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Today so far 2026-08-12 · 17:13 UTC

Google has unveiled its Pixel 11 lineup along with new AI-powered Gemini features and an AirTag rival at its Made by Google 2026 event, marking a major product refresh from the tech giant. Meanwhile, AI-related concerns are mounting across the industry, with booksellers suspecting AI firms of buying and destroying rare books and a German advocacy group filing a criminal complaint over Meta's AI glasses, while Facebook has rolled out its standalone Creator Studio app with AI tools. On the security front, a researcher published a Windows zero-day vulnerability after Microsoft threatened legal action, and Tailscale traced database corruption to a 16-year-old SQLite bug.

Open WireGuard Endpoints

UDP Gateway now supports Open WireGuard Endpoints, allowing WireGuard Listeners to accept connections from unregistered clients without pre-registration, similar to how HTTPS operates for websites.

2026-08-14 · 19:05 UTC
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Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

2026-08-14 · 19:03

Firefox is now the only major browser supporting uBlock Origin after Microsoft Edge began phasing out Manifest V2…

Read-it-later app Pocket shut down down — here are the best alternatives

2026-08-14 · 18:58

Pocket users have until October 8, 2025, to export their saved articles and other items, including lists, archives,…

Show HN: Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal

2026-08-14 · 18:52

Mole is a deep research agent for the terminal that decomposes questions, searches sources, and generates cited answers…

Show HN: Embed a real Linux terminal on your website

2026-08-14 · 18:51

Sandbox.bio, celebrating its 5th anniversary, now allows users to embed a live Linux terminal directly on websites and…

Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation

2026-08-14 · 18:32

Screen-sharing bug lets remote hackers log in without a password.

OpenAI Staff Blame Rush to Ship for Rogue Agent Hack

2026-08-14 · 18:31

Current and former OpenAI employees reportedly say pressure to release new AI products made it harder to prioritize…

Racket v9.3

2026-08-14 · 18:14

Racket v9.3 has been released with several enhancements, including markdown documentation generation, improved teaching…

First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity

2026-08-14 · 18:00

Airline-backed venture aims to develop a hybrid-electric commercial aircraft.

Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case

2026-08-14 · 17:26

Judge warns pro se litigants are using chatbots wrong and getting desperate.

SpaceX Closes $60 Billion Cursor Deal in Major AI Compute Push

2026-08-14 · 17:22

SpaceX has completed its $60 billion acquisition of Cursor, bringing the AI coding company and its model-development…

France : 680,000 Taxpayers Threatened After a Cyberattack Against the DGFiP

2026-08-14 · 17:20

France faces a new leak of sensitive data.

PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider

2026-08-14 · 17:03

"We don't have access to the data on the hardware/servers," Iron Mountain told Ars.

A Contract-Grade Verifier for LLM-Generated GPU Kernels

2026-08-14 · 16:57

Researchers developed a rigorous verification tool to audit GPU kernels generated by language models, finding that 39.5%…

Show HN: LuaCAD – Parametric CAD Scripted in Lua

2026-08-14 · 16:43

LuaCAD is a parametric CAD tool that allows users to script 2D and 3D models in Lua and export them to various formats…

The Qdrant Output Connector

2026-08-14 · 16:35

The Qdrant Output Connector integrates Qdrant, a Rust-based vector database, into OpenCrawling's enterprise RAG system…

Unforgetful is a new reminders app for people who can’t stop hitting snooze

2026-08-14 · 16:21

Unforgetful, the latest app from longtime indie developer Marco Arment, is designed to make reminders harder to ignore —…

Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions

2026-08-14 · 16:15

Claude Code users can reduce token costs and improve session efficiency by clearing context between tasks, maintaining…

Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations

2026-08-14 · 16:13

Turning off this setting won't affect invisible benchmarks used to identify an AI generated file

RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland

2026-08-14 · 16:12

RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland, allowing users to connect to remote machines even when…

Ars Live recap: How can we stop publishers from killing their own games?

2026-08-14 · 16:11

The Stop Killing Games movement faces an uphill battle.

RayforceDB – a pure C analytics database with a Lisp-like syntax

2026-08-14 · 16:02

RayforceDB is an open-source, pure C analytics database with a Lisp-like syntax (Rayfall) that combines columnar…

AI by Hand

2026-08-14 · 15:58

"AI by Hand" is an educational platform by Prof.

Show HN: Online SNMP MIB database - upload/view your own MIBs

2026-08-14 · 15:49

A developer created an online SNMP MIB database that allows users to upload and view their own Management Information…

"Solving a largely imaginary user goal"

2026-08-14 · 15:48

Lea Verou proposes that dark-mode toggles should use a "smart" two-option interface (light and dark) rather than…

Judge gives Google one week to fix "anticompetitive" app store download in Google Play

2026-08-14 · 15:46

Third-party app stores are about to become more visible in Google Play.

Does Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is ‘for everyone’?

2026-08-14 · 15:43

Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast…

Google Is Making Private AI Practical with Homomorphic Encryption

2026-08-14 · 15:43

Google has introduced HEIR, an open-source compiler that enables private AI inference by allowing computations to be…

Show HN: Graft – Claude Code hooks that cut grep tokens by 42%

2026-08-14 · 15:22

Graft is a tool that optimizes Claude Code and other AI coding agents by reducing token usage by 42% and improving…

Introducing Toast 1

2026-08-14 · 15:07

Mixedbread has launched Toast 1, a specialized search agent that matches the performance of frontier AI models like…

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