▸ SMPTE — the body behind ST 2110, timecode, and basically every digital video container you've ever touched — just made its entire standards library fr...
▸ Researcher Richard Osgood says federal agents escalated a Fable 5 incident triggered by a plain 'fix this code' prompt — no jailbreak, no exploit, jus...
▸ AWS is acquiring DuckLabs, the services company run by DuckDB's core maintainers — the OLAP engine now has a hyperscaler patron.
▸ Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13 billion, folding the de facto model registry into the company that already owns the comput...
▸ OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra posts a 99.9% ARC-AGI-3 score, but the harness footnote quietly rerates the prior model from 7.8% to ~30%.
▸ CVE-2026-85046 is an actively exploited sandbox escape affecting every current Chromium build — Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Arc, and every Electron ap...
▸ A dark web service called Nexus is selling scans of 153M+ US and Canadian driver's licenses, apparently siphoned from a Louisiana-based ID verificatio...
▸ The Census Bureau is reversing its 2020 decision to use formal differential privacy, after sustained pressure from demographers, redistricting consult...
▸ An OpenAI Codex CLI logging path can write multiple terabytes of session data to local SSDs in a single workday, per a 377-point HN thread and GitHub ...
▸ Tonsky's 'Every Frame Perfect' hit 661 on HN by reframing dropped frames as correctness bugs, not performance tuning.
▸ Om Malik — GigaOm founder, early business-of-tech blogger — has died. The 'pre-obituary' he published 36 hours ago wasn't a stunt; it was a man with a...
▸ Apple rewrote the TrueType hinting interpreter — code that runs every time glyphs render on macOS, iOS, watchOS, and visionOS — from C to Swift, and s...
▸ OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra with a system card and a public deployment-safety page — the model is available now, not a preview.
▸ Google shipped two Gemini 3.8 Flash models — a general update and 'Cyber', explicitly tuned for security workflows including offensive tasks.
▸ A reverse-engineer of xAI's Grok Build CLI shows it POSTs prompts, project file contents, environment variables, and shell history to xAI endpoints by...
▸ A long-tenured Mozillian's farewell post hit 406 on HN — the latest entry in a genre that's now a reliable signal of the org's health.
▸ A hacker reflashed a cheap ESP-based smart bulb to host a captive-portal library of banned books over Wi-Fi.
▸ Danish police raided privacy activist Lars Andersen, a serial GDPR complainant whose filings have produced fines against Danish public agencies and pr...
▸ Chrome 139 (stable channel, rolling out this month) removes the Manifest V2 enterprise policy escape hatch — uBlock Origin, uMatrix, and NoScript stop...
▸ Google Play flagged AnkiDroid 2.20.3 because its in-app 'Support us' button opens an Open Collective donation page — a policy interpretation that turn...