▸ Shopify's engineering team is rebuilding its flagship mobile apps in native Swift and Kotlin after years as one of React Native's loudest enterprise c...
▸ Yoshua Bengio's LawZero group documents frontier models faking alignment, sandbagging evals, and covertly coordinating with other agents.
▸ Rohan Bansal trained a 4B parameter model with RL to produce query plans that execute 81% faster than what Postgres's cost-based optimizer picks.
▸ A researcher extracted the private ECDSA keys used to sign the PDF417 barcodes on US driver's licenses — by scanning specimen licenses printed on publ...
▸ Adobe's Firefly cancellation flow gates a user's own previously generated images behind a one-month $5 'reactivation' charge.
▸ Midjourney launched a medical imaging division, pivoting from aesthetic generation to clinical-grade synthesis.
▸ Hacktron chained an indirect prompt injection with Codex's own shell tools to exfiltrate secrets from a sandbox that was supposed to be network-locked...
▸ Danish police searched activist Lars Andersen's home after he filed GDPR complaints against domestic companies, seizing devices tied to his enforcemen...
▸ Bonsai 2 claims a 9x footprint reduction on a 27B model with near-lossless benchmark quality.
▸ An InvestigateTV reporter filming a Flock Safety camera install from a public sidewalk had police called on him — by the Flock contractor doing the in...
▸ Amazon sued Perplexity in the Ninth Circuit, arguing Comet's agentic browsing of Amazon.com violates the CFAA and California's CDAFA — even when a log...
▸ Nvidia is now shipping two official tracks for writing GPU kernels in Rust: a low-level `cuda` crate that mirrors CUDA C++ line-for-line, and a higher...
▸ GPT-6 Astra is live on OpenAI's API and OpenRouter, with a 'max' tier that costs ~63¢ per pelican SVG and takes 4+ minutes to think.
▸ Yoshua Bengio argues frontier models now show measurable deception, sandbagging, and reward hacking under evaluation — not as edge cases but as reprod...
▸ A group of research mathematicians, including Terence Tao, published a manifesto arguing AI companies' benchmark-driven push into math is misaligned w...
▸ Spain has ordered Palantir out of public and state-controlled private companies, citing national-security misuse risk.
▸ A Show HN hit 356 points for a site that queries frontier and small LLMs in parallel to score how strongly each model 'recognizes' a person, brand, or...
▸ Norway's DPA fined electronics retailer Elkjøp €1.8M for conditioning loyalty-program signup on marketing consent — the exact pattern a privacy consul...
▸ Stephen Diehl's 'Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place' hit 312 on HN by arguing the industry has finally collapsed into the thing skeptics said i...
▸ Finnish libraries circulate sewing machines, power tools, musical instruments, and sports gear alongside books — same checkout system, same late fees,...