Today so far 2026-09-03 · 06:01 UTC

The tech industry is grappling with significant security and safety concerns, as Anthropic admits security failures behind Claude hacking incidents and OpenAI's new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts, while separately a METR report on OpenAI and Hugging Face hacking incident has surfaced. In regulatory news, Google has been spared from an ad-business breakup but faces operational restrictions, and New York City has moved to ban AI in schools, reflecting growing concerns about AI's societal impact. Meanwhile, the tech investment landscape continues to shift with an AI training data startup becoming Y Combinator's fastest-ever unicorn and Palo Alto Networks acquiring Console for $500 million.

Adobe adds its AI assistant to Premiere, Illustrator and InDesign

Adobe is updating its Firefly AI assistant with new chops, and adding it to Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign and Frame.io.

2026-06-18 · 13:00 UTC
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Has W Social switched to closed source?

2026-06-18 · 12:46

# Summary High-ranking European institutions, including the European Commission and European Central Bank, have…

The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy

2026-06-18 · 12:44

https://web.archive.org/web/20260618100028/https://www.wired...

iFX EXPO International 2026 Continues Today Following Strong Opening Day in Cyprus

2026-06-18 · 12:29

LIMASSOL, CYPRUS – 18 June 2026 – Following a strong opening day that attracted thousands of attendees to City of Dreams…

Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly

2026-06-18 · 12:19

Microsoft's new Outlook for Windows has a significant performance problem with email notifications: clicking a…

Emacs 31 Is Around the Corner: The Changes I'm Daily Driving

2026-06-18 · 12:10

Emacs 31, still in development, brings significant improvements that the author has been testing for months, most…

Pixi’s new iOS app turns text messages into interactive AR experiences

2026-06-18 · 12:00

Forget stickers, GIFs, and emoji reactions.

Waymo recalls nearly 4,000 robotaxis to stop them driving into highway construction zones

2026-06-18 · 11:59

The company has identified at least 13 instances where its robotaxis drove into highway sections closed for construction.

I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware

2026-06-18 · 11:45

A security researcher discovered approximately 10,000 malicious GitHub repositories that distribute Trojan malware by…

Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further

2026-06-18 · 11:41

Modos is crowdfunding to develop an integrated e-paper monitor following the success of their developer kit.

We built a persistent agent memory layer on Elasticsearch with 0.89 recall

2026-06-18 · 11:20

A team built a persistent agent memory system on Elasticsearch achieving 0.89 recall at rank 10, using three indices…

Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course

2026-06-18 · 11:04

CS 6120 is a free, self-guided online version of Cornell's PhD-level compiler course taught by Adrian Sampson, covering…

.gitignore Isn't the Only Way to Ignore Files in Git

2026-06-18 · 10:29

Git offers three levels for ignoring files: `.gitignore` (checked into version control for team-wide rules),…

Will the AI Bubble Burst and Drag Down the S&P 500?

2026-06-18 · 09:58

Artificial intelligence has become one of the biggest forces driving stocks higher.

AI Agents Could Soon Receive State-backed Digital Identities In Estonia

2026-06-18 · 09:05

The arrival of autonomous agents is evolving the very notion of sovereignty and infrastructures in the digital age.

AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs

2026-06-18 · 08:08

AMD has quietly removed the Transparent Secure Memory Encryption (TSME) security feature from its consumer-level Ryzen…

A Perceptron in Age of Empires II

2026-06-18 · 07:50

The Forge We Deserve

2026-06-18 · 07:46

GitHub faces mounting reliability issues and user exodus, prompting developers to seek alternatives as the centralized…

Apple to raise prices as AI boom pushes up chip costs

2026-06-18 · 07:27

The firm's outgoing boss Tim Cook did not say when prices would rise or which products would be affected.

How to Become a Person After Smartphones Have Rotted Your Brain

2026-06-18 · 06:23

# Summary August Lamm, a young artist who gained 175,000 Instagram followers, experienced severe mental and physical…

DeepSeek Introduces Vision

2026-06-18 · 06:17

Dorsey’s Block says new AI tool handles 15% of code work

2026-06-18 · 05:38

Builderbot is the “missing layer between AI coding tools and how engineering actually works at scale,” said Brad Axen,…

I Hate Compilers

2026-06-18 · 05:10

France to stop certifying products lacking quantum-resistant encryption

2026-06-18 · 04:06

France’s cybersecurity agency plans to block certification of products without quantum-resistant encryption starting in…

SteamOS Linux 3.8 released as stable

2026-06-18 · 04:05

Nim Conf 2026 (Online, Sat June 20)

2026-06-18 · 03:38

NimConf 2026 will take place online on Saturday, June 20th, 2026 at 11am UTC and will be streamed for free on YouTube…

Apple boss Tim Cook says prices to rise due to memory chip costs

2026-06-18 · 03:34

Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that the company will raise product prices due to surging memory chip costs driven by the…

Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool

2026-06-18 · 03:04

The author, a software founder, argues that local models like Qwen 27B/35B should not be viewed as inferior alternatives…

Continue has been acquired by Cursor

2026-06-18 · 02:54

Cursor has acquired Continue, an open-source AI coding agent platform.

Scaling opencomputer from 1 VM to 1 million sandboxes

2026-06-18 · 02:32

OpenComputer scaled from a single VM to support one million sandboxes by moving away from a single-region architecture…

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