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Firmus Raises $2B as Nvidia Backs AI Infrastructure Expansion

Firmus, an Australian artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure company that formerly operated as a Bitcoin (BTC)…

Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01

A GitHub pull request for the myNetwork application version 1.0.8 contains a critical security vulnerability where a…

I'm Pulling ColorCopy from the macOS App Store

A developer pulled ColorCopy from the macOS App Store after a three-month experiment showed minimal financial…

The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded

The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded after concluding that the role was unsustainable and incompatible with active…

Spindex's Real-Time Data Pipeline Surpasses 150 Million Tracked Gaming Events

Los Angeles, United States, August 7th, 2026, PlayNewswireSpindex, a real-time data analytics platform for the iGaming…

Show HN: Modern C++ Build Tools for Module Feature

mcpp is a modern C++ build tool written in pure C++23 modules that provides native support for C++23 module features,…

Should AI labs be treated like the owners of dangerous animals?

OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns

OpenAI said it has suspended work on some aspects of its upcoming model Astra over concerns about its cybersecurity…

Working on Economics with Fable 5

The author has developed an economic theory examining how taxes, benefits, and technology affect consumer behavior and…

U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative

After Rippling blew millions on AI in months, it built an employee ROI tool

After its own AI usage wake-up call, Rippling this week unveiled AI Spend Console, a product that tracks individual and…

Wacom’s Movinkpad 11 is a fun and mid-priced entry point for digital artists

The Movinkpad 11 a versatile little graphics tablet that can help make your wildest digital art dreams come true.

Security researchers scanned the Polish web and found courts, hospitals, and airports at risk of hacks

Researchers found common points of failure, like software used to organize and display web content, could have allowed…

Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

Chasa

Chasa is an AI-powered tool that helps freelancers and small businesses draft professional payment reminder emails for…

Flock Wanted to Turn 350,000 Uber Drivers Into a Nationwide Plate-Scanning Fleet

A leaked Flock presentation shows the surveillance firm pitching a plan to pull license-plate data from rideshare and…

App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours

Terry Godier's astronomy app "Dark Hours" was rejected by Apple's App Store with the claim that it pertains to…

Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering

REpsych is a proof-of-concept tool that generates executable programs whose control flow graphs visually render images…

Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

An online library provides interactive access to 1,060 classical Greek and Latin texts from 140 authors, allowing…

Databricks drove down AI coding spend 70%

Databricks reduced AI coding costs by 70% by implementing cost management techniques that balance broad employee access…

Assembly Hall of Shame

The "Assembly Hall of Shame" is a repository that ranks x86 CPU instructions by their slowest possible performance…

New official 30th anniversary Quake mission pack adds new maps and mechanics

19 new maps continue the story from MachineGames' other campaign additions.

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 achieved 89.0% accuracy on ARC-AGI-1 and 61.4% on ARC-AGI-2 benchmarks at low costs of $0.02 and…

The Claudyssey: A line-for-line translation of Homer's Odyssey by Claude Fable 5

Claude Fable 5 has created a complete line-for-line English translation of Homer's Odyssey featuring all 12,107 lines…

Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

Oracle has banned AI-generated code from OpenJDK contributions due to concerns about safety, security, and intellectual…

OpenAI’s expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem “more alive”

Gurman report claims OpenAI confirmed the speaker is not an Apple ripoff.

Volkswagen plans to win America back with a pickup, report says

There's no evidence the truck will be a cheap EV truck, but what if it were?

Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities

The AI Billboards Are Killing SF

San Francisco is increasingly blanketed with AI-generated billboards featuring nonsensical messages like "Your agents…