Hardware/Chips The Verge

The Pixel colors might rule this year

Leaked Amazon listings suggest the Google Pixel 11 will be available in a variety of vibrant new colors.

Open Source Hacker News

Climate.gov was destroyed. Open data saved it

An account of how open data practices saved the critical climate data at Climate.gov after its original infrastructure was destroyed.

Other Hacker News

Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

The short link domain t.me used by Telegram has been suspended, disrupting user accessibility.

AI/ML Hacker News

AI Is a Bad Tool

A critical perspective on the limitations and pitfalls of using AI as a primary tool for development and problem solving.

Software Engineering Hacker News

Show HN: I implemented a neural network in SQL

A developer demonstrates the implementation of a neural network using only SQL, showcasing the flexibility of the language.

AI/ML Hacker News

Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans

Nobie is introduced as an Excel-compatible runtime designed to facilitate collaboration between AI agents and humans.

Software Engineering Hacker News

Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser

A tool for parsing guitar tabs from YouTube videos, bridging the gap between video content and playable notation.

Other Hacker News

The Origins of Heikki's Garden of Flowers

An exploration into the origins and philosophy of the 'Garden of Flowers' project by Heikki.

AI/ML Hacker News

Show HN: PlanWright – A control plane for AI coding agents

PlanWright is presented as a control plane specifically designed for managing AI coding agents.

Cybersecurity TechCrunch

Apple says former employee exploited ‘rare’ bug to download confidential files after leaving for OpenAI

Apple reports a former employee exploited a rare bug to steal confidential files after joining OpenAI.

Hardware/Chips ServeTheHome

ASRock Rack Built an Edge Server Based on NVIDIA’s Thor Industrial SoC

ASRock Rack has launched an edge server, the 2UXGI-THOR, based on NVIDIA's Thor Industrial SoC for medical and industrial use.

Cybersecurity Hacker News

TFTP Honey Pot Results

A discussion of the results obtained from operating a TFTP honeypot.

Software Engineering Hacker News

Thunderbird Desktop settings research: what we learned from your feedback

Thunderbird shares research and findings based on user feedback regarding desktop settings.

Other Hacker News

How sea stars build materials that can see

Research on how sea stars develop biological materials capable of sensing light.

AI/ML Hacker News

New Flagship Grok Voices

Announcement of new flagship voice capabilities for Grok AI.

Tech Business/VC The Verge

States make last-ditch effort to stop the Paramount ‘media behemoth’

Several US states are suing to block the $110 billion merger of Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery over competition concerns.

Other Ars Technica

A "disaster waiting to happen"? Industry officials worry about Crew Dragon availability.

Industry officials express concern over the limited availability of Crew Dragon vehicles for crewed missions.

Cybersecurity Ars Technica

Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too

Security researchers are using 'context bombing' to trick malicious AI agents into shutting down before completing an attack.

AI/ML Ars Technica

Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models

An exploration of the capabilities and current limitations of world models in AI.

AI/ML VentureBeat

ACRouter picks the smartest AI model per task, beating Opus-only setups by 2.6x on cost

Introduction of ACRouter, an open-source framework that uses a dynamic agent-as-a-router to optimize AI model selection for cost and performance.