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Google's 20% 'project' has become AI's 120% 'attention'

Google's original "20% time" policy—allowing engineers one day per week for self-directed projects—worked because of the…

Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with Agents

Scott Chacon used AI agents to rewrite Git from scratch in Rust as a library-based, memory-safe implementation that…

Ultrafast machine learning on FPGAs via Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

# Summary Researchers developed hardware architectures for deploying Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) on FPGAs to…

Anthropic says these topics are too dangerous to let its Fable 5 model talk about

New frontier model refuses cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry queries.

AI Malware Worm Adapts to New Targets in Real Time, Cybersecurity Experts Say

Researchers demonstrated an AI-powered worm that adapts to targets, generates attack strategies, and spreads across…

Google announces Gemini 3.5 Live Translate for instant voice-to-voice translation

Voice translations preserve speaker's tone, pacing, pitch—with SynthID watermarks for security.

Can tech companies learn to love cheaper AI models? 

If those same AI workloads can be handled by cheaper models without affecting quality, it would mean a massive shift in…

Apple's AI Can Now Change Your Passwords. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

# Summary Apple announced a new Passwords feature that uses AI to automatically change weak or compromised passwords by…

Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro?

Almost two years ago there was a thread on this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40872102).

CEOs Who Think AI Replaces Their Employees Are Just Bad CEOs

CEOs who view AI as a replacement for employees rather than a tool to enhance their workforce demonstrate poor…

Anthropic Rolls Out Claude Mythos 5 AI Model—Along With the Safer Fable 5 for the Public

Anthropic has released a full version of its cybersecurity-centric Claude Mythos model—along with a safer version for…

Version of AI tool 'too powerful for public' released to public

Claude Fable 5 is a version of Anthropic's Claude Mythos, an AI program which caused a stir among technology, finance,…

GPT-2: Too Dangerous To Release (2019)

In 2019, OpenAI initially withheld the full GPT-2 model (1.5 billion parameters) due to concerns about its potential for…

CISA gives US federal agencies three days to fix a VPN bug under attack by a ransomware gang

Check Point said hackers broke into dozens of organizations by exploiting a VPN bug in several of its products used…

Where is the AI jobs crisis?

Despite widespread concerns about AI displacing workers, there is no evidence of a jobs crisis emerging.

The LD_DEBUG environment variable (2012)

The LD_DEBUG environment variable is a Linux debugging tool that outputs detailed information about dynamic library…

Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos

https://www.theverge.com/report/947575/microsoft-claude-fabl...

What it feels like to work with Mythos

Claude Fable, Anthropic's new Mythos-class AI model, represents a significant leap in AI capabilities, consistently…

Claude Mythos 5 / Fable 5

Claude Fable 5 is Anthropic's fifth-generation AI model designed for complex, long-running tasks in coding, knowledge…

Anthropic’s Claude Fable is a version of Mythos the public can access today

Anthropic is releasing Claude Fable 5, its first Mythos-class model available to the public.

System Card: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 [pdf]

Rivian starts deliveries of its all-important R2 SUV

Founder and CEO RJ Scaringe has called it "maybe the most important thing we've launched to date."

One day after discovery, Meta pulls facial recognition code from its smart glasses

Meta won't say why or whether it's coming back.

Launch HN: Transload (YC P26) – Measuring freight items with CCTV

Hi HN — we’re Julius, Jago, and Nils, and we’re building transload (transload.io).transload helps LTL trucking companies…

Apple’s foldable iPhone could be just around the corner

The iOS 27 developer beta includes code that references the fold state and screen angle of a device.

Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption

Biff.core: system composition for Clojure web apps

Jacob O'Bryant has released biff.core, the first library in Biff 2's modular redesign, which provides system composition…

It’s not FAANG anymore. It’s MANGOS.

With SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI all eyeing massive public debuts, the tech industry may soon have a new class of…

Show HN: Claw Patrol, a security firewall for agents

At Deno we've been using OpenClaw and other agents increasingly for addressing production problems in Deno Deploy - when…