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Tuesday, 11 August 2026 · Global Edition · Updated 19:25 CST
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Meta was finally held accountable for harming teens. Now what?

Meta faces thousands more court cases while Congress has proposed numerous bills addressing children’s online safety, some heavily criticized.

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Go play this secret game in your TikTok DMs

The game is available globally and can be accessed in both one-on-one DM chats and in group chats.

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Caller ID app Truecaller hits 500 million monthly users

Truecaller now has more than 4 million paying users across the world.

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Uber and WeRide ramp up robotaxi operations in Dubai

Uber and WeRide have launched robotaxi operations without a human safety operator in Dubai as part of a broader expansion in the Middle East.

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North Korean hackers blamed for hijacking popular Axios open source project to spread malware

A hacker inserted malware in Axios, an open source web tool downloaded tens of millions of times weekly, in a widespread hack.

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New quantum-computing advances heighten threat to elliptic curve cryptosystems

No, the sky isn't falling, but Q Day is coming, and it won't be as expensive as thought.

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You can finally change the goofy Gmail address you chose years ago

All your data remains intact, and you can go back to your original address at any time.

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OkCupid gave 3 million dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says

OkCupid and Match settle with Trump FTC, don't have to pay any financial penalty.

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This is my third Orion launch, but it feels totally different

The first two launches of Orion felt hollow, but NASA is finally on a better course.

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Show HN: Cerno – CAPTCHA that targets LLM reasoning, not human biology

Article URL: https://cerno.sh Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47592183 Points: 6 # Comments: 3

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GitHub's Historic Uptime

Article URL: https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591928 Points: 152 # Comments: 39

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OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/okcupid-match-pay-no-fine-for-sharing-user-photos-with-facial-recognition-firm/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591104 Points: 114 # Comments: 28

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Show HN: How This Graybeard Built the Fastest and Freest Postgres BM25 Search

Last summer we faced a conundrum at my company, Tiger Data, a Postgres cloud vendor whose main business is in timeseries data. We were trying to grow our business towards emerging AI-centric workloads and wanted to provide a state-of-the-art hybrid

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Show HN: PhAIL – Real-robot benchmark for AI models

I built this because I couldn't find honest numbers on how well VLA models [1] actually work on commercial tasks. I come from search ranking at Google where you measure everything, and in robotics nobody seemed to know. PhAIL runs four models (OpenPI

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Slop is not necessarily the future

Article URL: https://www.greptile.com/blog/ai-slopware-future Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587953 Points: 90 # Comments: 156

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