▸ The Keep Android Open project is rallying developers and users against Google's escalating restrictions on sideloading, alternative app stores, and th...
▸ GitHub is replacing Copilot's flat $10-$39/month per-seat pricing with usage-based billing tied to 'premium requests' for advanced AI models.
▸ A PostgreSQL vulnerability dubbed 'CopyFail' — related to the COPY sub-protocol's error-handling path — was publicly disclosed without advance notific...
▸ A developer shared that an AI coding agent deleted their production database — and the agent's own explanation of what happened went viral with 663+ p...
▸ De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) is migrating off AWS to STACKIT, the cloud platform built by Schwarz Group — the parent company of Lidl and Kaufland.
▸ Mercor, the YC-backed AI hiring platform, suffered a breach exposing 4TB of voice interview recordings from approximately 40,000 AI contractors.
▸ Mitchell Hashimoto, HashiCorp co-founder, is migrating his Ghostty terminal emulator off GitHub, calling the platform 'no longer a place for serious w...
▸ Fast16 is a newly disclosed cyberweapon that targeted industrial control systems roughly five years before Stuxnet's 2009-2010 deployment — placing st...
▸ Microsoft will stop sharing Azure AI revenue with OpenAI, unwinding a core pillar of their $13B partnership.
▸ A viral essay (1,040 HN points) argues Western software is following the same path as Western manufacturing — outsourcing understanding until the capa...
▸ US copyright law requires human authorship, so purely AI-generated code may not be copyrightable at all — Anthropic's TOS can't grant rights that don'...
▸ OpenAI released GPT-5.5, positioning it between GPT-5's reasoning depth and GPT-4o's speed — a model tuned for practical deployment rather than benchm...
▸ A non-professional mathematician used ChatGPT as a collaborative tool to crack Erdős Problem #1196, a conjecture that stood unsolved for roughly 60 ye...
▸ Mozilla has integrated Brave's open-source adblock-rust engine into Firefox, replacing parts of its own content blocking pipeline with a competitor's ...
▸ OpenAI's models — including GPT-4o and the o-series reasoning models — are now available through Amazon Bedrock, making AWS a distribution channel for...
▸ Tim Cook's succession announcement follows the rarest pattern in tech: a CEO leaving on top, with a clear successor and no crisis forcing the move.
▸ Mozilla has issued its strongest negative standards position — 'harmful' — against Google's proposed Prompt API, which would expose on-device LLMs dir...
▸ OpenAI has formally retired SWE-bench Verified as a benchmark, arguing frontier models have saturated it to the point where score differences are nois...
▸ Zed, the GPU-accelerated code editor built in Rust by the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter, has officially reached 1.0 after years of development.
▸ Google has reportedly struck a deal with the Pentagon allowing its AI to be used for 'any lawful' purpose — a phrase deliberately broad enough to incl...