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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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