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World · Deutsche Welle

Zambian opposition leader in police custody: state media

Zambia's national broadcaster reports that Brian Mundubile, who wanted to challenge this month's presidential election results, and his running mate have surrendered to police and are being interviewed.

World · Deutsche Welle

Russian serviceman dies in car blast in St. Petersburg

Russia has seen a series of assassinations against military personnel. Moscow has usually blamed Ukraine for the attacks, but Kyiv has not always claimed responsibility.

World · Al Jazeera

Israeli strike kills ‘newlywed’ woman in south Lebanon, wounds others

Violence has eased since the US-Iran MoU and Israel-Lebanon framework, but Beirut still reports strikes and demolitions.

Business · CNBC Technology

Salesforce leads software rally, rocketing 20% on track for second-best day ever

Salesforce reported a strong beat on second-quarter earnings and announced an expanded AI partnership with Anthropic.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Sony finally has a cheaper OLED to compete with midrange Samsung and LG TVs

After unexpectedly showing up on a wall-mounting compatibility chart on Sony's site back in June, the company has announced the Sony Bravia 6 OLED TV. The TV sits below its other OLED TVs - the Bravia 8 and Bravia 8 II - as well as its Bravia 9 II and Bravia 7 II RGB LED […]

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Replit’s new default: Auto mode picks the best model for each task

AI coding company Replit is throwing its weight behind the model-routing trend by making its “intelligent model routing” system the The post Replit’s new default: Auto mode picks the best model for each task appeared first on The New Stack .

AI · TechCrunch AI

Google’s AI Mode can now track flight prices, help book hotels, and more

The updates indicate that Google is looking to position AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it's moving beyond simply helping users find information to actually handling parts of the trip-planning and booking process.

AI · Google AI Blog

3 new ways to plan and book travel in Search

Book hotels and track airfares, plus view miles and rewards with AI Mode in Google Search.

Developers & Open Source · Chrome Releases

Chrome Beta for Android Update

Hi everyone! We've just released Chrome Beta 153 (153.0.8010.18) for Android. It's now available on Google Play . You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log . For details on new features, check out the Chromium blog , and for details on web platform updates, check here . If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug . Chrome Release Team Google Chrome

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Small Models Have Arrived

Article URL: https://calv.info/small-models-have-arrived Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466917 Points: 637 # Comments: 288

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Americans are cheering for vigilantes who take down Flock cameras

Americans have declared war on Flock cameras. They've protested them, damaged them, and destroyed them. This is only the beginning. The spontaneous and decentralized nature of the vigilante protests is also what makes them difficult to suppress. There isn't a uniform method of disruption; people have done everything from unplugging, smashing, stealing, and spray-painting the […]

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

Why did 1,000 Swiss citizens bury their underpants?

Study: Land use is the biggest factor in determining decomposition rates of organic cotton underpants.

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

“Posterity will find it ludicrous”: Sai agent hits 73% on OSWorld 2.0 performing routine (but necessary) work

Sai, a computer agent built by Simular, has achieved a 73% success rate on OSWorld 2.0, in a benchmark update The post “Posterity will find it ludicrous”: Sai agent hits 73% on OSWorld 2.0 performing routine (but necessary) work appeared first on The New Stack .

World · Al Jazeera

UEFA asks US court for FIFA documents for criminal case against Infantino

European football's governing body considering ‌criminal complaint ​against Infantino over World Cup selloff plans.

World · Deutsche Welle

UEFA to bring criminal complaint against Infantino

European football’s governing body said it is preparing a criminal complaint against the FIFA president over his failed plan to sell a stake in the World Cup.

World · Deutsche Welle

Nepal flooding: 'We are disconnected from Kathmandu'

DW spoke with people from the Nepali regions devastated by flash floods about the fates of their family members, with a government minister warning that the state was not ready for a disaster of such magnitude.

Developers & Open Source · JetBrains Blog

Differential Privacy for Hugging Face Trainers – Without Rewriting Your Training Loop

It is a well-known problem by now that training LLMs on sensitive data raises serious privacy concerns. In a recent blog post, we talked about membership inference attacks and our research on mitigating them. At JetBrains Research, we are deeply concerned about user privacy and continually developing new methods and tools to improve privacy protection. […]

World · Al Jazeera

Burnham’s expected UK ban on Israeli settlement goods draws broad support

A Labour lawmaker tells Al Jazeera sanctions would uphold British morals and legal obligations.

Developers & Open Source · Chrome Releases

Chrome Dev for Android Update

Hi everyone! We've just released Chrome Dev 154 (154.0.8025.0) for Android. It's now available on Google Play . You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log . For details on new features, check out the Chromium blog , and for details on web platform updates, check here . If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug . Chrome Release Team Google Chrome

Developers & Open Source · langchain-ai/langchain Releases

langchain-anthropic==1.7.0

Changes since langchain-anthropic==1.6.1 release(anthropic): 1.7.0 ( #39963 ) feat(anthropic): support top-level param for skills via container ; updates thinking display mode ( #39962 ) feat(anthropic): support 1.0 sdk ( #39938 ) fix(anthropic): auto-append advisor-tool-2026-03-01 beta header for advisor_20260301 tool ( #39917 ) feat(anthropic): surface gateway response metadata ( #39809 )

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Nvidia doesn’t need to block rival chips on Hugging Face. It just needs the defaults.

Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, putting one of the biggest names in AI hardware The post Nvidia doesn’t need to block rival chips on Hugging Face. It just needs the defaults. appeared first on The New Stack .

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

Next.js Patches Critical AVIF and Windows Flaws Enabling Unauthenticated RCE

Credit: Hacktron Vercel has released security patches for two critical-severity vulnerabilities in the Next.js web framework, both of which allow unauthenticated remote code execution, one exploitable via specially crafted AVIF image files and the other through a path traversal flaw affecting servers that use a Windows filesystem. The Windows path traversal, tracked as CVE-2026-75604&

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

ThreatsDay: 296K IoT Botnet, 100+ Water Systems Targeted, SharePoint RCE Chain + 27 New Stories

A fake login page. A fake security scan. A fake productivity app. Apparently, pretending to be useful is still one of the easier ways into a machine. The rest of the week gets stranger: botnets borrowing AI, command traffic hiding in public infrastructure, malicious tools waiting before showing their real behavior, exposed systems getting scanned, and exploit windows shrinking again. Different

AI · The Decoder

OpenAI researcher warns ultrafast AI could leave security teams in the dust

An OpenAI researcher warns that state-of-the-art AI models running 50 times faster could infiltrate systems before human teams can react. Simple monitoring won't cut it anymore, he says. What's needed are autonomous shutdown systems. The warning comes as OpenAI unveils a new AI chip that significantly outperforms current hardware in inference speed. The article OpenAI researcher warns ultrafast AI could leave security teams in the dust appeared first on The Decoder .