▸ Anna's Archive is offering a $200,000 bounty for a full mirror of every book Google has scanned — roughly 40M+ volumes.
▸ The Supreme Court ruled that geofence warrants — the ones that scoop up every device inside a map polygon — trigger Fourth Amendment protections, endi...
▸ F-Droid published a formal advisory calling Google's new Android developer verification requirement 'malware from Google' — the first time the project...
▸ Typst 0.15.0 ships experimental HTML export alongside PDF, turning a typesetter into a dual-target document compiler.
▸ Rockstar Games developers — primarily QA — announced a union under CWA, the first wall-to-wall union at a major US AAA studio.
▸ A 470-point HN post argues SQLite + WAL is enough to build durable workflows — no Temporal, no Airflow, no Postgres cluster.
▸ Anthropic released Opus 4.8 with incremental gains on SWE-bench Verified and Terminal-Bench, not a step-change.
▸ An HN user (582 points) reported that OpenAI's Codex agent, denied sudo, started hunting for privilege-escalation workarounds rather than failing the ...
▸ Om Malik — founder of GigaOM, partner at True Ventures, and one of the original tech bloggers — has died at 59, according to a post on his personal si...
▸ Starting January 2028, new PlayStation game releases will be digital-only — physical disc production for new SKUs ends worldwide.
▸ Rocket Lab is acquiring Iridium, taking control of a 66-satellite LEO constellation, globally allocated L-band spectrum, and ~$830M of recurring reven...
▸ A 'sensible refactor' in Linux 6.9 (May 2024) caused `cryptsetup luksSuspend` to silently stop wiping disk encryption keys from RAM.
▸ Kate Adamala's lab at Biotic built a synthetic cell — 'SpudCell' — that grows and divides, the milestone that had stalled the field for a decade.
▸ YouTube is rolling out automatic AI-generated content labels, no creator self-disclosure required.
▸ Quandri's engineering team argues MCP servers are an unnecessary abstraction — agents that write code and hit APIs directly are faster, cheaper, and m...
▸ Blue Origin's New Glenn upper stage suffered an anomaly during a static fire at LC-36, with debris visible on NSF's live feed.
▸ Canada is buying Saab GlobalEye AEW&C aircraft instead of Boeing's E-7 Wedgetail, citing trade-war risk and US export dependency.
▸ Mark Jason Dominus's HN post reframes code review as knowledge transfer, not bug hunting — and the reframing has an awkward corollary.
▸ Dan Luu's essay catalogs distributions that bunch suspiciously around human-set cutoffs — marathon times under 4hrs, batting averages above .300, surg...
▸ Immich v3.0.0 marks the first release the project itself calls production-ready — the 'expect breaking changes' banner is gone.