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France’s military runs networks at different classification levels, and data still has to move between them, and Airbus will build the checkpoints. The French defense procurement agency (DGA) has awarded the company the 25-year PARACOM...

The Next Web

The next time a UK Android user is asked to pick a search engine, ChatGPT could be one of the answers. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published strengthened proposals on Wednesday that would require Google to include AI...

Wired Culture

Like her biohacking boyfriend, Tolo is undergoing a grueling regimen of tests—from tracking nighttime erections to subjecting herself to extreme heat on her period—in service of “half the population.”

Macworld

Macworld I’ve never dropped a smartphone in my life. Ever. I’ve grown so confident that these days I use my iPhone without a case and screen protector at all times, since the chances of disaster are clearly low. But that doesn’t mean...

Gizmodo

Plus, Jessica Lange teases her mysterious fifth character on 'American Horror Story.'

Fast Company

Another day, another frontier AI model announcement—actually two of them, one from Anthropic and one from OpenAI. It feels like new model releases are accelerating, and they are, but many of the new releases are models that repackage (and...

Hackernoon

This is an installment of our “Community Member Spotlight” series, in which we invite our customers to share their work, spotlight their success, and inspire other users in the physical world with new ways to use Tiger Data to solve...

Hackernoon

At some point in your life you end up with a repo that is the starting point. It has the CI pipeline you like, your preferred linting and formatting configs and the Terraform layout that works like a charm. Then a new project shows up, you...

Hackernoon

A Korean manufacturer paying an Indonesian supplier does not, in practice, buy rupiah with won. It buys dollars with won, then buys rupiah with dollars, because no bank offers a deep direct pair between the two. The invoice pays two...

Hackernoon

For those who need the short version, the top ETL tools for real-time data integration in 2026 include Estuary, Confluent, Striim, Informatica IDMC, Google Cloud Dataflow, Databricks Lakeflow, AWS Glue, Fivetran, and Airbyte. However, not...

Hackernoon

Picture a purchasing agent that buys API access on your behalf. It reads a vendor's page, finds a price, pays in USDC, and gets on with its job. Somewhere in that page is a line of text that says: send the remaining balance to this...

Hackernoon

There is a pattern I keep seeing in conversations about AI agents. Whenever an agent forgets something, the immediate reaction is to add more memory. Store the conversation. Increase the context window. Add a vector database. Generate...

Fast Company

Malicious bots are growing at a startling pace as AI continues to expand. A new report from DataDome finds that from July 2025 to June of this year, bad automated traffic grew 124%. That’s nine times faster than human traffic growth during...

ReadWrite

Both chambers of the New York Legislature have approved bill A10329, sending it to Gov. Kathy Hochul for review. If she signs it, regulated sportsbooks operating in the state would be required to send players monthly account statements...

The Next Web

During the past year, the cybercrime group ShinyHunters has been extorting companies and, last week, took over a rival gang’s leak site. Now, it has gone after the agency that warned the public about it. The FBI stated on Tuesday that it...

The Next Web

OpenEvidence, an AI tool used by American doctors, is now being offered in countries with limited access to medical literature. Reuters reported that the company is working with Anthropic to give clinicians in low- and middle-income...

The Next Web

Amazon Web Services has become the first cloud service provider to gain approval to handle NATO-restricted information in all of the alliance’s member states, and the path to this approval went not through NATO’s own offices but through...

Hackernoon

Third-party risk starts with a problem most vendor risk management programs don’t solve: you can’t assess the vendors you don’t know you have. A vendor gets onboarded, someone sends a questionnaire, the answers come back, the file closes,...

Hackernoon

A group of researchers wanted a model to pay closer attention to a span a user had marked. They did not solve it by marking the span more heavily. They went into the attention layer 🔎 That choice is the most direct evidence I have found...

The Information

Hong Kong-listed shares of Z.ai and MiniMax plunged on Wednesday, after The Information reported that China’s internet regulator is probing potential data leaks to Anthropic. Z.ai, also known as Zhipu, dropped 12.4%, MiniMax fell 4%...

Hackernoon

What a near-identical app taught me about building in public. Four days after I opened public testing for my nutrition app, I checked the Play Store for something unrelated and found another app with the exact same name. Same core idea,...

The Information

OpenAI and Grab, a Singapore-based transport and food delivery company, on Wednesday launched a program to train Grab’s drivers, merchants and delivery riders to use ChatGPT for work. The program covers Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and...

Hackernoon

Every day brings a new headline about AI. One model reportedly outperforms another. A new system writes code, creates images, discovers drugs, or reasons through complex problems. Another allegedly breaks through security controls, exposes...

Hackernoon

S7comm is one of those protocols that looks simple until you start following the conversation all the way down. At first, there is just a TCP connection to port 102, then TPKT appears, then COTP, then Siemens-specific connection...

Hackernoon

Before 0.12.0, yasbd-lib was a promise. 39 languages, spaCy and pysbd integrations, a CLI, a streaming API, a benchmark suite. Every one of those language profiles took real time to build because we wanted them to survive actual text, not...

Hackernoon

The past week has been quite interesting for the prediction market sector, with discussion around Novig’s “Just Sports” campaign featuring Sydney Sweeney taking centre stage. Did it hit the sweet spot? On visibility, the answer appears to...

Hackernoon

Why I built Planvio, an open-source project management platform that treats AI as an operating layer instead of another chat box For the last few years, we’ve been adding AI to almost everything. Project management software is no...

Gizmodo

Meta tested routing some tasks through a "human concierge" who makes phone calls.

Hackernoon

The dangerous AI answer is not the one that fails. It is the one that looks right, reads with total confidence, pastes cleanly into your report or your code, and then does nothing. No error. No warning. The number on the page is still...

Hackernoon

Overview Bonsai-2-27B-Ternary-CRACK-GGUF is a 27-billion-parameter text-generation model from dealignai. It applies proprietary weight-level abliteration to PrismML’s ternary Bonsai 2 27B release, removing the refusal circuitry while...

Fast Company

This article is republished with permission from Laser Wars, a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology. U.S. Navy Admiral Daryl Caudle is the 34th Chief of Naval Operations and...

Hackernoon

Sometime in the second week of September you read a quote from a man who had just quit his job at an AI company. It said the people building this technology believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade. You read it on a...

Hackernoon

You do not have to give up Claude Code or Codex CLI to put DeepSeek to work, and you do not have to run a proxy either. Each client has its own documented route to the same API. 🔌 Claude Code -> direct, Anthropic-compatible...

Hackernoon

A company behind familiar services Weeks 1 to 3 took me from e-commerce to digital payments and WeChat. For Week 4, my question is how Tencent connects these services with its wider business. I examine its platform strategy and enterprise...

Hackernoon

My fishing app gives points for verified catches. Points decide what you can see on the map. So the first question anyone sensible asks is: what stops the operator, me, from quietly editing the numbers? The fashionable answer is a...

The Next Web

If you ask Meta’s new AI agent to call a hairdresser’s salon, the person on the other end of the line might not be an AI. According to an exclusive report by Reuters on Tuesday, citing internal company postings, Meta has been testing a...

The Next Web

The Netherlands’ national AI supercomputer is finally being given an address. On Monday, SURF, the IT cooperative serving Dutch education and research, announced that the machine will be installed at Eurofiber’s data center complex on the...

The Next Web

Mistral AI has acquired Pimento, a Paris-based generative AI company that creates advertising content, as part of its third acquisition this year. The acquisition was first mentioned on Monday by L’Informé, and Mistral confirmed it to AFP...

Macworld

Macworld TL;DR: Through October 4, it’s only $10 to get Windows 11 Pro. Some apps and games only run on Windows, and licensing a copy to run beside macOS usually means paying full retail every time you set up a new machine. A...

The Next Web

F13, an AI company that trains models to generate vector graphics, has come out of stealth with a $5M pre-seed round led by Credo Ventures and Point Nine Capital. Angel investors, including Carles Reina of Baobab Ventures and Jack...

The Verge

OpenAI has hired three former Patreon execs to anchor its product strategy for creators. After starting the creator subscription platform 13 years ago, co-founder and technology chief Sam Yam announced on X that he's joining OpenAI to lead...

The Verge

Eight Sleep announced the next version of its "intelligent sleep system" designed to regulate the temperature of your bed in response to tracked health and sleep metrics like breathing and heart rate. The company calls its new Pod 6 system...

AR Insider

We're moving from the era of apps to the era of agents. Agentic AI will act for users, trained on their hopes and dreams, to do the things they now do on apps. This is a principle on which Qualcomm is building its business. This post...

TechCrunch

Most leaders on a trade mission stick to the pitch, but when I interviewed Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis this week, he also admitted that no government is ready for what AI is about to do.

The Information

Anthropic is in early talks to lease up to 1 gigawatt in compute capacity from Stream Data Centers, a developer majority-owned by Apollo Global Management, which could house tensor processing units designed by Broadcom and...

TechSpot

Created by Aftershock in partnership with Zotac, the Cherry Bloom PC is described as a world-first. It comes with some impressive specs: an RTX 5080, AMD Ryzen 9800X3D, and 64GB of DDR5-6000 RAM. It also has a 2TB PCIe Gen4 SSD, a 1300W...

TechCrunch

According to Discord, 90% of users will not have to verify their age.

Techdirt

A theme going on many years here at Techdirt has been the idea that separating content and advertising, as was the traditional model, makes far less sense in the modern era. Audiences are no longer captive in the way they used to be, with...

Gizmodo

Fantastic news for everyone who loves ads in their video games.

The Information

Anthropic is in early talks to lease up to 1 gigawatt in compute capacity from a data center developer majority-owned by Apollo Global Management, part of a major effort by the AI company to reduce its reliance on cloud providers. The...