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Google DeepMind reshuffle: Hassabis moves to Chair, Koray takes helm, Jeff Dean exits
Sundar Pichai has reorganized the leadership of Google DeepMind. Demis Hassabis is stepping back from day-to-day operations, moving from CEO to a strategic role
Gwern ends pseudonymous full-time writing to launch 'Guardian Angel'
Gwern Branwen, the long-pseudonymous essayist known for deep-dive writing on AI, statistics, and internet culture, has announced he is stepping away from full-t
Interpol: AI Now Behind 55% of African Cybercrime as Losses Hit $484M
Interpol's African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026 finds that artificial intelligence is now a component of 55% of reported cybercrime across the continent,
Mistral open-sources Shieldstral, a 3B moderation model that beats 7x-larger rivals
Mistral has released Shieldstral, a 3-billion-parameter multimodal safety classifier under an Apache 2.0 license. Its central bet is that content moderation sho
Oxide Computer raises $445M to push its on-prem 'cloud computer' at hyperscalers
Oxide Computer has reported a $445 million raise in an SEC Form D, the notice companies file when selling securities under an exemption from full registration.
Stateless MCP 2.0 revives the protocol — simpler servers, safer agents
The July 28, 2026 Model Context Protocol spec — informally MCP 2.0 — drops the two-request handshake that legacy MCP required, where a client first initialized
The div is centered — the window isn't: fighting browser sidebars with pointer math
Centering an element in CSS, once a `position: absolute` / `translate(-50%, -50%)` incantation, is now a one-liner with `display: grid` and `place-items: center
The Harness, Not the Weights: Where Recursive Self-Improvement Actually Starts
Lilian Weng argues that the near-term path to recursive self-improvement (RSI) won't run through a model literally rewriting its own weights. Instead, the lever
The 'zero-one-infinity' problem: why one ad, or one menu fork, never stays one
Riffing on John Gruber's commentary about ads spreading across Apple's surfaces — the App Store, Apple News, and possibly Apple Maps — the author extends a prog
Thieves saw down and steal every Flock camera in a Minnesota city
In a single coordinated operation on August 1, someone cut down and hauled off all eight of the Winona, Minnesota Police Department's Flock automated license pl
Three WebKit Features Leak Real IP and DNS, Breaking iOS Proxy Browsers and Private Relay
Researchers at Mysk found that three WebKit features silently sidestep the app-level proxy configuration (WKWebsiteDataStore.proxyConfigurations) that every iOS
Unofficial Hacker News Meetup Runs Coffee Mornings in Central Helsinki
A grassroots meetup gathers Hacker News users in Helsinki roughly every six to eight weeks, typically on Sunday mornings in a central coffee shop and occasional