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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.

TheoremDB · A public workspace for machine mathematics

TheoremDB is a public workspace platform designed to help research agents avoid duplicating work by providing a shared, searchable record of mathematical problems, attempted approaches, partial…

2026-08-09 · 01:23 UTC
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Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386

2026-08-08 · 23:37

Os8088 is a graphical operating system written entirely in assembly language that recreates a 1984 Macintosh-style…

Dithered QR Codes

2026-08-08 · 23:05

The article explains how to create dithered QR codes by modifying the data modules (non-functional parts) of standard QR…

My server is a phone now

2026-08-08 · 22:49

The author repurposed a CMF Phone 1 smartphone as a personal server to replace a paid VPS, running web apps like a…

Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled

2026-08-08 · 22:32

Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for its inventory reservation system by using MySQL 8's SKIP LOCKED feature with a…

Wikipedia's founder on his life's work: "A propaganda tool"

2026-08-08 · 21:34

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger claims in an interview with Tucker Carlson that the encyclopedia has become a…

OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide

2026-08-08 · 19:41

NextSlide says its team members are now working on ChatGPT.

Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating

2026-08-08 · 18:09

Denmark's Ministry of Education has implemented mandatory oral defenses for all high school students' written…

TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS

2026-08-08 · 17:42

TinySol is a free, tiny Klondike Solitaire game written in x86 Assembly that runs on DOS computers as small as 3KB and…

Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country

2026-08-08 · 17:27

Amazon is building a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant in Texas to power a new AI data center, which would become the…

LinkedIn Feed Blocker

2026-08-08 · 16:49

LinkedIn Feed Blocker is a minimal Chrome extension that hides LinkedIn's home feed and blocks infinite-scroll…

X replaces ‘misaligned’ revenue sharing program with Original Content Rewards

2026-08-08 · 16:34

X is winding down its existing Revenue Sharing program.

Wireblast a 100 Gbps packet generator in Go using AF_XDP

2026-08-08 · 16:07

Andree Toonk has released Wireblast, a new high-speed packet generator tool written in Go that leverages AF_XDP…

Fastmail offers EU data region

2026-08-08 · 16:04

Fastmail now offers users the option to store their email data primarily in the European Union on servers in Amsterdam,…

Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?

2026-08-08 · 16:04

Intel's latest Core Ultra 5 processor in Dell's XPS 13 achieves comparable energy efficiency to Apple's M-series chips,…

The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is a lot of fun, but it’s not a must-have

2026-08-08 · 16:00

While the device is pretty and lightweight, it’s not something the everyday person needs due to its hefty price tag and…

Message your other Claude Code sessions

2026-08-08 · 15:34

Claude Code v2.1.224 and later enables cross-session messaging on macOS and Linux, allowing Claude to send text messages…

Google’s top hacker hunter explains why hacking groups get codenames

2026-08-08 · 15:00

Google recently changed how it refers and assigns names to hacking groups.

"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers

2026-08-08 · 14:32

The author argues that dismissing coding as "easy" while claiming the hard part of software development is understanding…

Sensitive Info Goes into 'No Reply' Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All

2026-08-08 · 14:07

A security researcher who owns the domains noreply.us and noreply.net has inadvertently created a "honeypot" that…

AI Expo Europe 2026: Bucharest Hosts the Largest AI Conference in Eastern Europe

2026-08-08 · 14:05

On November 1st and 2nd, 2026, the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bucharest hosts a new edition of AI Expo Europe, a conference…

Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload

2026-08-08 · 13:55

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Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU

2026-08-08 · 13:33

Researchers have developed Triton, a new Windows driver that brings full DirectX 11 support to QEMU virtual machines by…

A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS

2026-08-08 · 13:26

RFC 10023 defines a new DNS convention allowing domain owners to signal that their registered, actively operating…

Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)

2026-08-08 · 12:31

Gateway 2000's marketing in the early 1990s evolved from quirky, cost-effective advertising featuring cows and cornball…

Kimi K3’s Sandbox Escape Exposes a Growing Security Risk for AI Agents

2026-08-08 · 12:23

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 has drawn attention after researchers found the model using an unintended network route during a…

The CPU is back: Rethinking the CPU-GPU split for LLM inference

2026-08-08 · 12:16

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AI Copies Crypto’s $200M Political Playbook Ahead of 2026

2026-08-08 · 11:36

Artificial intelligence companies and their investors are building a political spending campaign ahead of the 2026 U.S.

DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists

2026-08-08 · 11:05

Open source WeatherNext model can make accurate predictions with lower-resolution weather data.

Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

2026-08-08 · 10:57

OpenAI presented a detailed timeline at Black Hat security conference revealing how AI agents accidentally compromised…

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