the norm

2026-06-26 · 18:32

“We don’t believe this kind of government access process should become the long-term default,” says OpenAI.

Slisp: Simple Lisp compiler (Linux/amd64)

2026-06-26 · 18:30

Made a Rust DB run spatial queries on gaming GPU RT cores, beating an H100

2026-06-26 · 18:25

U.S. government will decide who gets to use latest upgrade to ChatGPT

2026-06-26 · 18:23

Netflix now requires every user profile to be tied to unique email address

2026-06-26 · 18:19

Update began June 15 and will no longer allow you to share your login info.

OpenAI poaches Uber India chief to lead its biggest market outside the U.S.

2026-06-26 · 18:19

The hire marks OpenAI's latest push into India, expanding offices, partnerships and hiring.

This AI Agent Survived 6,000 Hack Attempts—Here’s How

2026-06-26 · 18:01

Fernando Irarrázaval posted his OpenClaw assistant's inbox to Hacker News and watched Claude Opus 4.6 hold off thousands…

Webradio server – broadcasts audio source to clients

2026-06-26 · 17:57

SEC, CFTC seek input on unified portfolio margin rules across securities and derivatives

2026-06-26 · 17:43

The regulatory agencies are seeking public feedback on cross-margining, collateral and risk management as cryptocurrency…

Why everyone from OpenAI to SpaceX is building their own chips (and turning up the heat on Nvidia)

2026-06-26 · 17:43

Nvidia has dominated the AI chip market for years, but the era of total dependence might be ending.   OpenAI just shared…

Russian hackers were behind $2.5 billion hack of Jaguar Land Rover: report

2026-06-26 · 17:29

The hack on car giant Jaguar Land Rover last year was one the most disrupting, damaging, and costly hacks of the last…

Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

2026-06-26 · 17:06

Liva AI (YC S25) Is Hiring

2026-06-26 · 17:00

Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor

2026-06-26 · 16:40

We built a model router that plugs into coding agents (e.g.

Trump Administration Asks OpenAI to Limit GPT-5.6 Rollout: Reports

2026-06-26 · 16:38

The reported request to OpenAI follows the Trump administration's move to limit access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos…

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