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Waymo opens its driverless robotaxi service to everyone in Dallas
Waymo has dropped the waitlist for its Dallas robotaxi service, letting anyone in the city hail a fully autonomous ride through its app as of August 4, 2026. Th
When Legit Beats Phishy: A Real FedEx Bill That Failed Every Smell Test
Troy Hunt received an SMS demanding payment of duty and taxes on a FedEx parcel, and it tripped nearly every phishing alarm: a misspelled sender name, artificia
Xbox Outage Locks Players Out of Disc Games They Own
An extended Xbox outage that started Sunday evening didn't just knock out digital games — it also stopped players from launching titles they own on physical dis
200 Milliseconds: An Interactive Trace of an HTTP Request's Full Lifecycle
"200 Milliseconds" is an interactive visualization rather than a written article. It follows a single HTTP request through the roughly 200-millisecond journey i
A Legit Cloudflare Product That Looks Exactly Like a Phishing Scam
Security researcher Eric Lawrence walks through his attempt to claim a handle for a new Cloudflare product and finds every warning sign of a consent-phishing at
A math-based color space aims to generate inclusive, diverse skin tones
A developer has released an open-source color space and sampling algorithm designed to produce a broad, realistic range of human skin tones for uses like charac
AI-generated 'news' site linked to OpenAI super PAC is smearing AI critics
An anonymously run outlet called Acutus (AcutusWire.com) presents itself as an expert-sourced wire service, but its reporters don't exist. The site surfaced whe
AirLLM runs 70B–2.8T models on a single small GPU by streaming layers
AirLLM is an open-source Python library that slashes the GPU memory needed for large-model inference by loading a model one layer at a time from disk rather tha
Ancient Amazon Civilization May Have Held 3M People on Just 3% of the Forest
New estimates suggest a pre-Columbian Amazonian civilization supported roughly 3 million people while occupying only about 3 percent of the rainforest's total a
Bradbury's 'There Will Come Soft Rains': the smart home that outlives its owners
This is not a news article but Ray Bradbury's 1950 science-fiction short story, posted to Hacker News as a PDF. It's worth flagging the mismatch, but the piece
C-Kermit 11 Revives a 45-Year-Old File-Transfer Workhorse After 15 Years
Kermit, the cross-platform serial file-transfer protocol Frank da Cruz and Bill Catchings built at Columbia University in 1981, has a new flagship release — the
FFmpeg 9.0 'Lei' ships, four months after the 8.1 release
The FFmpeg project has tagged version 9.0, codenamed 'Lei,' roughly four months after 8.1. The major-version bump lands the ubiquitous open-source multimedia fr