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1,178 frontier AI staff urge U.S. to build tools to slow the AI race

A July 2026 open statement signed by 1,178 employees of the leading AI labs — including chief scientists from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta AI, and T

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ACM Leaders Argue It's Time to License the Digital Library for LLM Training

In a Communications of the ACM opinion piece, ACM leadership makes the case that the organization should stop holding the line and start letting large language

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cybersecurityai

Anthropic's Claude cracks new attacks on post-quantum HAWK and reduced AES

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team used a research build called Claude Mythos Preview to find genuine mathematical flaws in cryptographic algorithms, not just implem

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tech-culturepolicy

Apple Kills the iPhone Upgrade Program, Swaps It for a Lease Model

Apple is winding down its iPhone Upgrade Program, the annual-upgrade financing plan that bundled a device installment loan with AppleCare+. Existing members kee

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privacypolicy

EU Citizens' Initiative Launches to Block Mandatory Digital ID and Age Checks

A registered European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) titled "Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification" is collecting signatures to oppose EU

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open-sourcetech-culture

Half-Life Runs Again on Mac OS 9 via Xash3D PowerPC Port

A developer known as doctashay has brought Half-Life to Mac OS 9 by building on a fork of Xash3D FWGS, the open-source reimplementation of Valve's GoldSrc engin

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tech-culture

Off-topic: JMA earthquake report, not a tech or security story

This source is a Japan Meteorological Agency earthquake-detail page, not a technology or cybersecurity article. The only information present is the headline — a

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cybersecurityai

OpenAI ships Codex Security, a CLI and SDK for AI-assisted vuln scanning

OpenAI has released @openai/codex-security, a command-line tool and TypeScript SDK that uses its Codex models to find, validate, and fix security vulnerabilitie

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tech-cultureopen-source

Una pitches a repairable, USB-C GPS watch with an open developer platform

Una is a GPS sports watch built around repairability rather than the sealed, disposable model common to most wearables. The company argues that a single failed

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open-sourcetech-culture

Userscript pulls Hacker News comments into a sidebar next to the article

HNewhere is a small userscript that ends the two-tab dance of reading an article and its Hacker News thread separately. When you land on a page that has an asso

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aitech-culture

AI Firms Are Buying and Shredding Rare Books to Feed Training Pipelines

AI companies are purchasing physical books in bulk, running them through high-speed scanners that slice off the spines, and destroying the originals in the proc

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Anthropic's Amodei: We never called for banning open-weights models

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is pushing back on claims that his company wants US regulators to ban Chinese open-weights models. He argues that open models without

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