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The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel
The leaked draft text suggests that the Commission significantly caved in to US’s excessive demands for unfettered information access.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,240 posts.
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I found a WordPress RCEs with GPT5.6 and $25
Adam Kues used a $200 GPT5.6 Sol Ultra subscription to discover a pre-authentication SQL injection and full RCE exploit chain in WordPress Core – a chain that chains a batch API desync, cache poisoning, changeset abuse, and hook injection into a complete takeover.
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How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in
In the previous article, we explored the importance of standards: how the unspoken agreements governing electrical sockets, paper sizes and file formats form the foundations of a world in which choices remain open and power is not concentrated in the hands of a single player. We concluded with a question: if open…
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We want Texans to know their rights
Last May, EFF reported that a sheriff’s office in Texas searched data from more than 83,000 automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras to track down a woman suspected of self-managing an abortion. ALPRs are promoted as tools for keeping communities safe by finding missing persons and locating...
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Heavy TV watching associated with smaller brain structures, study finds
Reduced volume was found in areas of the brain connected to memory formation, indicating a potential link between TV watching and higher dementia risk.
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Introduction to Formal Verification with Lean Part 1
A tutorial Formal Verification using Lean for cryptographic engineers. Implement and prove correctness of the One-Time pad following a cryptography book.
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I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens
How I burned a full Claude limit in 30 minutes and built my own deep research pipeline instead: 3 subscriptions, shared memory, a clear role for each model. You can build the same from what you already pay for.
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Ollama: All Aboard Open Models
Serving 8.9 million developers, Ollama has raised $88M from Benchmark, Theory Ventures, 8VC, Y Combinator, and many incredible angel investors.
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Gleam Is Now on Tangled
⭐️ A friendly language for building type-safe, scalable systems!
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EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application
Under the new rules, businesses must prioritise keeping products in use by selling them or preparing them for reuse.
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The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal
Somewhere at the bottom of the Forth and Clyde Canal, buried in the silt, there is a box of custom silicon that was right about almost everything. Back in 1988 a Scottish hi-fi company shipped a processor that checked the type and bounds of every memory access in hardware, garbage-collected its own heap in silicon, […]
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Painting the sides of railroad rails white to reduce derailment
As warmer temperatures return, Union Pacific is applying an innovative concept to manage heat-related track conditions – part of a broader strategy that helped the railroad deliver its best-ever full-year derailment incident rate in 2025, improving 19% year over year.
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Lego building instructions through time
Building instructions. The silent helper that without a single word guides you, step by step, to transform your pile of bricks to fantastic creations. The tool that shows you building techniques and gives you a solid foundation for further exploring the wonders of the LEGO ® brick. Let’s take a look at some of the…
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AI Meets Cryptography 2: What AI Found in OpenVM's ZkVM
We turned zkao (our AI auditor) on OpenVM, a state-of-the-art zkVM, and it found a critical soundness bug: the pairing check accepted a prover-supplied witness without proper subfield checking, which lets a malicious prover forge any pairing equality. It is fixed in OpenVM 1.6.0 and tracked as CVE-2026-46669. This is…
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Pebble Mega Update – July 2026
TL:DR; Pebble Time 2 Shipping Status Pebble Software Updates PT2 Issues You’ve Reported Pebble Round 2 Production Update Index 01 Production Update Pebble Ti...
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GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims
Looking for a DV safe phone in Australia? This 2026 guide covers tech abuse on normal phones, what a privacy phone can and cannot do, and where to get help.
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The human-in-the-loop is tired
On reward functions, dopamine, and what it actually feels like when the code starts writing itself
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'Likweli': A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin
Yale researchers have helped to describe a new species of Colobus monkey living high in the forest canopies of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
The AI agent made for open models, built to get things done.
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$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol
We gave Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol the same song, a budget, web search, and local ffmpeg, then let each autonomously direct a music video.
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NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook
NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook: the same standalone product with deeper Google integration and a secure cloud computer.
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Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source. Explore the IRC client that turned conversations into comics and helped introduce Comic Sans to the world.
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We're Building Postgres in Rust. Using the LLVM of Databases
Turso is becoming the LLVM of databases: one modern, reliable Rust core with many SQL frontends. After rewriting SQLite, we are now building Postgres.
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Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
Kimi K3 is the world's first open 3T-class model — frontier performance across coding, knowledge work, and reasoning, with native multimodality and 1M context.
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Making 768 servers look like 1
How to make 768 distinct Postgres servers look like 1 to your applications.
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Bluesky Trademarks ATProto
Bluesky now owns the trademark for AT Protocol to shield the ecosystem and make sure it can be used as widely as possible.
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We don't use AI in any of our design or production processes
The letters we write with are not abstract shapes. They are the result of a millennia-long process of evolution. A baton, passed down through a hundred generations, and carrying with it the influence of every one of them.
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GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend
Welcome to LTT Labs - your go-to destination for all things tech. Explore comprehensive test results, insightful commentary, and the latest analysis in hardware.
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Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
Our first open-weights model: multimodal, Mixture-of-Experts, with controllable reasoning effort. Available to fine-tune on Tinker.