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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.

AI scammers outperform humans when it comes to building trust

The AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” than the humans.

2026-07-31 · 14:01 UTC
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AI Company Sues Town for Trying to Block Data Center Near National Park

2026-07-31 · 14:01

A proposed $4.8 billion AI data center near Mammoth Cave National Park has sparked a legal battle that could test how…

Pathogenic review: Damn, it feels good to be a virus

2026-07-31 · 13:00

The hot new roguelite twin-stick shooter lives up to the hype.

Citadel buys bulk of Situational Awareness stock portfolio after AI rout: Reports

2026-07-31 · 11:35

Situational Awareness retained about $10 billion in assets, including its Anthropic stake, after reportedly selling…

Why the Next Payments Battle Will Be Fought Above the Rails

2026-07-31 · 09:00

OpenPayd CCO Lux Thiagarajah argues the winners in

Your 'Sexual Wellness' Pills Order Info From Hims Got Shared With Meta, Says FTC

2026-07-30 · 16:44

Regulators accuse the telehealth company of sharing sensitive health information with advertising platforms including…

Elon Musk's xAI Sues Minnesota to Kill the US's First AI Nudification Law

2026-07-30 · 15:42

The company argues the law's definition of "nudification" is so broad it would make shirtless men and swimwear photos…

Forward-deployed engineers are the AI industry’s latest talent obsession

2026-07-30 · 15:00

A new study estimates only 2,000 U.S.

In the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI’s hacker was noisy and fast — but not unstoppable

2026-07-30 · 14:48

Cybersecurity experts told TechCrunch that one of the biggest lessons to be taken from the OpenAI hack against…

SDL_GPU minimal, single-header, high-performance 2D graphics painting library

2026-07-30 · 14:36

SDL_gp is a minimal, single-header, high-performance 2D graphics library for SDL3 that provides a simple resource…

Trusted URLs via Cryptographic Signatures

2026-07-30 · 14:31

Certisfy's sticker functionality enables users to share trusted URLs by attaching cryptographic signatures as verifiable…

Hacker Public Radio

2026-07-30 · 14:29

Hacker Public Radio is a weekday podcast created by community contributors covering topics of interest to hackers,…

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s biggest stage features leaders from Amazon, Replit, Tether, with much more to come 

2026-07-30 · 14:00

The Disrupt Stage is where many of the biggest conversations in technology happen, with a legacy that stretches back for…

FTC sues Hims & Hers for allegedly sharing patients’ medical data with advertisers Meta and Snap

2026-07-30 · 13:30

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Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools

2026-07-30 · 13:29

Prized, a YC S26 startup, enables non-technical staff in operations, support, and finance to build secure internal tools…

'Completely Legal': GrapheneOS Pushes Back as Duress Password Case Proceeds

2026-07-30 · 13:25

Activist Samuel Tunick said his prosecution is meant to set a precedent against privacy and "intimidate people."

Zoox clears final federal hurdle to launch paid robotaxi service

2026-07-30 · 13:09

Federal safety regulators have given Zoox a temporary exemption that will allow the Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle…

RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020)

2026-07-30 · 13:07

The Internet Architecture Board published RFC 8890 arguing that the IETF should prioritize the interests of end users…

'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling

2026-07-30 · 13:03

The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that VPN providers are not liable for copyright infringement when…

Dili raises $21.7 million to bring AI compliance to the infrastructure boom

2026-07-30 · 13:00

The Series A was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Allianz, Rebel Fund, Brick and Mortar Ventures’ Darren…

Inforcer raises $50M to help prepare smaller businesses for a new world of AI and security risks

2026-07-30 · 13:00

London-based Inforcer just closed a $50 million Series C round led by Insight Partners.

Going beneath NTFS: USN Journal, dfir_NTFS, and artefact-driven investigations

2026-07-30 · 12:49

# Summary NTFS maintains multiple independent audit trails—the Master File Table (MFT), USN Journal, and $LogFile—that…

Why Is Everyone Trying to Build a Solid-State Battery?

2026-07-30 · 12:38

Solid-state batteries, which replace the liquid electrolyte in traditional lithium-ion batteries with a solid material,…

Why Don't People Use Formal Methods?

2026-07-30 · 12:21

Formal methods—techniques for mathematically proving software correctness—remain rarely used in practice despite their…

CosmosEscape: Taking over Every Database in Azure Cosmos DB

2026-07-30 · 12:13

Wiz Research discovered CosmosEscape, a critical vulnerability in Azure Cosmos DB's Gremlin API that could have allowed…

Mbodi AI (YC P25) Is Hiring Robotics/Research Engineers

2026-07-30 · 12:01

Mbodi AI, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded in 2024, is hiring robotics and research engineers for roles including…

Go LLM SDK for streaming, tool-calling AI backends (plus frontend React lib)

2026-07-30 · 11:55

Grafana has released an open-source Go SDK for building AI applications that supports streaming responses, tool-calling…

GCC steering committee announces AI policy

2026-07-30 · 11:45

The GCC steering committee has adopted an AI contributions policy that prohibits legally significant contributions…

Are We Stuck with Lean?

2026-07-30 · 11:45

The author questions whether the mathematical community is irreversibly committed to Lean as its primary proof…

I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates

2026-07-30 · 11:33

A new game called CHIPBUILDER lets players construct a functional CPU from the ground up, progressing from basic logic…

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