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Half of LG smart TV apps ship hidden residential proxy SDKs, study finds
Spur Intelligence Labs unpacked and scanned 6,038 LG webOS and Samsung Tizen apps and found 2,058 of them — roughly a third overall, and nearly half on LG — car
HN's Father's Day thread: hacker dads, Dragon 32s, and arch support
This isn't a news story but a community appreciation thread on Hacker News, where readers traded personal reflections for Father's Day. The posts skew toward th
HTTP gets a QUERY method: a safe, idempotent verb that carries a request body
REST APIs have long been stuck with a bad choice when filters get complicated. GET keeps everything in the URL, which works for simple parameters but breaks dow
Oak: a content-addressed version control system built for AI coding agents
Oak is a public-beta (v0.99.0) version control system pitched as a Git alternative optimized for AI coding agents rather than humans. Instead of human conventio
OpenAI's Daybreak adds GPT-5.5-Cyber and 'Patch the Planet' for open-source defense
OpenAI has broadened its Daybreak cybersecurity effort with the full release of GPT-5.5-Cyber, a model tuned for defensive security work: locating vulnerabiliti
Optocam Zero: a pocket DIY camera built from a Pi Zero and printed parts
Doruk Kumkumoglu has published Optocam Zero, a compact digital camera built around a Raspberry Pi Zero and parts you can source anywhere. The design targets a p
Police Chiefs Caught Stalking Exes via Flock LPR Fuel Push for Warrant Rules
License plate reader vendor Flock insists its cameras track vehicles, not people, but a growing record of police officials using the system to follow romantic p
Polymarket Accused of Seeding Social Media With Misleading Paid-Creator Videos
A Wall Street Journal report alleges that prediction-market platform Polymarket has saturated social media with misleading videos produced by creators it pays.
Prompt Injection Is a Role-Perception Failure, Not a Phrasing Problem
An LLM doesn't experience a conversation as structured turns the way a chat UI presents it. It receives one continuous string containing the system prompt, user
Valve's Steam Machine Goes on Sale
Valve's Steam Machine launches today, marking the company's renewed push to put SteamOS hardware in the living room. The device extends Valve's strategy—proven
VibeThinker-3B: tiny model claims frontier-level math and code reasoning
A new technical report introduces VibeThinker-3B, a 3-billion-parameter dense model built to test how far verifiable reasoning can be pushed at small scale. The
Why memcached beats Redis when you just need a cache
The author argues that reaching for Redis by default is a trap rooted in operational reality, not features. Redis is so easy to use that teams stop treating it