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World · The Guardian Ukraine

Seven sailors missing after drones strike tankers near Romania’s Black Sea coast

Nato source says drones came from Russia, while Romania’s president says attacking commercial ships ‘is unacceptable and has to stop’ Seven sailors are missing after drones struck two tankers near Romania’s Black Sea ⁠coast, setting them ablaze and raising ⁠fresh security concerns on a ​vital shipping route used by Ukraine. A Nato military source told Reuters the drones that had hit the Wine Trader and the Yara J came from Russia. “The drones that caused ⁠the fires on board two tankers inside Romanian territorial waters were of Russian origin,” the source said. Continue reading...

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

Rocket Lab announces another delay for its medium-lift Neutron rocket

Rocket Lab announced the Neutron rocket in 2021, aiming for a first flight in 2024.

AI · The Decoder

Black Forest Labs' open-weights image model FLUX 3 Image Klein runs on consumer GPUs with just 8 GB of VRAM

Black Forest Labs has released FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 5.6-billion-parameter open-weights image model that supports native 4K generation, pixel-precise editing, and generation with up to ten reference images. With 38 percent fewer parameters than its predecessor, it still outperforms proprietary competitors in internal tests and runs on GPUs with just 8 GB of VRAM. The article Black Forest Labs' open-weights image model FLUX 3 Image Klein runs on consumer GPUs with just 8 GB of VRAM appeared first on The Decoder .

Business · CNBC Technology

TSMC chip capacity is ‘fierce’ battleground for AI customers, amid record quarter

TSMC had a record quarter, but it can't make chips for everyone as Nvidia, Apple, Broadcom and AMD fight for capacity.

Business · CNBC Technology

CoreWeave credit default swaps hit distress levels as investors sour on AI debt

Signs of distressed deepened in CoreWeave on Thursday.

World · Deutsche Welle

Police raid the major pro-opposition Halk TV channel in Turkey

Turkish police raided the Istanbul headquarters of an important pro-opposition television station on Wednesdazy, the day that jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was set to start his defense against corruption charges.

World · Deutsche Welle

Trump says execution of Fort Hood shooter will not be livestreamed

Trump said the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan can be viewed in person by families of the victims if they wish. The decision comes after bipartisan backlash regarding the Pentagon's plans to livestream the execution.

World · Al Jazeera

Houthis target Yemen’s presidential palace in Aden with missiles

Saudi-led coalition accuses Houthis of obtaining missile parts from regional states.

Society · NPR Technology

Inside the race between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos for control of outer space

The Atlantic writer Josh Tyrangiel says Musk and Bezos each want to colonize the moon, mine its resources and launch thousands more satellites. He says their only real competition is each other.

World · Al Jazeera

Albania’s PM dismisses calls to resign as student protests spread

Prime Minister Edi Rama condemns 'chaos' as protests continue for third day in the capital and spread to other cities.

World · Al Jazeera

UK Green member behind anti-Zionism motion ‘receives death threats’

Lubna Speitan, who has Palestinian roots, believes messages and emails are part of an effort to intimidate her.

AI · The Decoder

Google wants Gemini 4 Argon to be the only AI model robots need

Google's Gemini 4 Argon controls robots, generates simulations from photos or sketches, and evaluates training videos. On Google's own ERQA benchmark, it scores 87 percent. But the published example prompts show that the demos still need a lot of human guidance. The article Google wants Gemini 4 Argon to be the only AI model robots need appeared first on The Decoder .

World · Al Jazeera

Israeli ad-tech firm helped place spyware on Al Jazeera devices

Citizen Lab investigation says dozens of Al Jazeera devices were infected by malware planted through advertisements.

World · BBC World

Trump calls off livestream of Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad

Trump said some would "rather not watch" the killing of Nidal Hasan, the first military execution in over 60 years.

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Jev meets the Trolley Problem

Article URL: https://zachlandes.com/trolley-problem/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50106023 Points: 283 # Comments: 134

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents

There's a growing trend in the consumer tech world: gadgets designed to spy on everything and everyone around you, regardless of whether or not anyone else actually consented to it. Now, with the advent of "AI personal assistants" like Meta's Muse, you're being cheerfully asked not just to give up your own data, but also […]

Developers & Open Source · ollama/ollama Releases

v0.40.5

What's Changed mlx: port the Metal custom kernels to CUDA by @dhiltgen in #18657 docs: model recs and language standardization by @anra8571 in #18981 openai: accept custom tool calls in Responses history by @hoyyeva in #18911 app: clarify cloud payment errors by @willietran in #18986 MLX: version bump by @dhiltgen in #18993 New Contributors @willietran made their first contribution in #18986 Full Changelog : v0.40.4...v0.40.5-rc0

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Neural networks are clean

https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/2110757819427574056 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105647 Points: 360 # Comments: 118

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

Citizen Lab Traces Zero-Click Candiru Spyware Infections at Al Jazeera to Targeted Online Ads

Candiru, an Israeli maker of spyware sold to governments, infected devices at the news network Al Jazeera through ordinary online ads, in attacks that needed no click or other action from the user, researchers at the Citizen Lab said Thursday. The hidden attack code ran the moment an ad loaded on the screen, and in some cases the ad loaded out of sight, in the background. The Citizen

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

Silent Lynx Exploits WinRAR Flaw to Deploy Reverse Shell in CIS Government Attacks

The threat actor known as Silent Lynx has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting government organizations across the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The activity, observed from June 2025 through August 2026, involves four different infection chains that make use of macro-enabled documents, PS2EXE downloaders, GitHub-hosted PowerShell, and crafted WinRAR archives

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

E Ink upgraded the screen found in most color e-readers

E Ink announced the next generation of its Kaleido color e-paper screen technology today, delivering several welcome improvements. The company's existing Kaleido 3 displays can be found in e-readers and tablets from companies like Kobo, PocketBook, and Boox, while Amazon's Kindle Colorsoft uses a customized version to improve performance. The new Kaleido 4 technology addresses […]

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Nvidia squeezed a 74B agent model into 24GB so it can run on your laptop

Nvidia on Thursday announced a few new additions to its Nemotron family: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B vision-language model for The post Nvidia squeezed a 74B agent model into 24GB so it can run on your laptop appeared first on The New Stack .

Cloud & Infrastructure · Azure Blog

Evolving the cloud-native foundation for the next generation of AI

Discover how Azure is advancing cloud-native infrastructure to help organizations build, run, and optimize applications and agents at scale. The post Evolving the cloud-native foundation for the next generation of AI appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .

Society · The Guardian Society

Two 1960s London housing estates saved from demolition after decade-long battle

Change of council leadership hands reprieve to residents of architecturally celebrated developments in Lambeth Two architecturally celebrated council estates in south London that have been under threat of demolition for more than a decade have been saved. Residents of Cressingham Gardens and the Central Hill estate have campaigned tirelessly for their homes to be saved, saying the low-density 1960s developments are significant in design and popular with those living there. Continue reading...