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German broadcaster removes TV intro after Elon Musk takes legal action

ZDF TV responded to a "cease and desist" letter after the tech trillionaire condemned the broadcaster's "outrageous…

GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands

TNO, SURF, and the Netherlands Forensic Institute are developing GPT-NL, an independent Dutch language model funded with…

Show HN: Pen and paper resource development game with an emergent world

I've been working for a while on trying to curate a game that has the emergence of procedurally generated computer games…

10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module

The author upgraded their home network to 10Gb/s Ethernet using 10GBASE-T SFP+ modules but encountered overheating…

Rivian cuts hundreds of workers after R2 deliveries start

The company said the cuts were part of a restructuring meant to help scale to profitability.

Claude: Elevated errors across many models

Claude experienced elevated error rates across multiple models on June 16, 2026, with Sonnet and Opus models reaching…

The octopus architecture for AI agents

TorkBot uses an "octopus" architecture with a centralized LLM conversation (foreground lane) coordinating multiple…

SpaceX Shares Hit New High as Elon Musk's Firm Agrees to Acquire AI Startup Cursor for $60 Billion

The all-stock deal would make Cursor a wholly owned SpaceX subsidiary and deepen the company's push into AI following…

Gamers beware: malicious wallpapers on Steam found stealing accounts

Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?

Self-help nonfiction book sales have plummeted since the rise of AI language models like ChatGPT and Claude, with the…

Self-driving tech supplier Mobileye wants to be part of the robotaxi revolution — again

The Israeli tech company and Intel subsidiary said it will launch its own robotaxi service in a U.S. city in 2027.

Specs Augmented Reality Glasses

Snap introduced SPECS, new augmented reality glasses designed to integrate AI assistance, work tools, and entertainment…

Snap finally debuts its long awaited AR glasses, Specs, and, oof, they aren’t cheap

After many years, Snap is finally launching its next consumer-focused smart glasses line.

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Sixty percent of U.S. consumers say ‘AI’ in brand messaging is a turnoff, survey finds

WordPress VIP’s latest survey suggests consumers are wary of AI-generated answers even as companies increasingly view AI…

Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?

Meta's engineering culture, which had evolved over two decades into a high-performance organization known for balancing…

TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP

Bash can make HTTP requests directly using `/dev/tcp/host/port` redirection, allowing users to perform simple GET…

SpaceX to acquire AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion

Separately, neither could compete. Now they hope they can.

Making ast.walk 220x Faster

Reflex's AI code generator encountered performance issues with its custom Python linter, specifically with the…

Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year

Audited accounting shows growing revenues being dwarfed by R&D, other expenses.

GateGPT: 56k tokens per second Transformer (KV cache) on FPGA at 80 MHz

Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

Apple's Vehicle Motion Cues, an accessibility feature introduced in 2024, uses moving dots on the screen's periphery to…

UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts

The UK government will ban social media for under-16s starting spring 2027, requiring age verification through ID…

Payments startup Flutterwave hits $3.2B valuation, backed by Ripple

African payments infrastructure company Flutterwave has hit a new valuation and landed blockchain company Ripple as…

CJEU: Social networks are the 'publishers' of algorithmically-altered feeds

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that social networks functioning as algorithmic feed curators…

After AI Takes Everything

# Summary Software engineers are increasingly anxious about AI replacing their roles, with the author arguing that…

Google Chrome's Next Update Will Mark the End of Popular Ad Blockers

Google is removing the final workaround that allowed legacy ad blockers based on Manifest V2 to function in Chrome,…

DOJ claims xAI’s unpermitted gas turbines are a matter of ‘national, economic, and energy security’

The Justice department says the Pentagon needs xAI to keep using its unpermitted gas turbines.

Plaud says its software business topped $100M in ARR after shipping over 2M AI notetakers

Plaud is trying to make a mark in a crowded market full of AI-powered meeting notetakers.