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NetNewsWire developer Brent Simmons released his status update one year into retirement, detailing 2,188 commits focused…

Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn

OpenAI's leaked 2025 financials reveal a $38.53 billion net loss despite generating $13.07 billion in revenue, with a…

Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures

The European Commission rejected the Stop Killing Games campaign's request for legislation requiring publishers to keep…

Wolfram Language and Mathematica Version 15, AI Assistant, Symbolic Music, More

Wolfram has released Version 15 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica, featuring built-in AI assistants integrated into…

NLnet announces funding for 67 more open-source projects

NLnet has awarded grants to 67 new open-source projects across three funds: NGI Zero Commons Fund, NGI TALER, and NGI…

Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time

This article is a technical guide on identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft IIS (Internet Information…

Anthropic’s latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests

Anthropic's popularity with business users is growing so well that the latest beef with the government might actually…

Alibaba Is Building Qwen-Robot: The Operating System for the Robot Economy

The Chinese company is doubling down on its "embodied AI" bet.

Year of free HPE software a “step in the correct direction” in VMware rivalry

Partner tells Ars that HPE should be giving out more free VM Essentials licenses.

Apple plans to change its Hide My Email privacy feature that could make it less effective

In the coming weeks, Apple will move anonymously generated emails addresses to a different domain.

SpaceX Maps Next Growth Phase in New SEC Filing

SpaceX laid out its post-IPO growth priorities in a new SEC filing, highlighting investments in AI compute, launch…

Among the large new rockets Amazon was counting on, only Europe has delivered

"As for Arianespace, they have definitely stepped up."

Anthropic "pauses" token-based billing for its Claude Agent SDK

Move originally planned for Monday would have heavily increased power users' costs.

GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17 and official releases are coming soon

GrapheneOS has successfully ported its privacy-focused operating system to Android 17 on its official release day, with…

Show HN: cuTile Rust: Safe, data-race-free GPU kernels in Rust

cuTile Rust is a new framework that enables writing memory-safe, data-race-free GPU kernels in Rust by extending Rust's…

Frood, an Alpine Initramfs NAS

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Elon Musk is betting big on AI: SpaceX acquires Cursor for $60 billion

In a significant move, SpaceX pays $60 billion to acquire Cursor.

ChatGPT Is Still Huge, But Rival AI Chatbots Are Catching Up Fast

Sensor Tower's State of AI 2026 report shows ChatGPT's audience share slipping below 50% for the first time, as Gemini's…

Databricks Launches LTAP: A Unified OLAP/OLTP Data Architecture

Databricks launched LTAP (Lake Transactional/Analytical Processing), a unified data architecture that combines…

Show HN: VoiceDraw – Talk system design out loud, the diagrams draw themselves

I was frustated by having to draw system design diagrams by hand when discussing it with my team mates or in an…

The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear

The article argues that the open web as we know it—characterized by search engines, clicking, browsing, and independent…

Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

Apple is consolidating Sign in with Apple and Hide My Email aliases to a new @private.icloud.com domain, making it…

Qualcomm wants to be the chip inside whatever replaces your smartphone, and it just announced two products toward that end

Qualcomm's CEO said today that the company is working on over 40 new AI hardware designs

Bug in FIFA World Cup internal system gave anyone ability to modify TV stream

A security researcher said a flaw in FIFA’s online platforms allowed her to access several internal systems, including…

Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress

Pentagon also claims 1.5 million personnel are using generative AI tools.

Android 17 starts hitting Pixel phones and watches today

Pixels will get their OTA in the coming weeks, but don't expect monumental changes.

Android 17 launches with new multitasking tools as Google expands Gemini features

Google has released Android 17 and Wear OS 7, introducing new multitasking features, parental controls, security tools,…