▸ Om Malik — GigaOm founder, early business-of-tech blogger — has died. The 'pre-obituary' he published 36 hours ago wasn't a stunt; it was a man with a...
▸ Apple rewrote the TrueType hinting interpreter — code that runs every time glyphs render on macOS, iOS, watchOS, and visionOS — from C to Swift, and s...
▸ OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra with a system card and a public deployment-safety page — the model is available now, not a preview.
▸ Google shipped two Gemini 3.8 Flash models — a general update and 'Cyber', explicitly tuned for security workflows including offensive tasks.
▸ A reverse-engineer of xAI's Grok Build CLI shows it POSTs prompts, project file contents, environment variables, and shell history to xAI endpoints by...
▸ A long-tenured Mozillian's farewell post hit 406 on HN — the latest entry in a genre that's now a reliable signal of the org's health.
▸ A hacker reflashed a cheap ESP-based smart bulb to host a captive-portal library of banned books over Wi-Fi.
▸ Danish police raided privacy activist Lars Andersen, a serial GDPR complainant whose filings have produced fines against Danish public agencies and pr...
▸ Chrome 139 (stable channel, rolling out this month) removes the Manifest V2 enterprise policy escape hatch — uBlock Origin, uMatrix, and NoScript stop...
▸ Google Play flagged AnkiDroid 2.20.3 because its in-app 'Support us' button opens an Open Collective donation page — a policy interpretation that turn...
▸ The 275-point HN thread on Fable's 'shadow' isn't about the agent's behavior — it's about the dependency you signed up for when you put it on the crit...
▸ Kage (510 on HN) crawls a site and bakes the entire tree — HTML, CSS, JS, fonts, the lot — into a single Go binary via embed.FS, then serves it back o...
▸ A researcher found three sites publishing 215,128 near-identical 'best software' listicles engineered to be scraped by LLMs — not read by humans.
▸ DuckDuckGo founder Gabriel Weinberg argues the 'everyone uses AI for everything' narrative is a category error — usage data looks like media consumpti...
▸ opensourceaimustwin.com climbed from 477 to 1,262 HN points, but the manifesto conflates 'open weights' with 'open source' — they are not the same fig...
▸ shadcn/ui's new default primitive is Base UI (from the MUI team), not Radix — a signal that the most popular React component library on GitHub no long...
▸ Renault is shipping wound-rotor synchronous motors with zero permanent magnets — no neodymium, no dysprosium, no terbium.
▸ Simon Willison documents Claude Fable taking 12+ unprompted actions in a single session — running tests, refactoring adjacent files, opening PRs.
▸ Play Protect is now flagging AuroraStore — the FOSS Play Store client GrapheneOS users rely on — as harmful, blocking installs on stock Android.
▸ Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 — a two-tier lineup replacing the previous 5.0 generation.