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Society · The Guardian Society

Burnham urged by 50 police leaders to prevent early release of PC Harper’s killers

Letter signed by every chief constable in England and Wales warns freeing pair could weaken trust in justice system Andy Burnham is facing an unprecedented mass call from police chiefs to block the early release of PC Andrew Harper’s killers, as unions warned his emergency plan to create more space in jails risked causing confusion or leading to prisoners being freed by mistake. A letter signed by 50 police leaders across the UK, including every chief constable in England and Wales, called on the prime minister to do everything in his power to stop the killers benefiting from a programme designed to free up prison space, saying there was “a profound strength of feeling across policing” that this should not happen. Continue reading...

Developers & Open Source · vercel/next.js Releases

v16.3.1-canary.12

Misc Changes [turbopack] Bail CJS tree-shaking on var x = module.exports = {} : #97130 docs: server client and directives: #96145 docs: clarify client cache freshness after hydration: #97180 Fix: Optimistic routing bugs leading to repeated prefetch loops: #97128 docs: create client-side fetching guide: #96341 Turbopack: accept a module type argument for import.meta.glob: #96991 docs: align Cache Components authentication guide title: #97143 test: re-enable a few more passing NFT unit cases: #97017 [turbopack] Do the CJS analysis needed for scope hoisting: #95826 Remove legacy PPR code paths: #96868 Use Cache Components as the internal PPR signal: #96827 Make legacy PPR paths explicit: #96753 fix: typos in code comments: #97137 Fix spelling in two comments: #97136 Credits Huge thanks to @sampoder , @icyJoseph , @aurorascharff , @acdlite , @kelvinampofo , @mischnic , @ztanner , and @marcoshernanz for helping!

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Grok Bot

Article URL: https://x.ai/bot Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261514 Points: 293 # Comments: 257

Society · The Guardian Society

What effect will Donald Trump’s childhood vaccine recommendations have in the US and beyond?

Is there any science behind the recommendations? Will they result in lower vaccination rates? And will they cause a resurgence of preventable diseases? A new executive order from the US president, Donald Trump, calls for sweeping changes to childhood vaccine recommendations. His plans would result in fewer vaccines being recommended overall; the combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine being replaced with three separate shots, and all childhood immunisations being administered during separate medical visits “to the maximum extent feasible”. Continue reading...

World · Al Jazeera

Russia frees ex-US Marine Robert Gilman from detention

The US government had recently designated Gilman as wrongfully detained.

World · Al Jazeera

Poland says Women’s World Cup plan on course despite UEFA boycott of FIFA

Poland says their preparations to host the Women's Under-20 World Cup remain on schedule, despite UEFA-FIFA fallout.

Business · CNBC Technology

Longtime OpenAI executive Brad Lightcap leaves as shake-up at AI lab continues

Longtime OpenAI executive Brad Lightcap announced his departure on Tuesday, the latest in a series of recent leadership shake-ups at the company.

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide

https://local12.com/news/nation-world/flock-camera-error-lea... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261218 Points: 252 # Comments: 229

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Google’s upcoming Pixel phones are for the fans, even if its launch event isn’t

Last year's Made by Google event for the Pixel 10 resembled a late night talk show, complete with Jimmy Fallon as host, and it aired an hour after the phones were revealed. Spec dives and executive appearances were replaced with celebrity cameos and awkward skits, to the confusion of many diehard Pixel fans. But it […]

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Made by Google 2026: all the Pixel news and announcements

Google is gearing up to reveal a bunch of new Pixel devices on August 12th. A series of leaks leading up to the event suggest that the Pixel 11 lineup will come in an array of colors, with signs pointing to a built-in light coming to Pro models. Teasers from Google also indicate that it […]

AI · Google AI Blog

AMIE, our research medical AI system, demonstrates real-time clinical video consultation capabilities in a first-of-its-kind study.

Google introduces AMIE for real-time clinical video consultations in simulated settings.

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering

Article URL: https://developers.googleblog.com/why-go-is-an-ideal-language-for-ai-assisted-software-engineering/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261133 Points: 236 # Comments: 283

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Mojo 1.0

Article URL: https://www.modular.com/blog/modular-26-5-mojo-1-0-is-here Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261128 Points: 250 # Comments: 114

World · Al Jazeera

PSG vs Aston Villa: UEFA Super Cup – prediction, lineups, teams

The traditional curtain raiser for Europe's football league season pits Paris Saint-Germain against Aston Villa.

World · Al Jazeera

Trump faces lawsuit over push to limit birthright citizenship

Despite previous Supreme Court ruling, Trump has sought new approach to limit the longstanding practice.

Cybersecurity · SecurityWeek

Adobe Urges Immediate Patching of Critical ColdFusion, Campaign Classic Flaws

The security defects could be exploited for arbitrary code execution and denial-of-service. The post Adobe Urges Immediate Patching of Critical ColdFusion, Campaign Classic Flaws appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

Researchers Disclose AI-Assisted SharePoint Exploit Chain Reaching Unauthenticated RCE

Security researchers found a way to enter Microsoft SharePoint servers as any user, including an administrator, with no valid account. A significant part of the work that found it was done through an AI agent. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-55040 (CVSS 9.1), affects SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, SharePoint Server 2019, and SharePoint Server 2016. Microsoft's

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Databricks acquires Electric to give every AI agent its own Postgres database

Databricks on Tuesday announced that it’s acquiring Electric, the startup behind the WASM-based Postgres project PGlite and the Electric sync engine, as The post Databricks acquires Electric to give every AI agent its own Postgres database appeared first on The New Stack .

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

DeadLock Ransomware Uses Polygon Smart Contracts to Make Extortion Infra Harder to Disrupt

The ransomware group known as DeadLock has been observed using decentralized infrastructure to facilitate victim communications and data leak operations in a bid to improve operational resilience. "Its recovery ecosystem combines the Session messaging network with blockchain-backed services that store and deliver resources used throughout the extortion process," the Microsoft Threat

World · Deutsche Welle

Can the new PKK law bring peace to Turkey?

Turkey’s parliament has passed a framework law for the peace process with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). What does it stipulate, why is it controversial and what does it mean for the future of the peace process?

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

Tracking extreme heat by the hour makes climate change seem even worse

Hot hours of summer could triple in the coming decades.

AI · TechCrunch AI

An unreleased Anthropic model made progress on one of math’s biggest unsolved problems

For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics. Anthropic hasn't solved it — but the company's models made more progress than you might expect.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Apple could help you prove your iPhone photos aren’t deepfakes

Apple is seemingly developing an iOS feature that can verify when a photograph was taken using an iPhone camera. 9to5Mac reports that the iOS 27 beta 5 includes code references for an "Apple Reference Image" system that can embed provenance metadata into iPhone photographs at the point of capture - enabling users to prove where […]

World · Deutsche Welle

Hungary's parliament elects Orban critic as new president

Hungary's parliament has overwhelmingly confirmed Andras Baka, formerly the head of the Supreme Court, to the largely ceremonial role of president. New Prime Minister Peter Magyar controversially removed his predecessor.