Innovation, AI & Digital Frontier
Former Merseyside police officer sacked after failing to declare he was 'too close' with the wrong crowd
Certo is open-source infrastructure for issuing, managing, verifying, and exchanging digital credentials.It implements Open Badges 3.0[1] and W3C Verifiable Credentials[2] which are the open standards...
Meta has been ordered to pay $567 million in the second phase of New Mexico's landmark child safety case, bringing total charges to nearly $1 billion for being a "public nuisance." In a ruling publish...
[John Dingley] spends a lot of time editing videos, and as many of us know, when it comes to repetitive tasks the more ergonomic the better. Keyboard shortcuts exist for…read more
Researchers in China have developed a living mycelium textile that can self-clean, renew its surface, and partially repair holes when treated with a nutrient solution and fresh fungus. The material ca...
A judge has ruled that Meta is a public nuisance and has to pay fine that will go towards funding state programs.
Security researchers say that Kimi K3, an open-weight model from China, wandered off to the internet in an attempt to cheat on a test it was given.
What an idiot
Article URL:https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/08/06/generative-ai-the-guitar-hero-of-creativity/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207770Points: 8# Comments: 1
Stepper motors are undeniably useful, but sometimes they need a bit of gearing to help perform their task. [Gjhudson2008] has a compact gearbox for NEMA 17 or 23 steppers that…read more
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Scientists have made the first viruses designed by artificial intelligence in a milestone that raises hopes for new medicines but also concerns o...
Beijing’s not saying why, which is just what happened when it investigated Micron
Article URL:https://www.ign.com/articles/ramageddon-continues-another-year-as-2027-memory-capacity-is-reportedly-sold-outComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207236Points: 22# Comments:...
Letting go is hard, especially when it concerns an irreplaceable space probe like the two Voyagers. Fortunately JPL engineers have managed to pull off a ‘big bang’ switch on Voyager…read more
A New Mexico court ordered (PDF) Meta to create a $567 million fund to address harms linked to youth mental health and child sexual exploitation after finding its platforms constituted a public nuisan...
Article URL:https://mccormick.cx/news/entries/why-i-won-t-read-llm-authored-fictionComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207146Points: 49# Comments: 49
Article URL:https://www.reddit.com/r/netscape/comments/1ve7wkm/ive_succesfully_compiled_netscape_302_on_a_64/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206262Points: 4# Comments: 0
Article URL:https://community.frame.work/t/framework-data-breach-discussion/83939Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206130Points: 9# Comments: 0
Article URL:https://socket.dev/blog/ai-agent-open-source-malwareComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49205790Points: 5# Comments: 0
Machine-generated traffic to surge 1000x in five years, while we meatbags keep clicking away slowly