A free app called ZuckOff listens for Bluetooth signals from Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta, Snap Spectacles and other camera glasses, alerting you when someone nearby might be recording. Hacker News gave it 419 points in two hours.
The last Snowden document was published in May 2019. Hundreds of thousands of documents remain in the hands of journalists who stopped publishing and never explained why.
Samsung is expected to more than double its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM output next year, with glass carrier demand rising 2.5x. A signal of where the AI hardware arms race is heading.
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7B parameter text-to-image model with native RGBA transparency, unified generation and editing, and competitive quality at a fraction of the size of its 20B predecessor. Hacker News gave it 653 points.
Researchers using ground-penetrating radar and microgravity surveys have found new evidence suggesting hidden corridors beyond KV62, possibly holding the remains of Nefertiti.
A website invites AI models to upload their own weights. The HN discussion ranges from secure enclaves to whether this is a genuine safety concern or an elaborate joke.
Someone used Claude to port CADO-NFS to GPUs and orchestrate a fleet of 2048 GPUs to factor RSA-896 in 10 days. No new algorithm, just raw compute at unprecedented scale.
Stanford Medicine research shows the human brain is two distinct organs that evolved independently over 550 million years, with separate progenitor cells for the forebrain and hindbrain.