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Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'

YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries

GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack

Google suspended my company's Google cloud account for the third time

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EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to undecided

Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboard installed (2021)

Show HN: I made a 3D printed VTOL drone

Surprisingly fast AI-generated kernels we didn't mean to publish yet

Show HN: Defuddle, an HTML-to-Markdown alternative to Readability

Multiple security issues in GNU Screen

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Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated

Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement

Gemma 3 270M re-implemented in pure PyTorch for local tinkering

GLM-4.5: Agentic, Reasoning, and Coding (ARC) Foundation Models [pdf]

Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews

The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android

Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting