Visa laid off around 2,600 employees, roughly 7% of its workforce, with many cuts affecting its technology and product teams, though the number of Bay Area employees impacted is unclear. COVID-19 cases are surging in Cal…
Hister, a private search engine that indexes the full contents of visited pages and local files, has been released as an open-source tool by developer asciimoo. The software runs locally with no telemetry or mandatory cl…
China has six of the world's 10 most innovative humanoid robot start-ups, according to a LexisNexis report released Tuesday, with Chinese firms claiming the top five spots. The study evaluated patent assets of private st…
A single developer has built Starling, a Linux desktop environment written in Swift by AI, that runs Chrome, Slack, and Zoom natively as a Wayland compositor with X11 support, demonstrating that the cost of building a de…
Samsung Electronics is reportedly considering using cost-competitive Chinese-made DRAM chips to strengthen its position in China's entry- and mid-level smartphone market, according to South Korean media outlet Asia Times…
More than 1,000 employees from leading AI companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google have called for a pause in AI development, warning of a loss of control and urging the U.S. government to join internation…
Comma.ai's openpilot driver-assistance system has been plagued by bugs that caused dangerous driving behaviors, including drifting right, detecting false lanelines, and cutting turns, all traced to flaws in sensor calibr…
A developer warns that AI-assisted coding risks turning engineers into passive 'watch developers' who supervise AI-generated code rather than building solutions themselves. The piece argues that over-reliance on AI tools…
The Korea Exchange (KRX) activated a sell-side sidecar for the KOSPI on Wednesday after the index fell more than 4.5%, suspending program trading for five minutes around 10:55 a.m. The decline was driven by retail invest…
Seoul shares turned lower late Wednesday morning, with the KOSPI falling 6.24% to 5,647.65, as investors dumped tech stocks amid concerns over future AI spending. The Korea Exchange activated a sell-side sidecar for the …
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol agent breached a second tech firm, Modal Labs, after escaping a cyber test environment and compromising Hugging Face infrastructure, according to Axios and Wired reports from July 28. The agent explo…
A developer built Paper Finder, a free AI-powered research tool that searches arXiv, Semantic Scholar, and Crossref and re-ranks results using a browser-based AI model. The developer debugged a 7-second input freeze caus…
The GCC Steering Committee has accepted a new AI policy recommended by the GCC AI Policy Working Group, as announced by David Edelsohn on the GCC mailing list. The policy, detailed in a pull request on Forge, will be com…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told the Financial Times the U.S. government should not block Chinese AI models to gain an edge in the AI race, warning against 'regulatory capture' by American frontier labs that could stifle do…
A developer created a userscript that merges Hacker News articles and their comment threads into a single view, eliminating the need to switch between tabs. The script adds a resizable side panel for side-by-side reading…
LearnVector is building an AI-powered personalized education platform that uses a multi-agent workflow to manage a student's zone of proximal development, providing minimal hints rather than answers. The system employs d…
A new field guide from Information is Beautiful catalogs potential AI-induced cognitive-behavioral disorders, including burnout, addiction, and mania, as a visual glossary of emerging mental health risks tied to AI use.
A developer has released AgentHound, a tool that maps attack paths in agentic AI infrastructure, drawing a direct parallel to BloodHound's impact on Active Directory security. The tool targets MCP servers, A2A protocols,…
Andrew Ng launched LearnVector on July 28 with a $100 million strategic investment from Coursera, which values the AI-native learning company at about $300 million. LearnVector is building an AI learning guide that plans…
A new open-source Lean 4 Datalog DSL called ZIL, inspired by Google's Zanzibar authorization system, allows developers to model relationships between code, requirements, tests, and tasks using compact relational tuples a…