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Bumble teases a swipe-free future as it doubles down on IRL meetups

Bumble says it’s moving beyond swiping and deeper into real-world social experiences as it courts Gen Z users.

ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users

OpenAI said that ChatGPT free and Go users are also getting a new think button for complex queries.

Cathie Wood's Ark Invest Makes SpaceX, Circle Top Holdings After Latest Buying Spree

SpaceX and Circle rank among the 10 largest positions in Ark's flagship innovation fund after the firm continued buying…

Improving GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access for free users

Taste Is All That's Left

As AI tools have made software production nearly instantaneous, the traditional barrier of effort that once filtered out…

Naïve raises $28.5M to automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company

Taking vibe-coding a step further, Naïve claims its infra can automate most of the work in setting up and running a…

Strategy’s Saylor Claims ChatGPT Fueled $15B Financial Breakthrough

Strategy’s founder, Michael Saylor, says artificial intelligence (AI) helped Strategy design a financial product that…

GitHub Is Experiencing Difficulties

GitHub is experiencing a widespread outage affecting multiple services including GitHub Actions, Pages, Copilot…

Hacker pleads guilty to stealing data from more than 165 Snowflake customers

Connor Moucka pled guilty to hacking and stealing data from more than 165 Snowflake customers, which net him and his…

Zapscape (CVE-2026-64561)

Zapscape (CVE-2026-64561) is a KVM escape vulnerability discovered by Hyunwoo Kim that allows a guest to escape to the…

DuckDuckGo’s Meta-Trolling 'Normal F***ing Sunglasses' Sell Out in Under a Week

The $35 frames have polarized lenses, UV protection and no camera, microphone, battery or electronics of any kind.

Cloudflare open-sources vibe-coding platform for people who aren't coders

Cloudflare built an AI agent workspace for its employees. Now it’s open source.

TikTok lays off 250 employees, shutters its Nashville office

The social media giant is shuttering an office that housed some members of TikTok’s content moderation team.

Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams)

The Channels SDK enables AI agents to operate natively within communication platforms like Slack and Microsoft Teams…

Show HN: Silo – S3-compatible object storage, a maintained fork of MinIO

Silo is a maintained community fork of MinIO that restores features the upstream project removed from its open-source…

Google Wallet now lets parents set up secure balances for their kids

The tech giant says the new feature will allow parents to teach their kids healthy financial habits while maintaining…

Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks

ProvenMetal, a Y Combinator-backed startup, offers rapid circuit board manufacturing with a standard seven-day…

Gen Z dating apps like Ditto ditch swiping in favor of AI matchmaking

This generation of 20-somethings is so disillusioned with swipe-based dating apps that they'll try literally anything…

GitHub Actions Is Down

GitHub Actions experienced a significant outage on August 6, 2026, causing workflow runs to fail or be delayed and…

Almost no skill required to cook a steak

Building quality software with AI requires deep understanding and careful craftsmanship rather than simply feeding…

The End of No Code

Bending Spoons' $1.28 billion acquisition of Airtable signals the end of the no-code platform era, as large language…

Tesla and SpaceX will invest $16.8B to start building ‘Terafab’ chip factory in Texas

After months of speculation, the companies formally announced the massive project will happen just north of Houston.

OpenAI says Apple’s own security practices undermine its trade secrets case

Newly filed court exhibits show OpenAI’s legal strategy in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit: argue that Apple’s own…

Why mathematician Terence Tao thinks AI must spark a rapid revolution 

This year has left mathematicians reeling as AI models are increasingly solving seemingly intractable maths problems.

Americans are rallying against data centers. Surprisingly few are getting built

Despite 71% of Americans opposing AI data centers and numerous state and local bans, construction delays are the primary…

Employees make plans for a windfall as SpaceX shares are unlocked

SpaceX's shares are unlocked Thursday, and some early employees could see a massive windfall.

Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard

Hi HN, today I’m revealing Altar II, an ultra-low profile (4.75mm) mechanical keyboard designed to replace your Magic…

eBay continues to bet on live shopping after record quarter

eBay touted an increase in eBay Live's gross merchandise volume as it plans to expand it to more international markets…

DeepSeek planning to significantly raise prices

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