Remember Popcorn Time, the app that served as an easy-to-use front end for streaming torrents of movies and TV shows? Development of the MPAA's least-favorite app of the 2010s has been abandoned for years, but the "Netflix of Piracy" software is still installed on millions of devices that are just waiting to join a bot […]
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/1017600/google-personal-intelligence-privacy-policy-ads-update Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50214218 Points: 351 # Comments: 171
Jack Dorsey's Block announced an AI model called Dessa that's trained "from scratch on nothing but human conversation," and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can occasionally be a little awkward and uncanny. Take this one, for example, shared by Dessa lead Ragavan Thurairatnam. The conversation between […]
The Pentagon is building weapons and projects with AI capabilities that officials say don't always closely adhere to the agency's own guidelines for AI, according to a congressional watchdog report published in October.
A new program wants to encourage more startups to allow workers to cash out early by making it easier to transact tender offers.
Russia's attacks on the Ukrainian capital are hitting harder and more frequently, making 2026 one of the long war's bloodiest years for Kyiv. DW asked people on the ground what life is like.
Article URL: https://block.xyz/dessa Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50213925 Points: 380 # Comments: 136
Welcome to another edition of Road to KubeCon! We’re tracking movements in the Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystem as we count The post AI jobs are waiting while GPUs sit idle. Kubernetes has a new plan. appeared first on The New Stack .
Hosted by TechCrunch in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares, the full-day event goes beyond fundraising and AI to explore the realities of finding customers, building teams, sharpening a pitch, developing founder leadership, and scaling companies both inside and outside traditional startup hubs.
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro scores 55 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, an 11-point jump over its predecessor that puts it in fourth place. Only three Anthropic and Meta models rank higher. If Moonshot releases the weights as planned, the gap between open and proprietary models shrinks to just three points. The article Chinese AI model Kimi K3.1 Pro is closing in on Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 appeared first on The Decoder .
Between June 1 and June 13, 2026, some Enterprise Managed User accounts that were deprovisioned through SCIM were incorrectly deleted instead of being suspended and obfuscated as expected. As a… The post EMU deletions fix appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Man City are the only team with a perfect Premier League record, but face a Villa side determined to climb the table.
The Ukrainian city of Oleshky, occupied by Russia and on the frontline, faces a humanitarian crisis. The localized truce comes as Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said negotiators would meet for wider talks next month.
Diplomatic organizations in Central Asia have been targeted by a sophisticated new Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit called BlackX. The activity, which singled out diplomatic entities in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan in early 2026, is suspected to be orchestrated by a China-linked state-sponsored hacking group known as APT41, Kaspersky said in a technical report
My colleague John Higgins considered Soundcore’s Space One some of the best budget noise-canceling headphones you could buy when they launched in 2023 — and their successor has only improved upon their winning formula, albeit with a $30 price increase. Thankfully, the Soundcore Space 2 are currently on sale at Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart […]
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Israel has imposed a lockdown across the occupied West Bank after a shooting near Hebron killed two Israeli soldiers.
With SpaceX imposing speed limits on Starlink in Ukraine and hampering military operations, Kyiv is looking for alternatives.
Ohio has been a reliably red state for several elections but it's competitive this year. If Democrats want to prevail, they'll have to win people who have backed Republicans, like rural voters.
Naive byte-range caching can waste gigabytes of origin bandwidth on small requests. We rebuilt our cache architecture in Pingora to coordinate partial fetches automatically, cutting R2 p99 latency in half.
Lawyers for two accused officials say Department of Justice seeking to revive scandal in the run-up to midterm vote.
Cloudflare's new post-quantum GeoKey Manager protects geographically fenced decryption keys from harvest now, decrypt later attacks. Learn how we redesigned our cryptography stack to support strict data sovereignty in a post-quantum world.
External auditors from METR and Redwood Research spent three weeks on-site at OpenAI examining the company's internal monitoring system for AI agents and found significant gaps, with up to 25 percent of agent traffic from models at the GPT-5.5 class and above going unmonitored. OpenAI redacted large portions of the 61-page report, and only a summary is publicly available. The article Three-week on-site audit at OpenAI reveals major gaps in AI safety monitoring appeared first on The Decoder .
The lawsuit raises concerns the US administration may be looking to meddle in some of this midterm cycle’s races.