Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine

Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by TechCrunch found that it didn't take much to get past the restriction.

2026-08-21 · 23:07 UTC
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Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf

2026-08-21 · 22:37

Nvidia continues to pour money into data center development — just as AI data centers bring lots of money into Nvidia.

TikTok to pay $400m to US in one of largest child privacy settlements

2026-08-21 · 22:36

The deal stems from a 2024 lawsuit alleging TikTok and its parent company ByteDance collected "vast amounts of data" on…

'Ghost Job' Ads Are Getting So Bad That Lawmakers Want to Ban Them

2026-08-21 · 22:15

How AI accounting startup Rillet raised $100M and became a unicorn in 48-hours

2026-08-21 · 22:10

Rillet CEO Nicholas Koop shared growth numbers at a board meeting and set off a fundraising frenzy from Iconiq, Sequoia…

Remotely Unlocking Electric Scooters

2026-08-21 · 21:32

A security researcher discovered vulnerabilities in an electric scooter company's infrastructure by analyzing their web…

Apple is reportedly cutting hundreds of jobs from Siri, Vision Pro teams

2026-08-21 · 20:58

Apple has admitted that some roles are being impacted as it shifts its focus away from certain initiatives.

TikTok reaches $400M settlement over children’s privacy lawsuit

2026-08-21 · 20:25

Two years after the U.S.

The $225 Pebble Time 2 is a refreshingly fun smartwatch

2026-08-21 · 19:57

The $225 Pebble Time 2 pairs quirky watch faces and apps with physical buttons, an e-paper display, weeks of battery…

Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM

2026-08-21 · 19:51

Rust Glancer is a new language server protocol (LSP) implementation for Rust that uses significantly less memory than…

Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude

2026-08-21 · 19:51

The author compared using Codex versus Claude for Ruby/Rails development over a week, noting that Codex produces…

Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero

2026-08-21 · 19:43

Nvidia research shows that AI agents can perform well, and not go off the deep end, through fine-tuning, even if the AI…

Church of the TigerBeetle: A Look at Tech Evangelism

2026-08-21 · 19:35

At the Systems Distributed 2026 conference, TigerBeetle's presentation resembled a religious sermon more than a…

Motorola's GrapheneOS phones will launch in 2027 priced higher than Pixels

2026-08-21 · 19:32

The private Android-based OS will expand beyond Pixels next year.

Show HN: Zcomplete – Shell Typo Correction

2026-08-21 · 19:18

Zcomplete is a shell utility that corrects mistyped commands by suggesting the correct command from your actual command…

Rust Glancer

2026-08-21 · 19:16

Rust Glancer is a new LSP server for Rust that uses significantly less memory than rust-analyzer by taking a different…

Lawsuit demands Logitech hand tariff refunds over to customers

2026-08-21 · 19:04

Logitech increased prices by up to 25 percent last year.

Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler

2026-08-21 · 18:59

Virgil Dupras, author of Collapse OS and Dusk OS, is launching a series of educational articles designed to guide…

Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders

2026-08-21 · 18:48

Anthropic is expanding access to Claude Mythos 5's cybersecurity capabilities through Claude Security, partner…

Meghan in talks for role in Netflix series The Gentlemen, BBC understands

2026-08-21 · 18:29

This would be Meghan's first significant acting role since her marriage to Prince Harry.

Tesla’s solar roof is dead. Here’s what went wrong

2026-08-21 · 18:09

Tesla's solar roof was an experiment that never really caught on for the company.

Optimizing meshoptimizer to process billions of triangles in minutes (2025)

2026-08-21 · 17:54

NVIDIA's RTX Mega Geometry technology inspired improvements to meshoptimizer to better support hierarchical clustered…

Waymo hands over documents in NHTSA’s child collision probe

2026-08-21 · 17:49

The responses to NHTSA's questions so far are redacted entirely, citing "confidential business information."

OTel isn't going well (and I made a spreadsheet about it)

2026-08-21 · 17:45

OpenTelemetry faces significant adoption challenges due to a combination of factors: its experimental features,…

Rebuilding our Electron meeting-recording engine in Swift

2026-08-21 · 17:33

The company rebuilt its desktop app's meeting-recording engine from Electron's render process to native code using…

Galactic Compass 2: now with new augmented reality mode

2026-08-21 · 17:30

Galactic Compass 2, an iPhone app that displays a floating arrow pointing toward the center of the Milky Way, has been…

Show HN: Rotation via Double Reflection

2026-08-21 · 17:18

While studying Geometric Algebra I have built some interactive visualization to demonstrate how geometric…

LiteLLM (YC W23) Is Hiring – Rust / Performance Engineers

2026-08-21 · 17:00

Why is the DOJ investigating Andreessen Horowitz’s board seats?

2026-08-21 · 16:53

Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now compete with each other: Ben Horowitz…

Show HN: Proliferate- open-source, self-hostable Codex for any coding agent

2026-08-21 · 16:47

Proliferate is an open-source, self-hostable AI IDE that enables users to run multiple coding agents (Claude Code,…

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