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EU top court: VPN providers not liable when users bypass geo-blocks
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that VPN providers and publishers cannot be held liable for copyright infringement committed by users who r
Frontier AI agent handed a real startup burns $100, spams users, and makes $0
Bottleneck Labs ran an experiment to test whether a frontier model could autonomously operate a profitable business. They wired up an agent called Saul—powered
GCC bars LLM-generated code from legally significant contributions
The GCC steering committee has adopted an AI contributions policy drafted by its dedicated AI policy working group. The core rule: the compiler project will ref
Google's AI agents now generate most of Chrome's security fixes
Google has turned LLM-based agents loose across Chrome's entire security lifecycle—finding, triaging, and patching vulnerabilities—and says the payoff is a shar
Hugh Howey: AI Just Closed the 10-Year Window When Publishing Was Easy
Novelist Hugh Howey argues that a brief, unrepeatable era has just ended. For roughly a decade — bookended by self-publishing going mainstream around 2014 and A
Java's Value Objects Reach OpenJDK Master as JEP 401 Preview
OpenJDK has merged the first preview implementation of JEP 401, which introduces value objects to the Java language. These are class instances that lack identit
QM: a vendor-neutral, multiplayer AI agent harness for startups in Slack and the web
QM, released by yc-software under the MIT license, rethinks the workplace AI agent as a multi-tenant system rather than a single personal assistant. Every emplo
Refactoring an Agent-Written Codebase Cut Token Costs 83% Per Change
A Thoughtworks technologist built a 150,000-line application—mostly Rust, plus TypeScript and Terraform—almost entirely with coding agents like Claude Code and
Reviewers flag fake authors in ML papers — venues accept them as orals anyway
Two machine-learning reviewers describe a peer-review season drowning in AI-generated submissions. Across 22 papers they were assigned for NeurIPS, WACV, and a
Someone Rendered 'Bad Apple!!' Inside Traceroute Output Using nftables Hop Spoofing
The perennial 'Bad Apple!!' shadow-art animation — the de facto benchmark for improbable displays, much as Doom is for arbitrary code execution — has a new host
The Cult of Speed: Why Rushing Work Just Defers the Bill
Somewhere along the way, "moving fast" stopped being a tactic and became a moral test. In this essay, the author argues that speed now functions as an instituti
The Emerging Visual Language of AI Apps: Sparkles, Shimmer, and Tiny Icons
Every technological moment spawns its own design conventions, and some outlast the fad that created them—the hamburger menu, born of mobile screen constraints,