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

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

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

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

France faces a new leak of sensitive data.

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

The Stop Killing Games movement faces an uphill battle.

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

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

AI by Hand

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

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

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"

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

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

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

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

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%

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

Introducing Toast 1

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

Unsloth Qwen3.8-27B GGUF files

Unsloth has released Qwen3.8-27B, the latest generation of the Qwen open-model family, featuring improved performance in…

Qwen3.8-27B

Self-hosted web push Cloudflare Worker, works on iOS

Kukuroo is a self-hosted web push notification system that runs on a single Cloudflare Worker, enabling users to send…

Qwen 3.8 27B is out: open weights, best local dense model yet

Alibaba's Qwen has released Qwen3.8-27B, an open-weight dense language model featuring 27 billion parameters with native…

Apple proposes to take a 15% cut of purchases made outside the App Store

Apple is asking a federal judge to allow it to charge commissions of up to 15% on purchases made through external links…

Gemini 3.7 Flash Could Make Crypto the Ultimate Testing Ground for AI Agents

Google just released Gemini 3.7 Flash, a new AI model built for coding and autonomous agents.

Kog is going deeper to squeeze more inference out of GPUs

The idea that GPUs are poorly suited for agentic workflows may be a misconception, according to French startup Kog.

When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs

Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund Situational Awareness collapsed this week after he had gained prominence as part of…