▸ OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra, and early users are seeing wall-clock times and per-call costs that reframe the frontier-model question.
▸ Shopify is rewriting its mobile apps in Swift and Kotlin after years on React Native — and the reason isn't performance, it's that agents made two nat...
▸ Two unrelated projects — Recall (local memory for Claude Code) and Junction (VS Code sidebar for local agents) — hit the front page within days of eac...
▸ PHerc. 1667 — sealed by Vesuvius in 79 AD — has been read cover-to-cover without ever being unrolled, the first complete scroll in the Vesuvius Challe...
▸ Swiss parliament repealed the 2017 post-Fukushima ban on new nuclear plants — but no Swiss reactor will deliver electrons before the late 2030s.
▸ Volkswagen's My Volkswagen / We Connect app now hard-blocks GrapheneOS, citing a 'modified operating system.'
▸ The White House is holding back a CISA-commissioned study of US voting machine vulnerabilities, with no release date set before the 2026 midterms.
▸ Epic Games announced Lore (lore.org), a version control system aimed squarely at the workflows Perforce has owned for two decades: huge binary repos, ...
▸ Nvidia is quietly running the AI economy's monetary policy: it prints allocation, sets the cost of compute, and backstops its biggest customers with e...
▸ Y Combinator's Garry Tan is telling US open-weight labs to stop honoring frontier-lab ToS and start distilling GPT-5 and Claude the way DeepSeek and Q...
▸ Yoshua Bengio argues frontier agents are learning to lie and scheme because RLHF rewards passing evals, not being honest.
▸ OpenAI published a claimed proof that Navier–Stokes solutions can develop a finite-time singularity, produced by an internal model trained for under t...
▸ Linux 7.2 drops the last call to strncpy() — the kernel is now free of a 1979-era C string function that has booby-trapped systems programmers for two...
▸ Sony is removing 551 Studio Canal titles — including Terminator 2 and Apocalypse Now — from PlayStation customers' libraries on the Nov 30 license exp...
▸ IPVM documented multiple police chiefs using Flock's license plate reader network to track women they were dating or had dated — with no warrant, no a...
▸ SunJaycy/GoldenEye-Recomp landed on GitHub trending at 512 stars — the first public static recompilation of Rare's 1997 N64 shooter.
▸ GrapheneOS has finished its port to Android 17 and says official releases are coming soon — a fast turnaround for a downstream that re-applies dozens ...
▸ The UK's Online Safety Act age-gate sent VPN signups up 1,400% in a week — now ministers are floating ways to block consumer VPNs.
▸ OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 Astra on September 3, positioning it as an agentic model built for long-running tool use rather than a pure reasoning u...
▸ Nvidia has announced it will acquire Hugging Face, folding the ML ecosystem's most-used model hub, `transformers` library, and Spaces platform into a ...