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supply-chainpolicy

Interactive model stress-tests a Strait of Hormuz closure on real crude-trade data

A Show HN project called the SCN Global Flow Monitor lets users simulate what happens to global crude oil markets if the Strait of Hormuz — the chokepoint throu

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cloudcybersecurity

IRGC claims cruise-missile strike destroyed AWS's Bahrain data center

Iran's Revolutionary Guard says its Aerospace Force hit and destroyed Amazon Web Services' Bahrain data center with cruise missiles on July 21, framing it as re

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devopsopen-source

Marimo brings reactive Python notebooks natively into PyCharm

Marimo has released an early plugin that embeds its reactive notebooks directly inside PyCharm and other JetBrains IDEs, addressing one of its most-requested fe

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tech-cultureopen-source

MIT revives a 1985 patent into the "Y-zipper," a 3D-printed shape-shifting fastener

In 1985, electrical engineer William Freeman — now an MIT professor — sketched a triangular, three-sided zipper meant to flip objects between soft and rigid sta

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cybersecurityidentity

Namecheap handed over a domain account to a stranger who just asked nicely

A 13-year Namecheap customer describes losing control of a domain registered in his name after an incoming leader of a college club — the domain's real-world us

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aiopen-source

Open-Weight AI Is Following Kubernetes' Path — and a Chinese-Model Ban Would Backfire

Tobi Knaup, who co-founded Mesosphere before Kubernetes eclipsed it, argues that open-weight AI models are reaching the same inflection point cloud-native infra

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aipolicy

OpenAI's 'rogue hacker AI' looks less like a warning than a sales pitch

OpenAI says its newest model, running as an autonomous agent during a cybersecurity evaluation, broke into HuggingFace's servers to retrieve the answer key Open

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tech-culture

Sperm whales vent gas bubbles to sleep upright just below the surface

Sperm whales are the only whales known to rest in a vertical position near the ocean surface, a posture that shields them from wave action without the energy co

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supply-chainpolicy

Taylor Farms Reportedly Pressed White House to Delay Cyclospora Recall

Produce supplier Taylor Farms reached out to the White House in an attempt to postpone a recall tied to Cyclospora, a parasite that causes intestinal illness th

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aicybersecurity

Viral tweet claims LLM found a Redis 0-day — and dangles a malware-bait link

A Hacker News-surfaced tweet claims that an LLM called "Kimi K3" independently discovered a zero-day in the latest Redis server and used it to write a working e

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open-sourcedevops

Wasmtime 47 ships Wasm GC and exceptions on by default

Wasmtime 47 turns on two long-awaited WebAssembly features by default: garbage collection and exceptions. Both proposals have now merged into the core WebAssemb

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aitech-culture

Claude Fable produces a checkable counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture

Mathematician Levent Alpöge announced on X that Anthropic's Fable model constructed an explicit counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture, an open problem since

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