ChatGPT’s new Computer History tracks your Mac activity to create a timeline – but should you let it?
Rolling out to ChatGPT's Mac app, Computer History creates a timeline from your activities across the apps and websites you use on your Mac. Is that a privacy risk?
It Doesn’t Matter if You Use AI, As Long As It’s Good
Anthropic started watermarking Claude's output this week. The mark is invisible; it rides along when you copy and paste, and it answers one question: was a model involved? The complaints came fast, and not from the people flooding the internet with generated slop....
E-bike injuries in kids are surging in the U.S. These jurisdictions want parents to be liable
As traumatic injuries and deaths surge among children involved in crashes on e-bikes and other electrified vehicles, one California prosecutor is cracking down by pursuing criminal charges against some of the young riders’ parents.It is just one way officials across...
Get the best battery life for your MacBook by changing these settings
Laptop batteries don't last forever, but there are some things that you can do today that may affect the lifespan of your MacBook's battery.
France’s top court strikes down social media ban for children under 15
President Macron has asked the government to rewrite France's proposed social media ban for children.
Does Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is ‘for everyone’?
Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release landed alongside a letter from Mark...
What is Wildberries? ‘Russia’s Amazon’ in the spotlight as Ukraine targets e-commerce giant’s warehouses
In recent weeks, Russia’s Wildberries has been in the news. Though little known in the West, Wildberries is the country’s largest e-commerce platform, with many likening it to Amazon. However, Wildberries is in the news for no reason a company wants to be: In recent...
GoMining CEO Mark Zalan on GoBTC Pay, 0.2% Merchant Fees and Bitcoin’s Spending Problem
Bitcoin was published as a design for peer to peer electronic cash. Seventeen years later the technical precondition for that finally exists. The average fee on the network was thirty six cents in early August 2026, the cheapest block space has been in years, and the...
Unsloth Qwen3.8-27B GGUF files
Article URL: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299688 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
Introducing Toast 1
Article URL: https://www.mixedbread.com/blog/toast-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299746 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Snooping Flume Water Monitor Data On The Wire
[Stephen] had an interesting piece of hardware at home—namely, a Flume water monitor. It’s a smart device which reports usage data to Flume’s servers, and the water utility in turn. He’d previously determined how the device worked mechanically to monitor water flow,...
Qwen3.8-27B
Article URL: https://twitter.com/alibaba_qwen/status/2088280182356611304 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299684 Points: 21 # Comments: 4
Qwen 3.8 27B is out: open weights, best local dense model yet
Article URL: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299605 Points: 18 # Comments: 2
When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs
Article URL: https://weightythoughts.com/p/when-genius-failsthe-intellectual Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299282 Points: 15 # Comments: 0
Every Fucking Website
Article URL: https://lxe.github.io/everywebsite/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299222 Points: 23 # Comments: 4
Apple proposes to take a 15% cut of purchases made outside the App Store
Apple is asking a federal judge to allow it to charge commissions of up to 15% on purchases made through external links in iOS apps.
Kog is going deeper to squeeze more inference out of GPUs
The idea that GPUs are poorly suited for agentic workflows may be a misconception, according to French startup Kog.
In Australia, a Home Battery Boom Has Helped Cut Wholesale Power Prices in Half
Article URL: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/australia-home-batteries Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49298910 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
HashAgent – Share an AI agent as a URL, runs locally via WebGPU
Article URL: https://hashagent.pages.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49298088 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services
Article URL: https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/the-temu-fication-of-software-digital-goods-services/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49297637 Points: 15 # Comments: 1
WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can do
Article URL: https://www.whatcable.uk/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49297469 Points: 11 # Comments: 8
Why we love to hate Flock
The surveillance state has crept up around us, but in at least one instance, its integration into society has prompted a backlash. Flock Safety has managed to make automated license plate readers (ALPRs), cameras that record the license plate and other characteristics...
This U.S. university just launched a major in content creation, as critics question the ‘influencer’ degree
Ask a teen what they want to be when they grow up, and there’s a fair chance being an influencer is on their list.Digital media and the people who star in it have been cultural mainstays for teens’ entire lives, so creating social media, video or podcast content seems...
French tax authority admits data heist after crook touts 2M records
France's tax authority has confirmed that an intruder accessed its systems and extracted data in June after an alleged cybercriminal advertised a purported database of 2 million taxpayers. Using the alias "ZeroBytes," the alleged crook behind the attack on the General...
Hyperscalers might regret embracing natural gas if new forecast proves correct
Natural gas prices could triple in some parts of the U.S., which could saddle hyperscalers with massive bills to power their AI data centers.
This Week in Security: BugTraq, AI Hacks, and Being Dumb On Planes
After a multi-year hiatus, the venerable BugTraq mailing list is back! For decades, BugTraq was the place where vulnerabilities were disclosed, from the early days when nearly all vendors viewed all security research as a hostile force, through to the modern era of...
Virgin Galactic flights stay grounded while ticket prices head for the Moon
Virgin Galactic has delayed its return to commercial spaceflight until February 2027, and plans to raise ticket prices later this year. The delay was disclosed alongside the company's financial results, which showed a net loss of $56 million for the second quarter of...
If you run a solo business, here’s how AI agents can help you
The word “agentic” is being pushed by every AI company right now, and—for the most part—it’s unclear what “agents” can do. I’ve seen ads for things like “sales agents” (automating outreach) or “coding agents” (deploying software bug fixes). To a solopreneur, that type...
US courts will start publishing how often the government uses spyware
The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts told TechCrunch that it will start disclosing how many times judges authorized the use of spyware to wiretap suspected criminals.
France’s tax authority had data stolen on 680k taxpayers
Article URL: https://korben.info/en/france-tax-authority-data-breach-680000-taxpayers.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49298303 Points: 6 # Comments: 0