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IG Japan Rolls Out Mandatory 2FA Amid Surging Phishing Attacks

IG Securities, a Japanese subsidiary of IG Group, a leading London-headquartered financial technology company, has begun…

Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris

Mistral AI is positioning itself as a full-stack European AI provider, differentiating from competitors like OpenAI and…

Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T

Liquid AI released LFM2.5-8B-A1B, an improved 8-billion parameter mixture-of-experts model trained on 38 trillion…

Startup offers free home cleaning—if it can record it all for robot training

The latest twist in paying humans to wear head cameras for robot training data.

Cognition’s Scott Wu says AI coding agents shouldn’t replace humans

Cognition makes Devin, the first and arguably most successful AI coding agent.

CAPTCHAs can still detect AI agents

# Summary While AI systems can now solve CAPTCHAs with human-level accuracy, researchers found statistically…

You can just say it

The author argues that rather than qualifying human value based on competitive advantages over AI—a position that…

GTA 6 Developers Unionize

GTA 6 developers have officially formed the Rockstar Game Workers Union under the Independent Workers' Union of Great…

The Framework 12 is dead. Apple killed it [video]

Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding

Bijou64 is a new variable-length integer encoding developed for the Subduction sync protocol that ensures each number…

It Will Never Be the Year of the Linux Desktop

# Summary Despite decades of predictions, Linux will never become a mainstream desktop operating system due to…

It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12

Apple's MacBook Neo at $499 significantly outperforms the Framework 12 ($749-$799) in speed, efficiency, display…

I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline

Chad Whitacre, a longtime open source developer, is retiring from technology to live offline, citing AI's impact on his…

Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care

Headway, an online therapy platform, is requiring all clients and providers to undergo biometric facial scanning for…

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'Controversial' North Korean invasion setting for next Call of Duty game

Developer Infinity Ward said the game will be "grounded in the military authenticity" the series is known for.

Please Use AI

This essay argues against over-relying on AI for personal and creative tasks, contending that the messiness of human…

Expertise in the Age of AI

In the age of AI coding agents, junior engineers are becoming less economically valuable, yet top companies still…

Someone used my open source project to phish 14,000 people

# Summary An attacker exploited the open-source project Kaneo's cloud signup form to create 949 fake accounts and send…

Horror video game gets its creepiness from a quantum computer

Quantum Backrooms is a horror game in which the player explores eerie rooms.

Kiwibit’s AI-powered bird feeder is my new backyard buddy

If you're looking for a fun way to connect with nature while collecting bird species on an app like Pokémon, give this…

Step 3.7 Flash

Step 3.7 Flash is a new high-efficiency multimodal AI model designed for agent applications, featuring improved web and…

Local Git Remotes

The article explains how to set up a local Git remote on a home server by creating a bare repository that can be used…

Here's why the failure of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is so catastrophic

"I hope that it makes it far enough away from the pad that it does not cause pad damage."

Here's why the failure of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is so catastrophic

"I hope that it makes it far enough away from the pad that it does not cause pad damage."

Show HN: Context-aware Japanese furigana using Sudachi and ModernBERT

EZFurigana is a web-based tool that automatically adds furigana (phonetic readings) to Japanese text across multiple…

Prolific Wikipedia editors are threatening to go on strike

The Wikimedia Foundation disbanded its Community Tech team of five engineers and one manager on May 20th, sparking…

We should be more tired than the model

The author argues that using AI code generation tools without deliberate effort leads to cognitive disengagement and…