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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.

ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux

2026-08-13 · 04:53 UTC
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Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects

2026-08-13 · 04:37

Celld is an open-source, self-hosted implementation of Cloudflare's Durable Objects that uses S3 buckets for…

Twitch users can now block Amazon from using their content to train AI

2026-08-13 · 02:46

The streaming platform's users criticised the move to allow the use of channel content for AI training.

Show HN: Ballet – Workflow automation that writes integrations against any API

2026-08-13 · 00:01

Ballet is a workflow automation platform that uses AI to build integrations and automations across multiple business…

Happy 45th Birthday to the IBM PC and Model F/XT

2026-08-12 · 23:50

On August 12, 1981, IBM launched the Personal Computer (IBM PC), fundamentally transforming the computing landscape by…

What's New in Flutter 3.47

2026-08-12 · 23:46

Flutter 3.47 introduces the 1.0 release of standalone material_ui and cupertino_ui packages, decoupling design systems…

Build Wide, Ship Narrow

2026-08-12 · 23:43

The article argues that traditional software development practices of pre-planning work into small, sequential tasks are…

Why Japanese firms are being so slow to use AI

2026-08-12 · 23:00

Japanese risk aversion and conservatism blamed for slow AI take-up by the country's business sector.

I built a browser-native SysEx librarian for 80s/90s synthesizers

2026-08-12 · 22:47

A developer has created a browser-based SysEx librarian that allows musicians to back up, organize, and search patches…

Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them cheating at their jobs, classes

2026-08-12 · 22:26

Is Anthropic's new watermarking system a travesty? Some have taken to social media to complain that it is.

AI nuclear power firm Fermi finally has a new CEO

2026-08-12 · 22:24

Lee McIntire, an independent member of Fermi's board, has been hired as CEO, more than three months since the company…

The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font

2026-08-12 · 22:02

“ShieldFont” aims to poison AI training data without making pages unreadable for people.

Process as a Proxy for Motivation

2026-08-12 · 22:01

When faced with difficult or abstract goals like "study more" or "make fewer decisions," establishing fixed processes or…

Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack

2026-08-12 · 21:43

The data was scraped and exfiltrated from 2,500 users of a compromised AI package.

The AI-Generated Pattern Hides You From Surveillance Cameras—Including Flock

2026-08-12 · 21:31

A Kansas City security researcher ran 31 million tests to teach a model how to paint camouflage for the algorithm age.

Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now

2026-08-12 · 21:00

Streaming platform says user-generated content "may be used for future Gen AI model improvements."

Northrop’s robot space mechanic is a new way to keep satellites at work longer

2026-08-12 · 20:53

The Mission Robotic Vehicle is making the first attempt to attach a new thruster to an aging satellite.

'Inner Thoughts' of Every Major AI Model Exposed in Massive Exploit

2026-08-12 · 20:31

Researchers found every major AI provider encrypts reasoning tokens with a single global key—and exploited it to decode…

Trump sued over "brazen" scheme to sell Truth Social API access for $100K a month

2026-08-12 · 20:20

With Truth API, Trump is "selling priority access to news he himself generates."

Trump’s Truth Social Faces Lawsuit Over Early Access to Posts

2026-08-12 · 20:17

Trump faces a lawsuit over paid Truth Social access as Trump Media expands its data business and faces growing…

Amazon will train on Twitch streamers’ content by default, unless they opt out

2026-08-12 · 20:10

"If this was opt-in, nobody would opt in," Twitch CPO Mike Minton said on a livestream responding to user feedback.

China’s DeepSeek Upgrades V4 Pro: Claude Fable Is Only 5% Better at 4,500% the Price

2026-08-12 · 20:01

The April preview got benchmarked to death and landed 18 points behind Anthropic’s flagship.

Breaking the WAL

2026-08-12 · 20:00

SQLite released version 3.51.3 in early 2026 to fix a longstanding Write-Ahead Logging (WAL) bug that had existed since…

SpaceXAI Wants Grok Bot to Do Your Job—But It Needs Access to Your Accounts

2026-08-12 · 19:31

The AI agent can navigate workplace software and coordinate with other bots, raising questions about security and…

Building Security Agents That Cannot Escape Their Trust Boundary

2026-08-12 · 19:29

The article argues that security agents powered by AI models require strict architectural constraints to prevent them…

Grubhub’s $24M FTC settlement is finally reaching diners and drivers

2026-08-12 · 18:34

Checks are being mailed from Grubhub's $23.8 million fine from the FTC after it settled allegations over its business…

Show HN: Programmable timer web app (for gym workouts or stretching sessions)

2026-08-12 · 18:27

Over the last couple of months, I’ve been building a timer web app for myself that I use for workout and stretching…

Zed: Delta

2026-08-12 · 18:19

Zed has introduced Delta, a multiplayer coding environment that allows developers and AI agents to collaborate in real…

AI coding startup Cognition reportedly already in talks to raise at $40B valuation

2026-08-12 · 18:19

Cognition may be looking to raise another mega round just a few months after raising $1 billion at a $26 billion…

As AI safety concerns mount, three pioneers make the case for staying open

2026-08-12 · 17:51

At Ai4, three of the world's most respected AI experts—Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng—debated regulation,…

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