Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0
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UK gov's Mythos AI tests help separate cybersecurity threat from hype
New model is the first AI system to complete a difficult multistep infiltration challenge.
Apple releases revamped Business app with Apple Vision Pro support
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Nvidia slaps forehead: I know what quantum is missing - it's AI!
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Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable
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Telegram Is Still Hosting a Sanctioned $21 Billion Crypto Scammer Black Market
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Apple released the AirPods Pro 3 back in September of 2025. I have been living with them and using them every single day since then. I have used them for everything from workouts and runs to Zoom calls, travel, and just everyday listening. What has truly stood out to me isn’t how good they sound ...
This fall’s iPhone 18 launch lineup has one big wildcard remaining
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Someone planted backdoors in dozens of WordPress plug-ins used in thousands of websites
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Prime Video is bundling Apple TV Plus and Peacock for a limited time
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Privacy advocates want Google to stop handing consumer data over to ICE
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is asking the attorneys general of California and New York to investigate Google for deceptive trade practices, saying the tech giant fails to notify users before handing over their data to law enforcement agencies like ICE. "For nearly a decade, Google ha...
Microsoft raises prices on Surface PCs due to skyrocketing RAM costs
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Microsoft releases Windows 10 KB5082200 extended security update
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Anthropic co-founder confirms the company briefed the Trump administration on Mythos
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McGraw-Hill confirms data breach following extortion threat
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The attacks on Sam Altman are a warning for the AI world
Before allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home, the 20-year-old accused attacker wrote about his fear that the AI race would cause humans to go extinct, the San Francisco Chronicle found. Two days later, Altman's home appeared to be targeted a second time, according ...
London gets closer to its first robotaxi service as Waymo begins testing
Waymo's commercial service will eventually follow testing if the U.K. government approves.
Redefining the future of software engineering
Software engineering has experienced two seismic shifts this century. First was the rise of the open source movement, which gradually made code accessible to developers and engineers everywhere. Second, the adoption of development operations (DevOps) and agile methodologies took software from sil...