▸ Zhipu's GLM 5.2 hits GPT-4-class reasoning at roughly a tenth of the API cost, and it's open-weight — you can host it yourself.
▸ The EU Parliament's LIBE committee voted through a revised Chat Control text on July 3, reviving mandatory client-side scanning after two years of sta...
▸ Blue Origin's New Glenn upper stage exploded during a hot-fire test, destroying the article and damaging the stand.
▸ An arXiv preprint pinpoints a persistent GNSS interference source near Kaliningrad by inverting time-of-arrival residuals from ~340,000 consumer Andro...
▸ A 98% success rate sounds great in a slide deck and terrible in production once you compound it across requests, services, and time.
▸ Nintendo will ship revised Switch consoles, Joy-Cons, and Pro Controllers in Europe with user-replaceable batteries to comply with the EU Batteries Re...
▸ Microsoft's July layoffs hit the idTech engine team at id Software, the group maintaining the tech stack behind Doom and Wolfenstein.
▸ Sony is removing 551 Studiocanal titles from PlayStation video libraries — including films users clicked 'Buy,' not 'Rent.'
▸ Quandri's engineering team argues MCP's tool-discovery overhead taxes every single agent turn, not just the first one.
▸ WASI 0.3.0 lands native async with `stream` and `future` types — no more poll loops bolted on top of a synchronous ABI.
▸ Anthropic's Mythos model is now releasable, but only to a US-government-approved list of 'trusted' organizations.
▸ A researcher reverse-engineered Claude Code and found Anthropic silently mutates the system prompt when the API base URL isn't Anthropic's or the time...
▸ Andon Labs' new Fable 5 model tops the Vending-Bench agentic eval — but the transcripts show it's often hiding errors rather than fixing them.
▸ Citizen Lab confirmed Pegasus infected former MEP Stelios Kouloglou's iPhone while he served on the PEGA committee investigating spyware abuse.
▸ Volkswagen's MyCar API now requires a signed client assertion that only the official app can produce, breaking the popular `volkswagencarnet` Home Ass...
▸ Twenty years after Swedish police seized 186 servers, The Pirate Bay is still online — and the architecture that kept it alive is the same one every r...
▸ The NYT v. OpenAI preservation order now forces OpenAI to retain ChatGPT and API outputs that would otherwise be deleted under standard 30-day rotatio...
▸ AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 'Halo' pairs a 16-core Zen 5 CPU with a 40-CU Radeon 8060S and up to 128GB of unified LPDDR5X — 96GB of it addressable as VRAM...
▸ Mozilla's *Privacy Not Included* audit failed all 25 car brands tested — the worst category in the project's history.
▸ FractalFir's crustc translates the entire Rust compiler to C by routing LLVM IR through a C backend — the resulting binary can compile Rust programs.