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Top 10 — News
- The Download: AI malaise and babymaking tech This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
- Everyone’s a loser in Strait of Hormuz game that simulates global crisis The game asks players to find the least worst options for a shipping chokepoint.
- Last 24 hours to get 50% off a second pass to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Last day to buy one pass and get a second one at 50% off to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.
- Boox’s new page-turning e-reader remote is a tiny two-button keyboard Boox has announced its own alternative to the Kobo Remote that offers more functionality than just turning the page while reading on its ta…
- Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school…
- Musk v. Altman Evidence Shows What Microsoft Executives Thought of OpenAI Leaders at the tech giant were skeptical of OpenAI—but wary of pushing it into the arms of Amazon, according to emails dating back to 2018.
- Hackers breach JDownloader website to serve malware-laced downloads Article URL: https://www.neowin.net/news/if-you-downloaded-this-popular-software-recently-you-might-have-installed-malware/ Comments URL: h…
- Socio-Conformal Calibration in Complex Survey Data: Marginal Validity Is Not Enough for Subgroup Reliability arXiv:2605.05562v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine-learning systems used in survey-based social measurement require uncertainty esti…
- Just Fucking Use Go Article URL: https://blainsmith.com/articles/just-fucking-use-go/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062997 Points: 59 #…
- Podman rootless containers and the Copy Fail exploit
Article URL: https://garrido.io/notes/podman-rootless-containers-copy-fail/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062745 Poi…
AI tools & model updates
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain==1.2.18 Release update (see link for changelog).
- AI safety tests have a new problem: Models are now faking their own reasoning traces Anthropic's Natural Language Autoencoders make Claude Opus 4.6's internal activations readable as plain text.
- [AINews] GPT-Realtime-2, -Translate, and -Whisper: new SOTA realtime voice APIs OpenAI continues deploying GPT-5 everywhere
- BerriAI/litellm: v1.83.14-stable.patch.3 Release update (see link for changelog).
Full list — News (54)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
Technology is changing the way we make babies.
The game asks players to find the least worst options for a shipping chokepoint.
"The deciding factor was what we felt like was the team’s impact to humanity."
Last day to buy one pass and get a second one at 50% off to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.
After years of hints and preparation, Lime plans to enter the public markets.
PJM Interconnection — which oversees the grid for some of the densest data center developments on Earth — wants to overhaul itself.
Airbnb also said its customer support AI bot now handles 40% of issues without escalating to a human agent.
Like many AI companies automating work that humans currently do, Basata will eventually face a harder question about where the line is betw…
Boox has announced its own alternative to the Kobo Remote that offers more functionality than just turning the page while reading on its ta…
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gi…
Tesla is recalling its RWD Cybertruck Long Range over faulty brake rotors that could cause the wheels to fall off, as spotted earlier by Mo…
Sometimes, companies pick CEOs based on carefully laid succession plans designed to maximize investor confidence and future performance.
Smart lighting company Nanoleaf has been unusually quiet recently.
Apple now requires proof of eligibility from US customers who purchase products online at discounted education rates, which also apply to t…
Sony sold just 1.5 million PS5 consoles in its most recent fourth fiscal quarter, down 46 percent year over year.
Nintendo is raising the price of its Switch 2 console globally, "in light of changes in market conditions," and is now forecasting a drop i…
An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school…
Leaders at the tech giant were skeptical of OpenAI—but wary of pushing it into the arms of Amazon, according to emails dating back to 2018.
Article URL: https://www.neowin.net/news/if-you-downloaded-this-popular-software-recently-you-might-have-installed-malware/ Comments URL: h…
These cuddly, connected companions could disrupt everything from make-believe to bedtime stories.
arXiv:2605.05562v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine-learning systems used in survey-based social measurement require uncertainty esti…
Article URL: https://blainsmith.com/articles/just-fucking-use-go/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062997 Points: 59 #…
Article URL: https://garrido.io/notes/podman-rootless-containers-copy-fail/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062745 Poi…
Article URL: https://www.war.gov/UFO/#release Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062530 Points: 3 # Comments: 2
Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/poland-economy-growth-g20-gdp-26fe06e120398410f8d773ba5661e7aa Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat…
Article URL: https://www.war.gov/UFO/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061938 Points: 40 # Comments: 33
arXiv:2605.05416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid growth in the deployment and scale of modern artificial intelligence (AI) systems…
arXiv:2605.05419v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMorphism is the biased belief that human cognition works like a large language model.
arXiv:2605.05472v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As generative AI becomes increasingly integrated into higher education, its frequent errors…
arXiv:2605.05508v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current machine learning models are evaluated through behavioral snapshots, with benchmark…
arXiv:2605.05648v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based tutoring systems (AI tutors) are primarily evalu…
arXiv:2605.06195v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Networking is central to careers in computer science, where a globally distributed and dive…
arXiv:2605.06340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuous post-deployment compliance audits, mandated by emerging regulations such as the…
arXiv:2605.06439v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As vehicles transition toward higher levels of automation, Driver Monitoring Systems (DMS)…
arXiv:2604.20658v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent systems built from teams of large language models (LLMs) are increasingly dep…
arXiv:2605.05513v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Age verification before accessing restricted content is critical to protecting minors fro…
arXiv:2605.05532v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper evaluates whether a domain trained Small Language Model (SLM) can outperform f…
arXiv:2605.05558v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A natural intuition about the economics of AI agents is that, because agents can be repli…
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arXiv:2605.05584v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As AI coding agents become embedded in software development workflows, developers are beg…
arXiv:2605.05615v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) impose rapidly growing energy demands, creating an emerging…
arXiv:2605.05682v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent developments in AI safety research have called for red-teaming methods that effect…
arXiv:2605.05835v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large reasoning models (LRMs) sometimes note in their chain of thought (CoT) that they ma…
arXiv:2605.05882v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial-intelligence systems are becoming ubiquitous in society, yet their predictions…
arXiv:2605.06033v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The extent to which Artificial Intelligence (AI) can trigger generalized paradigm shifts…
arXiv:2605.06318v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human label variation has been established as a central phenomenon in NLP: the perspectiv…
Article URL: https://meshtastic.org/docs/introduction/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061566 Points: 83 # Comments: 33
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Article URL: https://geojson.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060918 Points: 47 # Comments: 26
Article URL: https://clojurescript.org/news/2026-05-07-release Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059662 Points: 152 # Co…
Article URL: https://c9x.me/compile/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059633 Points: 26 # Comments: 1
Article URL: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2026/260508.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059606 P…
Article URL: https://github.com/graemeg/blaise Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48058644 Points: 73 # Comments: 31
Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/announcements/gpt55-cost-analysis Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057209 Points: 10…
Article URL: https://github.com/robertdfrench/ifuncd-up Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056749 Points: 109 # Comments:…
Full list — AI tools & model updates (6)
OpenAI is releasing GPT-5.5-Cyber, a model variant that rejects far fewer security requests and even actively executes exploits against tes…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Anthropic's Natural Language Autoencoders make Claude Opus 4.6's internal activations readable as plain text.
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview uncovered 271 previously unknown security vulnerabilities in Firefox 150, including bugs up to 20 years o…
OpenAI continues deploying GPT-5 everywhere
Release update (see link for changelog).