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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.

Woman Pulled over at Gunpoint Twice After Flock Camera Glitch

A Wisconsin woman was pulled over at gunpoint twice in one week after a Flock camera system mistakenly flagged her vehicle as connected to a homicide investigation due to a Milwaukee police employee's…

2026-08-11 · 17:02 UTC
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Why Go Is an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering

2026-08-11 · 16:57

Go is ideally suited for AI-assisted software engineering because the focus has shifted from writing code quickly to…

Mojo 1.0 Is Here

2026-08-11 · 16:56

Mojo has officially reached version 1.0, marking a stable, production-ready foundation for long-term development after…

FlightAware sues Kalshi over flight cancellation data

2026-08-11 · 16:55

The legal action against Kalshi focused on trademark infringement and injury to its reputation in addition to citing…

Nasdaq to acquire LeveL Markets in push toward ‘always-on’ markets

2026-08-11 · 16:34

Nasdaq’s acquisition of the third-largest US alternative trading system comes as the exchange operator expands into…

An unreleased Anthropic model made progress on one of math’s biggest unsolved problems

2026-08-11 · 16:25

For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics.

A Google insider spills the tea on how the company forsook its founding ideals

2026-08-11 · 16:07

Claire Stapleton's new book, Don't Be Evil, recounts her journey from company cheerleader to outspoken dissident.

Joby Aviation builds out defense business with $500M acquisition

2026-08-11 · 16:06

Joby Aviation reached an agreement to acquire Resonant Sciences, which will kick off its new defense business.

Delta investigating after someone set up fake Wi-Fi network mid-flight

2026-08-11 · 15:40

The Delta flight crew switched off the aircraft's legitimate Wi-Fi network for around 30 minutes due to the incident,…

Anthropic Emerges as ‘Frontier AI Lab’ Behind Riot’s $9.1B AI Deal

2026-08-11 · 15:40

Anthropic has agreed to take 191 megawatts of computing capacity at Riot Platforms’ Rockdale campus in Texas.

2025’s most downloaded game, Block Blast!, is going ad-free on Apple Arcade

2026-08-11 · 15:33

Block Blast!, the most downloaded mobile game of 2025, is coming to Apple Arcade in September where it will be ad-free.

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe is betting on EVs, robots, and autonomy all at once — he’ll explain why at Disrupt 2026 

2026-08-11 · 15:30

Rivian's CEO RJ Scaringe is speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to detail his journey, and the lessons it’s bestowed.

Show HN: Git-knife – edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet

2026-08-11 · 15:09

Git-knife is a new desktop GUI tool that allows users to edit git commit metadata—including messages, author…

OpenAI's Only Dedicated Ethicist Has Left With No Replacement: FT

2026-08-11 · 15:05

Chloé Bakalar joined from Meta last August and departed in July without any announcement, one of several safety exits in…

WEEX Brings AI Trading Off the Screen and Into the Hands of Global Users

2026-08-11 · 15:00

 From Miami to Milan, and from Paris to the Netherlands, WEEX’s AI Trading emerged as the standout on-site activation…

Kyoto Fusioneering starts work on key fusion power plant device

2026-08-11 · 15:00

Fusion power startups are turning to Kyoto Fusioneering to supply components for future power pants.

Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: 11–16× Faster LLM Inference with Llama.cpp

2026-08-11 · 14:50

Researchers achieved 11–16× faster large language model (LLM) inference performance on Apple Silicon macOS virtual…

Launch HN: Keet (YC S24) – An app to create video courses on anything

2026-08-11 · 14:48

Keet is a YCombinator-backed app that generates personalized video courses on any topic in a Duolingo-style format,…

Federal vendor with $50M in contracts leaves portal broken for a month

2026-08-11 · 14:32

The Office of Personnel Management's FOIA portal, operated by a federal vendor that has received over $50 million in…

Zuckerberg Says Everyone Will Soon Have AI With Invention Superpowers

2026-08-11 · 14:31

Meta plans to give billions of people a free personal AI agent that writes code, builds businesses and manages the…

Manus will return to operating as an independent company

2026-08-11 · 14:14

Manus is transitioning back to operating as an independent company and will delete data generated by certain users after…

Flock wanted to tap dashcams in rideshare vechicles to add to surveillance data

2026-08-11 · 14:04

Surveillance company Flock developed plans to partner with dashcam company Nexar to collect license plate data from Uber…

Why Did OpenAI's Head of Ethics Chloé Bakalar Leave?

2026-08-11 · 14:03

Chloé Bakalar, OpenAI's Head of Ethics, has left the company after less than a year, joining other departures from the…

🎧 Welcome back to… 72+

2026-08-11 · 13:59

The 72+ podcast is BACK and it's got a brand new home.

Bumble ditches its rule that kept men from making the first move

2026-08-11 · 13:59

Bumble is ditching the rule that it has enforced since launching in 2024. Men can finally message first.

North Korean remote IT staffer worked for US government agency, says FBI

2026-08-11 · 13:40

The investigation shows that North Koreans are able to infiltrate government agencies, as well as private organizations…

Show HN: Write.md, a free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS

2026-08-11 · 13:30

Write.md is a free, open-source Markdown editor for macOS that prioritizes customization and privacy, allowing users to…

Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

2026-08-11 · 13:26

NVIDIA released Nemotron-3.5-Lightning, a 30-billion parameter open-source language model with only 3 billion active…

An AI Agent Exploits a Gym API, What Could Happen to Crypto Wallets?

2026-08-11 · 13:25

A recent incident in Australia shows that giving AI systems goals instead of strict step-by-step instructions can get a…

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

2026-08-11 · 13:22

Researchers successfully decoded hidden reasoning tokens from proprietary LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) by…

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