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Spotify adds AI-powered Q&A and briefing generation features to podcasts

Spotify will let you generate daily or weekly briefs based on your prompts

Spotify takes on Google’s NotebookLM with its new app

Spotify is releasing the new desktop app as a research preview in more than 20 markets

Spotify will reserve tickets for top fans of an artists in a bid to drum up engagement

Spotify said that it will monitor activity like streams and shares to determine who is a top fan

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani takes to Twitch to chat with New Yorkers

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is launching a Twitch series today at 4 p.m. ET.

We Reverse-Engineered Docker Sandbox's Undocumented MicroVM API

Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps

For the past 5 years or so I've been working on a ground-up redesign of Freenet, my peer-to-peer project from the early…

Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can

Following Bitwarden's new CEO hire (a mergers-and-acquisitions specialist with a history of dismantling companies), the…

Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods

Waymo's robotaxi service is now suspended in both Atlanta and San Antonio, as the company works to stop its vehicles…

Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)

The author, a photographer/videographer shuttling between the Maasai Mara and Silicon Valley, built a local AI indexing…

Maka Kids is redefining kids’ screen time with a streaming app optimized for well-being, not engagement

Maka Kids is building a streaming app for children ages zero to six featuring content designed for healthy development.

Hark raises $700M Series A for its secretive “universal” AI interface

Brett Adcock's new AI startup is now valued at $6 billion by its investors.

The Path, founded by Tony Robbins and Calm alums, hopes to offer safer AI therapy

The Path says its AI model has scored 95 on the mental health safety AI benchmark, Vera-MH.

Google is pitching an AI agent ecosystem to consumers who may not buy it

The AI agents are coming. A lot of them.

Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch

Google forcibly updated its Antigravity development tool to a new conversational AI interface, replacing the traditional…

US government takes $2 billion equity stake in nine quantum computing firms

Beneficiaries include startup backed by firm with links to the Trump family.

Wayve’s self-driving tech is headed to US cars made by Stellantis

Wayve's self-driving tech will show up in Stellantis vehicles in 2028.

With aluminum prices up 20%, recycling startups bet on AI to cash in

Recycling startups are using AI to improve the recovery of critical minerals like aluminum, aiming to build a massive…

AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale

The author argues that AI systems constitute unauthorized plagiarism on a massive scale, as they train on copyrighted…

Hating AI Is Good

The article argues that public skepticism toward AI is justified and should be celebrated as a legitimate political…

Plug-in hybrids get plugged in more than you might think

Toyota is the latest automaker to report PHEV charging stats, and they're encouraging.

Flipper unveils a Linux-powered networking gadget built for hackers and tinkerers

Flipper Devices said that the new gadget is in development and the base model will cost under $350

Gemini randomly dumped its system prompt

Google's Gemini AI accidentally exposed its internal system prompt on GitHub, revealing detailed instructions about how…

These clever active beam headlights are finally coming to America

The 2027 Audi Q9's digital matrix lights satisfy new NHTSA rules on minimizing glare.

Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking

Hi everyone,I am Bojta Lepenye, and first of all, I want to thank the core developers of Hashcat.

FatGid: FreeBSD 14.x kernel local privilege escalation

# Summary FreeBSD 14.x contains a critical kernel privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-45250) in the setcred(2)…

Cekura (YC F24) Is Hiring

Cekura, a Y Combinator F24-backed startup that builds infrastructure for testing and improving conversational AI agents,…

SEC Seeks Public Input on Prediction Market ETFs

The U.S.

Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links

The loophole allows spammers and scammers to send emails from a legitimate Microsoft email address typically used for…

Why the Agentic Economy Needs its Native Settlement Layer, and a Fundamental Rethink of AI Payments

I spent years at Google as a software engineer and tech lead building the systems that decide which ad you see, when you…