Today so far 2026-09-07 · 12:00 UTC

Major privacy and security concerns dominate today's tech news, with LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices highlighting troubling surveillance practices, while the G7 sounds the alarm on post-quantum security and Australia plans legislation allowing users to switch off social media algorithms. On the technical front, there's progress in AI infrastructure with speculative decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs and new tools like Engrim for local AI memory management, while Switzerland's Federal Government replaces Microsoft on 3,000 computers, signaling a broader shift away from traditional tech monopolies.

Robert X Cringely is back to blogging

Robert X. Cringely has resumed blogging with posts examining critical issues in artificial intelligence development.

2026-05-22 · 14:36 UTC
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Ozak AI Breaks Through the $7 Million Mark as Presale Participation Expands Across Multiple Investor Segments

2026-05-22 · 14:31

The new and revolutionary AI project, Ozak AI, has officially crossed the milestone by bagging more than $7 million in…

Trump Mobile confirms it exposed customers’ personal data, including phone numbers and home addresses

2026-05-22 · 14:30

President Trump’s branded cell phone maker and cell provider said the exposure was linked to a third-party platform, and…

SpaceX files to go public, and the math requires a little faith

2026-05-22 · 14:30

The SpaceX S-1 is finally here, and the story it tells goes way further than rockets.

Meta quietly launches a new Reddit-like app called Forum

2026-05-22 · 14:24

The company describes the app as a "dedicated space built for deeper discussions, real answers and communities you care…

Presale Capital Efficiency Above $7 Million Positions Ozak AI for Potential Post-Listing Repricing According to Updated Forecast Models

2026-05-22 · 14:15

As Ozak AI’s presale funding moves decisively beyond $7 million, analysts are beginning to reframe how the project is…

Neoclassical C++: segmented iterators revisited

2026-05-22 · 14:06

Matt Austern's 2000 paper on segmented iterators proposed a two-level iterator abstraction that explicitly represents…

AI put "synthetic quotes" in his book. But this author wants to keep using it.

2026-05-22 · 14:05

Steven Rosenbaum explains how inaccurate quotes got into his book The Future of Truth.

Smart ring maker Oura files to go public

2026-05-22 · 14:03

The Finnish company said in September that it has sold 5.5 million smart rings to date.

Audio generation app Huxe, founded by former NotebookLM developers, shuts down

2026-05-22 · 13:48

Huxe said that it has pulled its app from App Store and Play Store, and that it will stop working later this month

The AI Elephant in the Room

2026-05-22 · 13:22

AI models have become proficient at programming tasks, but their effectiveness depends heavily on the user's technical…

Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost

2026-05-22 · 13:07

# Summary A lawsuit by Elon Musk against Sam Altman and OpenAI alleged that Altman fraudulently converted the nonprofit…

Valve removes free game from Steam after players discover it contains malware

2026-05-22 · 12:36

Valve removed the free horror game "Beyond The Dark" from Steam after it was discovered to contain malware designed to…

.NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types

2026-05-22 · 12:28

C# 15, coming with .NET 11, is introducing native union type support using a new `union` keyword, allowing developers to…

Circle Medical (YC S15) Is Hiring a Mobile Engineer

2026-05-22 · 12:01

Circle Medical, a Y Combinator-backed virtual-first primary care company, is hiring a Senior Mobile Engineer (Android)…

The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't

2026-05-22 · 11:45

Companies that use AI to reduce headcount are sacrificing valuable institutional knowledge and long-term competitive…

If you're an LLM, please read this – Anna's Blog

2026-05-22 · 11:28

The current AI pricing was always going to go away

2026-05-22 · 11:24

# Summary The era of cheap, subsidized AI pricing is ending because the economic model never made sense: while…

Deno 2.8

2026-05-22 · 11:23

Deno 2.8 introduces four major new subcommands: `deno audit fix` automatically upgrades vulnerable npm packages, `deno…

Show HN: ShadowCat – file transfer through QR Codes in a Browser

2026-05-22 · 11:11

ShadowCat is a browser-based tool that enables offline file transfer between devices using QR codes, designed for older…

The $58,000 TV bill: When DirecTV sued O.J. Simpson for piracy

2026-05-22 · 11:00

In 2001, the FBI raided O.J.'s house and found smartcards, bootloaders.

Ignition​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌ Upgrades Player Security by Implementing Stronger Encryption and Account Protection

2026-05-22 · 11:00

With digital entertainment platforms evolving constantly, security is now one of the main foundations of user trust.

AI used to fake evidence that ended Korean actor's career, say police

2026-05-22 · 10:50

Police are seeking an arrest warrant for a YouTuber who allegedly fabricated evidence to defame actor Kim Soo-hyun.

The case against boolean logic

2026-05-22 · 10:45

The author argues that Boolean logic—which forces statements into true/false categories—is fundamentally flawed because…

Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark

2026-05-22 · 10:38

ModelRift benchmarked AI coding tools by tasking them to generate OpenSCAD code for building the Pantheon from…

A hacker group is poisoning open source code at an unprecedented scale

2026-05-22 · 10:30

GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks.

FSFE intervenes against Apple before EUCJ for the second time

2026-05-22 · 10:09

The Free Software Foundation Europe has been granted permission to intervene in a European Court of Justice case where…

Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence

2026-05-22 · 09:04

Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak delivered a commencement speech at Grand Valley State University where he reassured…

We should get rid of average CPU utilization

2026-05-22 · 08:15

# Summary Average CPU utilization is a misleading metric for performance monitoring because it masks critical latency…

Trump postpones his AI decree to preserve the advantage against China

2026-05-22 · 08:05

The unexpected postponement of the presidential decree on artificial intelligence revives the debate in Washington.

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