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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
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
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
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
Astronauts return from six-month missions feeling like observers of their own lives
Crews returning from standard six-month ISS rotations report a lingering perceptual state that flight surgeons and crew psychologists now recognize as a pattern
Bun's $165K Rust Rewrite Looks Far From Done — and Far More Expensive
A skeptical developer dug into the widely-shared claim that Bun's JavaScript runtime was rewritten in Rust by Anthropic's Claude in 11 days for $165,000 in API
Casa Grande residents petition for oversight of city's Flock surveillance cameras
Deflockcg.com hosts the petition for Deflock Casa Grande, a nonpartisan civic campaign pushing back against the Arizona city's rollout of Flock Safety surveilla
Court Tosses Google's DMCA Claim Against Search Scraper SerpAPI
A federal judge dismissed Google's DMCA Section 1201 lawsuit against SerpAPI, a service that scrapes Google Search results and repackages them as an unofficial
Delayed Gratification: The Print Magazine That Waits Three Months to Cover the News
Delayed Gratification is a quarterly print magazine built on a deliberately contrarian premise: rather than chasing breaking news, it revisits events roughly th
Engineered HIV vaccine coaxes primate immune systems into rare broadly neutralizing antibodies
Researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, Scripps Research, and IAVI report an HIV vaccine that, in rhesus macaques, produced the strongest HIV-figh
Exposed admin APIs handed full control of 676k trucks on Volvo-Eicher fleet platform
A researcher found that My Eicher — the telematics and fleet-tracking platform run by VE Commercial Vehicles, a Volvo Group and Eicher Motors joint venture serv