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Web Browsers on PDAS

PDA web browsers emerged in the 1990s as personal digital assistants gained internet connectivity, initially using…

VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'

The UK government is developing new regulations around VPN use as part of its under-16 social media ban, with details…

Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash

Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs

Windows 11's new Media Player uses 3.5 times more RAM than the classic version when idle (377MB versus 103MB) and loads…

Big Tech is borrowing like never before

Major technology companies like Nvidia, Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon are increasingly turning to bond markets to finance…

Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf

SpaceX Faces High Share Supply Shock as Musk’s Unlock Nears

The early trading framework surrounding SpaceX’s public listing has drawn attention from market participants following…

Pong in S Favicon

Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see

Loupe is a free iOS app that demonstrates what data native apps can access from your device without permission,…

New (Old) 3D Golf: Porting PC-9801 and Virtual Boy to Mega Drive

A developer reverse-engineered T&E SOFT's New 3D Golf Simulation games to extract and modify course data across multiple…

Anthropic Scores Two Wins as Trump Eases Stance and Google Loses Nobel Laureate

Anthropic ended the week with two developments that strengthened its position in the artificial intelligence race.

Lithuanian startup launches open-source network to detect Shahed-type drones

A Lithuanian startup has launched Drone Rada, a crowdsourced detection system that uses volunteers' Android smartphones…

Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites

https://cauenapier.com/blog/townsquare_release/https://cauenapier.com/blog/townsquare/ Comments URL:…

16-year-old SATA II SSD survives 1 petabyte of writes, 25x the drive's rating

A 16-year-old SanDisk P4 SSD survived writing 1 petabyte of data—25 times its manufacturer's 40 TBW (terabytes written)…

Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents

Cloudflare has launched Temporary Accounts for AI Agents, allowing agents to deploy websites and APIs without signing up…

Bootimus – A Self-Contained PXE and HTTP Boot Server

Bootimus is a self-contained, single-binary PXE and HTTP boot server that requires zero configuration and automatically…

CSSQuake

This appears to be a configuration or settings menu from CSSQuake, a game combining Counter-Strike and Quake mechanics.

"Career coaches" are fear-farming the Stanford AI hiring study [debunk]

A Stanford study on AI hiring tool pymetrics found that while the tool showed bias against Black applicants when…

Financial giant Charles Schwab takes aim at prediction markets

Schwab, the finance colossus, is launching into stock betting. After crypto, here come the predictions.

Chip Stocks Hit Record 18.8% Share of S&P 500 Value

Semiconductor companies now make up a record 18.8% of the S&P 500’s total market value, highlighting how much influence…

I Stored a Website in a Favicon

A developer successfully stored an entire HTML website inside a favicon by encoding text as pixel data—converting 208…

Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering

An experimental satellite has revealed unprecedented levels of GPS jamming across Europe and the Middle East, with…

Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You

# Summary Most colors visible to the human eye cannot be displayed on digital screens, particularly cyan hues, because…

LLMs Are Complicated Now

Modern large language models have become significantly more complex than earlier versions like Llama, incorporating…

I solved my mystery fatigue with AI

A woman with a mysterious fatigue disorder used AI with a structured four-step process—tracking symptoms, testing,…

He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he’s doing that for robots.

French serial entrepreneur and open-source legend Jean-Baptiste Kempf has been building Kyber, an infrastructure layer…

Hey, n00b, we didn't hire you to complete tasks

Kent Beck advises new engineers that senior staff evaluate them not on task completion volume, but on their potential to…

Cirrus: ATProto Personal Data Server That Runs on Cloudflare Workers

Cirrus is a lightweight Personal Data Server (PDS) for the AT Protocol that runs on Cloudflare Workers, allowing users…

Aikido Code Audit

Aikido has launched AI Code Analysis, a security tool that uses AI reasoning to identify complex, multi-step…