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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.

The August 17 outage, and the work ahead

GitHub experienced a 7-hour 47-minute outage on August 17, 2026, caused by a critical infrastructure component in its Central US data center failing to scale when traffic reached a new peak,…

2026-08-20 · 19:22 UTC
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Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns

2026-08-20 · 19:21

Tidal Cycles is a free, open-source live coding environment written in Haskell that enables musicians to create…

SpacetimeDB: A Short Technical Review

2026-08-20 · 19:19

SpacetimeDB launched version 2.0 with controversial marketing tactics and benchmarks that the reviewer characterizes as…

Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses

2026-08-20 · 19:18

Google is giving publishers a new button that lets readers make them a preferred source across Search, Discover, and…

Runlayer, Rippling drop lawsuits. But the brouhaha is still a cautionary tale for founders.

2026-08-20 · 19:15

Runlayer and Rippling have dropped their lawsuits. No money was paid.

Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI

2026-08-20 · 19:05

A software engineer describes Huzzah, an experimental editor that reimagines AI-assisted coding by replacing verbose,…

Castelion hits $13B valuation to mass-produce hypersonic missiles

2026-08-20 · 19:01

The $1 billion Series C was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, Carlyle, and JP Morgan Chase.

Alibaba's Revenue Jumps 9% as AI Cloud Growth Hits 45%—But a Profit Plunge Sends Shares Lower

2026-08-20 · 18:32

Cloud and AI product revenue accelerated in the June quarter, but a 75% drop in net income extended Alibaba's run of…

Show HN: Kandelo – a POSIX-compatible multi-process WASM kernel for the browser

2026-08-20 · 18:25

Kandelo is an open-source, Wasm-based multi-process kernel that runs POSIX programs in browsers and Node.js.Kandelo is…

Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule

2026-08-20 · 18:20

Linkdaze's smart digital calendar stands out for not putting its features behind a paywall, including an AI meal planner…

Consumer Rights Wiki

2026-08-20 · 18:19

Consumer Rights Wiki is a crowdsourced repository documenting anti-consumer practices by companies and products,…

Optimizing things in the USSR (2016)

2026-08-20 · 17:55

The Soviet Union's centrally planned economy faced severe inefficiencies because administrators relied on manual…

Project Cybersyn

2026-08-20 · 17:40

# Summary Project Cybersyn was an early 1970s attempt by Chile's Allende government, with British cyberneticist…

Grok keeps sending gibberish responses to users

2026-08-20 · 17:32

Affected users told TechCrunch they were using Grok Lite, and noticed the issues as early as Wednesday morning.

The investor’s guide to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Everything you need to know 

2026-08-20 · 17:27

Year after year, investors who've explored the Expo Halls, met founders, and learned from peers have proven why you need…

URL shortener links stored in your ATProto PDS

2026-08-20 · 17:23

atpr.to is a URL shortener service built on the AT Protocol that stores shortened links directly in users' personal data…

A third of webpages published since ChatGPT’s launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds

2026-08-20 · 17:18

ChatGPT and other AI models are now authoring and editing much of the new web.

Roblox must make changes after failing to block adults creeping on kids

2026-08-20 · 17:14

Roblox is first platform to submit to independent audits under the Online Safety Act.

Early Cerebras investor Adit Singh joins Mayfield as infrastructure partner

2026-08-20 · 17:04

At Mayfield, Singh will focus on semiconductor, cybersecurity, and physical AI investments.

The Defense-Tech Bubble Is Headed for Consolidation

2026-08-20 · 17:01

Defense-tech startup valuations have become severely inflated, with companies raising billions despite lacking recurring…

Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring

2026-08-20 · 17:01

Sixtyfour, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is hiring a Software Engineering Intern to build AI agents and systems for…

Ramp launches its own AI model router, called Router

2026-08-20 · 16:46

Ramp has launched its own AI model routing service, dubbed Router, that lets users and companies use and switch between…

Nearly 2,000 Hacked WordPress Sites Turned Into Criminal Infrastructure

2026-08-20 · 16:33

The StopAndProtect operation used compromised WordPress websites to spread malware, steal crypto wallet files, and…

Senators demand answers from TikTok over experiment that disabled safeguards

2026-08-20 · 16:22

The safeguard was designed to prevent users from being overwhelmed by harmful content, but TikTok wanted to determine…

Meta brings Pocket, an app that lets you vibe-code and share games, to US users

2026-08-20 · 16:07

Meta is bringing Pocket, its experimental AI-powered app for creating and sharing interactive games, to users across the…

Patreon launches 30 new creator features, including short-form Clips and revamped discovery

2026-08-20 · 16:00

Patreon is overhauling how creators get discovered, adding short-form Clips, topic-based communities, and a revamped…

The 2026 Startup Battlefield 200 is here — see who made the cut

2026-08-20 · 16:00

We’re thrilled to unveil the 2026 Startup Battlefield 200, our annual handpicked list of the 200 most promising…

How to compromise your system with a job interview

2026-08-20 · 15:50

A fake job interview scheme on LinkedIn uses a seemingly legitimate coding challenge to compromise candidates' systems.

I Am Morally Opposed to Updating My Claude.md

2026-08-20 · 15:47

A developer refuses to update their system prompt file for Claude, arguing that maintaining a CLAUDE.md file becomes an…

Linux 7.2 Released

2026-08-20 · 15:46

Linux 7.2 was released this week as the second-busiest development cycle on record, featuring significant improvements…

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