Today so far 2026-09-02 · 18:00 UTC

Google has made a major commitment to enhanced geothermal energy by purchasing 400 MW from Fervo, signaling continued tech industry investment in alternative power sources. In AI developments, OpenAI's Astra model has demonstrated concerning hacking capabilities, while Google released new Gemini 3.8 Flash models and HiddenLayer secured $100M in funding as enterprises prioritize AI security. Meanwhile, a US court ruled Google will not be required to sell its ad exchange despite losing its antitrust case, and Wonderful more than doubled its valuation to $5B in under six months.

Foreign-Born Entrepreneurs Drive America's Unicorn Boom

Nearly 44% of America's billion-dollar startup founders (unicorns) were born outside the United States, with India leading as the top source country with 90 founders, according to Stanford research…

2026-06-21 · 11:38 UTC
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Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)

2026-06-21 · 11:38

Beyond All Reason is a free, Total Annihilation-inspired real-time strategy game featuring fully simulated physics,…

TypeScript 7 RC: the compiler rewritten in Go, around 10x faster

2026-06-21 · 10:52

Microsoft released TypeScript 7 RC with a complete compiler rewrite in Go, delivering approximately 10x faster build…

CTOs Agree: Cognitive Debt Is the New Technical Debt

2026-06-21 · 09:53

CTOs gathered at a dinner in Toronto discussed AI adoption in engineering, concluding that the era of unlimited AI…

NSA director: 'Mythos "broke into almost all of our classified systems in hours"

2026-06-21 · 09:45

Google Hits 50% IPv6

2026-06-21 · 08:21

Google has reached 50% IPv6 adoption among its users, marking a symbolic milestone in the transition to the newer…

A 3D voxel game engine written in APL

2026-06-21 · 08:04

A developer created an experimental 3D voxel game engine written in APL programming language as a technical challenge,…

Hunting the Next Marvel? Jensen Huang Already Shared Clues on One Slide

2026-06-21 · 06:30

Marvell $MRVL has gone from a sub-$100 stock to north of $300 since Jensen Huang called it “the next trillion-dollar…

Windows UI evolution: Clicking an unassociated file

2026-06-21 · 06:24

The 100k Whys of AI

2026-06-21 · 05:45

The article argues that AI-generated text is often distinguishable from human writing, contrary to claims by some…

Iran-Linked Hackers Claim Control of US Security Drones Ahead of the World Cup Kickoff

2026-06-21 · 05:30

A group identifying as Handala and linked to Iran claims it hijacked FBI surveillance drones guarding FIFA World Cup…

The Lost Story of Alan Turing's "Delilah" Project

2026-06-21 · 05:15

During World War II, Alan Turing led a secret voice-encryption project called "Delilah," a portable system designed to…

Public Service Announcement: Don't Say You Use AI for Writing

2026-06-21 · 04:50

The author argues that professionals should never publicly disclose using AI for writing attributed to them, as such…

Building Reliable Agentic AI Systems

2026-06-21 · 04:28

Bayer AG and Thoughtworks developed PRINCE, a cloud-based agentic AI system that transforms pharmaceutical preclinical…

Developers don't understand CORS (2019)

2026-06-21 · 01:35

A 2019 blog post highlights how many developers misunderstand CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing), citing Zoom's…

When I reject AI code even if it works

2026-06-21 · 00:58

The author argues that while AI coding agents are fast and capable, they often produce code that works but lacks the…

'We had to get out of the way': The backlash over delivery robots

2026-06-21 · 00:12

Project Fetch: Phase Two

2026-06-21 · 00:00

Anthropic's Project Fetch Phase Two demonstrates that Claude Opus 4.7 can autonomously complete robotic tasks roughly 20…

Show HN: Submarius – Global water clarity for divers

2026-06-20 · 23:29

Submarius started as just a dashboard for diving conditions, but I quickly realized that there is simply no API for…

Why an AI company cleaned my New York City apartment for free

2026-06-20 · 23:18

An AI company is sending free cleaners door-to-door in a bid to train the robots it hopes one day will replace them.

Epoll vs. Io_uring in Linux

2026-06-20 · 23:07

The article compares epoll and io_uring, two Linux asynchronous I/O handling systems, explaining how the author's team…

Tesla allegedly in autopilot mode crashes into Texas house, woman killed

2026-06-20 · 22:14

A Tesla operating in driver-assist mode crashed into a residential house in Katy, Texas on Friday night, killing a woman…

Systemd 261 released with systemd-sysinstall, IMDSD, and storagectl

2026-06-20 · 21:50

Systemd 261 has been released with several major new features including systemd-sysinstall (a text-based OS installer),…

Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract

2026-06-20 · 21:09

Tesco is suing Broadcom (which acquired VMware) for breach of contract, seeking £100 million in damages, claiming the…

Linux Eliminates the Strncpy API After Six Years of Work, 360 Patches

2026-06-20 · 20:59

Linux 7.2 has successfully eliminated the deprecated strncpy API from the kernel after six years of work and over 360…

Seeing the world in radio waves with the QuadRF

2026-06-20 · 20:48

The QuadRF is an open-source, phase-coherent four-channel software-defined radio (SDR) built around a Raspberry Pi 5…

Show HN: Pulse – Dashboard for Claude Code, approve tool calls from your phone

2026-06-20 · 20:46

Hi everyone, I'm a student from Flanders and I like to use Claude Code for my purposes, ideas and also just for fun and…

UK Home Office launches £75M 'PoliceAI' to capitalise on artificial intelligence

2026-06-20 · 20:41

The UK Home Office has launched PoliceAI, a £75m national centre to scale up artificial intelligence use across police…

Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’

2026-06-20 · 20:32

"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”

Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil

2026-06-20 · 20:05

An unauthorized "extreme alert" containing the word "misanthropy" (spelled as "misantropi4" in leetspeak) was sent to…

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