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Flowise Is Shutting Down

Flowise, a low-code platform for building AI applications, is shutting down due to a shift in developer preferences…

Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI

IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay

Researchers discovered three WebKit features—DNS prefetching, WebAuthn Related Origin Requests, and WebTransport—that…

Cloudflare Unveils AI Wallets Built to Spend Without Humans

Cloudflare is rolling out a new payment system built specifically for AI agents, giving them the ability to sign up for…

Pass the Passkey: A Novel Attack Surface in Passwordless Authentication

Researchers have identified new attack vectors against passwordless authentication systems, particularly Google's synced…

FIPS 140-3 is not a security guarantee, and auditors know it

FIPS 140-3 certification validates only that a cryptographic module implements approved algorithms correctly and meets…

libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months

The City of Munich has begun funding Sebastian Pipping to work full-time on maintaining libexpat, a widely-used…

Most people prefer AI-written stories – and can’t tell when they are made by humans

People appear to prefer short stories created by AI over those written by humans.

Show HN: SIMD Viterbi Decoder in Rust

A Rust library called `fec` implements forward error correction codes used in software-defined radio and spacecraft…

Elon Musk repeatedly one-upped his execs on SpaceX’s first earnings call

Musk kept inflating the already-big promises being made by SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen and Gwynne Shotwell on the company's…

We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars

Web developers have long struggled with centering divs, but modern CSS (using `display: grid` and `place-items: center`)…

Lucid’s turnaround plan hinges on $1.4B in cash savings, robotaxis

Lucid's new CEO Silvio Napoli listed four must-win priorities, including the successful launch of its midsize EV,…

Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage

Pi, a minimalist AI coding framework with only 4 tools and under 1,000 tokens in its system prompt, outperforms larger,…

How to get the best hotel deals for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 

We’ve partnered with hotels around Moscone West during Disrupt, taking place October 13 to 15, to secure the best prices…

AI Enthusiast Bugs His Toddler's Sleepover and Feeds It to Claude—The Internet Bugs Back

Nicholas Charriere turned an hour of nonsense into a family website with named tracks.

'I feel like I dug my own grave': The workers caught in the AI transition

AI is reshaping the Philippines' outsourcing industry, raising questions over the future of the industry.

DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023)

DuckDB, a powerful in-memory column-major data processing platform, has been integrated into Clojure through tmducken to…

AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as digital scams surge: INTERPOL

AI is now powering over half of reported cybercrime cases across Africa, enabling criminals to conduct faster and more…

Security Incident INC-2026-07-28-01 – UK AI Security Institute [pdf]

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OpenAI Dumps Apple Employees' Text Messages to Fight Trade Secret Suit

The ChatGPT maker released emails and text messages it says expose factual errors in Apple's lawsuit and undercut claims…

Dragonfly’s Haseeb Qureshi Says $2 AI Audit Could Have Caught Coldcard Flaw

Dragonfly’s Haseeb Qureshi says the Coldcard vulnerability shows how artificial intelligence (AI) is rewriting…

Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models

Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished

The author received an SMS claiming to be from FedEx about unpaid duties on a parcel and identified seven red flags…

SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year

SpaceX has ramped up its purchases of Tesla Megapacks for its xAI data centers.

Gwern reties from fulltime writing to launch Guardian Angel Inc

SpaceX doubles revenue on Anthropic and Google compute deals, Starlink growth

SpaceX doubled its revenue compared to last year, according to its first quarterly earnings since going public in June.

Android app developers may be unwittingly sharing their users’ location data with advertisers

Developers may not realize they are sharing their users' location data with advertisers, per new research.

Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)

Oxide Computer, a Delaware corporation based in Emeryville, California, filed a Form D with the SEC indicating an exempt…

Waymo CEO explains why Tesla's camera-only self-driving falls short

Waymo CEO Dmitri Dolgov argues that camera-only autonomous driving systems, like Tesla's approach, cannot achieve the…