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Trump admin wants nuclear startups to use plutonium for their reactors

The U.S. government is sitting on dozens of tons of weapons-grade plutonium. It's hoping startups can find a use for it.

DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search

Google overhauled Search at I/O 2026, replacing blue links with AI agents. The backlash has been swift.

From Rust to Ruby

A developer converted a 14,943-line Rust web application to Ruby on Rails using a local LLM, reducing the codebase to…

Phloto for My Photo Flow

The author created Phloto, a custom web-based tool to streamline their digital photography workflow, which involves…

Starship’s path to reusability looks murky after SpaceX’s S-1

Musk has said that Starship is the key to keeping Starlink's costs under control, even saying that SpaceX could go…

This Half-Gigabyte AI Model Runs Local Agents on Your Phone

OpenBMB's 1B-parameter model brings MCP support and agentic tool use to on-device AI—but it has trouble with logic traps.

We're starting to see some PC makers respond to Apple's MacBook Neo

Sub-$600 laptops have existed for years, but consistently good ones remain rare.

Big Tech's Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

The worst job interview I ever had

# Summary An engineer describes a disastrous job interview at a mental health startup where, instead of a technical…

Grand Theft Data: Threat Actors Weaponizing GTA 6 Hype, NordVPN Warns

Cybercriminals are weaponizing the hype surrounding Grand Theft Auto 6, flooding the internet with GTA phishing traps…

Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package

"BadHost" was found in Starlette, a package with 325 million weekly downloads.

DeepSWE: A contamination-free benchmark for long-horizon coding agents

DeepSWE is a new benchmark for evaluating long-horizon coding agents on original engineering tasks designed to prevent…

AI Chatbots Show Bias Toward Catholicism, Researchers Say

Researchers find AI models steer users toward Catholicism and away from other religions, like Jehovah’s Witnesses.

SpaceX’s Starlink nabs American Airlines contract, another win for its IPO

American Airlines said Tuesday it plans to install Starlink on more than 500 Airbus aircraft, the latest carrier win for…

Modern Blu-ray drives can now rip GameCube, Wii, and Xbox 360 games to PC

Modern Blu-ray drives equipped with OmniDrive firmware can now rip games from GameCube, Wii, original Xbox, and Xbox 360…

Stop Advertising in Your Commits

The author argues that developers should stop allowing tools to add advertisements (such as "Assisted by [AI tool…

OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year

OpenRouter has raised a $113 million Series B led by CapitalG.

Inaudible Audio Attacks Can Hijack AI Voice Models, Study Finds

Researchers were able to embed hidden signals in audio clips that silently commandeer AI model behavior.

AltTab.app makes free features paid, drops old releases

FBI agent explains how easy it is to ID people posting AI porn without consent

A creepy saved post on Instagram linked man to AI porn account, FBI says.

Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%

Xiaomi has permanently reduced prices for its MiMo-v2.5 Series API by up to 99%, with the base MiMo-v2.5 model now…

Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking

3D-printable humanoid legs let robotics experiments run wild

Hugging Face debuts $2,500 bipedal robot project for builders and researchers.

Sage Care (YC S24) Is Hiring Software Engineers

Sage Care, a YC S24-funded startup, is hiring founding software engineers to build an AI-native operating system for…

Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive

Ferrari's share price dropped up to 8% following the launch of its first electric vehicle, the Luce, designed by former…

Windows' classic 3D Space Cadet pinball is getting a physical re-creation

But there are some real-world constraints that virtual pinball could easily ignore.

This startup is betting India’s gig economy can train the world’s robots

Human Archive, a startup founded by Berkeley and Stanford researchers, is paying gig workers in India to wear…

What Color is Your Function? (2015)

This article uses a fictional programming language with "colored" functions (red and blue) to illustrate a concept about…

Language Models Need Sleep

Researchers propose a "sleep-like" mechanism for transformer language models that periodically consolidates recent…