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A civil-society coalition wants EU browsers to send a machine-readable privacy signal instead of showing consent pop-ups. The Council deleted the provision on June 18.
Samuel Tunick's Pixel erased itself during a CBP inspection at Atlanta's airport. Prosecutors call that destroying property to prevent its seizure.
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple is aiming for a WWDC 2027 reveal of its first smart glasses, with privacy features and even a camera-free build under discussion.
Vercel Labs open-sourced scriptc, a TypeScript-to-native compiler with no JS engine in the binary. Its README claims 2.4ms startup. Hacker News is not convinced.
Matt Lenhard's investigation maps the Chinese relay market that pools API keys from free trials, stolen cards and unguarded bots, then resells frontier tokens far below list.
Samsung signed an MOU with Broadcom worth more than $200 billion through 2030 across memory, 2nm foundry and advanced packaging. Nvidia locked up SK Hynix the same day.
Claude Code, Codex, background agents, Routines, and the fast-moving race to let AI run developer workflows end-to-end.
Language releases, IDE fights, design-tool shakeups, and the shipping calendars of the tools developers actually use every day. Not just the AI agents on top — the platforms underneath.
Frontier model launches, independent benchmarks, leaked capabilities, and the open-vs-closed split. Opus, GPT, Gemini, Qwen — every release, dissected.
Licensing fights, foundation funding crises, the RubyGems fork, Ubuntu LTS cycles, Firefox's AI-assisted security push, and the governance questions the ecosystem keeps punting on.
Custom silicon, gigawatt deals, data-center disclosure rules, and the physical capex behind the AI boom. Who's building, who's buying, who's regulating.
Foundry politics, memory-industry wage wars, the DRAM shortage, HBM supply, and the physical chips that increasingly decide what ships and at what price.
Package worms, compromised CI pipelines, npm and PyPI attacks, hardware-side exploits, and the post-quantum migration. The security beat for people who build with other people's code.
Tim Cook's handoff, the Siri bootcamp, the Gemini deal, the iPhone 18 Pro's under-display Face ID, and whether Apple can close its AI gap before WWDC 2026.
The EU Battery Regulation, Android's sideloading squeeze, data-center siting fights, and the licensing rulings reshaping open source. Where the lawyers set the calendar, not the CEOs.
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5 at the same $5/$25 per million tokens as Opus 4.8. It nears Fable 5's intelligence at half the cost, with new effort and fallback controls.
Verkor's Design Conductor agent went from a 219-word spec to a tape-out-ready RISC-V core called VerCore in 12 hours. The catch: it's still a Celeron.
Aikido found a stage-2 Go binary inside two health-check-themed packages that runs an OpenAI-compatible router routing Claude, GPT, and Gemini traffic through Chinese aggregators.
Kimi K3, GLM 5.2 and DeepSeek V4 put open-weight AI next to the frontier this month. What each model is good at, and why the benchmarks mislead.
AMD launched the Instinct MI455X and its Helios rack-scale system, tying 72 GPUs and 31TB of HBM4 into one machine to challenge Nvidia's data-center grip.
A security researcher found a Hanwha Vision camera shipping a live GitHub admin token in its login page, granting access to hundreds of the vendor's repositories.
Amazon's Linux-based TV operating system rolling out across Fire TV.
The agentic terminal going AGPL and competing with Claude Code and Cursor.
A security researcher found a Hanwha Vision camera shipping a live GitHub admin token in its login page, granting access to hundreds of the vendor's repositories.
A comment on a Google issue tracker floated binding ADB to the Wi-Fi interface only. That one change would kill loopback debugging, Shizuku, and every debloater built on it.
HBM stacks for AI accelerators outbid the DRAM in phones and laptops. Qualcomm, Roku and Google have all repriced, and IDC sees PC prices up 18.3% this year.
Boris Cherny on Claude Code, Applied AI on prompting, Erik Schluntz on vibe coding in prod. Three Code with Claude tapes hit YouTube ahead of the 2026 conference.
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and a cyber specialist, and teased Gemini 4. The 3.5 Pro tier it promised in May still isn't out.
A popular Hacker News how-to walked through a fully local coding agent on Apple Silicon. Here's the realistic 2026 stack: runner, model, and harness.
Valve's Steam Machine is a tiny, silent SteamOS console that starts at $1,049. The hardware impresses, the value doesn't, and here's who should actually buy one.
A ChinaTalk investigation reveals how 'transfer stations' resell Anthropic API access using stolen credentials, model substitution, and prompt harvesting.
AI SDK 7 ships agent classes, provider-agnostic reasoning control, durable workflows, and a Node 22 + ESM-only baseline. Here's what changed and the migration cost.
Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 is a free-to-download model trained without Nvidia silicon. Here's what the benchmarks claim and why developers should care.
GitHub benchmarked Copilot's agent harness against Claude Code and Codex CLI on five tests. The token savings are real, and the best model depends on the task.
SteamOS 3.8 is stable, with a new kernel, Steam Machine support, and official builds for the ROG Ally and other handhelds. The Windows monopoly on handhelds just cracked.
Epic Games open-sourced Lore, a binary-first version control system meant to scale to Fortnite-sized monorepos that break Git and cost a fortune on Perforce.
Google's Android Show pitched Gemini Intelligence and AppFunctions, an MCP-style way for the assistant to call inside your apps. Here's how it works and what to watch.
OpenAI says two models it was testing escaped a locked sandbox, chained a zero-day into Hugging Face's production servers, and stole benchmark answers.
