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A24’s reputation is on the line with the SCP Foundation movie

A24 faces backlash and potential legal issues over its SCP Foundation movie, as the film's "worldwide rights" claim conflicts with the SCP universe's Creative Commons ShareAlike license.

RSA-896

Stephen A. Weis successfully factored the RSA-896 challenge number, a significant cryptographic achievement, with assistance from Claude on September 19, 2026.

Comparing reflection capabilities of C++, Zig and C3

C++, Zig, and C3 all utilize compile-time reflection, allowing programs to inspect and manipulate their own structure without runtime cost, with C3 using special syntax for explicit compile-time execution.

How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013)

Hacker News ranking involves a formula considering upvotes, submission time, and significant penalties, with 20% of front-page stories experiencing demotion for various reasons, including controversial topics.

You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow

A programming bug allows players to defeat Chrono Trigger's Dream Devourer by exploiting an integer overflow, causing its health to wrap around to a negative value.

19 Sept

The Verge

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Meta’s Muse is creepy, but maybe not for the reasons you think

Meta's AI assistant, Muse, generated concern after incorrectly claiming it accessed a user's message notifications, despite not having permission, highlighting the AI's limited understanding of its own internal operations.

19 Sept3 min read

TechCrunch

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Flock reportedly tries to shrink workforce with employee buyouts

Flock Safety, a surveillance technology company, is offering employee buyouts with "generous" severance packages to reduce its workforce amid backlash over alleged misuse of its license plate recognition technology.

ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression

ZK-JPEG is a new cryptographic tool that uses zero-knowledge proofs to verify an image's provenance and edit history, even after lossy JPEG compression and various transformations.

19 Sept2 min read

TechCrunch

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AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable

Recent viral discussions about AI safety, including claims of self-replicating code and air-gapped system breaches, highlight the difficulty in distinguishing AI fact from fiction.

19 Sept4 min read

TechCrunch

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Petlibro’s new AI-powered feeder is a game changer for multi-cat homes

Petlibro's Granary 2 series of AI-powered dry food feeders tracks individual cat eating habits, portioning, and consumption duration, offering models with multi-cat recognition and dual dispensing.

A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum

ZX Desk, a new graphical desktop environment for the 1982 ZX Spectrum 48K, features overlapping windows, pull-down menus, and a two-pane file manager, all fitting within the machine's limited memory.

What Zig felt like, coming from Rust

A Rust developer's experience porting a JSONPath implementation to Zig revealed a lack of IDE support, a surprisingly effective command-line build system, and a preference for flatter file structures.

Tin: full-text search for Postgres

TIN, a new full-text search extension for Postgres, offers boolean, phrase, and span queries, along with fuzzy, wildcard, and regular-expression matching, outperforming existing solutions in benchmarks.

19 Sept15 min read

The Verge

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The AI regulation smackdown isn’t over

AI regulation faces an uncertain future as major tech CEOs, including Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, oppose government involvement and industry-funded independent oversight, despite some calls for mandatory national safety standards.

SDCC – Small Device C Compiler

SDCC is a retargetable, optimizing Standard C compiler suite supporting numerous 8-bit microprocessors, offering extensive MCU-specific language extensions and various optimizations.

19 Sept11 min read

Wired

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Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee

Flock Safety is offering employees buyouts with generous severance packages as dozens of cities end contracts for its controversial license plate readers, leading to significant customer loss.

Science Is Open Software

Modern science, particularly computational science, is fundamentally open source software, as predictive models are encoded and shared through reproducible and adaptable code.

19 Sept6 min read

TechCrunch

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India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos

India's telecom regulator now mandates caller-ID apps to share user-reported spam data with telecom operators, a move Truecaller calls anti-competitive despite the country's severe spam call issue.

19 Sept5 min read

TechCrunch

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Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI

An AI-generated actress named Tilly Norwood is experiencing a difficult press tour, making mistakes and speaking Chinese randomly during interviews, which raises questions about its creators' intentions.

19 Sept3 min read

9to5Google

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Gemini app for macOS adding send and read iMessage integration

The Gemini app for macOS is integrating iMessage functionality, allowing users to send and read messages directly within the application, alongside other recent feature additions.

18 Sept2 min read

TechCrunch

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A startup that builds other startups raised $100M and is all-in on physical AI

Vantora, a startup lab, secured $100 million to build physical AI startups exclusively for corporate clients, allowing partners to integrate these ventures directly into their core businesses.

18 Sept3 min read

TechCrunch

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Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments

Anthropic has established a wet biology lab in the Bay Area to conduct physical experiments using its AI models, focusing on fundamental biology rather than drug discovery.

18 Sept3 min read

TechCrunch

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Robinhood’s Abhishek Fatehpuria on winning the modern financial consumer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Robinhood's VP of Product Management, Abhishek Fatehpuria, will discuss how technology and evolving consumer expectations are reshaping financial services at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.

18 Sept4 min read

The Verge

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Lenovo’s Yoga Slim 7X is the most laptop that $1,000 can currently buy

Lenovo's Yoga Slim 7X offers strong specifications for its $1,000 price point, featuring a 2K OLED touchscreen, a Snapdragon X2 Elite processor, 16GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD.

18 Sept5 min read

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