RC RANDOM CHAOS

The Wire

Curated cybersecurity and tech news — AI-summarized, source attributed.

tech-culturepolicy

Orbify demos patent-pending 'warping' 3D navigation that bends the map

Orbify, a Norwegian company (Orbify AS), is showing off an interactive 3D navigation demo built around what it calls patent-pending 'warping' technology — the v

via Hacker News ·
open-sourceai

Pollen Robotics' Microduck: a $399 open-source biped you train with RL

Pollen Robotics has opened pre-orders for Microduck, a 25 cm, 800 g bipedal robot whose every behavior is a reinforcement-learning policy the owner can retrain.

via Hacker News ·
tech-cultureopen-source

Show HN: Voronoi Go — no summarizable content available

No summary can be produced. The submission consists only of a Show HN title ("Voronoi Go") with no accompanying description, and the linked page at voronoigo.co

via Hacker News ·
policytech-culture

SSRI Withdrawal Was Downplayed for Decades — Now Guidelines Are Being Rewritten

SSRIs were adopted as the safe successor to older antidepressants like tricyclics, trading serious cardiac and toxicity risks for milder side effects. That repu

via Hacker News ·

Stanford's Terminal-Bench-Science tests AI agents on real research — top model hits 30%

Terminal-Bench-Science is a new benchmark from Stanford researchers and the Terminal-Bench team that measures how well AI agents handle actual scientific work r

via Hacker News ·
tech-culturepolicy

Stripe-led consortium walks away from $50B PayPal takeover bid

Stripe and its investment partners — a group that, per Bloomberg's reporting, included private-equity firm Advent International — have dropped a roughly $50 bil

via Hacker News ·
devopscloud

The Twelve-Factor App: Heroku's Blueprint for Portable, Scalable SaaS

The Twelve-Factor App is a methodology for building software-as-a-service applications that stay portable, scalable, and easy to deploy on modern cloud platform

via Hacker News ·
tech-cultureopen-source

507 Mechanical Movements: A Classic Engineering Reference, Now Being Animated

The site 507movements.com is a digital rendering of Henry T. Brown's classic 19th-century reference '507 Mechanical Movements,' which catalogs gears, linkages,

via Hacker News ·
aiopen-source

AI Agents Decompile Nintendo 64's Snowboard Kids in 84 Days

A developer chronicles how a harness of AI coding agents reconstructed C source for the entire Nintendo 64 game Snowboard Kids in about 84 days—a fraction of th

via Hacker News ·
aitech-culture

Amazon to Shut Down Mechanical Turk, Its 20-Year-Old Crowdsourcing Marketplace, Sept. 30

Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk, the microtask marketplace that connected businesses with a distributed, on-demand human workforce, on September 30. Launched

via Hacker News ·
open-sourcetech-culture

Asahi Linux Cracks Apple Silicon Power Management Without EL3 Firmware

The latest Asahi Linux progress report centers on a stubborn obstacle to good battery life on Apple Silicon: getting CPU idle states to work within Linux's upst

via Hacker News ·
aitech-culture

Cheap, fast AI models hit good-enough — and rewrite the economics of consumer apps

The author argues that small, inexpensive language models have quietly crossed a usefulness threshold. Running a model like the fictional gpt-5.6-luna, he clock

via Hacker News ·