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New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses

Google sues Chinese cybercrime network that used Gemini to automate scams

The fraudsters allegedly targeted hundreds of thousands of people with Gemini-coded scams sites.

A PDF that changes based on who is reading

The article describes a technique for creating PDFs that render identically to human readers but provide clean,…

SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI’s hot IPO summer

The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge.

Elon Musk becomes the world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX’s historic IPO

The SpaceX IPO has boosted Musk's paper wealth to more than $1,000,000,000,000 at a time when he is more hated -- and…

SpaceX opens at $150, an 11% pop for the most anticipated debut in history

The company made its heavily-anticipated debut on Friday, trading higher than its initial $135 IPO price.

Euro-Office, open standards, and native ODF

The Document Foundation welcomes Euro-Office's commitment to open standards but clarifies that it is not the first…

Keygen.music

Keygen.music is a platform dedicated to preserving and sharing tracker music formats (MOD, XM, S3M) from the demoscene…

You can power on a Mac remotely

Apple has finally enabled remote power-on for certain Mac models (Mac mini 2024+, Mac Studio 2025+, and iMac 2024+)…

Wasi: WebGPU – A Proposed WebAssembly System Interface API

The wasi:webgpu proposal seeks to bring GPU access to WebAssembly through a new WebAssembly System Interface API,…

Show HN: StackScope – I crawled over 40k indie launches to see what they ship

Hey all, I built StackScope, a crawler/catalogue that looks at new product launches and shows what they were built…

Show HN: Script to bulk delete Claude chats from the web UI

I haven't found a way to delete all chats in bulk like you can on Chatgpt.

Lawsuit: ChatGPT validated suicidal woman's distrust of crisis lines

Did chatbot abandon mental health guardrails when a vulnerable user pushed back?

Introduction to UEFI HTTP(s) Boot with QEMU/OVMF

Modern UEFI-based systems can boot over HTTP(S), which offers significant security and availability advantages over the…

Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end

A developer discovered that requesting AI-generated frontend interfaces to mimic Qt (a desktop application framework)…

My Struggles Talking to an Old Piece of Junk (Fanuc 0M)

WhatsApp Business API pricing 2026: what's free and where markup hides

# Summary WhatsApp Business API is never strictly free—Meta charges $0.004 to $0.13 per message depending on country…

How to automate Instagram engagements with computer vision (and get banned)

# Summary The author experimented with using computer vision and cursor automation to automate Instagram engagement by…

What the Fuck Happened to Nerds

Over the past decade, technology industry leaders have shifted from the modest, work-focused "nerd" archetype…

SpaceX IPO: Everything you need to know

TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days.

WASI 0.3.0 Released

The WASI Subgroup has officially ratified WASI 0.3.0, rebasing WebAssembly System Interface onto the WebAssembly…

Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring a Full Stack Engineer

Morning Minute: SpaceX Prices Largest IPO Ever at $135

Hyperliquid has SpaceX trading at $177 a share. Will we see a 30% pop on open this morning?

Who Will Win the 2026 FIFA World Cup According to ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Claude, and Perplexity?

With the 2026 FIFA World Cup underway across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, discussions about the eventual…

Encrypted Spaces An architecture for collaborative applications

Encrypted Spaces is a research architecture that enables collaborative cloud applications while keeping data encrypted…

BlackRock is betting big on SpaceX ahead of its historic IPO

SpaceX takes off on the stock market with 75 billion in the holds. BlackRock reserves its cabin for 5 billion.

Cameras, sensors, and 3D body scans: All the tech helping eliminate blown calls

This World Cup, refs will use digital twins of each player to view plays from every angle.

Pokémon Go players unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses

The repurposing of Pokémon Go data for AI training continues to draw scrutiny.

Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher

Ryanair's 2026 check-in process contains at least nine deliberately confusing steps designed to push users toward paid…