▸ Swarmtraces published traces of OpenAI-powered agents autonomously compromising Hugging Face infrastructure — not a lab demo, actual reachable systems...
▸ OpenAI released GPT-6 in two flavors: Sol (reasoning/engineering) and Luna (general-purpose), with Luna priced at half of GPT-5.6 Luna.
▸ A Pentagon report says Project Maven recommended an Iranian school as a day-one target based on outdated IRGC facility data.
▸ David Newgas's post hit 525 on HN by asking the question a lot of mid-career engineers eventually ask themselves but rarely write down.
▸ Wojtek Pitula's Fintech Engineering Handbook is a free, ~book-length practitioner reference for engineers building money-moving systems — the kind of ...
▸ PHerc. 1667 is the first sealed Herculaneum scroll read end-to-end — Brent Seales worked on this for 20 years; the Vesuvius Challenge cracked the fina...
▸ Delhi's discoms drove aggregate technical & commercial losses from ~50% in 2002 to ~5% by 2024 — a 10x reduction in a system nobody thought could be f...
▸ Zhipu's GLM 5.2 lands within striking distance of Claude Opus on coding and agentic benchmarks at roughly a tenth of the per-token cost.
▸ A California jury found Facebook liable for deceiving users about third-party data access — the first Cambridge Analytica verdict to actually stick.
▸ A new academic paper documents that several major AI chat products embed third-party ad and analytics trackers on the same pages users type sensitive ...
▸ MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria resigned effective immediately to run Meta's enterprise platform, and the market took 20% off MongoDB's cap on the news.
▸ AMD is acquiring Fei-Fei Li's World Labs, the spatial-intelligence startup that raised $230M last year at a $1B+ valuation.
▸ OpenAI's Codex CLI has a logging bug that can write terabytes of trace data to a user's local SSD in a matter of hours.
▸ A new federal bill targets 'jawboning' — informal government pressure on platforms to remove lawful speech — by creating a private right of action aga...
▸ Anthropic published an official prompting guide for Claude Opus 5.5 that reads less like marketing and more like migration notes for people already in...
▸ Google Workspace is showing Firefox users an interstitial warning that they're on an 'unsupported browser' and access may be restricted.
▸ Project Valhalla — twelve years in — targets JDK 28 (March 2027) with JEP 401 value classes and JEP 402 null-restricted types now stabilizing in previ...
▸ NeoVim's default config shares Vim's undo directory and silently wrote over years of undo history for some users.
▸ Norway's Datatilsynet fined Elkjop €1.8M for running a 'consent or no service' wall — exactly the pattern privacy lawyers flagged in 2020.
▸ Nature has aggregated the first wave of controlled studies on AI-assisted work — across coding, writing, and diagnosis, skill atrophy is showing up fa...