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Tailscale Traces Database Corruption to 16y/o SQLite WAL-Reset Bug

Tailscale experienced months of service instability caused by a 16-year-old bug in SQLite's Write-Ahead Logging (WAL)…

Google unveils Pixel 11 lineup, new AirTag rival, and Gemini features at Made by Google 2026

From the Pixel 11 series and a brand new competitor to Apple’s AirTag, here are all the announcements from the Made by…

Google’s Quick Share adds a tap-to-share mode

Google's Quick Share feature is getting a tap-to-share mode for quickly exchanging contacts, photos, videos, and more.

Obituary: AmigaDOS developer Dr. Tim King has passed away

Dr. Tim King, a key developer of AmigaDOS, passed away at the end of July.

German advocacy group lodges criminal complaint over Meta AI glasses

Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot

Unknown actors are conducting widespread vulnerability scans on websites by spoofing legitimate AI bot identities,…

Why Tiny JPEGs Look Different in Chrome

Chrome uses a clever JPEG decoding optimization for tiny images that skips decompressing high-frequency details,…

Google reveals 2026 hardware lineup: Pixel 11, Pixel Watch 5, and Pixel Tag

Google focuses more on AI and curated experiences than spec upgrades in 2026.

Kalshi Adds Real-Time Market Data Feed Through DoubleZero

The service gives trading firms access to Kalshi’s sports and crypto order books over DoubleZero’s fiber network.

Qwen 3.8-27B goes openweight in 2 days

Google’s new Pixel 11 Pro Fold offers a stronger build and brighter screens

The Pixel 11 Pro Fold will cost $1,899

Google takes on AirTag with the new $29 Pixel Tag

Google’s new Pixel Tag taps into its Find Hub network to help users track lost keys, bags, and other items.

Google unveils the Pixel Watch 5 with a smarter Gemini and advanced health monitoring

The new smartwatch, which starts at $399, can track blood pressure patterns and insulin resistance, as well as deliver…

Google’s Pixel 11 lineup offer fewer hardware changes, but much more Gemini

Google Pixel 11 Series starts $100 costlier than the last year, but offers 256GB base storage

My Agent Setup

A developer is experimenting with a team of six AI agents to help scale multiple products and a nonprofit with minimal…

Only 2.6% of the most visited websites have fully valid HTML

A study of the 2,655 most visited websites found that 90.5% contain HTML errors and only 2.6% have completely valid…

Automatic1111 for Apple metal, 40% speed up sd1.5

A developer optimized Automatic1111's performance on Apple Silicon by implementing selective Metal Flash Attention and…

Researchers found a way to hijack devices through Zoom screen sharing

A public AI tool found the dangerous Zoom flaw in under 20 prompts.

Commodore 8-Bit 5¼" Disk Images

A developer has created new web-based tools for working with Commodore 8-bit 5¼" disk images as part of a redesigned PET…

Bb: The IDE that builds itself

Bb is an open-source IDE that autonomously builds and customizes itself through AI agents, allowing users to modify…

AI is removing the middle class of software engineering

AI-powered development tools are accelerating project decay by removing engineering speed limits, allowing teams to…

Shade Map

Shadowmap is an online tool that simulates and visualizes shadows cast by buildings, trees, and terrain in 3D, allowing…

YC startups are abandoning .com

Facebook ads are so hard to block that uBlock Origin stopped filtering them

Show HN: KidScreen, a finite YouTube shelf chosen by parents

KidScreen is a free parental control tool that lets parents curate a limited shelf of pre-approved YouTube videos for…

I hate packaging my software for Linux

A software developer expressing frustration with the fragmented Linux packaging ecosystem, having created packages for…

uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook

Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available

Embarcadero has released Delphi 13 Community Edition, a free professional development environment that brings students,…

AI code-testing startup Blacksmith’s valuation jumps almost 10x in less than a year

Blacksmith says revenue has grown more than tenfold over the past year.