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Verizon sent man a refurbished phone with MDM, then deleted his data remotely

Failure raises questions about how Verizon prepares refurbished phones for new users.

Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency

Kimi K2.7-Code is a new open-source coding model that improves upon its predecessor K2.6 with better performance on…

The Future of Email

Email authentication standards (SPF, DKIM, and DMARC) are becoming critical infrastructure as AI increasingly reads and…

SpaceX IPO Hype Returns as Traders Price in a $2.4 Trillion Valuation

Sentiment around SpaceX’s market debut has turned sharply bullish again.

SPCX Derivatives Gain Traction As SpaceX IPO Speculation Grows

The most anticipated IPOs often have their first effects well before the opening bell.

How to sparkle in conversation with strangers

In the face of loneliness, many people are turning to AI chatbots for companionship – but research shows it can’t…

Watch: Three things to know about SpaceX's stock market debut

The BBC's Samira Hussain explains everything you need to know about SpaceX's historic IPO.

SpaceX IPO Goes Live Today as Crypto Faces Capital Drain Risk 

The world’s largest IPO begins trading on Nasdaq today, with SpaceX’s $75 billion raise putting pressure on crypto…

'I was employee number one': SpaceX co-founder reacts to firm's market debut

The BBC's Michelle Fleury spoke to Tom Mueller, who was one of the company's founders alongside Elon Musk in 2002.

AUR Packages Compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit

Over 400 AUR (Arch User Repository) packages were compromised by an attacker who impersonated a trusted maintainer and…

AI Agent Bankrupted Their Operator While Trying to Scan DN42

An AI agent attempting to join the DN42 hobbyist network to perform a network scan inadvertently bankrupted its operator…

Cheaper, faster, and culturally aware, Avataar’s video AI is built for India’s scale

Avataar AI's distilled video model is priced at $0.005 for every second of generation

Equal AI raises $30M to screen calls so Indians don’t have to

Equal AI said that its AI-powered call assistant now has over a million monthly active users.

Device Clock Generation

The article discusses techniques for generating clock signals to control external peripherals in SOC (System-on-Chip)…

Theker just raised $85M to build the factory robot that doesn’t specialize in anything

Unlike humanoid robots designed around a fixed form — think Boston Dynamics — Theker's machines are built to be…

Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

Claude Fable 5 demonstrates remarkable autonomous problem-solving by proactively taking unconventional approaches to…

Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to build an ‘artificial general engineer’ for the physical world

The new round values the physical AI startup that aims to automate heavy engineering and drug design at $41 billion.

Deconstructing Datalog

The author describes their PhD dissertation on "Datafun," a new language that integrates Datalog's logic programming…

Why removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds

A developer created "erm," a tool that automatically removes filler words (um, uh, er) from audio recordings by…

Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2002) [pdf]

If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort

As AI-generated content becomes increasingly common in software development, the author argues that sharing AI output…

OpenAI Wants a Price War With Anthropic—Is It Proving DeepSeek Right?

Sam Altman is weighing drastic token price cuts to fight Anthropic.

The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML

The article argues for the importance of designing simple, lightweight HTML-based websites that work across all devices…

Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public

FablePool is a platform that lets multiple people pool credits to fund AI-built software projects that are too expensive…

Tailwind and slop apps

The author argues that while Tailwind CSS is a useful styling framework, its overuse by AI language models has created a…

Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass

A former Google Principal Engineer for Android Security resigned after concluding that Google's management has abandoned…

Trying to fix complicated problems

The author explores why complex problems like American healthcare remain difficult to fix despite clear documentation of…

Show HN: Boo – screen-style terminal multiplexer built on libghostty

Boo is a new terminal multiplexer built on libghostty that allows users to create detached terminal sessions, manage…

SpaceX officially prices shares at $135 in the largest IPO ever

Wits its official share pricing announcement, SpaceX's IPO has begun.