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EU ISPs Push to Make Rightsholders Pay for Piracy-Block Collateral Damage
EuroISPA, the European ISP trade association, has filed fresh comments to the European Commission's review of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directi
Google ships Nano Banana 2 Lite, betting on speed and low cost for AI images
Google DeepMind has released Nano Banana 2 Lite, officially Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image, a stripped-down version of its image model tuned for low latency and lo
How Sandia Rad-Hardened the Intel 8085 for Nuclear Warheads and Deep Space
Starting in the late 1970s, Sandia National Laboratories built its own chip fab in Albuquerque to make parts the commercial market wouldn't supply: radiation-ha
LongCat-2.0 Goes Sparse: 1.6T-Parameter MoE, Only 48B Active per Token
LongCat-2.0 is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model built at very large scale, carrying 1.6 trillion total parameters but routing only 48 billion of them a
Memory giants Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron hit with US DRAM price-fixing suit
A group of 14 consumers and three small businesses, including PC retailers, filed an antitrust lawsuit in California federal court on June 25 accusing Samsung,
Meta Pulls Instagram Users' Own Photos Into Meta Glasses Ads
Meta is reportedly using photos that people uploaded to Instagram as creative material in advertisements promoting its Meta smart glasses. The claim, surfacing
Nearly a million passports and IDs left on the open web by age-check platform
Close to one million passport scans and photo IDs from several European countries sat on public web servers with no password, encryption, or access controls, re
Nonprofit pitches .self, a free TLD built from scratch for self-hosting
The Human-Centered Computing Foundation (HCCF), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is campaigning for a new top-level domain called .self, aimed squarely at people who want
Ornith-1.0: MIT-licensed coding agents that learn their own scaffolds via RL
DeepReinforce AI has released Ornith-1.0, a family of open-source models tuned for agentic coding. The lineup spans four sizes — 9B dense, 31B dense, 35B MoE, a
Postgres 19 Beta: Built-in REPACK, Smarter Autovacuum, and SQL Graph Queries
The Postgres 19 beta spreads its improvements across operational quality-of-life rather than a single marquee feature. The headline for production operators is
Researchers reverse-engineer Apple's Neural Engine, exposing an undocumented direct path
A new arXiv paper delivers the most detailed public account yet of the Apple Neural Engine (ANE), the fixed-function matrix accelerator baked into Apple silicon
Rogue Amoeba to Apple: Let Mac App Icons Have Shapes Again
macOS 26 (Tahoe) forced every app icon — Apple's own and third-party alike — into a single prescribed squircle, shrinking any non-conforming icon into an ugly g