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CipherX applies painless permanent tattoos with dissolving microneedle patches

CipherX has developed a painless alternative to traditional tattoos using dissolving microneedle patches that deposit…

Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite

DuckDB significantly outperforms SQLite as an embedded database for observability data, achieving 4-15x faster write…

Show HN: A verification browser for AI agents – 13ms windows, one-call checks

A developer has created Hwatu, a verification browser for AI agents that performs page checks in approximately 13ms with…

AI in Linux

Linus Torvalds has endorsed the use of AI tools in Linux kernel development, settling a debate within the community.

‘No one’s making a phone like this’: Light’s co-founders on building for the anti-smartphone generation

With the Light Phone, Kaiwei Tang and Joe Hollier have spent over a decade exploring the value of simplicity in our…

Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver to Windows

Valve is sponsoring Collabora engineers to port the open-source RADV Vulkan driver from Linux to Microsoft Windows,…

What happens when you put AI to work deciphering lost languages?

AI is fantastic at spotting patterns, but human insight is the key.

TokenTown: A visual way to understand how LLMs work

TokenTown is an interactive visual simulation that demonstrates how large language models work by representing each…

Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents

Researchers have created HANDBOOK.md, a benchmark testing whether AI language model agents actually follow long policy…

After the AI Crash

The author argues an AI industry crash is likely due to unsustainable capital expenses (requiring $2 trillion annually…

Spotify adds a running mode to its app

Running Mode will be available to Premium users on iOS in select countries

DoorDash is building its own drone delivery business

DoorDash has received FAA approval to operate a commercial drone delivery service in the United States.

Show HN: Bullshit Detector – agent skills that fact-check videos and articles

A developer has created Bullshit Detector, an open-source tool that uses AI agent skills to fact-check videos, articles,…

San Francisco: Don't Fall for Industry Defense of Surveillance Pricing

The Electronic Frontier Foundation urges San Francisco officials to support Assembly Bill 2654, which would ban…

Shipping Godot VR and Porting to PSVR2: A Partial Post Mortem

Godot can ship commercial VR games, but developer Claire Splaski paid approximately £80,000 in "early adopter tax" for…

Show HN: Echologue – the private AI voice journal I built for myself

Echologue is a private, local-first AI voice journal app that lets users record fleeting thoughts and moments, then ask…

A Texture Lookup Approach to Bézier Curve Evaluation on the GPU (JCGT)

Darktable

Darktable is a free, open-source photography software that allows photographers to manage, view, and develop raw images…

Pulse Path – a browser puzzle where placement is the only decision

Pulse Path is a browser puzzle game where players build two paths using the same six links, with placement being the…

Disrupting supply chain attacks on NPM and GitHub Actions

Supply chain attacks targeting npm and GitHub Actions have increased over the past year, with attackers exploiting…

Fast Metals is treating waste with more waste to extract critical minerals

Aluminum production has saddled the world with billions of tons of caustic waste.

Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word

Researchers have discovered AI worms that can self-propagate through Microsoft Copilot for Word by hiding malicious…

They Stole Your Attention

Attention spans have collapsed to 47 seconds on average—down from 150 seconds in 2004—as trillion-dollar tech companies…

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Google's SynthID watermark is hard to break, but it doesn't solve AI misinformation

Deciding what's real on the Internet won't be easy in the future.

As AI content floods the internet, Pangram raises $9M to detect it

Pangram has raised $9 million to scale its AI detection software.

SpecForge – A Platform for Authoring Formal Specifications

SpecForge is a platform for authoring formal specifications using the Lilo language, an expression-based temporal…

Amiga Graphics Archive

The Amiga Graphics Archive is a curated online gallery dedicated to pixel art and graphics created for the Commodore…

Elon Musk finally launches X Money. What could possibly go wrong?

Expect bumps with X Money rollout as major US financial markets are excluded.