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6,000 Emails, Zero Leaks: A Public Prompt-Injection Test the AI Survived

Developer Fernando Iglesias put his OpenClaw-based email assistant, Fiu, on the public chopping block at hackmyclaw.com, daring anyone to coax it into leaking a

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tech-culturedevops

A search engine for Hacker News obsessions: 18 years, 45M comments, charted

A new tool called Hacker News Trends does for HN what Google Trends does for search: it plots how often any topic, tool, person, or company has surfaced across

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privacypolicy

Age Verification Laws Are Quietly Becoming Mandatory Identity Checks Online

A wave of under-16 social media bans — led by Australia's December 2025 law and now being copied across the UK, EU, France, Spain, and several other countries —

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aiopen-source

AI as a supporting act: building a points-of-interest pipeline that fights hallucinations

While building In the Long Run, an app that maps Strava mileage onto famous long-distance routes, the developer set out to enrich its maps with notable landmark

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supply-chainai

AI memory crunch pushes Apple to raise MacBook and iPad prices 20%

Apple has lifted MacBook and iPad prices by roughly 20% worldwide — one of the steepest broad-based increases in the company's history. The trigger is a memory

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supply-chainai

Apple Hikes MacBook and iPad Prices as Memory Costs Surge

Apple has raised prices across its MacBook and iPad lines, pinning the increases on a sharp run-up in memory component costs. DRAM and NAND flash prices have cl

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aitech-culture

Apple to skip high-end M6 chips, leap to AI-focused M7 Pro/Max/Ultra

Apple is reworking its Mac silicon roadmap in a way it hasn't before: rather than building out a full M6 lineup, it plans to ship only a base M6 in entry-level

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aitech-culture

Ford rehires veteran engineers after AI fails to fix quality woes

Ford spent three years and billions of dollars chasing persistent quality defects, and its fix turned out to be people rather than software. The automaker broug

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aicloud

IBM claims first sub-1nm chip, packing 100B transistors with 3D 'nanostack'

IBM has announced what it calls the world's first sub-1 nanometer chip technology, built around a new transistor architecture at the 0.7nm (7 angstrom) node. Th

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open-sourceai

Inkeep ships OpenKnowledge, a GPL'd local-first wiki built around AI agents

Inkeep has released OpenKnowledge, an open-source markdown editor and personal wiki pitched as an AI-first answer to Obsidian and Notion. The core idea is a loc

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tech-cultureopen-source

Inside 'Bank Python': the secret in-house Python forks running investment banks

At many of the largest investment banks, Python doesn't look like the Python everyone else uses. Cal Paterson describes a class of internal systems he calls 'Ba

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cybersecuritysupply-chain

LastPass hit again — third-party vendor breach exposes customer contact data

LastPass is notifying customers that their personal information was exposed through a breach at Klue, a market-research vendor whose platform integrates with th

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