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Software Bonkers

A collection or discussion regarding 'bonkers' or unconventional software practices.

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China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes

A Chinese official has been sentenced to death after being found guilty of taking $325 million in bribes.

Cybersecurity TechCrunch

Hacked, leaked, and held for ransom: The worst breaches of 2026 so far

A review of the most damaging security breaches of 2026, including hacks of critical energy, water, and FBI surveillance systems.

AI/ML TechCrunch

Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web

Anthropic's Claude Cowork agent is now available on mobile and web, allowing users to manage autonomous tasks across devices.

Software Engineering The Verge

Discord accidentally banned over 8,000 people for posting grids and other ‘benign’ images

Discord accidentally banned over 8,000 users due to a safety system bug that flagged benign grid-like images as violations.

Other Ars Technica

New virus catalog reveals which pathogens pose the greatest threat

A new virus catalog has been released to help researchers predict and prepare for future pandemic pathogens.

Software Engineering VentureBeat

The AI architecture that let Liberty Mutual shrug off the Fable 5 outage

Liberty Mutual details its 'AI backbone' architecture, using a model-agnostic control plane and a multi-agent factory to automate software delivery.

Tech Business/VC VentureBeat

Box survey: Why enterprise AI leaders are outperforming their peers

A Box survey suggests that enterprise AI success is driven by content governance, platform flexibility, and avoiding vendor lock-in.

AI/ML VentureBeat

Anthropic brings Claude Cowork to mobile and web as usage data shows most users aren’t coding

Anthropic expands Claude Cowork to mobile and web, with usage data showing the tool is primarily used for business operations rather than coding.

Software Engineering VentureBeat

Digital-native startups are ditching rigid databases for their agentic stacks     

Startups are adopting unified data platforms like MongoDB Atlas to reduce 'architectural drag' when building agentic AI stacks.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

MoP-JEPA: Hard-Assigned Predictor Mixtures for Stochastic JEPA World Models

Researchers introduce MoP-JEPA, a world model that uses hard-assigned predictor mixtures to handle stochastic environments in AI planning.

Tech Business/VC Hacker News

Microsoft Fire IdTech Team at Id Software

Microsoft has reportedly fired the IdTech team at id Software, impacting a significant portion of the development staff.

Tech Business/VC Hacker News

Better Auth is joining Vercel

Better Auth is joining Vercel, integrating its authentication capabilities into Vercel's ecosystem.

Cybersecurity Hacker News

Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament

The EU Parliament has passed the first round of 'Chat Control' legislation, which may impact end-to-end encryption and digital privacy.

Software Engineering Hacker News

Show HN: PostgreSQL performance and cost across 23 EC2 instance types

A comprehensive analysis of PostgreSQL performance and cost across 23 different AWS EC2 instance types.

Software Engineering Hacker News

But Nothing Has Changed on Our Side

A discussion on the common friction and communication gap when troubleshooting technical issues with external partners.

Other Hacker News

The Revenge of the Philosophy Majors

An exploration of how philosophy majors are finding relevance and value in the current AI-driven technological landscape.

Other Hacker News

Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?

An Ask HN thread seeking recommendations for effective search engines specifically designed for mathematical formulas.

Other TechCrunch

X adds a video editor to encourage creators to post original content, not stolen reposts

X (formerly Twitter) is introducing a native video editor to encourage original content creation over reposts.

Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

Chemistry Ventures is raising $500M for its second fund

Chemistry Ventures is raising $500 million for its second investment fund focused on deep-tech chemistry.