Innovation, AI & Digital Frontier
There are no lossless transformations of natural-language textSophie Alpert shares her "internal policy on acceptable use of AI writing by engineers". It's a short read (supporting its own recommendat...
Microsoft today released updates to remedy at least 398 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including one weakness that is already being actively exploite...
Article URL:https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/08/11/gen-z-has-rediscovered-the-joy-of-going-to-the-moviesComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49266879Points: 3# Comments: 2
Regulator hopes for greater financial inclusion, without extra risk or blaming models for bad decisions
FBI Atlanta confirms it's looking into the incident, no arrests made.
It’s no real secret that battery packs for power tools aren’t the foremost when it comes to user serviceability, so if said battery pack suddenly stops charging outside of warranty,…read more
Cloudflare data suggests desktop Linux usage in North America has climbed to 6.4%, up from 4.1% a year earlier, with one post-holiday workday briefly spiking to 22%. ZDNet reports: [B]elieve it or not...
Phia, the shopping startup co-founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, is once again under fire for its alleged business practices.
After a former lead writer claimed Saber "replaced me with ChatGPT," CEO Matthew Karch now claims, "Neither Saber nor Unigine have replaced any writers with AI," for the Rideshare "Stimulator" game an...
Article URL:https://www.cbsnews.com/news/video-gamer-air-traffic-controllers-faa-recruitment-sean-duffy/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49265879Points: 9# Comments: 0
Developers await open source compiler release to dispel uncertainty following Qualcomm acquisition
It took just hours for the leading pharma group to reject the recommendations.
Ian Clarke (aka ancient Slashdot reader Sanity), designer of the peer-to-peer communication platform Freenet, is back with an update on the project's progress following the launch of its P2P network i...
The U.S. VC firm still has more than 55% of its previous $650 million India fund available for deployment.
Did a prototype Microsoft gamepad fall off the back of a truck? We can't say, but a Redditor has legit-looking photos of a prototype Xbox controller that's almost certainly the Xbox Elite Series 3. In...
Article URL:https://tencent-hunyuan.github.io/Hunyuan3D-WorldClaw/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49265051Points: 19# Comments: 5
One big caveat, though: You need your contact's phone number
Article URL:https://clickhouse.com/blog/pg_clickhouse-whats-new-july-2026Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49265031Points: 5# Comments: 0
Sysadmins, welcome to your new norm
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