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Hacker News

Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD

Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff

AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less

Running local models is good now

Show HN: Deconvolution – a Rust image deconvolution and restoration crate

Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields

Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress (1.5mil users)

Show HN: I built 184 free browser tools – PDF, image, dev, AI tasks, no upload

Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time

Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?

AI will lead to labor shortages, Bezos says in optimistic talk

DeepSeek v4 Pro 1.6T model post-trained by Huawei on 1000 Ascend 910C chips

Making 'food out of thin air' (2024)

The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

Show HN: cuTile Rust: Safe, data-race-free GPU kernels in Rust

Google News

Datadog shops: AI incident management needs platform engineers

Hitachi, Google Cloud expand alliance to advance physical AI

Hitachi and Google Cloud Expand Alliance for Physical AI and Cybersecurity

Google Cloud is hiring an army of AI deployment engineers

Reclaiming engineering time with AI in Azure DevOps at Microsoft - Inside Track Blog

Make Enterprise Video Searchable on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

OpenChoreo 1.0 Brings AI Agents and GitOps to Kubernetes Developer Platforms

AI SRE: The 2026 Guide to AI-Powered Site Reliability Engineering

NTT DATA Expands Collaboration with Google Cloud to Accelerate Enterprise AI from Pilots to Production

Engineer to develop secure data center hardware for the public cloud with NSF CAREER award - UC Santa Cruz

Cisco and Microsoft: Co-engineering Security for Cloud and AI Journeys

Tenable flags growing ‘AI exposure gap’ as engineering speed eclipses cloud security controls

TechCrunch

Two Stanford grads raise $11M to build a noninvasive wearable for hormone tracking

Google bets on Gemini to reinvent the smart home speaker

PayPal Ventures shutters as company restructuring continues

The slowtech revolution is here to kill your phone addiction and rescue your attention span

Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it.

Pramaana Labs raises $27M seed round from Khosla Ventures to bring formal verification to AI

SpaceX alum nabs $22M to turn rocket engines into geothermal power plants

Canadian pension giant joins race to fund India&#8217;s AI-fueled data center boom

DeepL acquires Mixhalo for live-event audio streaming and translation

Uber will bring its premium robotaxi service to Houston in 2027

Pinterest launches an experimental AI shopping app called &#8216;Ask Pinterest&#8217;

Anthropic&#8217;s latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests

Techmeme

Joshua Baer, the founder and CEO of Texas accelerator Capital Factory, died on Tuesday night in a business jet crash in Laredo, Texas (Ryan Merket/RuntimeWire)

Paris-based Comand AI, which is developing AI-based command-and-control software for military operations, raised a €32M Series A led by Blossom Capital (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)

Studies: Mira, an AI medical tool developed by researchers in Germany, and Google&apos;s Amie matched or surpassed doctors on diagnostic and treatment decisions (Michael Peel/Financial Times)

Q&amp;A with Luciana Lixandru, who co-leads Sequoia&apos;s global early-stage investment business, on why it is time for &quot;act two&quot; for Europe&apos;s tech sector, AI, and more (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

The UK CMA orders Google to provide greater transparency on how its search rankings work and to let users transfer their search data to authorized third parties (Muvija M/Reuters)

Trace Finance, which provides stablecoin settlement infrastructure for cross-border payments across Latin America, raised a $32M Series A led by CoinFund (Yohan Yunstaff/Cointelegraph)

XDOF, which is building data pipelines, collection tools, and annotation systems for robot training data, emerges from stealth with $70M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)

Shoe company Allbirds changes its name to Smartbird as it pivots to an AI infrastructure company and names ex-AWS exec Nadia Carlsten as CEO; BIRD jumps 20%+ (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)

Pramaana Labs, which uses the LEAN programming language to build a deterministic verification layer on top of LLMs, raised a $27M seed led by Khosla Ventures (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

Ars Technica

Windows and Linux users: The deadline to update Secure Boot keys is near

Year of free HPE software a “step in the correct direction” in VMware rivalry

Critical Copilot vulnerability allowed hackers to steal 2FA code from users

Users cry foul after AMD stripped memory crypto from its consumer CPUs

PeopleSoft 0-day affecting hundreds of organizations steals gigabytes of data

Locked in heated rivalry with researcher, Microsoft fixes 0-day they disclosed

High-severity vulnerability in Linux caused by a single faulty character

For the 2nd time in weeks, Microsoft packages laced with credential stealer

How a USB-connected speaker can infect a PC without ever being touched

Dashlane explains how attackers managed to download encrypted password vaults

InfoQ

AI Agent Identity and Permission Challenges: How Uber and Auth0 Are Rethinking Access Control

Presentation: From Hype to Strong Foundations: What the Rise, Fall and Resurgence of Agents Can Teach Us About Outlasting the Cycle

GitHub Copilot Desktop App Targets Parallel Agentic Workflows

Presentation: Automating the Web With MCP: Infra That Doesn’t Break

Coinbase Postmortem Reveals How a Localized AWS Failure Triggered a Multi-Hour Trading Outage

AI Coding Agents Get a Stack Overflow of Their Own

PostgreSQL 19 Beta Introduces SQL Graph Queries and Concurrent Table Repacking

Java News Roundup: A2A Java SDK 1.0, Jakarta EE 12, JNoSQL, GraalVM, Micrometer, OpenXava, Gradle

Xcode 27 Extends Agent Integration, Revamps UI, and Introduces DeviceHub

Anthropic Explains How Claude Builds Its Own Execution Harnesses

The Verge

We got free GTA V upgrades before GTA VI

Dev.to

AI Isn't Something to Trust — It's Something to Design (Series Final)

Canadian pension giant joins race to fund India’s AI-fueled data center boom

Pinterest launches an experimental AI shopping app called ‘Ask Pinterest’

Anthropic’s latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests

Studies: Mira, an AI medical tool developed by researchers in Germany, and Google's Amie matched or surpassed doctors on diagnostic and treatment decisions (Michael Peel/Financial Times)

Q&A with Luciana Lixandru, who co-leads Sequoia's global early-stage investment business, on why it is time for "act two" for Europe's tech sector, AI, and more (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)