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Anthropic accuses Alibaba of mass 'distillation' attack to copy Claude

Anthropic has accused Alibaba of running what it calls the largest known attempt to illicitly extract Claude's capabilities, telling U.S. lawmakers that the Chi

via Hacker News ·
identitydevops

Cloudflare opens self-managed OAuth to all devs, surviving a live Hydra upgrade

Cloudflare has made self-managed OAuth available to every developer on its platform, letting them register and run their own OAuth clients for scoped, delegated

via Hacker News ·
open-sourcedevops

F3: A Wasm-Powered Columnar File Format Built to Outlast Parquet

F3 (Future-proof File Format) is a research prototype columnar storage format from a team spanning Carnegie Mellon, the University of Wisconsin, and Wes McKinne

via Hacker News ·
policytech-culture

Five months and €9,600 to start a German company — and still no invoice sent

A founder chronicles the cost of incorporating his second German business: roughly €7,600 in fees plus €2,000 in share capital locked in an untouchable account,

via Hacker News ·
aiopen-source

GLM-5.2 becomes the first open-weight model that holds up as a coding agent

Z.ai's GLM-5.2, released mid-June 2026 under an MIT license, is being framed as the open-weight ecosystem's most significant moment since DeepSeek R1. On paper

via Hacker News ·
aicybersecurity

Google bakes computer-use agents into Gemini 3.5 Flash, adds prompt-injection guards

Google has folded its computer-use capability directly into Gemini 3.5 Flash, moving it out of the standalone Gemini 2.5 model and into the mainline Flash relea

via Hacker News ·
tech-cultureopen-source

Half-Life 2 Now Runs Inside a Web Browser

A developer has published a browser-playable build of Half-Life 2, Valve's landmark 2004 first-person shooter, hosted at hl2.slqnt.dev and surfaced on Hacker Ne

via Hacker News ·
policyai

Intercept: a $500M philanthropic bet to make colds and flu history

Intercept is a new $500 million philanthropic initiative aiming to drastically cut—and eventually eliminate—common respiratory infections like colds and influen

via Hacker News ·
open-sourcetech-culture

LuaJIT 3.0 opens the floor on syntax extensions — with guardrails

LuaJIT's maintainer has opened an umbrella GitHub issue to coordinate the syntax extensions planned for the 3.0 release, inviting structured discussion on their

via Hacker News ·
aicloud

NVIDIA's Rubin Goes 100% Liquid-Cooled at 45°C, Slashing Data Center Water Use

NVIDIA's upcoming Rubin AI infrastructure is the first to drop fans entirely and cool every chip and networking component through a closed liquid loop. The key

via Hacker News ·
policy

Off-topic / no content: UN Gaza inquiry headline (not a tech story)

This submission could not be summarized. The pipeline supplied only a headline and no article body, so there is no source text to condense, and summarizing a co

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aicloud

Qualcomm Buys Modular for ~$3.9B to Crack Nvidia's CUDA Software Moat

Qualcomm has agreed to acquire Modular, the AI infrastructure startup founded by compiler veteran Chris Lattner, in an all-stock deal worth roughly $3.9 billion

via Hacker News ·