The DOJ proved to the court that Google acted illegally, but it won't get the big win it wanted.
US actor George Clooney has described US President Donald Trump’s administration as a ‘kakistocracy’.
Number of people killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo from disease exceeds 3,000 amid response funding gap.
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The Trump administration has intervened in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, making an argument in favor of the AI lab. The landmark lawsuit, filed in December 2023, alleging that OpenAI unlawfully trained its AI systems on articles from The New York Times and seeks to recoup "billions of dollars" in damages from […]
Big tech companies like Apple and Microsoft use devices, training and conferences for teachers and students to embed in schools. The New York Times' Natasha Singer discusses the impact in Coding Kids.
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Uber headquarters in San Francisco.
Wonderful's $550M Series C was led by Insight Partners, with Salesforce, Index Ventures, IVP, Vine Ventures, 9Yards and Bessemer participating.
Jio is betting it can turn an aging computer into an AI-ready PC for as little as about $11 for two months.
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Appeals panel says only military tribunals may assess court-martial convictions in blow to former Afghan war prisoner.
Christopher was sick of being ghosted by AI recruiters. So he unleashed ChatGPT on his robot interviewer.
MrBeast will feature Gemini, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air in upcoming videos as part of a multi-year partnership with Google. The deal will kick off with a video featuring Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson turning to Gemini for wilderness survival advice: First up on September 5 is a new MrBeast video following Jimmy and his crew […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel does not plan to withdraw from Gaza
The source could be an ID verification service in Louisiana, though the FBI has opened an investigation.
Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-cyber/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49538007 Points: 17 # Comments: 1
US District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema declined the Justice Department's request to make Google sell off parts of its ad tech business, accepting milder remedies to restore competition to markets it illegally monopolized for years. Brinkema said she would adopt most of the behavioral changes proposed by the parties, with some modifications. But those won't […]
Chinese, Egyptian leaders discuss the US-Israel war on Iran, which has prompted regional powers to rethink defence.
Landmark lawsuit claims tech company’s pay-setting system has breached privacy laws and pushed down earnings Uber drivers have launched a landmark legal action against the ride-hailing company claiming they live in “constant fear” of a “soulless” algorithm it uses to set pay and allocate jobs. Drivers from the UK, the Netherlands and other countries have joined the compensation claim that could run into billions of dollars. It alleges an AI-powered pay-setting system breaches data protection laws and pushes down their earnings. Continue reading...
Predictive text remains available, but users will have to invite it into their workflow
Kit is a coding agent runtime. It gives the model one tool for building and running programs. It provides a terminal client, and Agent Client Protocol (ACP) server, and A2A endpoint and a subagent orchestrator in one static binary. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537801 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. My mom was a dramatic woman prone to overreacting. When I was a snotty teen, I told her she needed […]
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang cites 2025 Africa Cup of Nations treatment as captain steps away from Gabon duty.
Do you have a side project that brings in a few hundred dollars a month? Tin increases that to a few thousand by improving the SEO/GEO, making smart product decisions based on analytics and handles customer support & bug fixes! Try it free for a month with code HACKERTIN Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537672 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
The six-month war has led to a spike in oil prices, roiled the global economy and posed increasing political problems for President Trump's Republican Party ahead of November midterm elections.
BBC South Asia correspondent Azadeh Moshiri spoke to a local, who is still waiting for his his wife's body to be retrieved, as rescue efforts continue.
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The company is also asking almost all remote employees to move to an office.
Nepal PM links deadly floods to climate change
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HiddenLayer has raised a $100M Series B from Delta-v Capital, Ten Eleven Ventures, Morgan Stanley, Microsoft's M12, Booz Allen Hamilton, and others.
Xi Jinping's historic Egypt visit aims to strengthen China-Egypt ties amid rising Middle East tensions.
Instruments reactivated for a final hurrah before reentry
Verge readers can get a discount on Belkin’s SoundForm Mini 2 wireless headphones. The kid-focused on-ear headphones feature an 85-decibel volume limit and easy controls, and a mode that lets them beam audio (wired or wirelessly) to a second pair without extra hardware. Readers can use the code VERGE25OFF to save 25 percent on up […]
Amazon is adding a scam-detection feature to Alexa for Shopping that can verify whether suspicious emails, texts, and other messages actually came from the retailer.
What happens if the airspace of the world's largest country by land mass is out of bounds because of Ukrainian drones?
What happens if the airspace of the world's largest country by land mass is out of bounds because of Ukrainian drones?
Don't disable automatic updates if the pace is too much – that's what ESR is for
How Chelsea, Everton and Monaco all missed out after late-night drama on deadline day. Nizaar Kinsella reports.
He reported from space that only "fat" Japanese tree frogs enjoyed weightlessness.
GDSL is back 6 months later, now with a new generation (Acorn), and I wanted to showcase how I've completely changed the underlying storage model while leaving the compiler's design which let it be so compact unharmed. Though it's definitely gained some weight. The website itself is built and hosted in GDSL. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537145 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Pay and shares deal nearly matches $58m award to John Ternus, his successor as CEO at the $4.7tn tech company Business live – latest updates Tim Cook has received a $47m (£35m) pay deal as Apple’s executive chair, a remuneration package that nears the level set for his successor as chief executive. Cook, who handed over to John Ternus on Tuesday, will be paid a base salary of $2m and $45m worth of shares . Half of the share award will be based on performance targets being met, while the remaining half will be paid out over four years. Continue reading...
A Gaza Civil Defence worker helped recover the bodies of 21 of his relatives from beneath the rubble.
Government lawyers argued that only a breakup of Google’s ad technology would remedy the company’s monopoly.
Article URL: https://github.com/karnyadavdev/FontWizard Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537066 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Its backers say it would provide a "vital safety net" against runaway AI systems such as those from OpenAI and Anthropic.
Its backers say it would provide a "vital safety net" against runaway AI systems such as those from OpenAI and Anthropic.
England leave Brydon Carse out of their squad for the third and final Test against Pakistan at Edgbaston.
Article URL: https://lufterl.libmap.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536960 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman are facing 30 new lawsuits that accuse them of providing "substantial assistance and encouragement" to the suspect in Canada's Tumbler Ridge school shooting, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The new wave of lawsuits was filed in a California federal court on Wednesday by the students, teachers, and the principal […]
Article URL: https://otaku.sh Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536921 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Russia is accused of growing increasingly reckless after Berlin blamed Russia for a failed drone attack on Leipzig airport.
We made markdown HTML code fences runnable in an isolated sand-box, with access to popular JS libraries for data viz and 3d graphics including D3, Mermaid and Three.js. Design docs are how we communicate ideas with other people, and increasingly with agents. We got used to code blocks and embedded images, but agents can do amazing things when their canvas is HTML. Interactive visualizations make ideas more persuasive, and help you converge with an agent on what to build before you build it. Just to see what was possible, we told Fable to make a one-off DOOM inspired raycaster, and it did ever…
Looking up at this 18th century building, it became clear the British didn't only bring their architectural style to India. They also took some of India's style home.
Article URL: https://anyto.md/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536843 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has announced a new policy today that will ban younger schoolchildren from using AI in classrooms. The one-year moratorium, effective in the 2026-2027 school year, will impact about 600,000 public school students in 2-K through eighth grade and is being introduced alongside additional limits on digital devices and a […]
Hi HN — I’ve been frustrated by how many code smells coding agents produce - no matter how many instructions I put in the AGENTS.md, even the most capable models still reach for dict[str, Any], add multiple boolean flags to functions or hide logic in a heavy nested function that I can't easily unit test. I've even implemented duplication checks as soft CI gates at two companies, but neither solved the problem. I narrowed it down to 3 compounding issues: - agent context decays over a long session and skills or instructions become less reliable - CI is way too late for such feedback and sof…
I built JustReceiveEmail because I don't want data collectors tracking my online activity through my email address. The idea is simple: use a different email address whenever you sign up for something, while still being able to keep that address and receive emails from it later. Privacy was the main goal. Incoming emails are encrypted before being stored, no tracking/logging is used, and the service tries to collect as little data as possible. Only a username is required to create an account. There are no ads or trackers. Instead, it costs a small fee to help keep the service running. I'd lov…
Ethiopian Airlines nears Boeing cargo plane order, sources say Reuters
Cloud storage biz severs old integration and urges victims to reset credentials
Article URL: https://hamme.software/en/apps/reviewheron/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536734 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Hey, all! Flawd is a mutation testing tool that can target five languages (Python, JS, TS, Go, Rust) and it runs locally as a single binary on your machine. Importantly (for many), your code never leaves your machine and all processing takes place directly on your dev box or CI runner. Mutation testing is a process in which faults (known as mutants) are intentionally injected into your codebase, tests are run and any faults which are not detected by your tests are known as survivors (or surviving mutants). Survivors can often indicate that your test assertions are not focused on expected beha…
Article URL: https://turtlespace.blog/p/exit-the-cave Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536606 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
This US presidency is rewriting the rules of global governance and ushering the world into a new era.
When Google ignominiously exited the European thermostat market last year, it pointed its customers to Tado. This week, the German-based smart home company is launching its Smart Thermostat X (2nd gen), and aiming to attract European Nest users who haven't already jumped ship. Google shutting down the servers for its 1st- and 2nd-gen thermostats drove […]
Any color, any scene. Calm while you work, loud when the music hits. Mood lighting built right into your screen. No strips attached. Free to try. Enjoy the glow! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536585 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Palestinian witnesses recount the coordinated Israeli army and settler attacks on mosques in the occupied West Bank.
Article URL: https://github.com/ZSvirt/zsvirt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536562 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/just-bury-your-trash/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536536 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
Chevron is the largest foreign oil operator in Venezuela. The deal will expand its footprint at a time of political and economic uncertainty for Venezuela.
Article URL: https://asciiquake.wtf/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536481 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Manifold Security has disclosed eight security flaws across seven command-line AI coding agents in which a repository's own Git configuration names a command that the agent runs on the developer's machine, four of them still unpatched at publication. The command executes as the user, outside the agent's sandbox and without an approval prompt, and exploitation requires the repository to arrive
Article URL: https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/reduce-no-shows-at-free-rsvp-events Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536434 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
This is Adobe's second acquisition out of India after Rephrase.ai in 2023
Article URL: https://github.com/mlc-ai/web-llm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536411 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
In the unprecedented absence of federal guidance, leading medical groups are issuing their own recommendations for who should get the COVID-19, flu and RSV immunizations.
Article URL: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117194007157499435 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536384 Points: 10 # Comments: 2
As Rockstar’s blockbuster prepares to dominate the headlines, it’s time for the mainstream media to stop treating video games as a novelty that needs explaining Predictably, the Grand Theft Auto VI “extended look” which premiered on Netflix last week was a success for all involved. The 30-minute preview scorched to No 1 on the viewing chart and even brought the site down for a few minutes as millions of gamers tried to watch what was, effectively, a very long teaser trailer. According to data collated by Eurogamer , more than 9,000 Twitch streamers covered the show leading to 5,227,79…
We boiled litres of water to find the best electric kettles, from hard-water heroes to vintage-style, repairable and wifi-connected models • The best air fryers, tried and tested for crisp and crunch Despite the march of progress, the humble kettle remains a kitchen staple. It’s what we turn to in times of strife, when spirits are flagging, or to start our day. When a visitor calls, one of the first things we often do is put the kettle on. Many small appliances have evolved beyond their original form, but the kettle’s basic principles remain largely unchanged. Water goes in and heats un…
As companies scale, the technology supporting operations can become a liability just as quickly as it becomes an asset. Disconnected systems, site-specific tools, spreadsheets, and manual workarounds can create data silos that make it harder to spot problems early, coordinate responses, and make decisions with confidence. For Jabil, a global manufacturing company with more than…
Article URL: https://trellner.com/reports/manufactured-sources-behind-ai-recommendations/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536375 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
Premier League breaks its own record as four of its 11 most expensive signings have arrived this transfer window.
Article URL: https://github.com/AbduljabbarBXR/heides Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536322 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://github.com/bizswarm44-coder/aether-protocol Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536315 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
BBC Sport takes a look at the players still without a club after the 2026 summer transfer window shut.
Article URL: https://hausresearch.com/reports/perplexity-citation-audit/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536201 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Dr Mark Deakin, a consultant at Alder Hey hospital, was described as Letby's "boyfriend" during her trial.
Exeunt zVault stage right; enter FreeCORE and BSDnas
Article URL: https://www.dyson.com/discover/news/latest/introducing-camerajet Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536180 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Article URL: https://stripeacross.com/posts/poisson-disk-sampling/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536177 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Burnham's exchanges with Kemi Badenoch slipped into familiar territory of trading barbs, writes Alex Forsyth.
A Messi-shaped schnitzel is on the menu in Buenos Aires, as fans across Argentina pay tribute.
