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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.

C/C++ projects packaged for Zig

An organization packages C/C++ projects for the Zig build system, allowing developers to reliably compile and cross-compile code with ease while reducing dependencies on multiple build tools like…

2026-07-27 · 23:09 UTC
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Elon Musk: Humans Will Lose Control of AI Within a Decade

2026-07-27 · 23:00

The SpaceX founder says artificial intelligence is advancing too quickly to stop and is urging leading AI companies to…

Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API

2026-07-27 · 22:46

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-source model, is now available through Telnyx's Inference API with…

Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench

2026-07-27 · 22:37

Researchers benchmarked Claude's Opus 5 model on SlopCodeBench, a new long-horizon coding benchmark that tests a model's…

Hard Road – A beautiful procedural post-apocalyptic game

2026-07-27 · 22:36

# Hard Road Summary Hard Road is a procedural post-apocalyptic driving game featuring physics-based gameplay where…

OpenAI’s GPT-6 Will Arrive by September, Markets Predict

2026-07-27 · 22:31

Money is moving on a September bet for OpenAI’s next major model on both Polymarket and Myriad prediction markets.

China's new challenge as natural disasters strike - fake AI videos

2026-07-27 · 22:07

Storms and flooding incidents over the last few months have seen fake videos inundating social media.

Our position on open-weights models

2026-07-27 · 22:03

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei clarified that the company does not support banning open-weights models, despite recent…

Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms

2026-07-27 · 21:56

Microsoft says tools cost less than competing ones and outperform them, too.

Trump admin exempts SpaceX's Starlink from FCC ban on foreign-made routers

2026-07-27 · 21:40

Starlink has a Texas factory but also makes routers in Vietnam.

Satya Nadella says companies that trust one AI for everything may not survive

2026-07-27 · 21:17

Businesses that rely wholly on the major AI labs ultimately won't survive, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella predicts.

As rivals chase acquisitions, Peacock bets on bundles through a new deal with YouTube

2026-07-27 · 20:40

The deal means content will be integrated into the YouTube experience, allowing viewers to discover and watch Peacock…

iOS and macOS 26.6 arrive today, paving the way for iOS and macOS 27

2026-07-27 · 20:32

These are likely the last updates of note before Apple's bigger fall updates.

A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months

2026-07-27 · 20:22

When the first step goes wrong, bad results follow.

PSA: your Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google

2026-07-27 · 20:19

An untold number of Claude chats and Artifacts — the interactive mini apps and documents users can build inside Claude —…

Forth

2026-07-27 · 20:15

This is the webpage for XKCD comic #3277 titled "Forth," a webcomic that updates Monday, Wednesday, and Friday featuring…

“Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win

2026-07-27 · 20:12

Google's and Reddit's use of DMCA to fight web scraper is bizarre, expert says.

Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals

2026-07-27 · 19:58

Rise Reforming, a Y Combinator S26 company, has developed a modular technology that converts waste biogas from…

My current strategy is to not read any of the code written by my agents

2026-07-27 · 19:47

https://xcancel.com/unclebobmartin/status/2080257779395154409?s=20 Comments URL:…

5th Circuit blocks Texas law requiring websites to filter "harmful" speech

2026-07-27 · 19:18

Age verification is okay, but filtering is preempted by Section 230, judges find.

Microsoft Says MDASH Beats Claude Mythos and GPT-5.6 Sol in Cybersecurity Test

2026-07-27 · 19:01

Microsoft says its new cyber model lets more than 100 AI agents find software flaws at half the cost of its current best…

Verizon touts $1B dark fiber deal for Google data centers as first of many

2026-07-27 · 18:48

Telecom expects AI revenue from dark fiber deals and retrofitted data centers.

Self-contained highly-portable Python distributions

2026-07-27 · 18:43

Python Standalone Builds creates self-contained, portable Python distributions that include the standard library and…

Securitize Capital becomes SEC-registered investment adviser

2026-07-27 · 18:41

The registration expands Securitize’s regulated platform for tokenized assets, adding investment advisory services to…

Show HN: Yap – OSS on-device voice dictation for macOS with no model to download

2026-07-27 · 18:36

Yap is a free, open-source voice dictation tool for macOS that uses built-in operating system APIs to transcribe speech…

Microsoft launches its first cybersecurity model, plus a new agentic cybersecurity system

2026-07-27 · 18:32

Microsoft bolstered its AI cybersecurity offerings this week with the launch of its first AI security model and a new…

Bytecode-to-Source Mapping

2026-07-27 · 18:25

The article explains how to efficiently map bytecode offsets back to source code line numbers in virtual machines.

Your Shared Claude Chats Were Being Quietly Published on Google

2026-07-27 · 18:24

A missing line of code meant "share with a link" and "searchable by anyone" were the same thing—and someone already…

Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped

2026-07-27 · 18:15

A federal judge dismissed Google's DMCA lawsuit against SerpAPI, a company that scrapes Google search results to create…

Amazon’s new satellite network for mobile phones could turn up the heat on SpaceX

2026-07-27 · 18:08

Amazon is expanding its plans for providing satellite connectivity to mobile phones.

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