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Open-source "proof of capture" camera signs real photos with steganography, not metadata
A day after Apple unveiled Apple Reference Image—its scheme for cryptographically proving a photo came from a real camera rather than a generator—developer Mery
OpenAI's Agents API Exposes the Codex Harness as a Managed Service
OpenAI has opened up the runtime behind Codex as a hosted product called the Agents API. Instead of building their own orchestration loop, developers hand OpenA
PlanetScale launches Neki, a sharded Postgres that keeps real Postgres on every shard
PlanetScale has opened a platform preview of Neki, a horizontally sharded Postgres offering built on the sharding expertise the company developed running massiv
Shopify abandons React Native, says coding agents make native cheap again
Shopify is reversing the mobile-platform bet it made in 2020, when it standardized on React Native to avoid building every feature twice. The company says the c
Six Years Running Petabyte ClickHouse: Where the Open-Source Version Falls Short
A Tinybird engineer who has run ClickHouse in production since version 18.4 argues that standing up a cluster is trivial—keeping petabyte-scale clusters healthy
Sony Sued Over Whether 'Buy Now' Means You Own Your PlayStation Games
Four California PlayStation buyers filed a class action against Sony Interactive Entertainment in June 2026, arguing the PlayStation Store misleads shoppers int
The Hidden Chaos of OpenRouter: Same Model, Wildly Different Providers
The operator of Olly, an iMessage AI assistant that has handled over 18 million messages (a third on open models via OpenRouter), lays out the operational traps
Two dozen Fields Medalists warn AI's math-benchmark race endangers mathematics
An open letter signed by 24 Fields Medalists — including Terence Tao, Peter Scholze, and Maryna Viazovska — argues that the AI industry's rush to crack famous m
unslop.news Rebuilds the Hacker News Front Page With the AI Stories Stripped Out
A new Show HN project called "Hacker News, Without AI" (unslop.news) offers a filtered version of the Hacker News feed that removes stories about AI. The pitch
AI agent factors RSA-260, setting a new record and pegging RSA-1024 at ~$30M
Cognition researcher used the company's autonomous coding agent, Devin, to factor RSA-260, the largest number ever cracked in the RSA Factoring Challenge and th
Apple Watch Series 12 adds continuous heart sensing, readiness score, on-device AI
Apple's Series 12 watch centers on a re-architected Health Sensing System paired with a new S11 chip, which Apple claims delivers the most accurate heart-rate s
Apple's $129 AirPods 5 push ANC and on-device AI into its cheapest earbuds
Apple has unveiled AirPods 5, moving active noise cancellation into its lowest-priced open-ear model at $129, with a $149 variant adding a wireless charging cas