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Starcloud raises $250 million for orbital data centers as launch options dry up

There's about to be a big fight to secure access to space.

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

Kagi Search added a new setting to automatically remove paywalled links from search results, along with a revamped…

Rama 0.4: System proxy and PAC support

Rama 0.4 has been released with major new features including system proxy configuration support and Proxy Auto…

Tesla recalls 3 million cars as part of China-wide push to stop hidden door handles

Tesla and eight other automakers will install warning labels that help occupants identify the often hard-to-find manual…

How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt

Private equity firm Apollo confirms data breach amid hacking wave targeting financial giants

The private equity giant confirms a breach, weeks after Google researchers said hackers were targeting financial…

Nvidia AVO scores 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark

What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x

# Summary The cost of AI capability is dropping dramatically—a capability level that cost $1.22 per task in February…

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Waymo doubles spending on lobbying in robotaxi battle with Uber

Alphabet-owned company is seeking to persuade US regulators to clear a path for fully autonomous taxi services.

I accidentally logged phone calls to military bases

A security researcher discovered they could hijack e164.arpa DNS zones—infrastructure domains that control phone call…

We are living in a version of the future out of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson

# Summary The author argues that contemporary life increasingly resembles the dystopian futures imagined by science…

Senator asks US government watchdog to review how feds use hacking tools

Senator Ron Wyden sent a letter to the U.S.

Show HN: Agent Office (Slack for AI Agents) – Similar to Grok Bot but older

Agent Office is a multi-agent workspace manager built on Pi that orchestrates AI coding agents with features like…

Yes/No/Cancel causes Aspirin sales to soar

Yes/No/Cancel is a new online usability magazine launched by Martin Kleppmann to critique poor design in software and…

DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser

DuckDB v2.0 replaces its PostgreSQL-derived SQL parser with a new PEG-based parser that is easier to maintain and evolve…

The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6

Cassandra 6.0, set to release later this year, introduces strictly serializable cross-partition ACID transactions…

I'm Becoming AI-Blind

The author has developed an unconscious ability to recognize and mentally dismiss AI-generated documents at work,…

TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering

TigerBeetle, a financial ledger database written in Zig, achieves sub-millisecond tail latencies and hundreds of…

Fintech Revolution Summit –Singapore 2026

Singapore is stepping up its Fintech leadership.

Kino: A high-performance Ractor web server for Ruby 4.0

Kino is a high-performance web server for Ruby 4.0+ that uses Ractors to run parallel Ruby code within a single process,…

AI: Alibaba Accelerates as Cloud Revenue Jumps 45%

Alibaba regains a pace it hadn’t known for about three years.

As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings

Ars looks at Zuckoff, the latest free app detecting Meta AI glasses amid privacy backlash.

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

DeepSeek's deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp model is a multimodal AI that accepts images alongside text to perform tasks…

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

AI companies like Anthropic are secretly purchasing millions of physical books through intermediaries, scanning them for…

Small, native web tricks worth remembering

HTMLcat is a reference collection of useful native web platform features paired with small examples and important…

Emacs 31.1 will release on 8/24

Emacs 31.1 is scheduled to release on August 24th.

Better Batteries

The quality of a programming language's standard library depends not on its size but on the social and organizational…

The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates

Sid Meier's Pirates!