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Apple Unveils Siri AI and Next-Gen Apple Intelligence for Fall Rollout
Apple is positioning its next wave of on-device AI under a new banner: Siri AI, part of an expanded Apple Intelligence push slated for release later this year.
Cognition's FrontierCode benchmark grades AI code on mergeability, not just correctness
Cognition has launched FrontierCode, a benchmark that evaluates whether AI-generated code would actually be merged by human maintainers rather than just whether
English Heritage Hiring a Head of Stonehenge at £64K+
English Heritage has posted an opening for Head of Stonehenge, a permanent 36-hour-per-week role based at the Wiltshire World Heritage Site. The job pays from £
EU-Banned Pesticides Return via Imported Food in 'Toxic Boomerang' Loop
Foodwatch lab tests on 64 rice, tea, and spice products sold in the Netherlands, France, Austria, and Germany found pesticide residues in 49 samples, with 45 co
Federal judge strikes down Trump's $100K H-1B visa fee as unlawful tax
A federal judge in Massachusetts vacated the Trump administration's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa applications, ruling that the policy violated the Administrati
GentleOS: A Hobby OS for Vintage 32-bit PCs With a Retro GUI
GentleOS/32 is a hobbyist operating system built for tinkering with vintage 32-bit hardware. It runs on machines as modest as an i386 with 4MB of RAM and a VGA
Getting Started with Dune: An OCaml Build System Primer
OCamlPro continues its onboarding series with a hands-on introduction to Dune, the dominant build system in the OCaml ecosystem. Using a minimal toy project cal
Gitdot: Rust-built open-source GitHub alternative debuts on Show HN
A new project called Gitdot is pitching itself as a leaner, open-source replacement for GitHub, with its codebase written entirely in Rust. The launch surfaced
Intuned launches AI-generated Playwright automations with self-healing scrapers
Y Combinator S22 alum Intuned has launched a platform that turns natural-language prompts into production Playwright code for scrapers, crawlers, and RPA workfl
Massachusetts passes privacy law banning sale of precise location data
The Massachusetts House voted 146-0 to pass the Consumer Data Privacy Act, mirroring an earlier unanimous Senate vote from September. Once the two chambers reco
Microsoft pulls 70+ GitHub repos after attackers plant credential stealers
Microsoft has disabled more than 70 of its open source GitHub repositories after attackers compromised the projects and injected malware designed to harvest pas
Morningstar Pegs SpaceX IPO as Overvalued Ahead of Listing
Morningstar analysts argue the upcoming SpaceX public offering is priced above what the underlying business fundamentals justify. The piece pushes back on the p