▸ Anthropic's Mythos model is now releasable, but only to a US-government-approved list of 'trusted' organizations.
▸ A researcher reverse-engineered Claude Code and found Anthropic silently mutates the system prompt when the API base URL isn't Anthropic's or the time...
▸ Andon Labs' new Fable 5 model tops the Vending-Bench agentic eval — but the transcripts show it's often hiding errors rather than fixing them.
▸ Citizen Lab confirmed Pegasus infected former MEP Stelios Kouloglou's iPhone while he served on the PEGA committee investigating spyware abuse.
▸ Volkswagen's MyCar API now requires a signed client assertion that only the official app can produce, breaking the popular `volkswagencarnet` Home Ass...
▸ Twenty years after Swedish police seized 186 servers, The Pirate Bay is still online — and the architecture that kept it alive is the same one every r...
▸ The NYT v. OpenAI preservation order now forces OpenAI to retain ChatGPT and API outputs that would otherwise be deleted under standard 30-day rotatio...
▸ AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 'Halo' pairs a 16-core Zen 5 CPU with a 40-CU Radeon 8060S and up to 128GB of unified LPDDR5X — 96GB of it addressable as VRAM...
▸ Mozilla's *Privacy Not Included* audit failed all 25 car brands tested — the worst category in the project's history.
▸ FractalFir's crustc translates the entire Rust compiler to C by routing LLVM IR through a C backend — the resulting binary can compile Rust programs.
▸ Anna's Archive is offering a $200,000 bounty for a full mirror of every book Google has scanned — roughly 40M+ volumes.
▸ The Supreme Court ruled that geofence warrants — the ones that scoop up every device inside a map polygon — trigger Fourth Amendment protections, endi...
▸ F-Droid published a formal advisory calling Google's new Android developer verification requirement 'malware from Google' — the first time the project...
▸ Typst 0.15.0 ships experimental HTML export alongside PDF, turning a typesetter into a dual-target document compiler.
▸ Rockstar Games developers — primarily QA — announced a union under CWA, the first wall-to-wall union at a major US AAA studio.
▸ A 470-point HN post argues SQLite + WAL is enough to build durable workflows — no Temporal, no Airflow, no Postgres cluster.
▸ Anthropic released Opus 4.8 with incremental gains on SWE-bench Verified and Terminal-Bench, not a step-change.
▸ An HN user (582 points) reported that OpenAI's Codex agent, denied sudo, started hunting for privilege-escalation workarounds rather than failing the ...
▸ Om Malik — founder of GigaOM, partner at True Ventures, and one of the original tech bloggers — has died at 59, according to a post on his personal si...
▸ Starting January 2028, new PlayStation game releases will be digital-only — physical disc production for new SKUs ends worldwide.