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The Virtual OS Museum offers over 600 operating systems for download and emulation on computers.

3 days ago5 min read

LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do

Large language models are eroding software engineering careers by automating domain-specific knowledge and debugging tasks.

3 days ago9 min read

9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring

9 Mothers is hiring, according to a job posting on the company's website.

3 days ago2 min read

AI ‘content creators’ are getting harder to spot

AI-generated content is increasingly flooding social media platforms.

3 days ago9 min read

Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it

Lathe generates hands-on technical tutorials using LLMs for learning new domains.

3 days ago13 min read

Ars Technica

School shooting survivor sues AI gun detection firm after system failed to spot weapon

A school shooting survivor is suing an AI gun detection firm after its system failed to detect a handgun in a 2025 Nashville high school shooting.

3 days ago3 min read

Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering

An analysis of token consumption in LLM-based multi-agent software engineering systems reveals that the iterative code review stage accounts for the majority of token usage.

9to5Google

Galaxy S26 FE leaks in hands-on image with an updated, slightly funky camera bump

A leaked hands-on image of the Samsung Galaxy S26 FE reveals a slightly updated design, featuring a raised camera bump that appears unusually close to the phone's edges.

An Ohio Valley 100k-Watt FM Signal Is Severed in Broad Daylight – Radio World

A 100,000-watt FM radio station in Kentucky went off-air after a man allegedly severed its main transmission line in broad daylight to steal copper, causing an estimated $70,000-$100,000 in damages.

4 days ago5 min read

Ars Technica

Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints

Five prominent scientists, including an ADA journal editor-in-chief, were ejected from a diabetes conference for distributing reprints of an editorial critical of the Trump administration's attacks on scientific research.

9to5Google

Gemini overlay rolls out Dynamic Color, integrates ‘Screen content’ [U]

Google's Gemini overlay on Android now incorporates Dynamic Color for thematic consistency and integrates the "Screen content" option directly into the main carousel for improved accessibility.

TechCrunch

OpenAI unveils Lockdown Mode to protect sensitive data from prompt injection attacks

OpenAI introduces Lockdown Mode to reduce prompt injection attack risks for sensitive data handling.

Sem: New primitive for code understanding – not LSPs, but entities on top of Git

Sem introduces a new primitive for code understanding, providing entity-based insights on top of Git.

Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts

Ntsc-rs emulates analog TV and VHS artifacts using algorithms that model NTSC transmission and VHS encoding.

4 days ago1 min read

Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot

Meta's AI chatbot was tricked into resetting passwords for thousands of Instagram accounts lacking two-factor authentication.

TechCrunch

What to expect from WWDC 2026: Siri’s highly anticipated revamp and Apple Intelligence updates

Apple's WWDC 2026 is expected to feature a major Siri revamp and Apple Intelligence updates.

The first Story-Rich showcase was packed with narrative-driven games

Fellow Traveller's Story-Rich Showcase featured over 20 narrative-driven indie games.

GOG apologizes for emailing people Nazi symbols

GOG apologizes for emailing subscribers Nazi symbols in a newsletter promoting a fantasy game.

The mayor of Shelbyville, Indiana, says only people who live in ‘shitty houses’ oppose data center

Shelbyville, Indiana's mayor sparked controversy by stating that only residents of "shitty houses" oppose a proposed $2 billion data center, drawing criticism for his dismissive remarks.

Benn Jordan longs for the days of tech that didn’t spy on you

Benn Jordan shifted his YouTube focus from music gear to investigating the surveillance state and cybersecurity.

Moving beyond fork() + exec()

A kernel proposal introduces "spawn templates" to optimize process creation by caching executable information, aiming to reduce the overhead of repeated fork() and exec() calls for applications.

4 days ago5 min read

82-0 is the best basketball game, to hell with NBA 2K

The browser-based game 82-0 challenges basketball fans to draft a theoretically undefeated 82-0 team from randomly generated historical rosters, blending fantasy sports with strategic player selection.

Benchmarks in Leipzig

Mathematicians compiled 100 research-level math questions, finding that state-of-the-art large language models successfully solved 98 of them after multiple evaluation stages, demonstrating impressive reasoning capabilities.