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Nvidia's new open weights Nemotron 3 super combines three different architectures to beat gpt-oss and Qwen in throughput

Multi-agent systems, designed to handle long-horizon tasks like software engineering or cybersecurity triaging, can generate up to 15 times the token volume of standard chats — threatening their cost-...

Andrej Karpathy's new open source 'autoresearch' lets you run hundreds of AI experiments a night — with revolutionary implications

Over the weekend, Andrej Karpathy—the influential former Tesla AI lead and co-founder and former member of OpenAI who coined the term /'vibe coding/'— posted on X about his new open source project, auto...

Anthropic rolls out Code Review for Claude Code as it sues over Pentagon blacklist and partners with Microsoft

Anthropic on Monday released Code Review, a multi-agent code review system built into Claude Code that dispatches teams of AI agents to scrutinize every pull request for bugs that human reviewers rout...

Anthropic launches Claude Marketplace, giving enterprises access to Claude-powered tools from Replit, GitLab, Harvey and more

San Francisco startup Anthropic continues to ship new AI products and services at a blistering pace, despite a messy ongoing dispute with the U.S. Department of War. Today, the company announced Claud...

Bing AI promoted fake OpenClaw GitHub repo pushing info-stealing malware

Fake OpenClaw installers hosted in GitHub repositories and promoted by Microsoft Bing's AI-enhanced search feature instructed users to run commands that deployed information stealers and proxy malware...

Black Forest Labs' new Self-Flow technique makes training multimodal AI models 2.8x more efficient

To create coherent images or videos, generative AI diffusion models like Stable Diffusion or FLUX have typically relied on external /'teachers/'—frozen encoders like CLIP or DINOv2—to provide the semant...

Microsoft built Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B to know when to think — and when thinking is a waste of time

Microsoft on Tuesday released Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a compact open-weight multimodal AI model that the company says matches or exceeds the performance of systems many times its size — while cons...

Alibaba's small, open source Qwen3.5-9B beats OpenAI's gpt-oss-120B and can run on standard laptops

Despite political turmoil in the U.S. AI sector, in China, the AI advances are continuing apace without a hitch. Earlier today, e-commerce giant Alibaba's Qwen Team of AI researchers, focused primaril...

What if the real risk of AI isn’t deepfakes — but daily whispers?

Most people don’t appreciate the profound threat that AI will soon pose to human agency. A common refrain is that “AI is just a tool,” and like any tool, its benefits and dangers depend on how people...

Google's Opal just quietly showed enterprise teams the new blueprint for building AI agents

For the past year, the enterprise AI community has been locked in a debate about how much freedom to give AI agents. Too little, and you get expensive workflow automation that barely justifies the /'ag...

Alibaba's new open source Qwen3.5-Medium models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers

Alibaba's now famed Qwen AI development team has done it again: a little more than a day ago, they released the Qwen3.5 Medium Model series consisting of four new large language models (LLMs) with sup...

Ukraine Is Testing A Laser To Shoot Down Enemy Aircraft, And It Could Change Everything

With the proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles across the globe, military tactics have been forced to evolve, which means new, high-tech weapons.

IBM's $40B stock wipeout is built on a misconception: Translating COBOL isn't the same as modernizing it

On Tuesday, Anthropic published tools that let Claude read, analyze and translate legacy COBOL into modern languages like Java and Python. By the end of the trading day, investors had wiped roughly $4...

The era of human web search is over: Nimble launches Agentic Search Platform for enterprises boasting 99% accuracy

Web Search has already been disrupted by AI — just take a look at how readily Google is presenting users with AI Overviews (summaries of search results) at the top of their results pages, how Bing ear...

The FBI Says These Wi-Fi Routers Are Unsafe, And Here's Why

The FBI has named a series of Wi-Fi routers as being unsafe. If you're using a router from this brand, you might want to check if yours is one of the models.

Google Gemini 3.1 Pro first impressions: a 'Deep Think Mini' with adjustable reasoning on demand

For the past three months, Google's Gemini 3 Pro has held its ground as one of the most capable frontier models available. But in the fast-moving world of AI, three months is a lifetime — and competit...

Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 397B-A17 beats its larger trillion-parameter model — at a fraction of the cost

Alibaba dropped Qwen3.5 earlier this week, timed to coincide with the Lunar New Year, and the headline numbers alone are enough to make enterprise AI buyers stop and pay attention. The new flagship op...

z.ai's open source GLM-5 achieves record low hallucination rate and leverages new RL 'slime' technique

Chinese AI startup Zhupai aka z.ai is back this week with an eye-popping new frontier large language model: GLM-5. The latest in z.ai's ongoing and continually impressive GLM series, it retains an ope...

Getting the Full Picture: Unifying Databricks and Cloud Infrastructure Costs

Understanding TCO on DatabricksUnderstanding the value of your AI and data investments...

MiniMax's new open M2.5 and M2.5 Lightning near state-of-the-art while costing 1/20th of Claude Opus 4.6

Chinese AI startup MiniMax, headquartered in Shanghai, has sent shockwaves through the AI industry today with the release of its new M2.5 language model in two variants, which promise to make high-end...

Anthropic’s Claude Cowork finally lands on Windows — and it wants to automate your workday

Anthropic released its Claude Cowork AI agent software for Windows on Monday, bringing the file management and task automation tool to roughly 70 percent of the desktop computing market and intensifyi...

Kalshi Prediction Markets Match or Beat Traditional Forecasting Tools For Macro Indicators, NBER Study Finds

A new NBER working paper from researchers at the Federal Reserve, Northwestern's Kellogg School and Johns Hopkins finds that Kalshi -- the largest federally regulated prediction market in the U.S., ov...

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Carmakers Rush To Remove Chinese Code Under New US Rules

/'How Chinese is your car?/' asks the Wall Street Journal. /'Automakers are racing to work it out./' Modern cars are packed with internet-connected widgets, many of them containing Chinese technology. N...

Indian police commissioner wants ID cards for AI agents

Linus Torvalds keeps his ‘fingers and toes’ rule by decreeing next Linux will be version 7.0

America has a tungsten problem

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As OpenAI prepares to retire 4o on February 13, sources say the company scrapped it partly because it struggled to contain 4o's potential for harmful outcomes (Sam Schechner/Wall Street Journal)

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: As OpenAI prepares to retire 4o on February 13, sources say the company scrapped it partly because it struggled to contain 4o's potential for harmful outcomes —...

Farcaster co-founders Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasan, along with the team at Merkle, join stablecoin startup Tempo after Merkle's sale of Farcaster to Neynar (Kyle Baird/The Block)

Kyle Baird / The Block: Farcaster co-founders Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasan, along with the team at Merkle, join stablecoin startup Tempo after Merkle's sale of Farcaster to Neynar — Quick Take —...

Google soaks up 1GW of Texas sunshine to power $185B AI spending spree

Linux 7.0 Kernel Confirmed By Linus Torvalds, Expected In Mid-April 2026

An anonymous reader writes: Linus Torvalds has confirmed the next major kernel series as Linux 7.0, reports Linux news website 9to5Linux.com: /'So there you have it, the Linux 6.x era has ended with to...

London-based Tem, which uses AI to optimize energy transactions for businesses, raised a $75M Series B led by Lightspeed, a source says at a $300M+ valuation (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)

Tim De Chant / TechCrunch: London-based Tem, which uses AI to optimize energy transactions for businesses, raised a $75M Series B led by Lightspeed, a source says at a $300M+ valuation — As AI data...

Microsoft boffins figured out how to break LLM safety guardrails with one simple prompt

OpenAI's new Codex app hits 1M+ downloads in first week — but limits may be coming to free and Go users

In a major milestone for the /'AI coding wars,/' OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed on X that the company's standalone Codex application (currently only for Mac computers) surpassed 1 million downloads in...

Sixteen AI Agents Built a C Compiler From Scratch

Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini set 16 instances of Claude Opus 4.6 loose on a shared codebase over two weeks to build a C compiler from scratch, and the AI agents produced a 100,000-line Rust-b...

A New Era for Security? Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 Found 500 High-Severity Vulnerabilities

Axios reports: Anthropic's latest AI model has found more than 500 previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-source libraries with little to no prompting, the company shared first with...

The World's First Sodium-Ion Battery in Commercial EVs - Great at Low Temperatures

Long-time Slashdot reader Geoffrey.landis shared this report from InsideEVs: Chinese battery giant CATL and automaker Changan Automobile are preparing to put the world's first passenger car powered...

After Six Years, Two Pentesters Arrested in Iowa Receive $600,000 Settlement

/'They were crouched down like turkeys peeking over the balcony,/' the county sheriff told Ars Technica. A half hour past midnight, they were skulking through a courthouse in Iowa's Dallas County on Sep...

An interview with Jeannette zu Fürstenberg, who was promoted to president of General Catalyst in January, about investing in European tech and defense startups (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: An interview with Jeannette zu Fürstenberg, who was promoted to president of General Catalyst in January, about investing in European tech and defense startups — Jeannette z...

Apple XNU: Clutch Scheduler

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As Section 230 turns 30, a look at how upcoming court cases involving Meta, Alphabet, and others in the US could reshape the bounds of Section 230's protections (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

Lauren Feiner / The Verge: As Section 230 turns 30, a look at how upcoming court cases involving Meta, Alphabet, and others in the US could reshape the bounds of Section 230's protections — Thirty y...

Do Super Bowl Ads For AI Signal a Bubble About to Burst?

It's the first /'AI/' Super Bowl, argues the tech/business writer at Slate, with AI company advertisements taking center stage, even while consumers insist to surveyors that they're /'mostly negative/' ab...

How China boosts its humanoid robot industry, giving companies land, favorable bank loan terms, and sometimes subsidizing the robots' purchase price by ~10% (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: How China boosts its humanoid robot industry, giving companies land, favorable bank loan terms, and sometimes subsidizing the robots' purchase price by ~10% — Beijing is showeri...

Moltbook was peak AI theater, less of a glimpse at the future and more of a mirror simply reflecting society's current obsession with AI (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: Moltbook was peak AI theater, less of a glimpse at the future and more of a mirror simply reflecting society's current obsession with AI — For a few days...

Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2

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Telcos aren't saying how they fought back against China's Salt Typhoon attacks

The Hottest New AI Agent Is Here – But It Has Some Experts Raising Alarms

Agentic AI has promised to revolutionize how people get things done. This new agent is the closest we've gotten to that, but it's not without its problems.

A look at Corning's booming fiber-optic business, boosted by data center demand and a $6B Meta deal, as Nvidia explores Corning's co-packaged optics for servers (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: A look at Corning's booming fiber-optic business, boosted by data center demand and a $6B Meta deal, as Nvidia explores Corning's co-packaged optics for servers...

Trump-linked World Liberty Financial's stablecoin, USD1, hit $5B in total circulation in January with 85% held in Binance accounts; Trump pardoned CZ in October (David Yaffe-Bellany/New York Times)

David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: Trump-linked World Liberty Financial's stablecoin, USD1, hit $5B in total circulation in January with 85% held in Binance accounts; Trump pardoned CZ in October...

Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder

Amazon can't build AI capacity fast enough, throws another $200B at the problem

Atlassian swears it can handle AI without blowing out costs, or being swamped

Can robots ever be graceful?

Firms are working to make the motors that drive robots more efficient and cheaper.

Starlink Is Using Your Personal Data to Train AI. Here’s How to Opt Out

Starlink says it may also share personal data with partners to help it /'develop AI-enabled tools that improve your customer experience.”

The European Commission Is Testing an Open Source Alternative To Microsoft Teams

The European Commission is preparing to trial a communications platform built on Matrix, the open source messaging protocol already used by the French government, German healthcare providers and Europ...

AI video company arouses fury by boasting about replacing creative jobs

A look at the state of AI agents, the evolution of thinking models, the staggering need for inference compute in the coming years, automated research, and more (Eric Jang/Evjang.com)

Eric Jang / Evjang.com: A look at the state of AI agents, the evolution of thinking models, the staggering need for inference compute in the coming years, automated research, and more — — Dr. Vannev...

Hidden Cameras in Chinese Hotels Are Livestreaming Guests To Thousands of Telegram Subscribers

An investigation has uncovered a sprawling network of hidden cameras in Chinese hotel rooms that livestream guests -- including couples having sex -- to paying subscribers on Telegram. Over 18 months,...

Let there be light! DARPA seeking physics-defying photonic computers to supercharge AI

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

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New York lawmakers propose a bill to impose a three-year moratorium on data center development, making NY at least the sixth state to introduce such legislation (Molly Taft/Wired)

Molly Taft / Wired: New York lawmakers propose a bill to impose a three-year moratorium on data center development, making NY at least the sixth state to introduce such legislation — Red and blue st...

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

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Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

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South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb says it accidentally sent $44B worth of bitcoin to customers as promotional rewards and has recovered 99.7% of it (Hyunjoo Jin/Reuters)

Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters: South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb says it accidentally sent $44B worth of bitcoin to customers as promotional rewards and has recovered 99.7% of it — South Korean c...

US tech stocks and bitcoin rally after three days of selling; Nasdaq Composite closed up 2.18%, Broadcom 7.22%, Strategy 26.11%, and bitcoin rebounded to ~$70K (Emily Herbert/Financial Times)

Emily Herbert / Financial Times: US tech stocks and bitcoin rally after three days of selling; Nasdaq Composite closed up 2.18%, Broadcom 7.22%, Strategy 26.11%, and bitcoin rebounded to ~$70K — Nas...

What the OpenClaw moment means for enterprises: 5 big takeaways

The /'OpenClaw moment/' represents the first time autonomous AI agents have successfully /'escaped the lab/' and moved into the hands of the general workforce. Originally developed by Austrian engineer P...

Microsoft Adds Sysmon To Windows

Microsoft has finally delivered on its promise to integrate Sysmon -- the long-standing system monitoring tool from its Sysinternals suite -- directly into Windows, a move that should make life consid...

Mozilla Adds Option to Disable New AI Features Coming to Firefox Browser

Mozilla says the new version will be available on desktop-only on Feb. 24.

US pitches plan to counter China's dominance of critical mineral supply

The event was attended by representatives of more than 50 countries, the White House said.

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft forecast capital expenditures that reach a combined ~$650B in 2026, a 60% YoY increase driven by data center construction (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft forecast capital expenditures that reach a combined ~$650B in 2026, a 60% YoY increase driven by data center construction — Four of the biggest US te...

Automattic and the Internet Archive Team Up To Fight Link Rot

Automattic and the Internet Archive have released a free, open-source WordPress plugin that automatically detects broken outbound links on a site and redirects visitors to archived Wayback Machine cop...

Court Rules That Ripping YouTube Clips Can Violate the DMCA

A federal court in California has ruled that YouTube creators who use stream-ripping tools to download clips for reaction and commentary videos may face liability under the DMCA's anti-circumvention p...

French authorities charge four people with spying for China by allegedly seeking to obtain satellite data from Starlink and other critical entities (Jenny Che/Bloomberg)

Jenny Che / Bloomberg: French authorities charge four people with spying for China by allegedly seeking to obtain satellite data from Starlink and other critical entities — French authorities charge...

Musk Predicts SpaceX Will Launch More AI Compute Per Year Than the Cumulative Total on Earth

Elon Musk told podcast host Dwarkesh Patel and Stripe co-founder John Collison that space will become the most economically compelling location for AI data centers in less than 36 months, a prediction...

Only 35 nations signed a declaration affirming /'human responsibility over AI-powered weapons/', with the US and China opting out; the US endorsed prior pledges (Victoria Waldersee/Reuters)

Victoria Waldersee / Reuters: Only 35 nations signed a declaration affirming “human responsibility over AI-powered weapons”, with the US and China opting out; the US endorsed prior pledges — Around...

OpenAI chases business bucks with confusingly named Frontier platform

OpenClaw reveals meaty personal information after simple cracks

Tether acquires a 12% stake, worth $150M, in Gold.com, which enables access to physical and tokenized gold, and plans to integrate its gold-backed XAUT token (CoinDesk)

CoinDesk: Tether acquires a 12% stake, worth $150M, in Gold.com, which enables access to physical and tokenized gold, and plans to integrate its gold-backed XAUT token — What to know: … Tether, issu...

We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler

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For once, Supermicro has dodged drama and just delivered datacenters

Too much AI for some, too little for others: Why AMD can't win with investors

VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files

Adaption Labs, which aims to create AI systems that learn continuously and cost less to run, raised a $50M seed round led by Emergence Capital Partners (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: Adaption Labs, which aims to create AI systems that learn continuously and cost less to run, raised a $50M seed round led by Emergence Capital Partners — Sara Hooker, an AI re...

Bots are taking over the internet and AI users are to blame

Claude Code for Infrastructure

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Filing: Baidu announces a stock buyback program of as much as $5B through the end of 2028, and plans to issue its first dividend in 2026 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Filing: Baidu announces a stock buyback program of as much as $5B through the end of 2028, and plans to issue its first dividend in 2026 — Baidu Inc. announced a three-year stock buyback...

Google says the Gemini app has 750M+ MAUs, up from 650M last quarter, and its first-party models process 10B+ tokens per minute via direct API use by customers (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Google says the Gemini app has 750M+ MAUs, up from 650M last quarter, and its first-party models process 10B+ tokens per minute via direct API use by customers — Googl...

Mistral drops Voxtral Transcribe 2, an open-source speech model that runs on-device for pennies

Mistral AI, the Paris-based startup positioning itself as Europe's answer to OpenAI, released a pair of speech-to-text models on Wednesday that the company says can transcribe audio faster, more accur...

Positron: we don’t need no fancy HBM to compete with Nvidia’s Rubin

Snowboarder Maddie Mastro and other athletes are using a new AI tool powered by Google DeepMind's computer-vision models to prepare for the 2026 Winter Olympics (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: Snowboarder Maddie Mastro and other athletes are using a new AI tool powered by Google DeepMind's computer-vision models to prepare for the 2026 Winter Olymp...

AI agents can't yet pull off fully autonomous cyberattacks - but they are already very helpful to crims

Alaffia Health, which provides AI tools for health plan claims operations, raised a $55M Series B led by Transformation Capital (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Alaffia Health, which provides AI tools for health plan claims operations, raised a $55M Series B led by Transformation Capital — Agentic artificial intelligence for hea...

Google Plots Big Expansion in India as US Restricts Visas

Alphabet is plotting to dramatically expand its presence in India [non-paywalled source], with the possibility of taking millions of square feet in new office space in Bangalore, India's tech hub. Fro...

Qwen3-Coder-Next offers vibe coders a powerful open source, ultra-sparse model with 10x higher throughput for repo tasks

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's Qwen team of AI researchers has emerged in the last year as one of the global leaders of open source AI development, releasing a host of powerful large language mode...

Recon: the US market share of Copilot as paid users' first choice fell from 18.8% in July 2025 to 11.5% in January 2026, while Gemini's rose from 12.8% to 15.7% (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)

Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: Recon: the US market share of Copilot as paid users' first choice fell from 18.8% in July 2025 to 11.5% in January 2026, while Gemini's rose from 12.8% to 15.7...

Sources: US Commerce Dept. has finished review of Nvidia's license to sell China H200s, but the State Dept. seeks tighter restrictions, delaying final approval (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: US Commerce Dept. has finished review of Nvidia's license to sell China H200s, but the State Dept. seeks tighter restrictions, delaying final approval — The state departmen...

Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support

What Go Programmers Think of AI

/'Most Go developers are now using AI-powered development tools when seeking information (e.g., learning how to use a module) or toiling (e.g., writing repetitive blocks of similar code)./' That's one o...

A look at WhatsApp's E2E encryption and whether it protects from metadata and chat backup leaks, after a lawsuit alleges Meta can read users' private data (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts ...)

Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: A look at WhatsApp's E2E encryption and whether it protects from metadata and chat backup leaks, after a lawsuit alleges Meta can read user...

Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

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Feds Skipping Infosec Industry's Biggest Conference This Year

An anonymous reader shares a report: The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency won't attend the annual RSA Conference in March, an agency spokesperson confirmed to The Register. Sessions...

Intel welcomes memory apocalypse with Xeon workstation refresh

NotebookLM Review: Bring Your Own Sources to This Ultrapractical Google AI Tool

Whether you're learning, working or creating, NotebookLM delivers the goods.

Notepad++ hijacking blamed on Chinese Lotus Blossom crew behind Chrysalis backdoor

xAI joins SpaceX

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OpenAI is retiring famous GPT-4o model, says GPT 5.2 is good enough

OpenAI has confirmed that it's retiring ChatGPT's most popular model called GPT-4o and several other models, including GPT-5 Instant, GPT-5 Thinking, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and o4-mini. [...]

US Government Also Received a Whistleblower Complaint That WhatsApp Chats Aren't Private

Remember that lawsuit questioning WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption? Thursday Bloomberg reported those allegations had been investigated by special agents with America's Commerce Department, /'according...

Anthropic researchers detail /'disempowerment patterns/' in AI assistant interactions where AI potentially distorts a user's reality, beliefs, or actions (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)

Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: Anthropic researchers detail “disempowerment patterns” in AI assistant interactions where AI potentially distorts a user's reality, beliefs, or actions — At this point, w...

Anthropic's $200M Pentagon Contract at Risk Over Objections to Domestic Surveillance, Autonomous Deployments

Talks /'are at a standstill/' for Anthropic's potential $200 million contract with America's Defense Department, reports Reuters (citing several people familiar with the discussions./') The two issues?...

Bitcoin Drops 40% in Four Months. Bloomberg Blames Absence of Buyers and Belief

October saw Bitcoin reach $123,742. But less than four months later, /'The world's largest cryptocurrency slipped below $76,000.../' Bloomberg reports, /'dropping about 40% from its 2025 peak.../' /'Wha...

Apple, long dominant in the electronics supply chain, is starting to be outbid by AI companies for components like memory as suppliers gain leverage over Apple (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Apple, long dominant in the electronics supply chain, is starting to be outbid by AI companies for components like memory as suppliers gain leverage over Apple — Parts for iPhon...

Google Brings Genie 3's Interactive World-Building Prototype to AI Ultra Subscribers

Genie 3 lets you generate a video game-like world in seconds with only a text prompt.

Is Meta's Huge Spending on AI Actually Paying Off?

The Wall Street Journal says that Meta /'might be reaping some of the richest benefits from the AI boom so far./' Meta's revenue grew 22% year over year in 2025 to $201 billion, and the company exp...

Open-source AI is a global security nightmare waiting to happen, say researchers

Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation

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GNU gettext Reaches Version 1.0 After 30 Years

After more than 30 years of development, GNU gettext finally /'crossed the symbolic 'v1.0' milestone,/' according to Phoronix's Michael Larabel. /'GNU gettext 1.0 brings PO file handling improvements, a...

An interview with Nvidia's senior VP of hardware engineering, Andrew Bell, on continuing to provide Shield Android TV software updates a decade after its launch (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)

Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: An interview with Nvidia's senior VP of hardware engineering, Andrew Bell, on continuing to provide Shield Android TV software updates a decade after its launch — “Selfi...

Bitcoin has fallen to ~$78K, down ~7% in 24 hours, over 12% in the past week, and down ~37% since its ATH in Oct. 2025; Ethereum dropped ~18% in the past week (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Bitcoin has fallen to ~$78K, down ~7% in 24 hours, over 12% in the past week, and down ~37% since its ATH in Oct. 2025; Ethereum dropped ~18% in the past week — Bitcoin fell sharply in ea...

Denver-based Northslope, which builds customized AI applications for Palantir OS, raised a $22M Series A led by Friends & Family Capital and Goldcrest Capital (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)

Natalie Breymeyer / Axios: Denver-based Northslope, which builds customized AI applications for Palantir OS, raised a $22M Series A led by Friends & Family Capital and Goldcrest Capital — Northslope...

In praise of –dry-run

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Nomura: total returns for software debt in collateralized loan obligations have been lower than all other sectors in 2026, amid fears about AI's impact on SaaS (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Nomura: total returns for software debt in collateralized loan obligations have been lower than all other sectors in 2026, amid fears about AI's impact on SaaS — Amid broad euphoria in cr...

Sources: Waymo nears a $16B round, valuing it at $110B; Alphabet will contribute $12B+, with a16z, Dragoneer, Mubadala, Sequoia, and DST Global participating (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: Waymo nears a $16B round, valuing it at $110B; Alphabet will contribute $12B+, with a16z, Dragoneer, Mubadala, Sequoia, and DST Global participating — Google's robotaxi sta...

5 ChatGPT Prompts To Help Make Your Research More Productive

Large language models like ChatGPT are notoriously unreliable, but with good prompting practice, can act help you research and draft effectively.

Google Considers Letting Websites Opt Out of Having Content Scraped for AI Overviews

Google's polarizing generative AI summaries that appear at the top of search results are particularly unpopular among publishers. Regulatory intervention in the UK may offer them a way out.

Arcee's U.S.-made, open source Trinity Large and 10T-checkpoint offer rare look at raw model intelligence

San Francisco-based AI lab Arcee made waves last year for being one of the only U.S. companies to train large language models (LLMs) from scratch and release them under open or partially open source l...

'Hey! I’m chatting here!’ Fugazi answers doom NYC’s AI bot

Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen and crypto evangelist Tim Draper plan to spend millions this year on an effort to elect moderate California legislators (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)

Theodore Schleifer / New York Times: Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen and crypto evangelist Tim Draper plan to spend millions this year on an effort to elect moderate California legislators — Chris La...

Outsourcing thinking

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More Mac malware from Google search

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Google to foist Gemini pane on Chrome users in automated browsing push

Microsoft investors sweat cloud giant's OpenAI exposure

Software Company Bonds Drop As Investors' AI Worries Mount

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Investors are souring on the bonds of software companies that service industries ranging from automotive to finance as fast-paced artificial intelli...

Tesla sees first annual revenue drop as it shifts to AI and robots

Multi-billionaire Elon Musk also announced plans to end production of its Model S and Model X vehicles.

Agents gone wild! Companies give untrustworthy bots keys to the kingdom

Apple's Q1 sales in greater China surged 38% to $25.5B; Tim Cook attributed the increase to users upgrading and switching from other platforms to iPhone 17 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple's Q1 sales in greater China surged 38% to $25.5B; Tim Cook attributed the increase to users upgrading and switching from other platforms to iPhone 17 — Apple Inc. enjo...

Darren Aronofsky's Primordial Soup debuts its short-form Revolutionary War series, made using Google DeepMind's AI tools and human voice actors (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Todd Spangler / Variety: Darren Aronofsky's Primordial Soup debuts its short-form Revolutionary War series, made using Google DeepMind's AI tools and human voice actors — Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky...

Filing: Chinese AI chipmaker Axera aims to raise up to ~$379.2M in a Hong Kong IPO, offering 104.9M shares at ~$3.61 each; trading expected to start February 10 (Reuters)

Reuters: Filing: Chinese AI chipmaker Axera aims to raise up to ~$379.2M in a Hong Kong IPO, offering 104.9M shares at ~$3.61 each; trading expected to start February 10 — Chinese artificial intelli...

Google's Project Genie could put even more game developers out of work

Q&A with Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on AGI, next breakthroughs like continual learning, his vision for AI glasses, whether AI progress is slowing, more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)

Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: Q&A with Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on AGI, next breakthroughs like continual learning, his vision for AI glasses, whether AI progress is slowing, more — The...

Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025

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Art of Roads in Games

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AI boom will produce victors and carnage, tech boss warns

Cisco chief executive Chuck Robbins compares AI to the dotcom bubble of the early 2000s.

China's EV Companies Are Doing A Lot More Than Building Cars

With short supply lines and cutthroat competition, Chinese EV brands are making huge advances in related fields such as automation and robotics.

Driverless taxis set to launch in UK as soon as September

Waymo has laid out plans for a robotaxi service in London with a pilot scheme due to begin in April.

LinkedIn's Q2 revenue rose 11% YoY, topping $5B for the first time, giving LinkedIn an annual run rate of $20B+; Satya Nadella said paid video ads grew 30% YoY (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: LinkedIn's Q2 revenue rose 11% YoY, topping $5B for the first time, giving LinkedIn an annual run rate of $20B+; Satya Nadella said paid video ads grew 30% YoY — Remember whe...

Samsung reports Q4 revenue up 24% YoY to ~$65.6B, vs. ~$65.28B est., and operating profit up 200%+ to ~$14.06B, driven by memory chip price surge and HBM demand (Dylan Butts/CNBC)

Dylan Butts / CNBC: Samsung reports Q4 revenue up 24% YoY to ~$65.6B, vs. ~$65.28B est., and operating profit up 200%+ to ~$14.06B, driven by memory chip price surge and HBM demand — Samsung Electro...

ServiceNow boasts about years of sweat equity that went into making its AI agents smarter

Show HN: A MitM proxy to see what your LLM tools are sending

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The UK's Advertising Standards Authority bans some Coinbase ads, finding them /'irresponsible/' for suggesting crypto as a solution to the cost of living crisis (Tom Knowles/The Guardian)

Tom Knowles / The Guardian: The UK's Advertising Standards Authority bans some Coinbase ads, finding them “irresponsible” for suggesting crypto as a solution to the cost of living crisis — Advertisi...

Abu Dhabi's top tech university MBZUAI launches K2 Think, a new model it says is capable of advanced reasoning, as part of the UAE's push into /'sovereign/' AI (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Abu Dhabi's top tech university MBZUAI launches K2 Think, a new model it says is capable of advanced reasoning, as part of the UAE's push into “sovereign” AI — Univer...

Can India be a player in the computer chip industry?

India is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in building up a computer chip industry.

France to replace US videoconferencing wares with unfortunately named sovereign alternative

How Anthropic Built Claude: Buy Books, Slice Spines, Scan Pages, Recycle the Remains

Court documents unsealed last week in a copyright lawsuit against Anthropic reveal that the AI company ran an operation called /'Project Panama/' to buy millions of physical books, slice off their spine...

I made my own Git

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Japan doubles down on Trump's Genesis AI supercomputing effort

Microsoft's Latest AI Chip Claims Performance Edge Over Amazon and Google

An anonymous reader quotes a report from GeekWire: Microsoft on Monday announced Maia 200, the second generation of its custom AI chip, claiming it's the most powerful first-party silicon from any maj...

Montreal-based Vention raised a $110M Series D to scale its physical AI platform into manufacturing plants worldwide, taking its total raised to ~$216M (Madison McLauchlan/BetaKit)

Madison McLauchlan / BetaKit: Montreal-based Vention raised a $110M Series D to scale its physical AI platform into manufacturing plants worldwide, taking its total raised to ~$216M — Montréal-based...

Theorem wants to stop AI-written bugs before they ship — and just raised $6M to do it

As artificial intelligence reshapes software development, a small startup is betting that the industry's next big bottleneck won't be writing code — it will be trusting it. Theorem, a San Francisco-ba...

Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company

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Paolo Ardoino says Tether now holds ~140 tons of gold, worth ~$23B, has been buying one to two tons a week, and plans to keep doing so for the next few months (Jack Ryan/Bloomberg)

Jack Ryan / Bloomberg: Paolo Ardoino says Tether now holds ~140 tons of gold, worth ~$23B, has been buying one to two tons a week, and plans to keep doing so for the next few months — There are roug...

Penguin in your pocket: Nexphone dual boots into Linux, Windows 11

Sources: SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $30B more in OpenAI; SoftBank is already one of OpenAI's largest shareholders after investing $22.5B in December (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)

Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: Sources: SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $30B more in OpenAI; SoftBank is already one of OpenAI's largest shareholders after investing $22.5B in December — The...

The Doomsday Clock Jumps Closer to Midnight. AI Is a Big Reason Why

It's not because of runaway robots. It's because we've lost a /'shared reality./'

Time Station Emulator

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ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files

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Google's Gemini AI Will Now Generate Meeting Suggestions in Your Calendar. How It Works

Google Calendar will now surface suggested meeting times based on your availability, working hours and existing commitments.

How one developer used Claude to build a memory-safe extension of C

Microsoft's Maia 200 promises Blackwell levels of performance for two-thirds the power

Qwen3-Max Thinking beats Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5.2 on Humanity's Last Exam (with search)

Chinese AI and tech firms continue to impress with their development of cutting-edge, state-of-the-art AI language models. Today, the one drawing eyeballs is Alibaba Cloud's Qwen Team of AI researcher...

A profile of Mercor, which pays about $2M daily to ~30K experts training AI models at $95/hour on average, with roles like radiologists earning up to $375/hour (Bethan Staton/Financial Times)

Bethan Staton / Financial Times: A profile of Mercor, which pays about $2M daily to ~30K experts training AI models at $95/hour on average, with roles like radiologists earning up to $375/hour — Ten...

Case study: Creative math – How AI fakes proofs

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Many AI founders now find it necessary to raise at valuations requiring absolute domination of the field; Brex, once valued at $12B, shows the downsides of this (Jason Lemkin/SaaStr)

Jason Lemkin / SaaStr: Many AI founders now find it necessary to raise at valuations requiring absolute domination of the field; Brex, once valued at $12B, shows the downsides of this — Capital One...

Richard Stallman Critiques AI, Connected Cars, Smartphones, and DRM

Richard Stallman spoke Friday at Atlanta's Georgia Institute of Technology, continuing his activism for free software while also addressing today's new technologies. Speaking about AI, Stallman warn...

Justice Department Opens Criminal Probe Into Silicon Valley Spy Allegations

The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into Deel over allegations that it recruited a spy inside rival Rippling, according to documents seen by The Wall Street Journal. Fro...

EquipmentShare, which runs a jobsite tech and equipment rental platform for the construction industry, raised $747.3M in its IPO, valuing the company at $7.16B (Reuters)

Reuters: EquipmentShare, which runs a jobsite tech and equipment rental platform for the construction industry, raised $747.3M in its IPO, valuing the company at $7.16B — EquipmentShare.com shares r...

Nifty Gateway, the NFT trading platform which had facilitated $300M in sales by mid-2021, enters withdrawal-only mode and plans to shut down on Feb. 23, 2026 (CoinDesk)

CoinDesk: Nifty Gateway, the NFT trading platform which had facilitated $300M in sales by mid-2021, enters withdrawal-only mode and plans to shut down on Feb. 23, 2026 — What to know: … Nifty Gatewa...

SanDisk's stock has surged ~1,000% since August, driven by AI demand for its data storage products; SanDisk has a cost advantage due to its JV with Kioxia (Matt Phillips/Sherwood News)

Matt Phillips / Sherwood News: SanDisk's stock has surged ~1,000% since August, driven by AI demand for its data storage products; SanDisk has a cost advantage due to its JV with Kioxia — Soaring ch...

Epic and Google Have a Secret $800 Million Unreal Engine and Services Deal

A federal judge revealed a previously undisclosed ~$800 million, six-year partnership between Epic Games and Google tied to Unreal Engine services and joint marketing. It raises questions about whethe...

EU Parliament Calls For Detachment From US Tech Giants

The European Parliament is calling on the European Commission to reduce dependence on U.S. tech giants by prioritizing EU-based cloud, AI, and open-source infrastructure. The report frames /'European T...

Intel puts consumer chip production on back burner as datacenters make a run on Xeons

Intel Struggles To Meet AI Data Center Demand

Intel says it struggled to satisfy demand for its AI data-center CPUs while new PC chips squeeze margins. CEO Lip-Bu Tan framed the turnaround as supply-constrained, not demand-constrained, with manuf...

Oracle, Michael Dell, named as investors in JV that will run TikTok's US operations

Court filing: SEC drops a case against Gemini Trust, founded by the Winklevoss twins, major Trump donors; the case stemmed from Gemini Earn's implosion (New York Times)

New York Times: Court filing: SEC drops a case against Gemini Trust, founded by the Winklevoss twins, major Trump donors; the case stemmed from Gemini Earn's implosion — The agency says that victims...

Is China quietly winning the AI race?

The BBC's Lily Jamali looks into why big US firms and start-ups alike are turning to Chinese tech.

Solos Technology sues Meta and EssilorLuxottica, alleging they willfully violated several patents that cover /'core technologies in the field of smart eyewear/' (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)

Chris Welch / Bloomberg: Solos Technology sues Meta and EssilorLuxottica, alleging they willfully violated several patents that cover “core technologies in the field of smart eyewear” — Meta Platfor...

Source: Greenoaks, one of Brex's top investors, will return twice its investment after Capital One's Brex acquisition for $5.15B in a half-cash, half-stock deal (The Information)

The Information: Source: Greenoaks, one of Brex's top investors, will return twice its investment after Capital One's Brex acquisition for $5.15B in a half-cash, half-stock deal — Brex's $5.15 billi...

AI networking startup Upscale scores $200M to challenge Nvidia's NVSwitch

Bezos' Blue Origin announces satellite rival to Musk's Starlink

Blue Origin will be focused on businesses and governments, while Starlink also offers services to individual customers.

eBay updates legalese to ban AI-powered shop-bots

Future jobs in AI will come with a hardhat and boots, tech bigshots argue

Adam Presser, previously TikTok's head of operations and trust and safety, will be the CEO of TikTok USDS Joint Venture; TikTok CEO Shou Chew will be a director (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Adam Presser, previously TikTok's head of operations and trust and safety, will be the CEO of TikTok USDS Joint Venture; TikTok CEO Shou Chew will be a director — TikTok said...

BitGo closed up ~2.7% at $18.49 per share in its NYSE debut on Thursday which saw shares jump as much as 36% intraday, after raising $212.8M in its IPO (Kyle Baird/The Block)

Kyle Baird / The Block: BitGo closed up ~2.7% at $18.49 per share in its NYSE debut on Thursday which saw shares jump as much as 36% intraday, after raising $212.8M in its IPO — Partner offers — Q...

ByteDance strikes a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new TikTok US entity and avoid a federal ban, concluding a six-year legal saga (New York Times)

New York Times: ByteDance strikes a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new TikTok US entity and avoid a federal ban, concluding a six-year legal saga — TikTok said on Thursday th...

Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B

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TikTok's new majority US-owned JV includes investors Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX, each holding 15%, and Dell Family Office; ByteDance retains 19.9% (Financial Times)

Financial Times: TikTok's new majority US-owned JV includes investors Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX, each holding 15%, and Dell Family Office; ByteDance retains 19.9% — Video app launches...

Unrolling the Codex agent loop

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Google says Gemini won’t have ads, as ChatGPT prepares to add them

OpenAI recently rolled out ads to ChatGPT in the United States if you use $8 Go subscription or a free account, but Google says it does not plan to put ads in Gemini. [...]

OpenAI and ServiceNow Strike Deal to Put AI Agents in Business Software

According to the Wall Street Journal, OpenAI and ServiceNow signed a three-year deal to embed AI agents directly into ServiceNow's enterprise workflows. CNBC reports: As part of the deal, ServiceNow w...

OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas browser is testing actions feature

Chromium-based ChatGPT Atlas browser is testing a new feature likely called /'Actions,/' and it can also understand videos, which is why you might see ChatGPT generating timestamps for videos. [...]

OpenAI will try to guess your age before ChatGPT gets spicy

AI hasn't delivered the profits it was hyped for, says Deloitte

BitGo raises $212.8M in its US IPO at $18 per share, above the marketed range of $15 to $17 per share, giving it a market value of about $2.1B (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: BitGo raises $212.8M in its US IPO at $18 per share, above the marketed range of $15 to $17 per share, giving it a market value of about $2.1B — BitGo Holdings Inc. and some of its backer...

Marketing tech startup Applecart raised $100M in a minority funding round led by Blackstone's growth equity business, a source says at a ~$700M valuation (Myles Miller/Bloomberg)

Myles Miller / Bloomberg: Marketing tech startup Applecart raised $100M in a minority funding round led by Blackstone's growth equity business, a source says at a ~$700M valuation — Applecart, a mar...

Micron finds a way to make more DRAM with $1.8bn chip plant purchase

Nvidia Contacted Anna's Archive To Secure Access To Millions of Pirated Books

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: NVIDIA executives allegedly authorized the use of millions of pirated books from Anna's Archive to fuel its AI training. In an expanded class-act...

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy goes wobbly on AI bubble possibility

Anthropic CEO: Selling H200s to China is like giving nukes to North Korea

G42 CEO Peng Xiao says AI chip shipments from Nvidia, AMD, and Cerebras are set to arrive in the UAE within the next few months, as the UAE builds a 200MW hub (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: G42 CEO Peng Xiao says AI chip shipments from Nvidia, AMD, and Cerebras are set to arrive in the UAE within the next few months, as the UAE builds a 200MW hub — G42, the United Arab Emira...

OpenAI rolls out age prediction model on ChatGPT to detect your age

OpenAI is rolling out an age prediction model on ChatGPT to detect your age and apply possible safety-related restrictions to prevent misuse by teens. [...]

Sources: Applied Compute, which lets companies customize models with their own data, is in talks to raise funding at a $1.3B valuation, up from $500M in October (The Information)

The Information: Sources: Applied Compute, which lets companies customize models with their own data, is in talks to raise funding at a $1.3B valuation, up from $500M in October — Applied Compute, a...

Which AI Lies Best? A game theory classic designed by John Nash

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Anthropic details the /'Assistant Axis/', a pattern of neural activity in language models that governs their default identity and helpful behavior (Anthropic)

Anthropic: Anthropic details the “Assistant Axis”, a pattern of neural activity in language models that governs their default identity and helpful behavior — Read the full paper — When you talk to...

Cursor's recent experiment involved running hundreds of AI agents for nearly a week to build a web browser, writing 1M+ lines of code across 1,000 files (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: Cursor's recent experiment involved running hundreds of AI agents for nearly a week to build a web browser, writing 1M+ lines of code across 1,000 files — S...

Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack

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Q&A with Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan on the use of AI in game development, the gaming community's pushback against AI, partnering with Grok, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan on the use of AI in game development, the gaming community's pushback against AI, partnering with Grok, and more — We're back to start the y...

The UK Treasury committee says the government and Bank of England's /'wait-and-see approach/' to AI risks in the financial sector poses /'serious harm/' to the UK (Kalyeena Makortoff/The Guardian)

Kalyeena Makortoff / The Guardian: The UK Treasury committee says the government and Bank of England's “wait-and-see approach” to AI risks in the financial sector poses “serious harm” to the UK — Go...

How Much Do AI Models Resemble a Brain?

At the AI safety site Foom, science journalist Mordechai Rorvig explores a paper presented at November's Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing conference: [R]esearchers at the Swiss Federa...

OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.2 “Codex-Max” for some users

OpenAI is testing the new GPT-5.2-Codex-Max model, enhancing its capabilities for long tasks and context management. This update promises improved reliability in tool usage and better understanding of visual inputs, indicating a significant evolution in AI-assisted coding.

Memory Prices Have Nearly Doubled Since Last Quarter

Memory prices across DRAM, NAND and HBM have surged 80 to 90% quarter-over-quarter in Q1 2026, according to Counterpoint Research's latest Memory Price Tracker. The price of a 64GB RDIMM has jumped fr...

Provably unmasking malicious behavior through execution traces

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nvidia-smi hangs indefinitely after ~66 days

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BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp

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South Korea Launches Landmark Laws To Regulate AI

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Korea Herald: South Korea will begin enforcing its Artificial Intelligence Act on Thursday, becoming the first country to formally establish safety require...

Waymo Reveals Remote Workers In Philippines Sometimes Advise Its Driverless Cars

Waymo surprised U.S. lawmakers Wednesday during a hearing on autonomous vehicles and their safety and oversight. Newsweek reports: During questioning, Sen. Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, aske...

cURL Removes Bug Bounties

Ancient Slashdot reader jantangring shares a report from Swedish electronics industry news site Elektroniktidningen (translated to English), writing: /'Open source code library cURL is removing the pos...