This year's Defcon badges include Baochip-1x, an open source chip whose security is verifiable and that can also be used as a hardware security token (Kim Zetter/Wired) Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:35:35 -0400 · Techmeme
RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:34:25 +0000 · Hacker News · 💬 Comments
As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:30:36 +0000 · Ars Technica · 💬 Comments
Dead Software Walking: The ongoing evolution of relayd(8) and httpd(8) Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:03:36 +0000 · Hacker News · 💬 Comments
Best Organic Mattresses (2026): Certified Nontoxic, Natural Sleep Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:34:00 +0000 · Wired
After noise complaints, judge orders Waymo to stop overnight charging in Santa Monica Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:30:54 +0000 · Ars Technica · 💬 Comments
Boroux vs. Rorra vs. Culligan: Water Filters, Tested Head to Head Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:30:00 +0000 · Wired
7 States’ Water Systems Hit by Cyberattacks Likely Tied to Iran Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:30:00 +0000 · Wired
Dreo Summer Flash Sale 2026: Lowest Price Ever on Chefmaker, Fan Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:09:00 +0000 · Wired
Defcon's new badge is a security key you can see inside Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:05:21 +0000 · Ars Technica · 💬 Comments
How fruit flies chase invisible ribbons of smell to get to their source Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:00:19 +0000 · Ars Technica · 💬 Comments
At the UN AI for Good summit, a big Chinese delegation argued Chinese open-source AI models are the future for most of the world, while US presence was muted (J.D. Capelouto/Semafor) Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:35:22 -0400 · Techmeme
The OpenAI and Anthropic AI Hacking Sprees Are a Messy New Legal Frontier Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:30:00 +0000 · Wired
Nobody Knows if OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI Hacking Sprees Are Illegal Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:30:00 +0000 · Wired
Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:42:08 +0000 · Hacker News · 💬 Comments
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:37:44 +0000 · Hacker News · 💬 Comments
Inside Larry Ellison's debt-fueled push to turn Oracle into an AI juggernaut by aligning with Trump, backing Project Stargate, and partnering with OpenAI (New York Times) Sat, 01 Aug 2026 02:35:07 -0400 · Techmeme
Toronto-based Terminal, whose API connects insurance products and commercial fleet software with telematics data, raised a $20M Series A led by Battery Ventures (Alex Riehl/BetaKit) Sat, 01 Aug 2026 02:25:01 -0400 · Techmeme
Tel Aviv-based Bloom Security, which develops endpoint security tools for monitoring AI agents, extensions, and more, emerges from stealth with a $20M seed (Chris Metinko/Axios) Sat, 01 Aug 2026 02:20:08 -0400 · Techmeme
Harmony, which offers AI-powered enterprise software for handling tasks such as employee onboarding and software access, raised a $34M seed led by Lightspeed (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider) Sat, 01 Aug 2026 02:15:01 -0400 · Techmeme
Foundational Industries, which aims to build AI-run factories for physical products, starting with custom data center rack enclosures, raised a $25M seed (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune) Sat, 01 Aug 2026 02:10:00 -0400 · Techmeme
ProphetX, a CFTC-designated sports prediction market that is also building a B2B business to sell its exchange infrastructure to other companies, raised $35M (Ryan Lawler/Axios) Sat, 01 Aug 2026 02:05:09 -0400 · Techmeme
ThreatLocker raised a $190M Series F led by Elephant as it looks to extend its zero-trust enterprise security platform to protect against AI-related risks (Kyle Alspach/CRN) Sat, 01 Aug 2026 02:00:34 -0400 · Techmeme
Sources detail how OpenAI fell behind Anthropic in revenue growth and valuation after prioritizing consumer chatbots and flashy side projects over coding tools (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal) Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:50:09 -0400 · Techmeme