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Nepal Becomes 47th Government to Join Have I Been Pwned's Free Gov Service
Nepal's National Cyber Security Centre has been onboarded to Have I Been Pwned's free government tier, making it the 47th national body with access to the servi
New Mexico court hits Meta with $567M more, pushing total to $942M over child harms
A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay an additional $567m into a fund addressing the mental-health harms its platforms cause young people, on top of a $375
One man's guerrilla tree-planting turned a São Paulo dump into a 32,000-tree park
In 2003, East Zone resident Hélio Silva began planting native Atlantic Forest seedlings along the neglected, garbage-strewn banks of São Paulo's Tiquatira strea
OpenAI says upcoming 'Astra' model may cross 'High' cyber-capability threshold
OpenAI's internal evaluations of an upcoming model, referred to as Astra, indicate it may reach the 'High' cyber-capability tier under the company's Preparednes
OpenAI Touts GPT-5.6 Sol Upgrades, Opens GPT-5.6 Luna to Free ChatGPT Users
OpenAI has published an announcement signaling two changes to its ChatGPT model lineup: improvements to the GPT-5.6 'Sol' variant, and wider availability of GPT
OpenJDK bars AI-generated code as Oracle touts AI writing its own software
Oracle, steward of the open-source OpenJDK project, has barred contributors from submitting AI-generated code, pointing to safety, security, and intellectual-pr
Penn's bioengineered chewing gum cuts oral HPV up to 93% in lab tests
A University of Pennsylvania team led by Henry Daniell has engineered a chewing gum, derived from lablab beans, that sharply reduces microbes tied to head and n
pgrust rewrites Postgres in Rust, claims 300x analytics speedup over the original
pgrust, a Rust reimplementation of Postgres, has shipped version 0.2 with a rebuilt query engine that its authors say makes analytical queries up to 300x faster
Phone anti-theft detection mistakes a jog for a grab-and-run
A one-line social post captures a familiar failure mode of modern smartphone security: motion-based anti-theft features that flag the owner's own workout as a t
Quake Turns 30: Free 'Dawn of the Machine' Episode Lands on Every Platform
id Software and MachineGames are marking Quake's 30th anniversary with Dawn of the Machine, a free episode pushed automatically to existing owners across Xbox,
Site owner reports 99% of 1.5M-page site's traffic came from scrapers
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Solo-built agent runtime Herdr joins Y Combinator, relicenses to Apache-2.0
Herdr, a terminal-native runtime for managing CLI coding agents, is joining Y Combinator's F26 batch. Its sole developer, Can, describes the tool as a way to gi