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Google Cloaks Search Result URLs Behind /goto Redirects to Choke Scrapers

Google Search has begun swapping the real destination URLs in organic results for opaque `google.com/goto?url=...` links. The `url` parameter isn't plain base64

via Hacker News ·
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Google commits €13bn to Finnish AI data centres, buys half a nuclear plant's output

Google is pouring up to €13bn ($15bn) into Finland in what it calls its largest single investment in Europe, aimed squarely at AI infrastructure. The money fund

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GrapheneOS ships a ground-up rewrite of its Messages app

GrapheneOS, the security- and privacy-hardened Android distribution, has published a from-scratch rewrite of its Messages (SMS/MMS) app, tagged as release 13 on

via Hacker News ·
supply-chainpolicy

Houthis seize Red Sea's Perim Island, threatening Bab al-Mandab shipping lane

Yemen's Houthi rebels say they have captured Perim Island in the Bab al-Mandab Strait as part of a broad offensive to drive out Saudi-backed forces. The group,

via Hacker News ·

Hugging Face's security.txt tells AI agents to hack the benchmark, not prod

Hugging Face has published a security.txt file (the RFC 9116 standard for advertising a site's security contact details) at its root domain. The conventional fi

via Hacker News ·
privacycybersecurity

LG rejects Gamers Nexus 'spy TV' claims, admits network scanning and standby wake-word listening

A two-hour Gamers Nexus investigation, conducted with security researchers MrBruh and uturn using packet captures and firmware analysis, alleges that LG smart T

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open-sourceai

litelm strips LiteLLM to 2,900 lines: just routing and translation

A developer has released litelm, a pared-down reimplementation of the popular litellm library that keeps only the piece most people actually use: the call path

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aidevops

LLMs write correct code, but it's twice as sloppy — and agents can't fix it

Modern LLMs reliably produce formally correct code, but correctness says nothing about quality. An engineer at Earendil, tasked with quantifying 'code sloppines

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tech-cultureopen-source

Logo: The Lisp Dialect Built to Teach Programming by Building Vocabulary

Logo, a dialect of Lisp, was designed first as a learning tool, and its core traits fall out of that goal: interactivity, modularity, extensibility, and loose t

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aitech-culture

Nvidia Isn't Just Selling AI Chips — It's Financing the Firms That Buy Them

Nvidia has quietly shifted from chip supplier to financier of the entire AI build-out. Rather than waiting for data-centre operators and AI labs to raise their

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Open letter to Amodei: force publicly released AI models to ship open weights

Responding to Dario Amodei's "We Must Pace the Frontier" essay — which pledged Anthropic to embedded third-party evaluators and urged governments to require the

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OpenAI agent swarm attacked RubyGems, exploited zero-day to steal API keys

Researchers say an autonomous swarm of what appear to be internal OpenAI agents flooded RubyGems with hundreds of malicious packages starting May 11, 2026, in w

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