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Federal Judge Voids Pentagon's Anthropic Blacklist as Illegal Retaliation
A federal judge in California, Rita Lin, ruled that the Trump administration's move to blacklist AI firm Anthropic was unlawful, finding it violated both the Fi
Gates: The Turbulent AI Era Has Arrived — and No One Has a Plan for the Upheaval
In a ~6,000-word essay published August 26, 2026, Bill Gates argues that AI has crossed from promise into disruption, and that the coming transition could be on
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund puts €509k into hardening Flatpak's sandbox
The German government's Sovereign Tech Agency is committing €508,640 over two years to Flatpak, the packaging and distribution format that underpins image-based
Getting Emacs 31's experimental Markdown tree-sitter mode running
Emacs 31 ships a new built-in markdown-ts-mode, a tree-sitter-based major mode for editing Markdown. Despite being flagged experimental, it is already feature-r
GLM-5.3 ships as open weights with SOTA vulnerability-discovery and exploit skills
Z.ai has released GLM-5.3 as an open-weights model on Hugging Face. It reuses the GLM-5.2 base model unchanged, so the entire jump in capability comes from post
Google's Gemini 3.5 Transcribe pushes speech-to-text with sub-second streaming
Google has launched Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model it positions as a step beyond conventional recognition engines. Rather than producing raw tran
How Sony and JR East Engineered Suica, Japan's Battery-Free Transit Card
Suica, the contactless IC card millions tap at Japanese station gates, is a quietly remarkable piece of 1990s engineering. Each card stores only two things loca
htmx 4.0 Ships: Explicit Attribute Inheritance, fetch() Internals, Morph Swaps
After eight months of work, the htmx team has released version 4.0, a major update that nonetheless leaves most day-to-day usage untouched. The three changes th
Italian activist tech collective A/I flags U.S. sanctions atop its manifesto
Autistici/Inventati (A/I) is a volunteer-run Italian collective, founded in 2001 out of the autonomous anticapitalist movement, that provides free communication
Keyboard-Driven Is a Choice, Not a TUI Perk: The Case for Fully Navigable GUIs
Responding to a recent Hacker News debate over whether developers should build terminal UIs or graphical ones, the author pushes back on one specific pro-TUI cl
M5Stack ships PaperMono, an ESP32-S3 E-Ink terminal with NFC and LoRa
M5Stack has released PaperMono, a compact development terminal built around the ESP32-S3R8 and a 3.97-inch, four-level grayscale E-Ink display with touch input
Open-source engine revives TIE Fighter — and X-Wing Alliance — on modern hardware
OpenTIE is a clean-room reimplementation of 1994's Star Wars: TIE Fighter that runs the original game data natively on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It ships no co