▸ Spain's gambling regulator DGOJ has blocked Polymarket and Kalshi for operating without a national gaming license, joining France in walling off EU ac...
▸ Erin Brockovich and journalist Karen Hao launched a public, crowdsourced map of US data centers — because no government agency tracks them.
▸ Unsloth's dynamic GGUF quants drop GLM-5.2 from ~700GB to ~150GB at Q2_K_XL, putting it within reach of a single H100 node or a 192GB Mac Studio.
▸ A new arXiv paper argues LLMs degrade under continuous online learning the same way sleep-deprived brains do — and proposes scheduled offline consolid...
▸ Anthropic is rumored to post its first profitable quarter, driven almost entirely by Claude Code and API revenue from coding agents.
▸ Vivado 2026.1's free tier (Standard Edition) is becoming Windows-only — paid Enterprise users keep Linux.
▸ Stanford HAI ran 361k resumes through major LLM-based resume rankers and found Black applicants rejected at rates 26% higher than equally-qualified wh...
▸ Drew Houston is stepping down as Dropbox CEO after 19 years; Ashraf Alkarmi, an Amazon and Microsoft veteran, takes over.
▸ California's AB 1043 would have forced operating systems to collect and transmit user ages to app stores — Linux distros included.
▸ Three repos hitting GitHub's score-422 trending tier today are near-identical 'Free Download 2026' lures for Claude, Roblox, and Microsoft Office — al...
▸ A merchant post detailing Stripe's dispute UX argues the platform's defaults nudge cardholders toward chargebacks instead of refunds, leaving merchant...
▸ Microsoft is reportedly leasing AWS GPU capacity to keep GitHub's Copilot and Models features online — the first time Redmond has publicly admitted Az...
▸ Mistral OCR 4 ships at ~$1 per 1,000 pages — roughly 10-30x cheaper than running a multimodal LLM over the same documents.
▸ Zhipu's GLM 4.6 (positioned by users as 'GLM 5.2-class') is closing the coding gap with Claude Opus 4 at roughly 1/7th the token cost.
▸ QUERY is a new HTTP method that's safe and idempotent like GET, but carries a request body — closing a 25-year-old gap in the spec.
▸ Norway's government issued binding guidance this week effectively banning generative AI tools in elementary schools (ages 6-13), with narrow exception...
▸ Reuters reports SpaceX is acquiring Anysphere, maker of Cursor, for $60B — roughly 6x Anysphere's last private valuation in under a year.
▸ IPVM's investigation documents multiple US police chiefs running Flock license-plate searches to track women they were personally involved with — no w...
▸ Bob Nystrom's 2015 essay 'What Color is Your Function?' is back on HN at 111 points — and a decade of evidence has hardened its argument into consensu...
▸ The Netherlands invoked its Wet Vifo investment-screening law to block a US acquisition of a 'vital digital supplier' — treating a software vendor lik...