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Top 10 — News
- In a first, a ransomware family is confirmed to be quantum-safe Technically speaking, there's no practical benefit to use PQC.
- Vercel says some of its customers’ data was stolen prior to its recent hack The app and website hosting company has found evidence of a second compromise of customer accounts after expanding its initial investigatio…
- Meta is laying off 10 percent of its staff Meta is planning to layoff around 10 percent of employees in May, according to a memo from the company's chief people officer, Janelle Gale…
- French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/french-govt-agency-confirms-breach-as-hacker-offers-to-sell-data/ Comments URL:…
- What Anthropic’s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity Two weeks ago, Anthropic announced that its new model, Claude Mythos Preview, can autonomously find and weaponize software vulnerabilities,…
- Apple’s Next Chapter, SpaceX and Cursor Strike a Deal, and Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto In this week’s episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk about Tim Cook’s legacy as CEO at Apple and what his long-rumored departure means for the…
- Trump science advisor says Chinese actors are copying American AI at massive scale The US government says it has evidence of large-scale, industrial distillation campaigns targeting American frontier models, with China as…
- MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code Article URL: https://blog.meshcore.io/2026/04/23/the-split Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878117 Points: 162 # Commen…
- Enabling and Inhibitory Pathways of University Students’ Willingness to Disclose AI Use: A Cognition-Affect-Conation Perspective The increasing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education has raised important questions regarding students' transpare…
- Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/meta-job-cuts-10-percent-8...
AI tools & model updates
- OpenAI unveils GPT-5.5, claims a “new class of intelligence” at double the API price OpenAI has announced GPT-5.5, an agentic model designed to work through complex tasks autonomously by switching between multiple tools.
- Amazon SageMaker supports notebooks and data agent for IdC domains Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports serverless notebooks with a built-in data agent for AWS IAM Identity Center (IdC) domains.
- An update on recent Claude Code quality reports An update on recent Claude Code quality reports It turns out the high volume of complaints that Claude Code was providing worse quality res…
- BerriAI/litellm: v1.83.7-stable.patch.1 Release update (see link for changelog).
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-fireworks==1.2.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- AIE Europe Debrief + Agent Labs Thesis: Unsupervised Learning x Latent Space Crossover Special (2026) Note: This episode was recorded just after AIE Europe, but before the Cursor-xAI deal.
Full list — News (63)
Technically speaking, there's no practical benefit to use PQC.
The app and website hosting company has found evidence of a second compromise of customer accounts after expanding its initial investigatio…
"They’re putting operational systems up within orbit reach of our high-value satellites."
Signal “very happy” Apple fixed bug storing private chats after app was deleted.
Plants from OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and Microsoft could emit more than 129M tons annually.
OpenAI says its latest model offers increased capabilities across a broad variety of categories.
According to an internal memo, Meta plans to begin its sweeping layoffs on May 20.
Meta's Accounts Center will transition to the Meta Account, which is supposed to make it easier to manage your experience on various Meta a…
Can you wear white after Labor Day if your destination is Earth orbit?
Trump-Xi summit may be rocked by US mulling huge sanctions.
While this material degrades over time, it could point to better ones.
Such experiments bring "order to the universe, whether or not the number agrees with the expected value.”
Kennedy falsely argues that vaccines did little to lower childhood deaths.
Pending refresh?
Spy satellite hardware has been repurposed to scan the Universe in the infrared.
The 2027 7 Series is available as an EV, with an inline-six, or an inline-six PHEV.
Meta is planning to layoff around 10 percent of employees in May, according to a memo from the company's chief people officer, Janelle Gale…
The former Disney CEO hold a stake in Thrive, and has previously held the role of the venture partner at the firm.
The soldier is accused of using classified government information to inform a wager on the prediction market Polymarket.
Former Tesla executive Chris Lister is retiring, and at least three other VPs have left Redwood around the recent restructuring, TechCrunch…
Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social m…
Sierra, the AI customer service agent startup founded by technologist Bret Taylor, announced today that it has acquired the YC-backed Frenc…
The app lets users share disappearing photos with their friends that can be viewed only once and remain available for 24 hours.
Noscroll wants to cure doomscrolling with an AI bot that reads the internet for you.
Sean Plankey has requested to withdraw his name to run the U.S.
Artisan may be known for their bold “Stop Hiring Humans” campaign but the reality is every founder needs to assemble the right team if they…
The max size is now 2MB and max resolution is 4000 x 4000.
If a worker's years of service at Microsoft plus their age equals 70 or more, they will be eligible for a voluntary retirement buyout.
Era thinks that we will see many form factors of AI hardware, including glasses, rings, and pendants.
X Communities are no more.
Salmon is targeting underbanked Filipinos, with little to no credit history, as well as people unhappy with the incumbent lenders' reliabil…
StrictlyVC San Francisco is in just a week.
TechCrunch has confirmed that Delve was the compliance company that performed the security certifications for Context AI, the AI agent trai…
We knew someone made over $400,000 on suspicious Polymarket bets around the US operation to capture Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, bu…
Microsoft started teasing a mysterious Discord and Xbox Game Pass partnership yesterday, and a new leak appears to have detailed exactly wh…
Claude users can access more apps with Anthropic's AI now thanks to new connectors for everything from hiking to grocery shopping.
Under the guidance of consummate bully / chairman Brendan Carr, the FCC is taking steps towards cracking down on children's entertainment t…
Portable audio and home theater upgrades can be very pricey, which is why we make a habit out of telling readers when there are good deals…
Microsoft's new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has laid out a new strategy for what she describes as a "return of Xbox." In a joint memo with Xbox Ch…
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma held an all-hands meeting this morning and laid out her strategy for a "return of Xbox" with employees.
A bill introduced by Rep.
The bright yellow livery of Spirit Airlines may soon disappear from the skies.
Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/french-govt-agency-confirms-breach-as-hacker-offers-to-sell-data/ Comments URL:…
Two weeks ago, Anthropic announced that its new model, Claude Mythos Preview, can autonomously find and weaponize software vulnerabilities,…
In this week’s episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk about Tim Cook’s legacy as CEO at Apple and what his long-rumored departure means for the…
CS 153 has gone viral on the Palo Alto campus—and on X.
The US government says it has evidence of large-scale, industrial distillation campaigns targeting American frontier models, with China as…
A survey of 81,000 Claude users shows that gaining new capabilities ranks slightly ahead of speed as the most common productivity benefit.
Article URL: https://blog.meshcore.io/2026/04/23/the-split Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878117 Points: 162 # Commen…
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/meta-job-cuts-10-percent-8...
I'm a researcher studying privacy, and I started tracking the DMCA notices that UK Biobank sends to GitHub.
The increasing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education has raised important questions regarding students' transpare…
Article URL: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/why-i-write/ Comments URL: https://news.y…
Article URL: https://developers.googleblog.com/torchtpu-running-pytorch-natively-on-tpus-at-google-scale/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombi…
Article URL: https://joshblais.com/blog/using-the-internet-like-its-1999/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47881198 Point…
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9d4zgnqpqeo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47880189 Points: 182 # Comme…
Article URL: https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/astronomers-find-the-edge-of-the-milky-way/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.…
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Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879092 Points: 1138 # Comme…
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-employees-are-starting-to-wonder-if-theyre-the-bad-guys/ Comments URL: https://news.ycomb…
Article URL: https://drobinin.com/posts/my-phone-replaced-a-brass-plug/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47877715 Points:…
Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/myrbk7jvvs6p Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47877644 Points: 216 #…
Article URL: https://socket.dev/blog/bitwarden-cli-compromised Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876043 Points: 665 # Co…
Full list — AI tools & model updates (17)
OpenAI has announced GPT-5.5, an agentic model designed to work through complex tasks autonomously by switching between multiple tools.
OpenAI and Microsoft are joining forces to shore up cybersecurity as AI models become a bigger threat.
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports serverless notebooks with a built-in data agent for AWS IAM Identity Center (IdC) domains.
An update on recent Claude Code quality reports It turns out the high volume of complaints that Claude Code was providing worse quality res…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
In March 2026, three LLM agents generated over 600,000 lines of code, ran 850 experiments, and helped secure a first-place finish in a Kagg…
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now automatically selects and continuously maintains the optimal network topology configuration for Slurm cluster…
AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) now supports Slurm version 25.11, with support for a Prometheus-compatible OpenMetrics endpoint, a…
GPT-5.5 is out .
Note: This episode was recorded just after AIE Europe, but before the Cursor-xAI deal.
Release update (see link for changelog).
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Google is open-sourcing the agent prompt behind its AI design tool Stitch.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk AI-powered environment analysis is now available on Windows Server platforms.
Amazon Quick now enables you to add co-owners to knowledge bases and data source connections for admin-managed Microsoft SharePoint Online…
Amazon Quick now provides ACL verification for ACL enabled knowledge bases, enabling administrators to check whether a specific user has ac…