Technology

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) 8/10 ?

Dismiss Church’s Trademark Lawsuit Against “Mormon Stories” Podcast, EFF Urges Court

Imagine if McDonald’s could use trademark law to control how you use the term “fast food.” Or if the Canadian government could stop you from using the word “Canada” in the title of a book about the co...

2026-08-11

Simon Willison 8/10 ?

Introducing Muse Glimmer

Introducing Muse GlimmerMeta are back in the open weights game! Muse Glimmer is a brand new 30B model under a clean Apache 2.0 license (a step up from the janky Llama licenses of old).Here'sa pelicanw...

2026-08-10

404 Media 8/10 ?

ICE to Pay LexisNexis Millions for Data to Feed to Palantir

LexisNexis sells a massive amount of data to law enforcement, including ICE. New records indicate ICE wants to feed that data into a Palantir system.

2026-08-10

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quiet Enterprise Install of Beta 'Photos' App

Article URL:https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-11-admins-unhappy-as-microsoft-found-installing-unexpected-new-onedrive-photos-app/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253329Points: 14#...

2026-08-11

Hackaday 7/10 ?

The PiShot Is Ready For Your Snaps

The formula for a Raspberry Pi camera is by now a straightforward one: take a Pi and camera module, add a display, buttons, and battery, and you’re done. This doesn’t…read more

2026-08-11

The Register 7/10 ?

Alibaba Cloud is using AI to help it use less AI

Solves tech support tickets faster and more accurately by keeping them away from LLMs

2026-08-11

TechCrunch 7/10 ?

OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer

In Brief Posted: 5:03 PM PDT · August 10, 2026 Tim Fernholz OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer OpenAI has bought back $7 billion worth of shares from employees at the priva...

2026-08-11

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Updated GPG Key for Signing Firefox and Thunderbird Releases

Article URL:https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2026/08/10/updated-gpg-key-for-signing-firefox-and-thunderbird-releases/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253250Points: 13# Comments: 3

2026-08-11

The Register 7/10 ?

Anthropic pledges to embed watermarks to help discern AI slop in sop to EU

EU rules cited as reason for effort to trace AI output ancestry

2026-08-11

TechCrunch 7/10 ?

As AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model

OpenAI is expanding its AI cybersecurity defense program Daybreak, and rolling out a new cyber-trained AI model with it.

2026-08-10

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Why My Father Is Wrong: A Defense of Guitar Hero

Article URL:https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/08/10/why-my-father-is-wrong-a-defense-of-guitar-hero/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253176Points: 16# Comments: 2

2026-08-11

TechCrunch 7/10 ?

Jeff Bezos might finally get his hands on a sports team

Jeff Bezos is reportedly close to buying his first stake in a sports team: the U.K.'s famed Liverpool Football Club.

2026-08-10

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Hyperspace

Article URL:https://hypercritical.co/hyperspace/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252493Points: 11# Comments: 4

2026-08-11

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Claude will watermark AI-generated text and images

Article URL:https://tokenstead.ai/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252486Points: 6# Comments: 1

2026-08-11

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Recycle – Floppydisks

Article URL:https://www.floppydisk.com/recycleComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252462Points: 4# Comments: 0

2026-08-11

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Antirez/h3.c: MiniMax H3 inference engine for Mac computers

Article URL:https://github.com/antirez/h3.cComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252179Points: 27# Comments: 2

2026-08-11

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Flock Cameras Can Track Every Car in America. Police Love Them. Citizens Don't

Article URL:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/us/flock-cameras-can-track-every-car-in-america-police-love-them-citizens-dont.htmlComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251978Points: 4# C...

2026-08-11

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Chicken Scheme 6.0 Released

Article URL:https://code.call-cc.org/releases/6.0.0/NEWSComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251702Points: 4# Comments: 0

2026-08-11

Hacker News 7/10 ?

The UK's War on Anonymity Has Come to America

Article URL:https://www.effort.news/uk-lobbyComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251411Points: 61# Comments: 11

2026-08-10

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states

Article URL:https://everycube.alen.is/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251179Points: 26# Comments: 3

2026-08-10