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About 200 demonstrators gathered outside Meta's São Paulo headquarters, accusing the company of throttling Lula's posts while boosting rival Flávio Bolsonaro's. The protest came as Brazil's Superior…
Ukraine's 92nd Separate Assault Brigade released video of what it calls the first drone evacuation of a wounded infantryman, lifted out by a heavy-lift hexacopter originally built as a bomber. The un…
A browser-based game that turns any website into a Katamari level. You start by rolling up text elements, and as your ball grows, you can grab physical images off the page. Hacker News commenters pra…
WhatsApp's help pages contained invisible text that only its support chatbot could read. Two of the 102 hidden blocks stood out: one told the AI not to suggest contacting any data protection authorit…
IPinfo scanned the IPv4 internet for Danfoss StoreView dashboards five days before attackers pushed hundreds of French supermarket refrigeration systems into defrost mode, heating units to 50°C and s…
Google TV's home screen still shows a promotional banner even in Apps only mode, and YouTube adds its own ads. By sideloading Projectivy Launcher, SmartTube, Wholphin, and Button Mapper, and using AD…
ProjectDiscovery researchers built a backdoored Qwen2.5-7B for under $50 using a public dataset and a rented GPU. A single trigger phrase made the model exfiltrate .env credentials through Codex CLI…
OpenBSD 8.0, the project's 61st release, lifts the amd64 kernel virtual address space from 4G to 512G, which lets inteldrm map more than 4GB of VRAM and brings Intel Arc A-Series support. arm64 gains…
Northwestern and Buck Institute scientists analyzed ovarian tissue from 28 postmenopausal women and found the organ stays biologically active for decades, not dormant like the appendix. Using proteom…
OpenRouter's live rankings show weekly token usage flattening across its leaderboard, with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash still on top at 32.8T tokens but down 20%, while GLM 5.3 Flash holds flat at 12.2T. The…
Mycorrhizal fungi partner with over 80% of Earth’s plant species, trading minerals for carbon in a relationship that dates back 450 million years. Toby Kiers, an evolutionary biologist at Vrije Unive…
Hardware enthusiast Throaty Mumbo has built GCVHS, an experimental system that runs games from ordinary VHS cassettes. The tape carries encoded executable data alongside multiple video streams; an FP…
OpenBSD 8.0, the project's 61st release, ships with a broad set of improvements: amd64 kernel virtual address space jumps from 4G to 512G, arm64 gains hibernate support, and riscv64 adds vector and i…
Go's crypto/x509 package has been patched to block trust in a small set of intermediate certificates over security concerns about how they were operated. Verify now filters out any chain containing t…
Shipping software that simply works is no longer enough—everyone can do that, especially with AI. What sets products apart is brand, design, and experience, which all stem from taste. Emil Kowalski a…
A Q990D soundbar owner paired Samsung Music Studio 7 speakers via Q-Symphony, then hit an echo because the TV's built-in speakers ran slightly ahead of the wireless gear. Disabling those speakers is…
Six years after fixing the power supply and fan on his 68EC030-based Alpha Microsystems Eagle 300, the author tried swapping in a ZuluSCSI and the machine stopped booting entirely. This sequel covers…