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Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots

Needle2 is a 14MB open-source language model designed for resource-constrained devices like budget phones, smartwatches,…

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Has Ford got cheap car fever? A $25K crossover is supposedly on the way.

Ford dealers were told about the new Escape-sized model; one of them spilled the beans.

Launch HN: Stoa Markets (YC S26) – A Marketplace for GPUs and AI Servers

Stoa Markets, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is launching a marketplace that brings price transparency and standardized…

What's the best programming language for coding agents?

Research comparing programming languages for coding agents suggests dynamic languages like Clojure and J are more…

Meta’s new Glimmer AI model offers a hint at Zuckerberg’s personal intelligence vision

Meta’s new open-weight Muse Glimmer model offers a glimpse of Mark Zuckerberg’s personal superintelligence vision, as…

Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt

Researchers discovered a vulnerability in x86 CPU System Management Mode (SMM) that allows breaking its security model…

Valve slowly expands SteamOS support on non-Valve hardware

New update includes improvements for the Intel-based MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ among others.

Show HN: Ante, a coding agent in a single binary that runs offline

Ante is a self-contained coding agent distributed as a single ~15MB Rust binary that runs offline without dependencies,…

Back to the Future of Handwriting Recognition

RAND Corporation's GRAIL system, developed in 1966, pioneered handwriting recognition technology that allowed users to…

Show HN: MergeImage – Merge and stitch images locally in the browser

MergeImage is a browser-based tool that allows users to merge and stitch multiple image files (PNG, JPEG, WebP) locally…

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AI Agents Could Transform How Money Moves Across the Internet 

The surge in AI agents’ dominance across the internet is attracting significant attention and raising curiosity among…

Following Epic loss, Google has started hosting rival app stores in the Play Store

Aptoide has become the first app store distributed inside Google Play under a judge's order.

OpenAI's New Device Will Be Hockey Puck-Sized and Cost over $300

Convince an AI it's not alive in psychological horror game Prove You're Human

Prove You're Human is a psychological horror game by Sunset Visitor studio where players control a digital clone of a…

Sila lands $1.4B Pentagon loan as militaries demand more batteries

Battery materials startup Sila will use a $1.4 billion loan from the U.S.

'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows

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Archer buys former rival Wisk Aero

The two companies were once embroiled in a trade secret theft lawsuit. Now, Wisk is being absorbed into Archer.

OpenAI Says Its Next AI Model Astra May Be Too Dangerous, Pauses Development

OpenAI says its next major model may be dangerous enough to write its own cyberweapons, and it's pulling back until the…

Kinney Drugs pulls back AI phone assistant after hundreds of customer complaints

Kinney Drugs is scaling back its AI phone assistant called Burt after hundreds of customer complaints about incoherent…

2026 Subaru Outback review: Great interior, refined drive, divisive looks

The newest Outback sticks to the script; that's no bad thing if you like Outbacks.

OpenAI's letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas

Meta Launches Muse Glimmer for Local AI Agents on Personal Devices

Meta launched Muse Glimmer, an AI model that can run on a personal computer instead of relying entirely on cloud servers.

A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets.

Companies treat some email domains as digital trash cans, despite the risks.

Exploring Claude/GPT Knowledge Cutoffs and Pre-Training Timelines

A researcher used carefully designed quizzes and probing techniques to estimate the training timelines and knowledge…

A data breach at shipping giant Ceva Logistics is rippling across banks, retailers, Steam gamers, and beyond

Companies that rely on Ceva Logistics for shipping their physical goods to customers say their personal data was taken…

Show HN: Open-Source Greptile Alternative

Juror-AI is an open-source GitHub Action that provides automated code reviews using multiple AI models in parallel,…

Signed up for Klaviyo? Dozens of advertisers may have seen your password

A bug in the tech giant's website mistakenly shared users' sign-up information, including personal data and their…