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Chrome rips out final MV2 lifelines, ending uBlock Origin workarounds
Google has begun deleting the last code paths that kept Manifest V2 extensions alive in Chrome, closing every remaining loophole users relied on to run uBlock O
Claude Desktop bug: 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM launches on every start, even for chat
A GitHub issue filed against Anthropic's Claude Desktop app for Windows reports that the application spawns a full Hyper-V virtual machine consuming roughly 1.8
Claude Fable's marathon autonomy impresses — and turns AI into a black box
Ethan Mollick got early access to Claude 5 Fable, the first publicly released Mythos-class model, and reports a substantial capability jump over every prior mod
FCC proposal would end anonymous burner phones with mandatory ID collection
The FCC is proposing rules that would require U.S. telecoms to collect and store identity records — including a government-issued ID number and physical address
German court holds Google liable for defamatory AI Overviews as its own speech
The Regional Court of Munich has issued a temporary injunction against Google after its AI Overviews falsely associated two Munich publishers with scams, subscr
GitHub co-founder unleashes AI agent swarm to rewrite Git as a Rust library
Scott Chacon of GitButler has spent the past few months directing swarms of coding agents to build Grit, a from-scratch reimplementation of Git as a memory-safe
GitHub incident: spurious 401s hit 15% of API traffic before mitigation
GitHub resolved an incident in which sporadic authentication failures affected roughly 15% of its API traffic. The API began returning erroneous 401 Unauthorize
Indie dev builds a 256-color raycaster shooter under self-imposed 1993 constraints
A solo developer is building Catlantean 3D, a first-person shooter slated for Steam next year, under deliberately punishing retro constraints: software renderin
KANs meet FPGAs: lookup-table networks hit nanosecond inference speeds
A Master's thesis project from MIT-affiliated researchers shows that Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) map unusually well onto FPGA hardware, enabling neural ne
Let's Encrypt updates subscriber agreement to bar use in US-sanctioned territories
Let's Encrypt has revised its Subscriber Agreement (version 1.7, dated June 4, 2026) to prohibit the use of its certificates in territories under US sanctions.
Lotte Reiniger's silhouette epic beat Disney to feature animation by a decade
A century after its 1926 premiere, Lotte Reiniger's The Adventures of Prince Achmed stands as the oldest surviving animated feature film — predating Disney's Sn
Mercedes-Benz begins mass production of axial flux EV motors
Mercedes-Benz has moved its axial flux electric motor from development into large-scale production, a milestone in the company's push to bring the technology in