Today so far 2026-09-08 · 06:00 UTC

Privacy concerns dominate today's tech news, with multiple reports warning that LG televisions may be spying on users even when powered off, prompting urgent calls to disconnect the devices from the internet. Meanwhile, the industry faces infrastructure challenges, as chip shortages are reportedly hampering AI development for cancer research, and progress continues in AI capabilities with developments in autonomous agent verification techniques and advanced weather forecasting models.

Sense Humans with WiFi – Ruview

2026-05-16 · 07:16

Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format

2026-05-16 · 07:01

'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Package Manager Where This Regularly Happens

2026-05-16 · 00:36

# Summary This is a satirical article criticizing npm's vulnerability to supply chain attacks, where a malicious actor…

I broke AppLovin's mediation cipher protocol

2026-05-16 · 00:35

Show HN: Epiq – Distributed Git based issue tracker TUI

2026-05-16 · 00:18

Issue trackers typically live outside of your workflow, with poor ergonomics.

Erlang/OTP 29.0

2026-05-15 · 23:33

Erlang/OTP 29.0, released May 13, 2026, introduces major features including native records as an experimental data…

SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud

2026-05-15 · 23:22

Spectre Programming Language

2026-05-15 · 23:14

Spectre is a programming language designed for safe, low-level systems programming through contract-based programming…

Orthrus-Qwen3: up to 7.8×tokens/forward on Qwen3, identical output distribution

2026-05-15 · 22:38

How to Write to SSDs [pdf]

2026-05-15 · 22:23

Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval

2026-05-15 · 21:51

Lawyers accused of rushing historic settlement to seize $320 million in fees.

RJ Scaringe has raised more than $12 billion across three startups and investors still want more

2026-05-15 · 20:30

Founder and CEO RJ Scaringe has a knack for raising money.

London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time

2026-05-15 · 20:28

Mitchellh – I strongly believe there are entire companies now under AI psychosis

2026-05-15 · 20:26

General Catalyst posted VC rage bait and it worked, especially on a16z

2026-05-15 · 20:25

Compulsive X user Andreessen himself couldn't resist responding, many, many times.

Weather-monitoring firm hangs dark cloud over customers’ heads by forcing new app

2026-05-15 · 20:16

Newer AcuRite Now app lacks some features but has a subscription option.

Palantir has hired more than 30 senior UK Government officials

2026-05-15 · 20:06

AntSeed Launches Decentralized Peer-to-Peer AI Marketplace on Base

2026-05-15 · 19:51

Today, AntSeed introduced an open marketplace for AI model access that operates peer-to-peer between AI providers and…

Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center

2026-05-15 · 19:32

Meta will receive $3.3 billion in tax breaks from Louisiana for building a $10 billion data center called Hyperion,…

WinCE64 – Windows CE 2.11 for N64

2026-05-15 · 19:23

Three's a party: US, China, and now Russia are on the prowl in GEO

2026-05-15 · 19:11

Instead of running silent and deep, most satellites easily stand out against the blackness of space.

ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline

2026-05-15 · 19:07

Packs of Empty Waymos Are Weirding Out Atlanta Neighborhood

2026-05-15 · 18:56

Residents in northwest Atlanta say empty Waymo robotaxis have spent weeks repeatedly circling residential streets early…

A hotel check-in system left a million passports and driver’s licenses open for anyone to see

2026-05-15 · 18:51

The tech company that maintains the hotel check-in system set its cloud storage to public, allowing anyone to access…

ChatGPT Can Now See Your Bank Account—Here's What That Actually Means

2026-05-15 · 18:46

OpenAI launched a personal finance tool that connects ChatGPT to your bank accounts, giving spending advice based on…

The Zulip Foundation

2026-05-15 · 18:37

Kandra Labs, the company behind the open-source Zulip team chat platform, is being donated to a newly created nonprofit…

Silicon Valley’s vacationland needs a new energy provider just as AI is driving prices up

2026-05-15 · 18:14

Lake Tahoe, Silicon Valley's favorite ski spot, is about to get hit with higher energy prices as AI drives demand for…

OpenAI feels “burned” by Apple’s crappy ChatGPT integration, insiders say

2026-05-15 · 18:13

Judge orders Apple to give Musk internal messages discussing secretive ChatGPT deal.

Waymo recalls 3,800 robotaxis after they drive into flood waters

2026-05-15 · 18:00
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