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China’s CERT warns OpenClaw can inflict nasty wounds

Latest iOS 15 & iOS 16 updates target Coruna exploit affecting older devices

Apple has virtually eliminated the remaining addressable iPhones being targeted by the Coruna exploit being traded around the black market — that is, if you update your iPhone. iPhone 8 is among the...

Meta Launches AI Tools to Identify and Flag Messages From Scammers

The company aims to combat growing fraud schemes, including impersonation accounts that lure users with fake celebrity endorsements.

Uber partners with Nissan and Wayve to offer robotaxi services in Tokyo, its first autonomous-vehicle partnership in Japan, with a pilot planned for late 2026 (Kosaku Narioka/Wall Street Journal)

Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal: Uber partners with Nissan and Wayve to offer robotaxi services in Tokyo, its first autonomous-vehicle partnership in Japan, with a pilot planned for late 2026 —...

What role has cyber warfare played in Iran?

Militaries are often cagey about their cyber activities. But the US has hinted at the role it has played.

After Outages, Amazon To Make Senior Engineers Sign Off On AI-Assisted Changes

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times: Amazon's ecommerce business has summoned a large group of engineers to a meeting on Tuesday for a /'deep dive/' into a spate of outages, inc...

Atlassian to shed ten percent of staff, because AI

Iran-linked cyber crew says they hit US med-tech firm

Iran plots 'infrastructure warfare' against US tech giants

Perplexity Comet hurtling toward Amazon ban

Perplexity's Personal Computer lets AI agents access your Mac mini's files

Perplexity is bringing its AI closer to its users, with a new Personal Computer that combines its agentic AI platform with a Mac mini's local applications. This may be too much AI for some people. H...

Show HN: A context-aware permission guard for Claude Code

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App Tracking Transparency still under fire from German publishers

German publishers hope that Apple will be hit with fines and forced to change App Tracking Transparency rules after an antitrust investigation. The feature allegedly favors Apple's apps. App Trackin...

Dify, which offers an open-source platform to build and run AI applications and agentic workflows, raised a $30M pre-Series A led by HSG at a $180M valuation (FinSMEs)

FinSMEs: Dify, which offers an open-source platform to build and run AI applications and agentic workflows, raised a $30M pre-Series A led by HSG at a $180M valuation — Dify, a Menlo Park, CA-based...

European Consortium Wants Open-Source Alternative To Google Play Integrity

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Heise: Pay securely with an Android smartphone, completely without Google services: This is the plan being developed by the newly founded industry consortium l...

GPS jamming: The invisible battle in the Middle East

GPS jamming has made navigation hazardous in the Gulf, spurring efforts to develop alternatives.

HPE tweaks T&Cs so the price it quotes may not be the price you pay

Palantir’s lethal AI weaponry deployed to find chairs for US government staff

Samsung Wants To Let You Vibe Code Your Galaxy Phone Experience

Samsung says it's thinking about bringing /'vibe coding/' to future Galaxy phones, allowing users to describe apps or interface changes in plain language and have AI generate the code. TechRadar intervi...

A look at Aaru, a startup founded by teens that uses AI agents to simulate human responses for product development, polling, and more, recently valued at $1B (Suzanne Vranica/Wall Street Journal)

Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: A look at Aaru, a startup founded by teens that uses AI agents to simulate human responses for product development, polling, and more, recently valued at $1B —...

Agents that run while I sleep

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AIOps is so powerful, vendors are building tools to clean up after agents break your infrastructure

Critical Microsoft Excel bug weaponizes Copilot Agent for zero-click information disclosure attack

Ford is giving its commercial fleet business an AI makeover

Ford announced a new AI-powered service for its commercial fleet and telematics software customers called Ford Pro AI. The generative AI system analyzes data generated by commercial vehicles - includi...

How the spiraling Iran conflict could affect data centers and electricity costs

A commercial ship is viewed anchored off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, in the Strait of Hormuz, Dubai, on March 2nd, 2026. Increased maritime traffic led to a buildup of vessels waiting near...

Silicon Valley Is Buzzing About This New Idea: AI Compute As Compensation

sziring shares a report from Business Insider: Silicon Valley has long competed for talent with ever-richer pay packages built around salary, bonus, and equity. Now, a fourth line item is creeping int...

Many SWE-bench-Passing PRs would not be merged

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Beijing warns of more chip supply worries after Nexperia China claims it was cut off from SAP

Iran is the first out-loud cyberwar the US has fought

Judges Find AI Doesn't Have Human Intelligence in Two New Court Cases

Within the last month two U.S> judges have effectively declared AI bots are not human, writes Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik: On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to take up a lawsuit...

AI vs AI: Agent hacked McKinsey's chatbot and gained full read-write access in just two hours

Australians Flock to VPNs in the Wake of Online Age-Restriction Laws

App downloads for VPN services increase sharply as websites in Australia go behind age-restriction walls.

Anthropic debuts pricey and sluggish automated Code Review tool

Moody humans should let AI handle bad public feedback first, study finds

Source: Spark Capital, the first VC firm to back Anthropic in 2023, is raising about $3B in new funds, 50% more than the size of funds it raised two years ago (The Information)

The Information: Source: Spark Capital, the first VC firm to back Anthropic in 2023, is raising about $3B in new funds, 50% more than the size of funds it raised two years ago — Spark Capital, the f...

xAI aims to build a natural gas power plant in Southaven, MS, to run its data centers; a key meeting with regulators is set on an election day ~200 miles away (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

Lora Kolodny / CNBC: xAI aims to build a natural gas power plant in Southaven, MS, to run its data centers; a key meeting with regulators is set on an election day ~200 miles away — With Elon Musk's...

A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause /'AI brain fry/', a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity (Harvard Business Review)

Harvard Business Review: A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause “AI brain fry”, a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity — On New Yea...

Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents

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Artificial-life: A simple (300 lines of code) reproduction of Computational Life

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Could Home-Building Robots Help Fix the Housing Crisis?

CNN reports on a company called Automated Architecture (AUAR) which makes /'portable/' micro-factories that use a robotic arm to produce wooden framing for houses (the walls, floors and roofs): Co-fou...

FBI is investigating breach that may have hit its wiretapping tools

Luma AI debuts Uni-1, an image model that combines image understanding and generation in a single architecture, topping Nano Banana 2 on logic-based benchmarks (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)

Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: Luma AI debuts Uni-1, an image model that combines image understanding and generation in a single architecture, topping Nano Banana 2 on logic-based benchmarks — Ask...

The war in Iran is complicating plans by Gulf nations to spend $300B+ on AI investments, putting at risk a potential source of funding for tech companies (Miles Kruppa/The Information)

Miles Kruppa / The Information: The war in Iran is complicating plans by Gulf nations to spend $300B+ on AI investments, putting at risk a potential source of funding for tech companies — The war in...

Anthropic bods rework AI damage yardstick, find scant labor impact

DJI will pay $30K to the man who accidentally hacked 7,000 Romo robovacs

The DJI Romo robot vacuums. | Image: DJI On Valentine's Day, I brought you a story that's since made headlines all around the world: How one man, just trying to steer his DJI robot vacuum with a Pla...

Oracle and OpenAI's Texas Stargate datacenter expansion reportedly on the skids

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Iran targeting commercial datacenters in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare and raises doubts over the Gulf as a global AI hub (Daniel Boffey/The Guardian)

Daniel Boffey / The Guardian: Iran targeting commercial datacenters in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare and raises doubts over the Gulf as a global AI hub — Iran's ta...

We should revisit literate programming in the agent era

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Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens

China’s rubber-stamp parliament rubber stamps tech independence plan

Dario Amodei says Anthropic is having 'productive conversations' with the Pentagon despite being effectively blacklisted

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has repeatedly emphasized his company's commitment to safety. Bhawika Chhabra/Reuters Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei confirmed that the Pentagon has effectively blacklisted the...

Iranian news service claims drone strikes on AWS were deliberate, to probe for US datacenter dependencies

Pentagon Formally Designates Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk

The Pentagon has formally designated Anthropic as a /'supply chain risk,/' ordering federal agencies and defense contractors to stop using its AI tools after the company sought limits on the military's...

TfL hack in 2024 affected around 10 million people, BBC can reveal

TfL insists it has /'kept customers informed throughout this incident and will continue to take all necessary action/'.

A draft guidance from the US GSA tightens rules for civilian AI contracts to require AI companies to allow /'any lawful/' use by the government of their models (Financial Times)

Financial Times: A draft guidance from the US GSA tightens rules for civilian AI contracts to require AI companies to allow “any lawful” use by the government of their models — The Trump administrat...

Apple Blocks US Users From Downloading ByteDance's Chinese Apps

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: While TikTok operates in the United States under new ownership, Apple has deployed technical restrictions to block iOS users in the United States from d...

Firefox taps Anthropic AI bug hunter, but rancid RAM still flipping bits

Grammarly is using our identities without permission

Grammarly's /'expert review/' feature offers to give users writing advice /'inspired by/' subject matter experts, including recently deceased professors, as Wired reported on Wednesday. When I tried the f...

Oura Buys Gesture-Navigation Startup DoublePoint

Smart ring maker Oura has acquired Doublepoint, a Finnish startup specializing in gesture recognition technology for wearables. Engadget reports: The Finnish startup uses smartwatches and wristbands a...

Pentagon official details the 'holy cow' moments that sparked rift with Anthropic

Pentagon R&D chief Emil Michael (right) said he was so alarmed about Anthropic that he brought his concerns to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Win McNamee/Getty Images A top Pentagon official detaile...

Sources: Kalshi and Polymarket are each eyeing valuations of ~$20B in fundraising talks; Kalshi was valued at $11B in December and Polymarket at $9B in October (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Kalshi and Polymarket are each eyeing valuations of ~$20B in fundraising talks; Kalshi was valued at $11B in December and Polymarket at $9B in October — Prediction mark...

Spyware disguised as emergency-alert app sent to Israeli smartphones

Broadcom says AI companies can’t make their own silicon any time soon

Feds call Anthropic supply-chain risk, tech companies aren't happy about it

A group that includes Apple, Google, and others has sent a letter to the US Department of Defense concerning Anthropic's supply-chain risk designation, clearly concerned about how that might affect fu...

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Intel numbers boss swears big Foundry wins are coming soon

We have more privacy controls yet less privacy than ever

Has online privacy become /'a luxury not a right/' for us all in 2026?

A look at Cloverleaf, which strikes deals with utility companies and secures land for AI companies and their data center needs; the company has raised $300M (New York Times)

New York Times: A look at Cloverleaf, which strikes deals with utility companies and secures land for AI companies and their data center needs; the company has raised $300M — Brian Janous, a former...

A standard protocol to handle and discard low-effort, AI-Generated pull requests

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Google says spyware makers and China-linked groups dominated zero-day attacks last year

Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence

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Sources: OpenAI employees claim the DOD tested Microsoft's Azure version of OpenAI models before OpenAI lifted its blanket ban on military use in January 2024 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Sources: OpenAI employees claim the DOD tested Microsoft's Azure version of OpenAI models before OpenAI lifted its blanket ban on military use in January 2024 — Sources allege...

The US Senate passed COPPA 2.0 again, which would create new protections for young users; the bill now heads to the House, where it has struggled to pass (Anna Washenko/Engadget)

Anna Washenko / Engadget: The US Senate passed COPPA 2.0 again, which would create new protections for young users; the bill now heads to the House, where it has struggled to pass — The measure for...

Google feels the need for security speed, so will ship Chrome updates every two weeks

A New York bill would ban chatbots from impersonating licensed professionals like doctors and lawyers and giving /'substantive response, information, or advice/' (Keely Quinlan/StateScoop)

Keely Quinlan / StateScoop: A New York bill would ban chatbots from impersonating licensed professionals like doctors and lawyers and giving “substantive response, information, or advice” — A bill u...

Computer Scientists Caution Against Internet Age-Verification Mandates

fjo3 shares a report from Reason Magazine: Effective January 1, 2027, providers of computer operating systems in California will be required to implement age verification. That's just part of a wave o...

'Hundreds' of Iranian hacking attempts have hit surveillance cameras since the missile strikes

Malware-laced OpenClaw installers get Bing AI search boost

Sources: Dario Amodei has been holding talks with the DOD's Emil Michael in a bid to iron out a contract governing the Pentagon's access to Anthropic's models (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: Dario Amodei has been holding talks with the DOD's Emil Michael in a bid to iron out a contract governing the Pentagon's access to Anthropic's models — Dario Amodei is meet...

Sources: OpenAI has picked two law firms to prepare its IPO, which could come as soon as Q4, in one of its first concrete steps toward a public listing (The Information)

The Information: Sources: OpenAI has picked two law firms to prepare its IPO, which could come as soon as Q4, in one of its first concrete steps toward a public listing — OpenAI has picked two law f...

Study: ChatGPT Health underestimated the severity of medical emergencies 51.6% of the time and overestimated the severity in nonurgent cases 64.8% of the time (Kaan Ozcan/NBC News)

Kaan Ozcan / NBC News: Study: ChatGPT Health underestimated the severity of medical emergencies 51.6% of the time and overestimated the severity in nonurgent cases 64.8% of the time — Researchers te...

Phish of the day: Microsoft OAuth scams abuse redirects for malware delivery

[Sponsor] npx workos: An AI Agent That Writes Auth Directly Into Your Codebase

npx workos launches an AI agent, powered by Claude, that reads your project, detects your framework, and writes a complete auth integration directly into your existing codebase. It’s not a template ge...

Apple Introduces MacBook Pro Models With M5 Pro and M5 Max Chips

Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced the latest 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro with the all-new M5 Pro and M5 Max, bringing game-changing performance and AI capabilities to the world’s best pro laptop....

Dev stunned by $82K Gemini bill after unknown API key thief goes to town

Google’s Threat Intelligence Group on Coruna a Powerful iOS Exploit Kit of Mysterious Origin

Google Threat Intelligence Group, earlier this week: Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has identified a new and powerful exploit kit targeting Apple iPhone models running iOS version 13.0 (relea...

One of Amazon's data centers in the UAE caught fire after being hit by 'objects' amid the Middle East conflict

An AWS data center was hit by /'objects/' that sparked a fire on Sunday, bringing down connectivity. Illustration by Thomas Fuller/NurPhoto via Getty Images Amazon Web Services had a power outage at on...

UK government's Vulnerability Monitoring System is working - fixes flow far faster

Anthropic upgrades Claude’s memory to attract AI switchers

Anthropic is making it easier to switch to its Claude AI from other chatbots with an update that brings Claude's memory feature to users on the free plan, along with a new prompt and dedicated tool fo...

Apple Might Use Google Servers To Store Data For Its Upgraded AI Siri

Apple has reportedly asked Google to look into /'seting up servers/' for a Gemini-powered upgrade to Siri that meets Apple's privacy standards. The Verge reports: Apple had already announced in January...

AWS says drones hit two of its datacenters in UAE, urges users to move resources to different regions

Meta is testing a shopping research feature in its Meta AI web browser for select US users, positioning it against e-commerce tools in ChatGPT and Gemini (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Meta is testing a shopping research feature in its Meta AI web browser for select US users, positioning it against e-commerce tools in ChatGPT and Gemini — Meta Platforms I...

5 big takeaways from Sam Altman's Saturday night AMA on OpenAI's Pentagon deal

Sam Atlman caught in a moment of deep reflection. SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images Sam Altman went on X on Saturday night and told users to ask him anything about OpenAI's Pentagon deal. Altman on Frid...

Block is a poster child for the lack of operational discipline common among mid-tier public tech companies that lived on the largesse of cloud, mobile, and ZIRP (Om Malik/On my Om)

Om Malik / On my Om: Block is a poster child for the lack of operational discipline common among mid-tier public tech companies that lived on the largesse of cloud, mobile, and ZIRP — Jack Dorsey, C...

Autoresearch: Agents researching on single-GPU nanochat training automatically

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CISA Replaces Bumbling Acting Director After a Year

New submitter DeanonymizedCoward shares a report from TechCrunch: The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is reportedly in crisis following major budget cuts, layoffs, and fur...

Human Brain Cells On a Chip Learned To Play Doom In a Week

Researchers at Cortical Labs used living human neurons grown on a chip to learn how to play Doom in about a week. /'While its performance is not up to par with humans, experts say it brings biological...

Inside Block's AI push that ended in pink slips

Jack Dorsey's Block is looking for more senior AI engineering talent amid a 40% workforce reduction at the company. Marco Bello/AFP via Getty Images Seven former Block workers say they used AI to var...

Trump orders government to stop using Anthropic in battle over AI use

The move announced on social media comes after a standoff between Anthropic's boss and the Ministry of Defense.

AI coding agents are fueling productivity panic among executives and engineers, as a UCB study finds those offloading work to AI are also working longer hours (Issie Lapowsky/Bloomberg)

Issie Lapowsky / Bloomberg: AI coding agents are fueling productivity panic among executives and engineers, as a UCB study finds those offloading work to AI are also working longer hours — AI coding...

OpenAI says its DOD agreement upholds its redlines and /'has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic's/' (OpenAI)

OpenAI: OpenAI says its DOD agreement upholds its redlines and “has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic's” — We think our agreement has mor...

Sources: Commands around the world, including the US Central Command in the Middle East, use Anthropic's Claude AI tool for a range of military operations (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Commands around the world, including the US Central Command in the Middle East, use Anthropic's Claude AI tool for a range of military operations — Within hours of decl...

US Threatens Anthropic with 'Supply-Chain Risk' Designation. OpenAI Signs New War Department Deal

It started Friday when all U.S. federal agencies were ordered to /'immediately cease/' using Anthropic's AI technology after contract negotiations stalled when Anthropic requested prohibitions against m...

A Hacker Threat Is Hiding in Your Car's Tire Pressure System

A new study reveals that a car's tire pressure monitoring system can be easily accessed by hackers.

Anthropic boss rejects Pentagon demand to drop AI safeguards

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth previously threatened to remove the firm from the department's supply chain.

Fujitsu taps Broadcom's 3D chip tech for 144-core Monaka CPU

New endowment hopes to raise a big pile of money for open source projects

Nvidia's Jensen Huang Says Agentic AI Has Arrived at an 'Inflection Point'

Agentic AI is all about software acting independently. It's a prelude to physical AI finding a home in robots.

Amazon and Nvidia open their wallets to lock in OpenAI's business while SoftBank keeps the lights on

Anthropic says it'll challenge /'any supply chain risk designation in court/' and that the designation would only affect contractors' use of Claude on DOD work (Anthropic)

Anthropic: Anthropic says it'll challenge “any supply chain risk designation in court” and that the designation would only affect contractors' use of Claude on DOD work — Earlier today, Secretary of...

Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data

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Double whammy: Steaelite RAT bundles data theft, ransomware in one evil tool

Microsoft is considering a new AI-loaded software bundle for Microsoft 365, sources say

Satya Nadella says he studies startups to relearn the speed and agility Microsoft lost as it grew. AP Photo/Jeff Chiu Microsoft is considering releasing a new AI revamp of its software bundle, source...

PCs and phones to get more boring and expensive in 2026 thanks to memory drought

Sam Altman says OpenAI reached an agreement with the DOD to deploy its models in DOD's classified network and asks DOD to extend those terms to all AI companies (Sam Altman/@sama)

Sam Altman / @sama: Sam Altman says OpenAI reached an agreement with the DOD to deploy its models in DOD's classified network and asks DOD to extend those terms to all AI companies — Tonight, we rea...

Sources: DeepSeek plans to release its multimodal model V4 next week and worked with Huawei and Chinese AI chipmaker Cambricon to optimize V4 for their products (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: DeepSeek plans to release its multimodal model V4 next week and worked with Huawei and Chinese AI chipmaker Cambricon to optimize V4 for their products — Chinese AI group h...

Sources: Nvidia plans to unveil a new AI inference chip at its GTC conference in March; the system will have a Groq-designed chip and OpenAI is a customer (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Nvidia plans to unveil a new AI inference chip at its GTC conference in March; the system will have a Groq-designed chip and OpenAI is a customer — Under pressure from...

Suspected Nork digital intruders caught breaking into US healthcare, education orgs

The workers behind Meta’s smart glasses can see everything

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Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM types over 7 providers

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5 biggest takeaways from Nvidia's Q4 earnings — from the new Vera Rubin chips to addressing an emerging risk

Nvidia's strong Q4 earnings are calming investor nerves amid stock fatigue in the AI sector. Steve Marcus/REUTERS Nvidia's strong Q4 earnings are calming investor nerves amid stock fatigue in the AI...

ADT Acquires AI Company for Sensing People and Activity in Your Home

ADT's acquisition of Origin AI brings presence-sensing technology under the home security company's umbrella.

AI Can Find Hundreds of Software Bugs -- Fixing Them Is Another Story

Anthropic last week promoted Claude Code Security, a research preview capability that uses its Claude Opus 4.6 model to hunt for software vulnerabilities, claiming its red team had surfaced over 500 b...

Claude collaboration tools left the door wide open to remote code execution

LLMs killed the privacy star, we can't rewind, we've gone too far

New York Sues Valve, Saying Game Developer Promotes Illegal Gambling

The game developer targets young people, which could lead to serious addiction problems, according to the suit.

Nvidia hasn't made a cent in China lately - and might not need to given $120 billion profit

Prediction Market Platform Kalshi Discloses First Insider Trading Enforcement Action

Kalshi, the prediction market platform regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has for the first time publicly disclosed the results of an insider trading investigation, naming an edito...

Salesforce CEO 'SaaSquatch' Benioff says his company will monster the SaaSpocalypse

iPhone and iPad Approved to Handle Classified NATO Information

Apple Newsroom: Today, Apple announced iPhone and iPad are the first and only consumer devices in compliance with the information assurance requirements of NATO nations. This enables iPhone and iPad t...

Microsoft’s Copilot Tasks AI uses its own computer to get things done

Microsoft is previewing a new AI system, Copilot Tasks, that it says is designed to take care of busywork for you in the background, the company announced on Thursday. The feature takes the load off y...

It's only Tuesday and AI chip startups have already soaked up $1.1B in funding

Meta and AMD's Multibillion-Dollar Deal Is All About the AI Chips

Meta will take a stake in the chipmaker in exchange for a commitment to buy billions of dollars' worth of AI chips.

Meta frees React to live in its own foundation

Microsoft-backed Wayve raises $1.5 billion to take its robotaxis global

A Wayve self-driving car alongside one of London's famous red buses. Wayve AI startup Wayve said that it had raised $1.5 billion to take its robotaxis global. The UK-based firm is teaming up with Ube...

Orbital datacenters are a pie-in-the-sky idea: Gartner

Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon AI bro squad includes a former Uber executive and a private equity billionaire

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (L) walks with Emil Michael (R), Under Secretary of Defense (Research & Engineering, while touring an exhibit of Multi-Domain Autonomous systems at the Pentagon...

Workday CEO's AI talk can't shake off weaker sales forecast

Workday's stock has been in a slump. Its CEO is leaning into agentic AI.

Dado Ruvic/REUTERS Despite a recent software stock sell-off amid AI disruption, Workday's CEO called the tech a growth catalyst. Shares in Workday fell in after-hours trading, following a weaker subs...

AIs are happy to launch nukes in simulated combat scenarios

Americans Are Destroying Flock Surveillance Cameras

An anonymous reader shares a report: Brian Merchant, writing for Blood in the Machine, reports that people across the United States are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras, amid risi...

Anthropic unveils scheduled tasks in Cowork, enabling Claude to complete recurring tasks at specific times automatically (Claude/@claudeai)

Claude / @claudeai: Anthropic unveils scheduled tasks in Cowork, enabling Claude to complete recurring tasks at specific times automatically — New in Cowork: scheduled tasks. Claude can now complete...

Chip giant Nvidia defies AI concerns with record $215bn revenue

Demand for Nvidia chips rose even as the company sets out to create AI products of its own.

Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules

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I started a business with AI and no tech background. Here's what it still can't replace.

Tim Desoto founded an AI startup in 2024 with no technical background. Zachary Fineberg for BI Tim Desoto founded an AI-powered startup in 2024 with no technical background. He said he has a clearer...

Making MCP cheaper via CLI

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Nvidia says the US government granted it a license to ship a small number of H200 chips to Chinese customers, but it's unclear if Beijing will allow any imports (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Nvidia says the US government granted it a license to ship a small number of H200 chips to Chinese customers, but it's unclear if Beijing will allow any imports — Nvidia Corp. said it sec...

Shield AI says its Hivemind AI pilot just flew a drone vying to become a future Air Force uncrewed wingman

Hivemind flew Anduril's YFQ-44A aircraft for the first time in a test over the Mojave Desert. Shield AI Shield AI's Hivemind AI program piloted Anduril's YFQ-44A uncrewed aircraft for the first time....

Tech Firms Aren't Just Encouraging Their Workers To Use AI. They're Enforcing It.

Tech companies ranging from 300-person startups to giants like Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Salesforce have moved beyond encouraging employees to use AI tools and are now actively tracking adop...

West Virginia’s Anti-Apple CSAM Lawsuit Would Help Child Predators Walk Free

Mike Masnick, writing for Techdirt: Read that again. If West Virginia wins — if an actual court orders Apple to start scanning iCloud for CSAM — then every image flagged by those mandated scans become...

A survey of US teens: 57% use AI chatbots to search for info, 54% use them to do schoolwork, 47% for fun or entertainment, 12% for emotional support, and more (Pew Research Center)

Pew Research Center: A survey of US teens: 57% use AI chatbots to search for info, 54% use them to do schoolwork, 47% for fun or entertainment, 12% for emotional support, and more — Just over half o...

Amazon would rather blame its own engineers than its AI

Koah, which embeds sponsored ads directly into AI chatbots and aims to build an AdSense for AI, raised a $20.5M Series A led by Theory Ventures (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)

Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: Koah, which embeds sponsored ads directly into AI chatbots and aims to build an AdSense for AI, raised a $20.5M Series A led by Theory Ventures — The two-sided marketplace c...

Let me see some ID: age verification is spreading across the internet

Age verification is a reality on a growing number of social media platforms, requiring an ID or facial scan for full access to everything from YouTube to Roblox. The age-gating wave is coming along wi...

New Datacentres Risk Doubling Great Britain's Electricity Use, Regulator Says

The amount of power being sought by new datacentre projects in Great Britain would exceed the national current peak electricity consumption, according to an industry watchdog. From a report: Ofgem sai...

OpenAI defeats xAI’s trade secrets lawsuit

OpenAI won a victory Tuesday in one of its legal battles with xAI, which involved allegations of poaching and theft of trade secrets. The former company's motion to dismiss the lawsuit was granted on...

OpenAI hires Arvind KC as chief people officer, replacing Julia Villagra who left in August 2025; KC has held senior roles at Roblox, Google, Palantir, and Meta (Agnee Ghosh/Bloomberg)

Agnee Ghosh / Bloomberg: OpenAI hires Arvind KC as chief people officer, replacing Julia Villagra who left in August 2025; KC has held senior roles at Roblox, Google, Palantir, and Meta — OpenAI sai...

Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness

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Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models – higher accuracy than WhisperLargev3

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SOTU: Trump says he told tech companies they must build their own power plants for their data centers; sources: the WH expects to formalize the effort in March (Richard Valdmanis/Reuters)

Richard Valdmanis / Reuters: SOTU: Trump says he told tech companies they must build their own power plants for their data centers; sources: the WH expects to formalize the effort in March — Preside...

Greg Knauss: ‘Lose Myself’

Greg Knauss: People will argue that speaking English to LLMs is just another level of abstraction away from the physics of how the machine actually works. And while that’s technically true — the worst...

Agentic Software Engineering Book

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I've been a product manager at one of China's biggest tech firms. Here's how Chinese AI products are built differently.

Yilin Zhang, who worked at Meituan for over 3 years, says Chinese AI products are developed differently from those in the West. Yilin Zhang A product manager who worked at a Chinese tech giant says C...

Infosys chair says AI will clean up legacy systems – then make more of them

Linus Torvalds: Someone ‘more competent who isn't afraid of numbers past the teens’ will take over Linux one day

The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler

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How Binance staffers found $1B was sent to sanctioned Iranian entities via the exchange, which dismantled their probe and suspended them after Trump pardoned CZ (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: How Binance staffers found $1B was sent to sanctioned Iranian entities via the exchange, which dismantled their probe and suspended them after Trump pardoned CZ — Weeks after Tr...

Microsoft Researchers Figure Out How to Store Data Inside Glass Using Lasers

The researchers say the data could be retrieved from the glass in 10,000 years.

Show HN: Steerling-8B, a language model that can explain any token it generates

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Attacker gets into France's database listing all bank accounts, makes off with 1.2 million records

Google Antigravity users say their paid Google AI accounts were banned after linking Gemini models via OpenClaw; Peter Steinberger says he may /'remove support/' (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai)

Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: Google Antigravity users say their paid Google AI accounts were banned after linking Gemini models via OpenClaw; Peter Steinberger says he may “remove support” — Goog...

How Russia-linked crypto exchanges, like Bitpapa, Exmo, and others help Russian entities move money across borders, bypassing banking oversight and sanctions (Elliptic)

Elliptic: How Russia-linked crypto exchanges, like Bitpapa, Exmo, and others help Russian entities move money across borders, bypassing banking oversight and sanctions — Cryptoasset exchanges that m...

In recent interviews, Sam Altman said AI's adoption faces more resistance than he expected, while Jensen Huang warned the /'doomer narrative/' may be winning (David Streitfeld/New York Times)

David Streitfeld / New York Times: In recent interviews, Sam Altman said AI's adoption faces more resistance than he expected, while Jensen Huang warned the “doomer narrative” may be winning — Tech...

Long Before Tech CEOs Turned To Layoffs To Cover AI Expenses, There Was WorldCom

Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Jeopardy time. A. This company spurred CEOs to make huge speculative capital expenditures based on wild unverified claims of future demand, resulting in the l...

Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok

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OpenAI scrambled for compute power after the Stargate project stalled; sources: OpenAI still plans to build its own data centers, but not in the near future (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)

Anissa Gardizy / The Information: OpenAI scrambled for compute power after the Stargate project stalled; sources: OpenAI still plans to build its own data centers, but not in the near future — When...

'Open Source Registries Don't Have Enough Money To Implement Basic Security'

Google and Microsoft contributed $5 million to launch Alpha-Omega in 2022 — a Linux Foundation project to help secure the open source supply chain. But its co-founder Michael Winser warns that open so...

Sentry

My thanks to Sentry for sponsoring last week at DF. Sentry is running a hands-on workshop: “Crash Reporting, Tracing, and Logs for iOS in Sentry”. You can watch it on demand. You’ll learn how to conne...

SerpApi says Google is the pot calling the kettle black when it comes to scraping

Big Tech wants more data centers. Residents in this New Jersey city said not here.

Residents in New Brunswick, New Jersey, protest a potential data center on February 18. The Climate Revolution Action Network Another possible data center has been scrapped after community objections...

Code.org President Steps Down Citing 'Upending' of CS By AI

Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Last July, as Microsoft pledged $4 billion to advance AI education in K-12 schools, Microsoft President Brad Smith told nonprofit Code.org CEO/Founder Hadi...

English-language Wikipedia bans Archive.today after editors discover it was used to direct a DDoS attack and tampered with snapshots; 695K+ links to be removed (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: English-language Wikipedia bans Archive.today after editors discover it was used to direct a DDoS attack and tampered with snapshots; 695K+ links to be removed — The Engl...

Hit Piece-Writing AI Deleted. But Is This a Warning About AI-Generated Harassment?

Last week an AI agent wrote a blog post attacking the maintainer who'd rejected the code it wrote. But that AI agent's human operator has now come forward, revealing their agent was an OpenClaw instan...

Open source projects like VLC and Blender are seeing a decline in the average quality of contributions, likely as AI coding tools lower barriers to entry (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: Open source projects like VLC and Blender are seeing a decline in the average quality of contributions, likely as AI coding tools lower barriers to entry — A world that...

Sam Altman says there is some /'AI washing/', where companies blame AI for layoffs that they would otherwise do, alongside /'real displacement by AI/' of some jobs (AJ Dellinger/Gizmodo)

AJ Dellinger / Gizmodo: Sam Altman says there is some “AI washing”, where companies blame AI for layoffs that they would otherwise do, alongside “real displacement by AI” of some jobs — Hold up, let...

Show HN: Llama 3.1 70B on a single RTX 3090 via NVMe-to-GPU bypassing the CPU

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India’s top telco tackles AI with $110 billion build plan and proven fast market dominance playbook

AI coding assistant Cline compromised to create more OpenClaw chaos

Anthropic: No, absolutely not, you may not use third-party harnesses with Claude subs

Bengaluru-based Sarvam, which is building AI models for local languages, launches its Indus chat app in beta, powered by its Sarvam 105B model (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Bengaluru-based Sarvam, which is building AI models for local languages, launches its Indus chat app in beta, powered by its Sarvam 105B model — Sarvam, an Indian AI star...

PayPal app code error leaked personal info and a 'few' unauthorized transactions

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Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links

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I Ported Coreboot to the ThinkPad X270

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Indian think tank finds strong hiring for the kind of jobs AI puts at risk

Meta Begins $65 Million Election Push To Advance AI Agenda

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Meta is preparing to spend $65 million this year to boost state politicians who are friendly to the artificial intelligence industry, begin...

Tech firms will have 48 hours to remove abusive images under new law

The government is proposing that intimate image abuse should be treated more severely.

A US grand jury indicted three people, including two former Google engineers, for allegedly stealing trade secrets relating to Pixel's Tensor processor (Robert Burnson/Bloomberg)

Robert Burnson / Bloomberg: A US grand jury indicted three people, including two former Google engineers, for allegedly stealing trade secrets relating to Pixel's Tensor processor — Two former Googl...

Crims create fake remote management vendor that actually sells a RAT

Microsoft's AI safety team proposed technical standards for detecting AI-generated content, but its CSO declined to commit to using them across its platforms (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)

James O'Donnell / MIT Technology Review: Microsoft's AI safety team proposed technical standards for detecting AI-generated content, but its CSO declined to commit to using them across its platforms...

The Chinese AI app sending Hollywood into a panic

Clips of Deadpool and other film characters have sparked alarm within Hollywood over copyright infringement.

The executive that helped build Meta’s ad machine is trying to expose it

Brian Boland spent more than a decade figuring out how to build a system that would make Meta money. On Thursday, he told a California jury it incentivized drawing more and more users, including teens...

Uber's market cap fell to ~$150B, down ~25% in six months, as investors weigh robotaxi disruption, perceiving it as a two-horse race between Waymo and Tesla (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal)

Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: Uber's market cap fell to ~$150B, down ~25% in six months, as investors weigh robotaxi disruption, perceiving it as a two-horse race between Waymo and Tesla — Wa...

China-linked snoops have been exploiting Dell 0-day since mid-2024, using 'ghost NICs' to avoid detection

'I do not trust them' - top streamers left concerned by Discord age checks

The platform's plan to roll out global age checks has caused concern in streaming communities.

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Meta’s new deal with Nvidia buys up millions of AI chips

Meta has struck a multiyear deal to expand its data centers with millions of Nvidia's Grace and Vera CPUs and Blackwell and Rubin GPUs. While Meta has long been using Nvidia's hardware for its AI prod...

Adidas investigates third-party data breach after criminals claim they pwned the sportswear giant

As memory shortage persists, vendor price quotes are not long remembered

Austin-based Circuit, which is building an AI platform for manufacturing and service enterprises, raised $30M from a group of angel investors (Karoline Leonard/Austin American ...)

Karoline Leonard / Austin American-Statesman: Austin-based Circuit, which is building an AI platform for manufacturing and service enterprises, raised $30M from a group of angel investors — Austin-b...

Nvidia pushes into Intel and AMD's turf with a 'multigenerational' Meta deal

Nvidia cofounder and CEO Jensen Huang Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images Meta partnered with Nvidia on AI data centers with GPUs and CPUs. The deal may reduce Meta's reliance on other suppliers...

Sources: Dylan Patel's SemiAnalysis is in early talks to raise hundreds of millions for a VC fund; Patel raised a $50M SPV toward Fluidstack's $700M fundraising (The Information)

The Information: Sources: Dylan Patel's SemiAnalysis is in early talks to raise hundreds of millions for a VC fund; Patel raised a $50M SPV toward Fluidstack's $700M fundraising — SemiAnalysis, the...

Sources: OpenAI is close to finalizing the first phase of its $100B round; its overall valuation, including the eventual funding, could exceed $850B (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: OpenAI is close to finalizing the first phase of its $100B round; its overall valuation, including the eventual funding, could exceed $850B — OpenAI is close to finalizing the fi...

AWS adds nested virtualization option for handful of EC2 instances

The tech bros might show more humility in Delhi – but will they make AI any safer?

As global tech leaders meet Delhi, India hopes to level the playing field for countries outside the US and China.

Amazon's $200 billion capex plan: How I learned to stop worrying and love negative free cash flow

Anthropic expects to pay Amazon, Google, and Microsoft $80B+ total to run its models on their servers through 2029, plus an additional $100B for training costs (The Information)

The Information: Anthropic expects to pay Amazon, Google, and Microsoft $80B+ total to run its models on their servers through 2029, plus an additional $100B for training costs — Anthropic expects t...

BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs

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Emergent, which offers an AI-powered software development service, says it is generating annual run-rate revenue of $100M+, just eight months after launch (TechCrunch)

TechCrunch: Emergent, which offers an AI-powered software development service, says it is generating annual run-rate revenue of $100M+, just eight months after launch — Indian vibe-coding platform E...

Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better

I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard

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OpenAI grabs OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger to build personal agents

Anthropic's CEO Says AI and Software Engineers Are in 'Centaur Phase' - But It Won't Last Long

Human software engineers and AI are currently in a /'centaur phase/' -- a reference to the mythical half-human, half-horse creature, where the combination outperforms either working alone -- but the win...

Apple starts testing end-to-end encrypted RCS messages on iPhone

iPhone 17 Pro Apple is starting to test end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) RCS messages with the developer beta of iOS 26.4 released Monday. Apple announced plans last year to support the feature, and once...

Letter and sources: Starboard plans to nominate a majority slate to Tripadvisor's board; Starboard holds a 9% stake, and TRIP has dropped ~46% in the past year (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal)

Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal: Letter and sources: Starboard plans to nominate a majority slate to Tripadvisor's board; Starboard holds a 9% stake, and TRIP has dropped ~46% in the past year —...

Micron introduces the first mass-produced PCIe 6.0 SSDs, with read speeds up to 28GB/s, double that of PCIe 5.0 SSDs, optimized for AI/data center deployments (Aaron Klotz/Tom's Hardware)

Aaron Klotz / Tom's Hardware: Micron introduces the first mass-produced PCIe 6.0 SSDs, with read speeds up to 28GB/s, double that of PCIe 5.0 SSDs, optimized for AI/data center deployments — Micron'...

Sony says it has developed tech to identify copyrighted music in AI-generated songs, aiming to help rights holders receive compensation if their music was used (Rei Nakafuji/Nikkei Asia)

Rei Nakafuji / Nikkei Asia: Sony says it has developed tech to identify copyrighted music in AI-generated songs, aiming to help rights holders receive compensation if their music was used — Japanese...

Sources: top VC firms operating in India are expected to commit investments ranging from $300M to $500M each to India's AI ecosystem at the AI Impact Summit (The Economic Times)

The Economic Times: Sources: top VC firms operating in India are expected to commit investments ranging from $300M to $500M each to India's AI ecosystem at the AI Impact Summit — Top venture capital...

Western Digital is Sold Out of Hard Drives for 2026

Western Digital's entire hard drive manufacturing capacity for calendar year 2026 is now fully spoken for, CEO Irving Tan disclosed during the company's second-quarter earnings call, a stark sign of h...

India-based AI cloud startup Neysa plans to raise up to $600M in equity led by Blackstone, plus $600M in debt, to deploy 20K+ GPUs in India for AI training (Baiju Kalesh/Bloomberg)

Baiju Kalesh / Bloomberg: India-based AI cloud startup Neysa plans to raise up to $600M in equity led by Blackstone, plus $600M in debt, to deploy 20K+ GPUs in India for AI training — A group of inv...

Infosec exec sold eight zero-day exploit kits to Russia, says DoJ

OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI

Sam Altman announced on X that Peter Steinberger, the man behind the trendy AI agent OpenClaw, was joining OpenAI. He said that Steinberger has /'a lot of amazing ideas/' about getting AI agents to inte...

Researchers outline Iran's digital surveillance capabilities, integrated across communications and internet networks, and recently used to track down protesters (New York Times)

New York Times: Researchers outline Iran's digital surveillance capabilities, integrated across communications and internet networks, and recently used to track down protesters — As Iranian authorit...

Amazon-backed X-Energy gets green light for mini reactor fuel production

ServiceNow can't seem to keep its wallet closed, snaps up small AI analytics company

A deep dive into a global money-laundering ecosystem powered by crypto and messaging apps like WeChat and Telegram, used by drug cartels and criminal groups (Jessica Brice/Bloomberg)

Jessica Brice / Bloomberg: A deep dive into a global money-laundering ecosystem powered by crypto and messaging apps like WeChat and Telegram, used by drug cartels and criminal groups — A vast ecosy...

Analysis: despite investing $150B+ in 10+ years, China is expected to produce 2% of global AI chips in 2026 and 70x less memory storage than foreign chipmakers (Meaghan Tobin/New York Times)

Meaghan Tobin / New York Times: Analysis: despite investing $150B+ in 10+ years, China is expected to produce 2% of global AI chips in 2026 and 70x less memory storage than foreign chipmakers — More...

India approves a $1.1B state-backed VC fund to finance high-risk areas like AI and advanced manufacturing, doubling down on an effort that debuted in 2016 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: India approves a $1.1B state-backed VC fund to finance high-risk areas like AI and advanced manufacturing, doubling down on an effort that debuted in 2016 — India has cle...

AI coding platform's flaws allow BBC reporter to be hacked

Vibe-coding tools - which let people without coding skills create apps using AI - are exploding in popularity.

AI to make call center agents 'superheroes,' not unemployed, says industry CEO

Cloudflare turns websites into faster food for AI agents

The MPA urges ByteDance to curb its AI video model Seedance 2.0, saying the model engages in unauthorized use of US copyrighted material /'on a massive scale/' (Gene Maddaus/Variety)

Gene Maddaus / Variety: The MPA urges ByteDance to curb its AI video model Seedance 2.0, saying the model engages in unauthorized use of US copyrighted material “on a massive scale” — The Motion Pic...

Ukrainian forces say Russian troops paid them for a fake Starlink service that instead revealed battlefield locations

A recent block aimed at cutting off Russian Starlink access has prompted a slew of reports that the Kremlin's soldiers are approaching Ukrainians for help registering their terminals. Serhii Korovayny...

A matplotlib maintainer explains how an AI agent that suggests code changes on open source repos wrote a hit piece on him after a rejection, and the aftermath (Scott/The Shamblog)

Scott / The Shamblog: A matplotlib maintainer explains how an AI agent that suggests code changes on open source repos wrote a hit piece on him after a rejection, and the aftermath — Context: An AI...

Anthropic wants comp-sci students to vibe code their way through college

Attackers finally get around to exploiting critical Microsoft bug from 2024

Oxide plans new rack attack, packing in Zen 5 CPUs and DDR5 RAM

Show HN: Data Engineering Book – An open source, community-driven guide

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Sources: Grafana Labs, which makes cloud and AI monitoring tools, is in talks to raise at a $9B valuation, up from $6.6B in 2024; its ARR hit $400M in Sept. (The Information)

The Information: Sources: Grafana Labs, which makes cloud and AI monitoring tools, is in talks to raise at a $9B valuation, up from $6.6B in 2024; its ARR hit $400M in Sept. — Grafana Labs, a softwa...

Spotify Says Its Best Developers Haven't Written a Line of Code Since December, Thanks To AI

Spotify's best developers have stopped writing code manually since December and now rely on an internal AI system called Honk that enables remote, real-time code deployment through Claude Code, the co...

Study: Self-generated Agent Skills are useless

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3 takeaways from Elon Musk's xAI all-hands, from a moon city to a company restructuring

Elon Musk holds an all-hands meeting and outlines xAI's new structure after the SpaceX merger. X.com Elon Musk outlined xAI's new structure after the SpaceX merger. xAI is planning a Moon base for it...

Anthropic Safety Researcher Quits, Warning 'World is in Peril'

An anonymous reader shares a report: An Anthropic safety researcher quit, saying the /'world is in peril/' in part over AI advances. Mrinank Sharma said the safety team /'constantly [faces] pressures to...

Microsoft warns that poisoned AI buttons and links may betray your trust

30+ Chrome extensions disguised as AI chatbots steal users' API keys, emails, other sensitive data

OpenAI dishes out its first model on a plate of Cerebras silicon

These Y Combinator founders raised $10 million to get corporate America into vibe coding. Read their pitch deck.

Vybe cofounders Quang Hoang and Fabien Devos. Vybe Two repeat Y Combinator founders have raised $10 million for their startup, Vybe. They want to move vibe coding from hobby apps into corporate budge...

Waymo Begins Fully Autonomous Operations With 6th-Generation Tech

For now, the self-driving car company is only providing trips to employees.

Windows 11 Notepad Flaw Let Files Execute Silently via Markdown Links

Microsoft has patched a high-severity vulnerability in Windows 11's Notepad that allowed attackers to silently execute local or remote programs when a user clicked a specially crafted Markdown link, a...

Cosmologically Unique IDs

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AI connector for Google Calendar makes convenient malware launchpad, researchers show

Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance

The ad promotes Ring cameras’ new capability to search neighborhoods for a lost dog. | Screenshot from Ring video Ring's new Search Party feature has once again drawn backlash for the company. A 30-...

ByteDance Suspends Seedance 2 Feature That Turns Facial Photos Into Personal Voices Over Potential Risks

hackingbear writes: China's Bytedance has released Seedance 2.0, an AI video generator which handles up to four types of input at once: images, videos, audio, and text. Users can combine up to nine im...

Cisco looses Splunk to probe and tame its growing agentic menagerie

Market for gear that stops GPUs losing their cool is red hot as Trane gulps down LiquidStack

Open Compute taps IOWN to help design distributed datacenters and a 'computing continuum'

Anthropic says it’ll try to keep its data centers from raising electricity costs

Anthropic is the latest AI company promising to limit the impact its data centers have on nearby residents' electricity bills. The company said it would pay higher monthly electricity charges in orde...

Applied Materials reaches a $252M settlement with the US Commerce Department, resolving allegations it illegally shipped chipmaking equipment to SMIC in China (Reuters)

Reuters: Applied Materials reaches a $252M settlement with the US Commerce Department, resolving allegations it illegally shipped chipmaking equipment to SMIC in China — The U.S. Department of Comme...

Coinbase rolls out Agentic Wallets, a wallet infrastructure that lets AI agents make autonomous crypto transactions /'without human intervention/' (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)

Daniel Kuhn / The Block: Coinbase rolls out Agentic Wallets, a wallet infrastructure that lets AI agents make autonomous crypto transactions “without human intervention” — Quick Take — Agentic Wall...

Devilish devs spawn 287 Chrome extensions to flog your browser history to data brokers

Is Linux Mint Burning Out? Developers Consider Longer Release Cycle

BrianFagioli writes: The Linux Mint developers say they are considering adopting a longer development cycle, arguing that the project's current six month cadence plus LMDE releases leaves too little r...

Lawmakers demand great wall to keep advanced chipmaking gear out of China

Microsoft fixed a vulnerability in Notepad in Windows 11 allowing attackers to execute remote programs by tricking users into clicking malicious Markdown links (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Microsoft fixed a vulnerability in Notepad in Windows 11 allowing attackers to execute remote programs by tricking users into clicking malicious Markdown links —...

Reports of Telnet's death have been greatly exaggerated

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Show HN: Agent framework that generates its own topology and evolves at runtime

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Two more xAI co-founders are among those leaving after the SpaceX merger

Since the xAI-SpaceX merger announced last week, which combined the two companies (as well as social media platform X) for a reported $1.25 trillion valuation - the biggest merger of all time - a hand...

Isomorphic Labs, a Google DeepMind spinoff, unveils IsoDDE, a drug design system it says surpasses AlphaFold 3 in predicting biomolecular structures (Isomorphic Labs)

Isomorphic Labs: Isomorphic Labs, a Google DeepMind spinoff, unveils IsoDDE, a drug design system it says surpasses AlphaFold 3 in predicting biomolecular structures — Today, we are excited to share...

Microsoft's Valentine's gift to admins: 6 exploited zero-day fixes

NYC-based Garner Health, a platform using data analytics to help workers find healthcare providers, raised a $118M Series D at a $1.35B valuation (Amy Feldman/Forbes)

Amy Feldman / Forbes: NYC-based Garner Health, a platform using data analytics to help workers find healthcare providers, raised a $118M Series D at a $1.35B valuation — Nick Reber, Garner Health fo...

Tel Aviv-based Backslash Security, which safeguards enterprise software development from vibe coding risks, raised a $19M Series A, taking total funding to $27M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Tel Aviv-based Backslash Security, which safeguards enterprise software development from vibe coding risks, raised a $19M Series A, taking total funding to $27M — Vibe c...

The FCC approves Amazon's request to launch a second-generation satellite constellation for its Leo system by deploying an additional 4,504 satellites (Michael Kan/PCMag)

Michael Kan / PCMag: The FCC approves Amazon's request to launch a second-generation satellite constellation for its Leo system by deploying an additional 4,504 satellites — Amazon has received clea...

White House Eyes Data Center Agreements Amid Energy Price Spikes

An anonymous reader shares a report: The Trump administration wants some of the world's largest technology companies to publicly commit to a new compact governing the rapid expansion of AI data center...

WebMCP is available for early preview

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Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch

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New York is considering two bills to rein in the AI industry

AI data centers are becoming a bipartisan concern. | Image: Microsoft New York's state legislature is set to consider a pair of bills that would require labels on AI-generated content and would put...

The price of Bitcoin drops below $65,000

On Thursday, Bitcoin's value fell over 10 percent in a single day, dropping to around $64,000, the lowest it has been since the 2024 Presidential election, as CNBC reports. After crossing $100,000 in...

Senators grill Waymo and Tesla over robotaxi safety, liability, and China

During a two-hour hearing in the US Senate Wednesday, top executives from Waymo and Tesla urged lawmakers to take action on long-stalled legislation to speed the deployment of self-driving cars on pub...

Waymo raises $16 billion to take its robotaxi business ‘global’

Waymo announced a $16 billion investment round aimed at bringing its robotaxi business to more US cities, as well as some overseas markets. The funding round was led by Dragoneer Investment Group, a /'...

Shedding light on Iran’s longest internet blackout

After protests broke out in early January, the Iranian regime shut down the internet, starting the longest blackout in Iranian history. Despite this attempt to stop the protests from spreading, they d...

Why Tether’s CEO is everywhere right now

For years, Tether's CEO avoided the United States, watching from offshore as regulators circled and prosecutors investigated. Those days are over.

I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer

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SpaceX wants to put 1 million solar-powered data centers into orbit

SpaceX filed a request with the FCC on Friday seeking approval to put a constellation of 1 million data center satellites into orbit. While the FCC is unlikely to approve a network that expansive, Spa...

It’s a new heyday for gas thanks to data centers

Gas turbines at the on-site natural gas plant under construction during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. | Photo: Getty Images The US...

The crypto bill is falling apart in Congress

Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-PA), from left, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) Sen. John Boozman (R-AK), Rep. French Hill (R-AK), and David Sacks, White House Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Crypto czar, during a news...

News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns

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Pinterest cuts workforce by around 15 percent to focus on AI

Pinterest is making cuts to fund its AI plans. Pinterest is planning to lay off hundreds of workers and reduce its office space to reallocate resources for its artificial intelligence initiatives. I...

Moltbot, the AI agent that ‘actually does things,’ is tech’s new obsession

An open-source AI agent that /'actually does things/' is taking off, with people across the web sharing how they're using the agent to do a whole bunch of things, like manage reminders, log health and f...

X faces EU investigation over Grok’s sexualized deepfakes

X is facing an investigation from the European Commission over the sexualized deepfakes generated by its Grok AI chatbot. In its announcement, the Commission says it will evaluate whether X /'properly...

Leak: Nvidia is about to challenge ‘Intel Inside’ with as many as eight Arm laptops

This is not an Nvidia Arm laptop, but the old image seemed thematically appropriate. Intel and AMD have split the Windows laptop market for years, but the x86 players may be getting outnumbered. It'...

Microsoft handed the government encryption keys for customer data

The FBI went to Microsoft last year with a warrant, asking them to hand over keys to unlock encrypted data stored on three laptops as part of an investigation into potential fraud involving the COVID...

Ring can verify videos now, but that might not help you with most AI fakes

Ring has launched a new Ring Verify tool that the company says can /'verify that Ring videos you receive haven't been edited or changed./' But since Ring won't verify videos that have been altered in an...

The TikTok deal is done, finally

Just over a year after it briefly disappeared from app stores, TikTok in the US is now part of a new entity, TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC. With approval from both the US and China closing on the sche...

Anthropic’s new Claude ‘constitution’: be helpful and honest, and don’t destroy humanity

Anthropic is overhauling Claude's so-called /'soul doc./' The new missive is a 57-page document titled /'Claude's Constitution,/' which details /'Anthropic's intentions for the model's values and behavior...

Blue Origin’s Starlink rival TeraWave promises 6-terabit satellite internet

The Blue Origin New Glenn rocket lifts off at Launch Complex 36 in its second launch attempt at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on November 13, 2025 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. | Photo: Miguel J. R...

OpenAI’s 2026 ‘focus’ is ‘practical adoption’

OpenAI plans to focus on /'practical adoption/' of AI in 2026, according to a blog post from CFO Sarah Friar. As the company spends a huge amount of money on infrastructure, OpenAI is working on /'closin...

Ford’s AI voice assistant is coming later this year, L3 driving in 2028

Ford is set to launch an AI-powered voice assistant in 2026, enhancing user experience by integrating vehicle-specific data for more accurate responses. The automaker is also developing a Level 3 autonomous driving feature by 2028, focusing on cost-effective in-house technology to improve affordability and functionality.

Lenovo is building an AI assistant that ‘can act on your behalf’

Lenovo's Qira AI assistant represents a significant shift in integrating AI across devices, emphasizing modularity and user control over data. By avoiding reliance on a single AI model, Lenovo aims to enhance user experience and retention while addressing cost challenges in AI deployment.

Dell’s new 4K QD-OLED monitor offers true 10-bit color

Dell's UltraSharp 32 4K QD-OLED Monitor, launching at CES 2026, targets creative professionals with its claimed 'true-to-life' color accuracy and integrated colorimeter. Priced at $2,599.99, it features a 120Hz refresh rate and limited connectivity options, raising questions about its value compared to competitors.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 Model Brings 'Much-Improved Coding Skills', Upgraded Free Tier

Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 4.6, the first upgrade to its mid-tier AI model since version 4.5 arrived in September 2025. The new model features a /'1M token context window/' and delivers a /'ful...

ChangeTheHeaders

During the most recent episode of The Talk Show, Jason Snell brought up a weird issue that I started running into last year. On my Mac, sometimes I’d drag an image out of a web page in Safari, and I’d...

The US Had a Big Battery Boom Last Year

The United States installed a record 57 gigawatt hours of new battery storage on its electric grids in 2025, a nearly 30% increase over the prior year that arrived even as the Trump administration cut...

Swiss E-Voting Pilot Can't Count 2,048 Ballots After USB Keys Fail To Decrypt Them

A Swiss e-voting pilot was suspended after officials couldn't decrypt 2,048 ballots because the USB keys needed to unlock them failed. /'Three USB sticks were used, all with the correct code, but none...

Intel Demos Chip To Compute With Encrypted Data

An anonymous reader quotes a report from IEEE Spectrum: Worried that your latest ask to a cloud-based AI reveals a bit too much about you? Want to know your genetic risk of disease without revealing i...

A Security Researcher Went 'Undercover' on Moltbook - and Found Security Risks

A long-time information security professional /'went undercover/' on Moltbook, the Reddit-like social media site for AI agents — and shares the risks they saw while posing as another AI bot: I successf...

Sam Altman Answers Questions on X.com About Pentagon Deal, Threats to Anthropic

Saturday afternoon Sam Altman announced he'd start answering questions on X.com about OpenAI's work with America's Department of War — and all the developments over the past few days. (After that depa...

Telegram Disputes Russia's Claim Its Encryption Was Compromised

Russia's domestic intelligence agency claimed Saturday that Ukraine can obtain sensitive information from troops using the Telegram app on the front line, reports Bloomberg. The fact that the claims w...

Four Convicted Over Spyware Affair That Shook Greece

A Greek court has convicted four individuals linked to the marketing of Predator spyware in the wiretapping scandal that shook the country in 2022. The BBC reports: In what became known as /'Greece's W...