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.

AI Coding Experiment Leaves Fintech Startup With $80K Bill

2026-06-26 · 06:01

A San Francisco fintech startup revealed that one of its employees accidentally spent more than $80,000 while building a…

We All Depend on Open Source. We Will Defend It Together

2026-06-26 · 05:40

Libre Barcode Project

2026-06-26 · 03:12

IBM Unveils Sub-1 Nanometer Chip With 100 Billion Transistors, Extending Moore’s Law

2026-06-26 · 02:30

IBM on Thursday unveiled the world’s first sub-1 nanometer chip technology, a research prototype at the 0.7 nanometer…

What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant

2026-06-26 · 02:29

A data race that doesn't compile

2026-06-26 · 01:33

AI children's books, body horror edition

2026-06-26 · 01:15

Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity

2026-06-26 · 01:10

Om Malik – Silicon Valley Has an Empathy Vacuum (Nov 2016)

2026-06-25 · 23:53

Silicon Valley leaders have failed to demonstrate empathy for those negatively impacted by technological disruption,…

The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model over safety concerns

2026-06-25 · 23:34

penAI reportedly plans to share its newest model, GPT 5.6, with a select group of partners instead of to the broader…

The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (2nd Ed)

2026-06-25 · 23:10

The second edition of The Garbage Collection Handbook updates the field of automatic memory management, incorporating…

Om Malik taught Silicon Valley to read itself

2026-06-25 · 22:19

Om Malik, the influential technology journalist and GigaOm founder who died on June 24 at age 59, shaped how Silicon…

YouTube Shorts are getting even shorter with an update that lets you double the playback speed

2026-06-25 · 22:02

YouTube Shorts is getting a makeover.

The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy

2026-06-25 · 21:44

# Summary Australia's social media ban for under-16s, which went into effect in December 2024, is forcing platforms to…

The DATA Foundation Launches to Tackle AI’s Multi-Billion Dollar Training Data Bottleneck

2026-06-25 · 21:37

Palo Alto, United States, 25th June 2026, Chainwire

The DATA Foundation Launches to Tackle AI’s Multi-Billion Dollar Training Data Bottleneck

2026-06-25 · 21:32

Palo Alto, United States, June 25th, 2026, ChainwireStory rebrands as The DATA Foundation, launches DATA Network with…

Migrating from Proxmox to NixOS and Incus

2026-06-25 · 21:22

The author migrated from Proxmox to NixOS with Incus after years of running a homelab, seeking a more reproducible and…

Anthropic Urges Congress to Crack Down on AI Distillation By Chinese Rivals

2026-06-25 · 21:13

Anthropic alleged that Alibaba-affiliated operators used nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to generate 28.8 million…

Un-0: Generating Images with Coupled Oscillators

2026-06-25 · 20:50

OpenAI Leans Toward Waiting Until Next Year for IPO

2026-06-25 · 20:36

The Customer Who Almost Killed Slack, Stripe, and Airbnb

2026-06-25 · 20:30

Jeremy Grantham Says SpaceX Defines AI Bubble Peak and Dismisses Bitcoin as ‘Unnecessary Nonsense’

2026-06-25 · 20:30

Jeremy Grantham, the billionaire investor who predicted both the dot-com crash and the 2007 housing collapse, says the…

Microsoft adds another year to Windows 10 extended update program

2026-06-25 · 20:24

About a quarter of PCs are still running Microsoft's previous operating system.

Patronus AI lands $50M to build ‘digital worlds’ that stress-test AI agents

2026-06-25 · 20:19

Agent testing startup Patronus AI, founded by former Meta AI researchers, is experienced nearly insatiable demand, its…

An oral history of Bank Python (2021)

2026-06-25 · 20:14

Parallel Parentheses Matching

2026-06-25 · 20:12

FCC may kill $2B program that connects schools and libraries to Internet

2026-06-25 · 20:01

Carr cites screen time concerns, is accused of trying to be "the nation’s parent."

Xbox follows Apple with price increases 

2026-06-25 · 19:39

The price increase comes amid rising components costs.

Notion Mail shuts down amid agent takeover

2026-06-25 · 19:14

The company said it is discontinuing its email inbox in favor of its AI agent offering as users are increasingly handing…

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