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US military contractor likely built iPhone hacking tools used by Russian spies in Ukraine

Google found a series of hacking tools they said were used by a Russian espionage group and a cybercriminal group in China. Sources from a U.S. government defense contractor said some of those hacking tools were theirs.

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Meta acquires Moltbook, the AI agent social network

The viral social network project was created with OpenClaw.

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After complaints, Google will make it easier to disable gen AI search in Photos

One toggle for "fast classic search."

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Anthropic sues US over blacklisting; White House calls firm "radical left, woke"

Anthropic says it was blacklisted for opposing autonomous weapons, mass surveillance.

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Trump's divisive FDA vaccine regulator self-destructs, will exit agency (again)

It's unclear what Prasad's FDA exit means, but some drug makers are happy to see him go.

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NASA and SpaceX disagree about manual controls for lunar lander

"NASA’s tracking of SpaceX’s manual control risk indicates a worsening trend."

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HyperCard discovery: Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive (2022)

https://web.archive.org/web/20230307111053/https://macintosh... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47327641 Points: 21 # Comments: 3

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Widevine retiring its Cloud License Service (CLS)

Article URL: https://castlabs.com/blog/widevine-retiring-cloud-license-service/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47327589 Points: 27 # Comments: 10

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Agents that run while I sleep

Article URL: https://www.claudecodecamp.com/p/i-m-building-agents-that-run-while-i-sleep Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47327559 Points: 60 # Comments: 47

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FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers

Article URL: https://github.com/steelbrain/ffmpeg-over-ip Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47327015 Points: 32 # Comments: 13

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Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon

Hi HN, we're Sanchit and Shubham (YC W26). We built a fast inference engine for Apple Silicon. LLMs, speech-to-text, text-to-speech – MetalRT beats llama.cpp, Apple's MLX, Ollama, and sherpa-onnx on every modality we tested. Custom Metal shaders, no

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Isotopic Evidence for a Cold and Distant Origin of Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.06911 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47326034 Points: 11 # Comments: 1

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I built a programming language using Claude Code

Article URL: https://ankursethi.com/blog/programming-language-claude-code/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47325595 Points: 74 # Comments: 96

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Mandiant’s founder just raised $190M for his autonomous AI agent security startup

Mandia, who sold his previous company Mandiant to Google for $5.4 billion in 2022, has launched an agentic security startup.

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ChatGPT can now create interactive visuals to help you understand math and science concepts

On Tuesday, OpenAI introduced dynamic visual explanations, a new ChatGPT feature that allows users to see how formulas, variables, and mathematical relationships change in real time.  Instead of just reading an explanation or looking at a static diag