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macOS 27 removed the single switch for Apple Intelligence, and its models stay on disk even after features are turned off. RemoveMacAI is a one-command, fully reversible tool that disables Siri, Writing Tools, Genmoji, and more, deletes the downloaded models, and prevents macOS from re-downloading them via a configuration profile. It makes no network requests and collects no data.
In Lincoln, Nebraska, Google's data center Agate LLC claimed its electricity and water usage were trade secrets. But simply highlighting and copying the redacted text box revealed the truth: 52.65 megawatts of peak electricity and 13.3 million gallons of water in the past year. Across six data centers, total water use hit 765 million gallons, and Google expects over $117 million in tax refunds.
Project1 is a browser-native recreation of the classic Visual Basic 6 IDE. It includes a toolbox, a project explorer showing forms and modules, and a properties window for editing control attributes. The form layout view mirrors the original drag-and-drop designer, letting developers work with VB6 projects directly in the browser without installing the legacy IDE.
Denmark's Central Person Register (CPR) has disclosed a serious security incident after unauthorized parties exploited a Danish company's legitimate access to query the system, obtaining names, addresses, and CPR numbers of roughly 8.8 million registered citizens. Individuals with name and address protection were not affected. The company's access has been revoked, the Danish Data Protection Agency has been notified, and police are investigating the incident.
RobCo, a German robotics company, has reached a $1 billion valuation, making it Europe's latest robotics unicorn. The milestone highlights growing investor confidence in European robotics startups, though the source article's content is largely obscured by cookie consent notices.
A 27-year-old employee at the Irkutsk anti-plague institute in Siberia died Thursday after accidentally breaking a test tube containing live plague bacteria, according to media reports. She was hospitalized with severe pneumonia and placed on a ventilator. At least 197 contacts have been placed under medical observation, public events have been canceled, and a criminal investigation has been opened. Officials say no contacts have shown symptoms so far.
A software bug in the power unit controller's wet weather mode left multiple cars stuck in idle during formation laps at the wet Sepang circuit, forcing a 50-minute delay. The FIA hastily coded a patch for all 11 teams. Lando Norris called it 'horrible' and proof F1 should abandon hybrids, while Sergio Perez branded it 'totally unacceptable' for the sport.
GrapheneOS has partially ported to the Pixel 11 but cannot complete it because Google dropped ARM hardware memory tagging (MTE), a feature the OS uses across its kernel and base processes to block remote exploits. The team says the Pixel 11 is overpriced with modest upgrades, and may skip the series entirely, shifting focus to upcoming Motorola devices instead.
Cloudflare's new Web Search API, now in beta, lets AI agents and applications search the internet for live information instead of guessing URLs or relying on a model's training cutoff. It offers three providers — Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup — all supporting Zero Data Retention and verified bot crawling standards. Requests run through AI Gateway, appear in logs, and are billed at list price with no markup; you can also bring your own API key.
After Tippett Studios closed in August, an anonymous donor known as 'TippettFan' bought a folder of CD-ROMs at the auction and uploaded 90 ISO images to the Internet Archive. The collection includes behind-the-scenes material from RoboCop, Starship Troopers, and the original Star Wars, plus CGI test clips and a 2008 Phil Tippett interview.
Vincent Bernat shows how to expose a local web service through a self-hosted tunnel using only OpenSSH and nginx. A remote port forward with ssh -R 0:localhost:8080 gets an ephemeral port, and nginx proxies a wildcard subdomain to it. Access is protected by a secure link hash in the URL, with a helper script that finds the allocated port and prints a shareable URL.
A macOS screen-sharing vulnerability (CVE-2026-65400) let attackers plant a Monero miner on my always-on Mac Mini. My Claude agent detected the intrusion, stopped executing commands, and helped remove the malware. But Apple's TCC permission prompts and misleading security-update labeling made the machine harder to secure, while Apple's new Full Disk Access restrictions threaten the agent workflows that saved me.
- ▲ 131Nobel Prize in Medicine 2026 awarded for optogenetics, the light switch that controls brain cells
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes jointly to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel for optogenetics. Hegemann and Nagel discovered channelrhodopsin, a light-gated ion channel, in the single-celled alga Chlamydomonas; Deisseroth turned it into a switch that fires nerve cells with blue light, first in rat neurons in 2005 and then in living mice. The method now lets researchers map the neural circuits behind memory, feeling, and behavior, and is being tested to restore sight.
Huawei and Qualcomm have signed a multi-year patent licensing agreement that cross-licenses their portfolios in 5G, compute, AI, and networking, while Qualcomm will purchase certain Huawei U.S. patents in those areas. The deal, which awaits regulatory approval, reflects both companies' commitment to FRAND principles and recognizes each other's foundational contributions to mobile technology.
ArtCraft is developing seven open-source, Adobe-compatible creative applications—PhotoCraft, VectorCraft, FilmCraft, LightCraft, PrintCraft, EffectCraft, and DesignCraft—all written from scratch in Rust. They run natively on macOS, Windows, and Linux without Electron or web views, and some also compile to WebAssembly for the browser. The apps prioritize familiar professional workflows, local file processing, and agent-ready automation via CLI, JSON, or MCP server. Early alphas are available for PhotoCraft and PrintCraft.
I ran swap in production to absorb memory spikes, but it backfired: Go's garbage collector reads its metadata in a stop-the-world pause, and that metadata can end up in swap. On a Hetzner box with NVMe, the worst pause hit 40ms, with 39ms spent on 228 page faults inside GC bookkeeping. The median pause is only 51 microseconds, so this is 800 times worse. I also saw message building jump from 3-5ms to 105ms on NVMe and 903ms on network volume. Go 1.26's Green Tea GC doesn't change this.
Dengue cases in the US jumped 360% in 2024, and malaria returned in 2023. The technology to eliminate disease-carrying mosquitoes exists: Oxitec's gene-edited Aedes cut populations by up to 95% in field trials, and Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes reduced dengue by 70% in Singapore. But Oxitec's application spent 15 years bouncing between the USDA, FDA, and EPA, and its commercial registration is still pending. The 1986 Coordinated Framework is the bottleneck.
Carli Michelle Heller of Bonita Springs, Florida, wrote in Claude that she planned to "shoot up" the Lee County Sheriff's office. The chatbot's safety system flagged the entry, a human reviewer deemed it a credible threat, and Anthropic reported it to police. Heller, who said she treated the AI like a diary, was arrested and charged with making a written threat of violence, a second-degree felony under Florida law.
A Hacker News commenter argues that demand is infinite and driven by desire, so blaming business greed for plastic use misses the point. People choose convenience—driving to the store, living in houses—over environmental efficiency. These small choices, plus polymers needed for insulation and cabling, mean individual action won't meet CO2 goals and plastics aren't going away.
After two years of searching for a cheap custom domain email that works with Apple Mail, I tried Cloudflare Email Routing, self-hosted Mailflare, and Purelymail before settling on Foundermail. Receiving mail is easy; sending it reliably is the hard part. Foundermail offers SMTP/IMAP, verified sending, and multiple addresses at a price that makes sense for a personal domain.
In January 2026, Xray-core replaced its pinnedPeerCertificateChainSha256 option with pinnedPeerCertSha256, which always skips regular certificate verification. A bypass in the new option let a man-in-the-middle insert a leaf certificate anywhere in the chain. The maintainers fixed it silently, never told users, and only a later incomplete fix forced a GitHub advisory. Users were left unprotected for nearly six months.
A Hacker News discussion of a talk arguing that TCP is the wrong fit for AI clusters and that Homa, a receiver-driven transport protocol, should take its place. The thread links the original USENIX ATC paper by John Ousterhout and related coverage, including a Register piece on the Stanford professor's campaign for a new protocol.
Ben Thompson said on a recent episode of Dithering that he felt embarrassed as a tech worker while helping his mom manage her digital life, because everything was too hard and convoluted. That same evening, Jim Nielsen received a text from a family member ranting about the modern web: "Dude. I hate the modern web. I hate. Website. S. Using websites. Trying to do things quickly and efficiently. What a buggy mess." Nielsen hears this often from non-tech family and friends, and as their connection to tech, he too is embarrassed by the industry's collective failure.
Transport & Environment reports that a wave of affordable electric cars is expanding consumer choice, with sales of models priced under €25,000 expected to increase sevenfold. The finding highlights how cheaper EVs are entering the market and could accelerate adoption across Europe.
Mold 3.0.0 is the first release of the high-speed linker rewritten from C++ to Rust. It remains a drop-in replacement for 2.42.1, with the same command-line options, target architectures, and performance. The rewrite improves safety: corrupted input files now cause a panic instead of a segmentation fault. The release also fixes numerous bugs and compatibility issues, moving mold closer to becoming the default linker in Linux distributions.
Gitframes is an npm package that turns video composition into pure software engineering: your coding agent writes a TypeScript scene, checks frames, and renders an MP4 straight to the GPU via Dawn, WebGPU, Metal, or Vulkan. It folds Photoshop-grade VFX, After Effects-style motion, and Blender-style 3D into one lightweight library, using roughly 200–400 MB of RAM per render instead of Chromium's 1.5–4 GB.
Humans are bad at writing secure code, and GNOME developers are no exception. But AI has changed the game: language models can now find vulnerabilities in software with impressive accuracy. In 2026, skipping AI vulnerability scanning is delusional and unfair to users. The flood of AI-generated bug reports has overwhelmed volunteer maintainers, yet banning them is like banning all vulnerability reports. GNOME's CVE count has skyrocketed, and the bug bounty program closed due to the deluge. We must adapt, not stick our heads in the sand.
Drawing on Charlie Munger's insight about incentives, a SAT researcher argues that academic research has strayed from its core goals of advancing knowledge and training honest scientists. He shares personal encounters with researchers who, after being shown that their results are wrong or misleading, refuse to retract or correct them—prioritizing publications and career advancement over scientific integrity. The piece calls for a renewed commitment to correctness and curiosity.
Businesses are struggling to budget for AI as costs spiral and employees are left to choose among dozens of models. Hacker News commenters debate whether engineers should master LLM choices or whether centralized routing and spending caps are the answer. Some warn that agentic workflows create dangerous dependency, while others argue that informed opinions on black-box models are nearly impossible.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman argues the world should accept hacks, scams, and other harms as the price of AI's benefits, advocating for light-touch regulation. His comments, made as an OpenAI safety expert resigned over a 'broken' culture, drew backlash from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and AI skeptic Gary Marcus.