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House spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying on the chatbot to draft memos, summarize legislation, and assist constituent communications.

Base Power’s $1 billion round will help the startup ramp production of its home batteries.

Valar Atomics raised $1 billion at a $6 billion valuation after signing a development deal with Nvidia in June.

Meta says it’s restoring access to WhatsApp accounts that were mistakenly flagged and placed “under review” after users reported being unexpectedly locked out of the messaging app.

Founded by the creators of viral offline events like San Francisco’s citywide scavenger hunt Pursuit, Outernet's app helps users save places and events they discover online, then nudges them to actually go.

Apple’s long-awaited AI overhaul finally makes Siri the assistant it was always supposed to be. But after years of delays, the launch lands in an AI landscape where chatbots have evolved into agents that can code, reason, create media, and complete complex tasks. Siri AI is genuinely useful, yet it arrives at a moment when simply being a capable AI assistant no longer feels revolutionary.

Apple has appealed a new legal demand by the U.K. government, which critics say could threaten the privacy rights of users all over the world.

OpenAI’s first-ever influencer brand trip is sparking online backlash as tensions over the use of AI continue.

DesignArena is used by 5.3 million people around the world, providing critical human evaluations to frontier labs.

OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in unprecedented cyberattacks. Who is legally to blame? Should prosecutors charge the two AI frontier labs? Can victims sue them? We spoke to lawyers who specialize in computer hacking laws to find out.

AWS now allows vibe coding tool Superblocks to be embedded into the private clouds of AWS customers. It's another step towards decoupling apps from models.

When running code reviews with local LLMs, a single model can either hallucinate non-existent bugs or generate generic advice you end up ignoring. To make local AI code review more useful, I built a closed Reviewer vs. Verifier loop for local Ollama workflows. The Architecture: Two Local Agents, One Loop Instead of trusting one model's output, the workflow splits the job into two roles: Agent 1 (Reviewer): Reads the git diff or file changes. It searches specifical...

Your Secrets Need a VDP, Not Just a Bug Bounty Bug bounty programs are valuable -- until they replace disclosure policies. Learn how unreasonable PoC demands or scope exclusions create security blind spots when it comes to leaked secrets. By Gaetan Ferry • 6 Feb 2026 • 8 min read In recent years, more and more companies have launched bug bounty programs as proof of their commitment to security and as a way to implement continuous monitoring of their corporate attack surface. T...

Ten Breakthroughs in Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (2026) The year 2026 has already witnessed a remarkable confluence of human intuition and machine intelligence, reshaping the landscape of pure and applied mathematics. From formal proof verification to quantum complexity, these ten advances are not just incremental—they are paradigm shifts that will echo for decades. Here's a deep dive into the breakthroughs that have captured the attention of Hacker News and the scientific c...

Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit: The Protocol That Refuses to Die, Now Reborn in C In the pantheon of early network protocols, few have enjoyed the staying power of Kermit. Born in the early 1980s at Columbia University, Kermit was a simple, robust file transfer protocol that conquered the world of dial-up modems, serial ports, and heterogeneous computing. As we mark its 45th anniversary in 2026, the protocol is not just a nostalgic relic—it's being actively reimagined with a brand-new, moder...

Germany's Energy Revolution: Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil Fuels for the First Time In 2026, Germany crossed a historic threshold: for the first time, wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) systems generated more electricity than fossil fuels across the year. This isn't just a statistic—it's a fundamental shift in how Europe's largest economy powers itself. According to data from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE), renewable sources (wind, solar, hydro, and biomass) contribut...

An editable range can change without changing Word text A Word document can store an editable-range marker around text and associate that marker with an individual editor. The covered text can remain exactly the same while the stored editor assignment changes. Text-only review sees no change, while package-level review can report the marker without pretending to know whether an identity is actually authorized. Document Change Assurance Benchmark 0.9.0 adds its twentieth determinist...

A stranger messaged me on LinkedIn about a job in the Web3 space. Friendly, low pressure, said it sounded like a good fit. To show me what the team was building, they shared a private GitHub repository and asked me to spend "15 to 30 minutes running it and looking around" to see whether the project made sense to me. That repository was not a job assessment. It was a trap designed to steal from the developer who runs it. Here is what it actually was, how it works in plain language, and the red...

Most people trust a green checkmark in a CI pipeline. If every job is marked as successful, we usually believe that everything worked correctly. I was doing the same. Then I found a case where a completely green workflow was hiding an important problem. While testing hafiza-kur across different platforms, my main goal wasn't just to see green checkmarks. I wanted to build a full list of what broke on which platform. I needed to see every single error, without stopping the pipeline at the firs...

I run PDFHaul, a free browser and mobile PDF toolkit, as a solo founder. A few months ago I kept running into the same friction point: every time I wanted an AI assistant to help with a PDF task, I had to manually download the file, upload it somewhere, run the tool, then feed the result back into the conversation. For anything involving more than one file, that loop got old fast. So I built an MCP server for PDFHaul. This post covers what it does, how it's built, and a few of the harder deci...

A coding agent with read access to your check scripts will predict them instead of running them. Prediction costs more and gets the answer wrong. A session I was directing had a small decision in front of it: whether to switch on an optional guard that nudges delegated sessions toward a particular decision shape. The guard ships inert. Its owning brief says so in one sentence: switching it on is the consumer's own registration, and absent that the thing is inert prose, which is the stated de...

You've got one CRM integration in production and it's been fine for months. Now there's a second one to wire up. Same contract, same schema, same node shape. Should be a couple of days. You pull the first payload from CRM B and put it next to CRM A out of habit. CRM A, a monetary field: { "key" : "estimated_cost" , "value" : 1275.43 , "spec" : { "type" : "number" , "format" : "decimal" } } CRM B, same kind of fie...

A friend dared me to build Pass the Pigs during the apéro. Two LLMs reviewed my plan. Or: a non-technical friend wanted to see what AI could do. He watched it plan — and watched two AIs shred the plan. The challenge It happened at an apéritif, in front of a non-technical friend who wanted to see what AI could do. We were playing le jeu de cochons (Pass the Pigs) — the apéro game where you throw two tiny pigs, they land in one of seven positions, and you push your luck again...

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