Lego deploys Hubble Space Telescope as detailed desktop model Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:21:16 +0000 · Ars Technica · 💬 Comments
Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI’s first luxury trip Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:09:56 +0000 · TechCrunch
An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:00:50 +0000 · Ars Technica · 💬 Comments
Azure and Community Guidelines on Choosing Between a Skill or a Sub-Agent Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:00:00 GMT · InfoQ
Apple challenges UK government’s latest demand for iCloud backdoor: report Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:54:09 +0000 · TechCrunch
Apple finally fixed Siri. So why does it feel anticlimactic? Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:43:43 +0000 · TechCrunch
Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:43:30 +0000 · MIT Technology Review
Outernet turns your saved posts into real-world adventures Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:00:24 +0000 · TechCrunch
WhatsApp says it is fixing an issue that disabled several accounts Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:46:01 +0000 · TechCrunch
Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire leads $1B round for nuclear startup Valar Atomics Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:16:43 +0000 · TechCrunch
Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:08:46 +0000 · Hacker News · 💬 Comments
Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:54:15 +0000 · Hacker News · 💬 Comments
Base Power raises another $1B to save the grid using backyard batteries Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:46:57 +0000 · TechCrunch
2026 Volkswagen Jetta Sport: The cheap car isn't completely extinct yet Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:10:22 +0000 · Ars Technica · 💬 Comments
Rebuilding and analysing 4 years of Wordle stats from WhatsApp chat logs Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:20:13 +0000 · Hacker News · 💬 Comments
SpaceX is set to acquire 130,000 acres of marshland in southern Louisiana Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:41:46 +0000 · Ars Technica · 💬 Comments
Sources: the Trump administration invites staffers from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others to the White House on Tuesday to review the AI oversight framework (The Information) Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:35:00 -0400 · Techmeme
Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, Jakarta EE, GraalVM, TornadoVM, Micronaut, Quarkus, JobRunr, Maven Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:30:00 GMT · InfoQ
Spider-Man and The Odyssey are splitting up IMAX screens after a record-breaking weekend 2026-08-03T10:26:47-04:00 · The Verge
UK court filing: in July, Apple launched a new legal challenge against the UK government's attempt to create a "backdoor" to access encrypted customer data (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times) Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:20:00 -0400 · Techmeme
Samsung’s 2TB 9100 Pro SSD is actually somewhat reasonably priced 2026-08-03T10:16:13-04:00 · The Verge
HubSpot Redesigns JITA Authorization with Rule Engine Architecture Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:59:00 GMT · InfoQ
Zenity, which develops a platform for securing AI agents, raised a $125M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners, taking its total funding to ~$185M (Meir Orbach/CTech) Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:46:04 -0400 · Techmeme
MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:34:43 +0000 · Hacker News · 💬 Comments
SPF Record Syntax: Mechanisms, Qualifiers, Modifiers, and Macros Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:34:25 +0000 · Hacker News · 💬 Comments
Trump wants the power to stop the public from suing polluters Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:33:56 +0000 · Ars Technica · 💬 Comments
Visa plans to acquire Israeli company BioCatch, which uses AI to detect fraud and distinguish legitimate users from attackers in real time, for $2.4B in cash (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal) Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:16:04 -0400 · Techmeme
Horizon3, whose AI penetration testing platform NodeZero helps find and exploit attack paths in production systems, raised a $250M Series E at a $2B valuation (Kate Park/TechCrunch) Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:01:58 -0400 · Techmeme
Horizon3 hits $2 billion valuation with $250M Series E as AI threats escalate Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:50:46 +0000 · TechCrunch
Michael Saylor's Strategy sold 1,638 bitcoin for ~$104.7M, reducing its holdings to 842,138, or ~4% of total supply, with a $10.9B paper loss at current prices (James Hunt/The Block) Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:25:01 -0400 · Techmeme
Samsung bans smart TV apps that share users’ internet connections with strangers Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:10:41 +0000 · TechCrunch
The Download: reward hacking explained, and suspected Iranian cyberattacks Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:08:00 +0000 · MIT Technology Review
June, which aims to help enterprise AI deployment by finding bottlenecks and building agents, emerges from stealth with $20M led by Marc Benioff's Time Ventures (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch) Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:50:00 -0400 · Techmeme
The EU's AI Act enforcement powers take effect, letting it evaluate AI models before regional release, restrict market access, fine model providers, and more (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC) Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:35:01 -0400 · Techmeme
Best Robot Lawn Mowers (2026): My Picks After 3 Years of Testing Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:30:00 +0000 · Wired
Critical CVE issued for hallucinated SQLite vulnerability Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:28:54 +0000 · Hacker News · 💬 Comments
Source: Dario Amodei expressed concern about staff coming to Anthropic for the money rather than the mission, as Anthropic, OpenAI, and others battle for talent (Axios) Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:20:13 -0400 · Techmeme
9front "This Was Supposed to Be Fun" Released Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:17:56 +0000 · Hacker News · 💬 Comments
Show HN: Nightcrawler – A local AI pentesting agent running on a smartphone Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:06:15 +0000 · Hacker News · 💬 Comments
Sources: South Korean AI chip designer DeepX raised a ~$29M Series D at a ~$2.2B valuation, and is in talks to raise ~$209M at a ~$2.4B valuation by September (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg) Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:01:36 -0400 · Techmeme