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New surveillance tech links your phone to your license plate

Phone and Bluetooth signals could turn roadside cameras into far richer tracking tools.

Spotify will label ‘AI Persona’ profiles and exclude their music from recommendations

Spotify is introducing “AI Persona” labels for artist profiles that represent AI-generated identities and will exclude…

Riot Platforms Signs $9.1B AI Data Center Deal Reportedly With Anthropic

The transition of Riot Platforms from Bitcoin mining will be quickened following its 20-year deal for 191 megawatts of…

What comes after the smartphone? Amazon’s Panos Panay will make his case at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 

At Disrupt 2026, Amazon's Panos Panay will provide an exclusive vision for what's in store for us beyond the smartphone.

OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining

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Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models

Anthropic will extend support for watermarking AI generations for older models as well.

New Pass-ta-key attack reveals all the things we didn't know about passkeys

Why passkey apps treat Windows differently than other operating systems.

How to organize Claude Code for product work

The author explains how to organize Claude Code for product work by structuring files around company context, projects,…

What I learned by putting GitHub Copilot behind a MitM proxy

The author intercepted GitHub Copilot's network traffic using a man-in-the-middle proxy to understand how the AI coding…

Nvidia's Risky Business

Jay Cooke revolutionized bond financing in the 1870s by selling Northern Pacific Railway bonds directly to retail…

More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts

More than 10 companies have signed up for Trump Media's Truth API service, which offers faster access to posts from…

London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces

OpenAI Freezes Astra Under Its Preparedness Framework

OpenAI has just suspended the internal development of Astra, its future artificial intelligence model.

Closing Canario Terminal source code

A developer has decided to close-source Canario Terminal, a project they built for personal use, citing the substantial…

Anthropic strikes $9B compute deal with Bitcoin miner Riot: Report

Anthropic reportedly struck a $9 billion deal with Riot for 191 megawatts of capacity from the Bitcoin miner’s Rockdale…

OpenAI wraps $7B share sale ahead of potential IPO

DeepSeek: Reverse Engineering an AI Assistant by Interviewing Itself

The author conducted an extended interview with DeepSeek, an AI assistant, asking it to explain how it works, then…

Show HN: Mcptoon – MCP CLI client that cuts tool discovery tokens by 97%

Mcptoon is a CLI client that dramatically reduces token consumption when using MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers by…

Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quiet Enterprise Install of Beta 'Photos' App

Updated GPG Key for Signing Firefox and Thunderbird Releases

Mozilla rotated its GPG signing key for Firefox and Thunderbird releases after an unencrypted copy of the previous key…

Why My Father Is Wrong: A Defense of Guitar Hero

The author defends Guitar Hero against her father's comparison of the game to generative AI, arguing that while Guitar…

Hyperspace

Hyperspace is a Mac application that identifies duplicate files and reclaims disk space by consolidating identical files…

Recycle – Floppydisks

A company buys sealed, new floppy disks in quantities of 100 or more and also operates a recycling program for used 3.5"…

Antirez/h3.c: MiniMax H3 inference engine for Mac computers

Antirez/h3.c is a native inference engine for the MiniMax-H3 model optimized for Apple Silicon Macs using Metal…

Chicken Scheme 6.0

Chicken Scheme 6.0 introduces major updates including full R7RS compliance with all small language modules now in the…

OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer

San Francisco's housing market is in trouble again.

As AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model

OpenAI is expanding its AI cybersecurity defense program Daybreak, and rolling out a new cyber-trained AI model with it.

Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states

A developer has created an interactive tool that allows users to browse through all possible Rubik's Cube…

World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world

World Train Map is an interactive atlas featuring 1,247 notable train routes across 120 countries, including high-speed,…