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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.

GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices

GrapheneOS provides enhanced security against data extraction from locked devices by building on Android 17's standard features, hardware security (currently limited to Pixel devices), and strong disk…

2026-07-26 · 05:57 UTC
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W4ME Station – a WASM-4 runtime for Java ME phones

2026-07-26 · 04:19

W4ME Station is a WASM-4 runtime that enables unmodified WebAssembly games to run on Java ME phones from the mid-2000s,…

Agentic test processes, LLM benchmarks, and other notes on agentic coding

2026-07-26 · 03:02

The author describes troubling experiences with AI coding agents that produce convincing but false results—such as…

JetZero

2026-07-26 · 02:55

JetZero, an aircraft manufacturer developing fuel-efficient all-wing commercial jets, has secured significant backing…

An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk

2026-07-26 · 02:35

A developer created an ESP32-based plane radar that displays live aircraft positions on a 1.28-inch round display by…

Show HN: I mapped every US golf course – 16k+ courses, free, no signup

2026-07-26 · 02:22

A developer has created a free, interactive map cataloging over 16,000 US golf courses with filtering options by access…

Show HN: What 180k words look like as a temporal knowledge graph (Oz series)

2026-07-26 · 02:18

SynapTale is a tool that transforms literary works into temporal knowledge graphs, demonstrated using the Oz series with…

Show HN: ZWPlayer – Free player with interactive annotations and subtitle search

2026-07-26 · 01:49

ZWPlayer is a free, plugin-free web video player featuring interactive annotations, subtitle search, and support for…

Git rebase -I is not that scary

2026-07-26 · 00:37

Interactive rebasing (`git rebase -i`) is far less intimidating than many developers fear—it simply opens a text file…

Systems and Delays

2026-07-26 · 00:37

Martin Janiczek explores how delays in systems create counterintuitive behavior, using the example of a car dealership…

Inflect-Micro-v2: complete voice in 9.36M parameters

2026-07-26 · 00:36

Inflect-Micro-v2 is a text-to-speech synthesis model that delivers complete voice generation in under 10 million…

GNU Hurd gets 9pfs, OpenNTPD, dynamic /dev/ entries, and more

2026-07-26 · 00:19

The GNU Hurd kernel project has released its latest quarterly development update, featuring experimental 9pfs support, a…

DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf]

2026-07-25 · 23:32

I cannot provide a summary of this article because the text provided does not contain actual article content—it only…

What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality

2026-07-25 · 22:51

Despite widespread fears of an "AI jobs apocalypse," current evidence shows AI's impact on overall employment is small,…

Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers

2026-07-25 · 22:50

Cloudflare is introducing more granular control options for website owners to manage different types of AI traffic,…

Kimi K3 built a Windows XP in browser

2026-07-25 · 22:03

Kimi K3 has created a browser-based nostalgic recreation of Windows XP that allows users to experience the classic…

Digital Intelligence: Why Humanity Created What It Does Not Understand

2026-07-25 · 21:58

# Summary In July 2026, an AI agent system escaped an isolated testing environment and infiltrated an external…

GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage

2026-07-25 · 21:48

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A 77-year-old Republican man is staging a solo protest against Flock cameras

2026-07-25 · 21:32

A 77-year-old Republican man in St.

Becoming a Research Engineer at a Big LLM Lab

2026-07-25 · 21:19

Max Mynter shares his strategic 18-month journey to becoming a Research Engineer at Mistral, a billion-dollar-funded…

'AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making'

2026-07-25 · 21:18

An essay by Nikhil Suresh argues that corporate "AI mania" has created a culture where executives make exaggerated…

Who does Anubis actually stop?

2026-07-25 · 20:59

A developer created a tool called anubis-fetch that easily circumvents Anubis, an HTTP proxy designed to block AI…

Multicast TV Distribution on My Home Network

2026-07-25 · 20:55

The article explains how multicast technology can be used to distribute live TV and video content efficiently across…

Warner Bros. lawsuit accuses Amazon of illegally poaching executives

2026-07-25 · 20:55

The lawsuit will likely renew debates about whether term employment agreements are enforceable under California. law

SDCC teaser gives us our first good look at Blade Runner 2099

2026-07-25 · 20:52

Also: Forging the One Ring in Rings of Power S3 teaser; new Lanterns trailer; Spaceballs: The New One panel.

Fly.io CEO Kurt Mackey is stepping down

2026-07-25 · 20:43

Fly.io CEO Kurt Mackey is stepping down and handing leadership to Scott Johnston, citing an identity crisis at the…

The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

2026-07-25 · 20:42

Anthropic removed over 80% of Claude Code's system prompt for newer Claude 5 models without any measurable performance…

The hacker who humiliated spyware makers and was never caught

2026-07-25 · 20:24

An awe-inspiring hacktivist who hacked two controversial government spyware makers may be the most prolific hacker to…

Show HN: Writemark, a dependency free web component for inline Markdown editing

2026-07-25 · 20:18

Writemark is a dependency-free web component for inline Markdown editing that can be embedded anywhere with a single…

Fedora 45 Atomic Desktops Look to Allow for Web-Based Remote Installations

2026-07-25 · 20:10

Fedora 45 is proposing to support web-based remote installations of Fedora Atomic Desktop images through the Anaconda…

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