Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen
An unescaped separator in Telegram Desktop’s single-instance IPC lets one clicked link read arbitrary files off the disk and send them to the attacker, session files included.
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Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours
A UAV attack disabled several modules at the largest Yandex data center in Kaluga, reducing service and impacting a facility with 3,800 server racks.
Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT
https://archive.is/EFOhL
Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe's largest lake landscape
Eastern Germany's mega complex of artificial lakes created from disused coal mines will reach a new milestone this summer.
Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser
Quake (1996), faithfully ported to dependency-free safe Rust and compiled to WebAssembly — play the shareware episode in your browser.
Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more
How I used AI to investigate millions of historical records and surfaced a forgotten meteorite report, three lost rhinos, and unrecorded volcano eruptions.
Reducing undefined behavior in the C language
As a professor of biomedical engineering, Martin Uecker perhaps does not fit the profile of a t [...]
11 of 23 Core Open Source Projects Run on 1 or 2 People
A Redditor counted who wrote every change to xz, sudo, bash, tz and 19 more projects. 11 of 23 rely on one or two people. See who they are and who pays.
Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded
Showing off carrier-explode, one of my side projects that continuously archives carrier settings for all major phone brands.carrier-explode also contains decoders and explanations for all the common baseband configurations, etc.There’s still quite a bit of work to be done in checking my assumptions, but the tool has already been proven useful for a few enthusiast groups.
MXC - a sandboxed code execution system
Policy-driven, layered isolation and containment . Contribute to microsoft/mxc development by creating an account on GitHub.
Why are coding agents so dumb?
Models are getting better and better, while the agents that drive them languish.
What mathematicians should know about the Lean Theorem Prover: reliability & AI
[This is a guest post by Thomas Hales. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Mathematicians have been weighing in on what they value ab…
Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice
A few years ago, the only way to compile Rust code was using the rustc compiler with LLVM as a [...]
Clinical trial of a prion disease drug candidate begins enrolling participants
It’s the first time the potential treatment, a small interfering RNA targeting the prion protein, is being tested in humans.
Has the Autonomous Trucking Revolution Arrived?
Just how far along are developments in autonomous trucking?
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OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results
https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/history.md
Mistral Large 4
https://docs.mistral.ai/models/mistral-large-4-0
ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)
Accumulating evidence indicates that circadian rhythm dysfunction is a clinically significant and highly prevalent phenotype in a substantial subgroup of ind...
The Mathocalypse
… then they came for Navier–Stokes and I said nothing because I never worked on Navier–Stokes. But when they came for RL vs. L I realized that things are serious --friend-of-the-blog Omer Reingold (shared with permission) Last night my 9-year-old son was taunting my wife, complexity theorist Dana Moshkovitz, as follows: "mommy, I heard you…
Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB
An open speech recognition model that runs on the same CPU engine as Needle. It transcribes seven languages, reaches the first token in 11 ms, and loads beside Needle so one binary turns a clip straight into tool calls.
Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome
JPEG XL offers better compression than JPEG, built-in HDR support, lossless JPEG transcoding, and more.
JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history
JetBrains (Media & Entertainment, Czechia): total revenue CZK 16,008 mil, net profit CZK -315 mil in 2025, ROE -11.1%. 721 indicators from filings, financials, KPIs and Excel download.
4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe
Wood Mackenzie’s latest global report on levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) shows that advancing technologies and market dynamics continue to drive
Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM
An experimental Rust port of the TypeScript 7 compiler (tsc) - pingdotgg/ts-rust
OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI
An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI: RTL, ISA, simulator, compiler and profiler in one repo. Runs Qwen3, LFM2.5 and Qwen3.5 on a Kintex-7 PCIe card. - FeSens/openTPU
Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2610.08144: Navier-Stokes lost in translation: Why Lean verification of AI autoformalisation does not guarantee correct natural language proofs
Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser
Classic PC demoscene productions running in the browser.
Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
Nebraska data centers are required to turn in an annual report to Nebraska’s Department of Water, Energy, and Environment, but some state statutes are preventing the public from seeing just how much electricity and water data centers are using.
AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)
Tool for automatic PS5 executables porting to Linux and Windows - boykopovar/AnyPS5
Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates
We are sharing two candidate magnets for next-generation computer memory, found by a team of Claude Opus 5.5 agents. Both are predicted to have zero net magnetism yet still sort electrons by spin: one a new compound we designed, the other a material first made in 1999. We
ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux
eth68 is an ethernet audio interface for Linux.  Very low latency: 3.620 milliseconds round trip at 48 kHz with 64 sample buffer Scalable: multiple units can be synchronized to increase channel count without increasing round trip audio latency 6 balanced line level inputs on 1/4 inch TRS connectors 8 balanced line level outputs on 1/4 inch TRS connectors 48 kHz and 96 kHz sample rates Burr-Brown PCM3168A codec DIN MIDI connectivity 1U 19-inch rack chassis Usage with JACK eth68 runs a cust
Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on any consumer hardware: one-click install for Windows / Linux. Strata inference engine, OpenAI/Anthropic API on localhost, optional image input. - Niko1221/Strata
Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 was awarded to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”
Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped
GrapheneOS discussion forum
God of War on PSP, recompiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser
PSP games in the browser without an emulator: static recompilation to WebAssembly, an HLE kernel and a WebGL2 renderer - snuri00/psp-web-recomp
SynthID Detector
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/go...
Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits
Tiger Style and matklad recommend pushing ifs up and fors down. This post looks at what the idiom actually says, where it shows up in query optimization and in the algebra of functional programs, and where the analogy stops paying for itself.
Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter
Step 5 Preview is StepFun's flagship model for agentic work, built on a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture (27B active / 600B total parameters). $1 per million input tokens, $2.70 per million output tokens. 1,000,000 token context window, maximum output of 64,000 tokens.
US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia
Quarantine measures in place in several hospitals in eastern Russia amid uncertainty over death of Darya Shipilova
Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore
News post: Gleam v1.19.0 released!
The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is, and a lecturer at UCLA keeps it in his spare time. We counted who writes the software under your phone, from the code itself.
AI-ready biological data: $1.8B global commitment
Biohub, DOE, NIH, Google, Isomorphic Labs, and Meta commit $1.8 billion to expand the Virtual Biology Initiative's open, AI-ready biological data.
Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model
Strands Decider 2B is a small, open source, decision model optimized for fast experimentation, local development, and innovation.
Teams in Vienna and Beijing have built the first thorium nuclear clocks
https://archive.ph/1PBHjhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11084-4
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Pi 1.0
Related: Pi Durable - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49925969
Claude Opus 5.5
Claude Opus 5.5 leads in agentic coding and knowledge work, and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5 on typical workloads.
ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
Subsidies for fabs do not help.
Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
tech report: https://aleph-alpha.com/downloads/tech-report.pdfadditional paper: https://tej.as/blog/aleph-alpha-kolibri
Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility
In a win for digital rights, a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Utah’s SB 73, the state’s draconian anti-VPN age verification law. The decision comes as EFF submitted our comments to the Utah Department of Commerce, detailing how forcing platforms to detect and block privacy-preserving tools undermines user privacy and security worldwide while
Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
Toyota is preparing to introduce the electric version of its best-selling car of all time, the Corolla. When is Toyota...