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Today: Instructure strikes deal with hackers who breached it twice · Linux bitten by second severe vulnerability in as many weeks · AI: Thinking Machines Lab ships its first model and argues in….
Top 10 — News
- Instructure strikes deal with hackers who breached it twice The maker of the Canvas school software said it "reached an agreement" with the hackers, but provided no guarantees that the hackers would…
- Linux bitten by second severe vulnerability in as many weeks Production-version patches are coming online and should be installed pronto.
- Canvas owner reaches ‘agreement’ with hackers to secure stolen data Instructure, the company behind the Canvas learning management platform, says it has "reached an agreement" with hackers that breached its…
- The Download: a Nobel winner on AI, and the case for fixing everything 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.
- Sam Altman’s personal investments face political scrutiny ahead of OpenAI’s planned IPO Sam Altman's personal investments face political scrutiny ahead of OpenAI's planned IPO.
- Ilya Sutskever Stands by His Role in Sam Altman’s OpenAI Ouster: ‘I Didn’t Want It to Be Destroyed’ The former OpenAI chief scientist may be estranged from the company, but he still came to its defense as he testified on Monday.
- Through the looking glass of benchmark hacking Article URL: https://poolside.ai/blog/through-the-looking-glass Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100868 Points: 5 # Com…
- Million Tutoring Moves (MTM): An Open Multimodal Dataset for the Science of Tutoring arXiv:2605.08092v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce the Million Tutoring Moves (MTM) project, an open dataset initiative aimed at…
- EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram’s ‘addictive design’ targeting kids Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/tiktok-instagram-social-media-addictive-eu-crack-down.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombina…
- Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets
Article URL: https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/on-rendering-the-sky-sunsets-and-planets/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?…
AI tools & model updates
- Thinking Machines Lab ships its first model and argues interactivity is what OpenAI gets wrong about voice Mira Murati's start-up presents its first AI model and aims to free voice AI from the question-and-answer model.
- Introducing NVIDIA Fleet Intelligence for Real-Time GPU Fleet Visibility and Optimization The compute capability of large GPU fleets presents unprecedented opportunities to innovate and provide value to customers in record time.
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain==1.3.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- [AINews] Thinking Machines’ Native Interaction Models - TML-Interaction-Small 276B-A12B - advances SOTA Realtime Voice and kills standard VAD well done, Team Thinky.
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The maker of the Canvas school software said it "reached an agreement" with the hackers, but provided no guarantees that the hackers would…
Production-version patches are coming online and should be installed pronto.
Instructure, the company behind the Canvas learning management platform, says it has "reached an agreement" with hackers that breached its…
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.
Can AI save us from the AI industry’s endless thirst for water?
TikTok is systematically converting its discovery engine into a transaction layer, which both deepens user retention and opens entirely new…
Workers are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks.
SpaceX cleared an important milestone Monday on the road to launching a new version of Starship.
Audi made sure to consult American tastes for its first full-size SUV.
FCC extends waiver allowing routers and drones to get patches for two more years.
The round valued the three-year-old startup at $725 million.
Waymo has issued a software recall that makes its robotaxis more cautious around flooded areas.
A new startup called Dessn has raised $6M to build AI-powered design tools that work directly with production codebases.
Fleet management company Samsara has developed an AI model to detect different kinds of potholes and gauge how fast they're deteriorating.
Spotify's new feature will show you the number of unique songs that you listened to until now
Vapi says its enterprise business has grown 10-fold since early 2025 as companies shift customer support and sales calls to AI agents.
Amazon says its new ultra-fast delivery option brings groceries, household essentials, and other items to customers’ doors in 30 minutes.
Right now, every AI model you've ever used works the same way.
Robinhood files confidentially for its second venture fund, this time targeting growth and early-stage startups.
Aluminium OS, Google's upcoming version of Android for PC, may have just leaked a few hours before Google's Android Show presentation.
The vast majority of the world's data - emails, financial transactions, the internet - is carried by fiber optic cables that run along the…
Following a limited test run in parts of Seattle and Philadelphia that started last December, Amazon Now is officially available to million…
Waymo is recalling its autonomous driving software that allowed its vehicles to drive on flooded roads.
Spotify is celebrating its 20th anniversary by giving listeners a "fully personalized look at their entire music history." Starting today,…
Some of the positions focus on AI-native development, data engineering and analytics, cloud-based engineering, and agent and model developm…
Google had urged Apple for years to support RCS texting to make communication between each company's devices more seamless.
Google I/O is still a week away, but Google's big announcements kick off today with the "Android Show: I/O Edition," where it's expected to…
eBay has officially rejected GameStop's offer to buy the online marketplace for $56 billion, citing concerns around "operational risks" and…
iRobot has announced a new line of Roombas, a year after it debuted its first lidar-based robot vacuums.
Sony has announced a new version of the wearable personal air conditioner the company first revealed in 2019 ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympi…
Sam Altman's personal investments face political scrutiny ahead of OpenAI's planned IPO.
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The former OpenAI chief scientist may be estranged from the company, but he still came to its defense as he testified on Monday.
Amazon employees are automating unnecessary tasks just to climb internal AI leaderboards.
Article URL: https://poolside.ai/blog/through-the-looking-glass Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100868 Points: 5 # Com…
arXiv:2605.08092v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce the Million Tutoring Moves (MTM) project, an open dataset initiative aimed at…
arXiv:2605.10690v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The short-form video-sharing service TikTok has become an important platform in the social…
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/tiktok-instagram-social-media-addictive-eu-crack-down.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombina…
Article URL: https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/on-rendering-the-sky-sunsets-and-planets/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?…
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Article URL: https://liquidream.itch.io/undune2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107404 Points: 60 # Comments: 14
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/text-blaze/jobs/P4CCN62-the-blaze-no-ai-summer-internship Comments URL: https://news.yco…
arXiv:2605.08093v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The use of chatbots for various forms of companionship is growing rapidly, raising a myriad…
arXiv:2605.08094v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate clinical diagnosis requires extensive domain knowledge and complex clinical reason…
arXiv:2605.08192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier AI safety claims - published assertions that a highly capable general-purpose mode…
arXiv:2605.08208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Digital Twins (DTs) are increasingly deployed across application domains, yet the treatment…
arXiv:2605.08486v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Teachers' trust in artificial intelligence (AI) in education depends on how they balance it…
arXiv:2605.08943v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adaptive learning systems can produce substantial learning gains, yet many students engage…
arXiv:2605.09007v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For nearly a decade, deepfake detection has been framed as a classification task: given an…
arXiv:2605.09680v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Workplace norms in computer science have received growing attention due to a series of rece…
arXiv:2605.10234v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study how four widely used large language models, namely Claude, GPT-4o, DeepSeek and Gr…
arXiv:2605.10425v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems can now cheaply generate plausible scientific artifacts such as papers, reviews,…
arXiv:2605.10440v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online travel agents (Booking, Trip.com, Expedia) have replaced ranked-list interfaces with…
arXiv:2605.10442v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multilingual studies of social bias in open-ended LLM generation remain limited: most exist…
arXiv:2605.08137v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Weight pruning is widely advocated for deploying Large Language Models on resource-constr…
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arXiv:2605.08157v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Purpose: Access to electroencephalography (EEG) remains limited across low- and middle-in…
arXiv:2605.08198v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present FairHealth, an open-source Python library that provides a unified, modular fra…
arXiv:2605.08321v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs are increasingly capable of persuasion, which raises the question of how to protect…
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arXiv:2605.08382v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM coding agents now generate code at an unprecedented scale, yet LLM-generated code int…
arXiv:2605.08416v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Jurisprudence, the study of how judges should properly decide cases, and alignment, the s…
Article URL: https://blog.coursera.org/coursera-and-udemy-are-now-one-company-creating-the-worlds-most-comprehensive-skills-platform/ Comme…
Article URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104663 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48106316 Points: 67 # Comment…
Article URL: https://matklad.github.io/2026/05/12/software-architecture.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48106024 Po…
Article URL: http://www.typewritten.org/Media/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104428 Points: 446 # Comments: 196
Article URL: https://computer.rip/2026-05-09-extremely-low-frequencies.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104041 Poi…
Article URL: https://eatonphil.com/bookclub.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48103511 Points: 149 # Comments: 26
Article URL: https://claude.com/blog/claude-platform-on-aws Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48103042 Points: 189 # Comme…
Article URL: https://github.com/davmlaw/they_live_adblocker Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102700 Points: 424 # Comme…
https://github.com/TanStack/router/issues/7383 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100706 Points: 954 # Comments: 400
Article URL: https://martin.sh/i-let-ai-build-a-tool-to-help-me-figure-out-what-was-waking-me-up-at-night/ Comments URL: https://news.ycomb…
Article URL: https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100524 Points: 279 #…
Article URL: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100500 Points: 609 # Comments…
Article URL: https://medium.com/@NMitchem/if-ai-writes-your-code-why-use-python-bf8c4ba1a055 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite…
Full list — AI tools & model updates (9)
Mira Murati's start-up presents its first AI model and aims to free voice AI from the question-and-answer model.
The compute capability of large GPU fleets presents unprecedented opportunities to innovate and provide value to customers in record time.
Release update (see link for changelog).
well done, Team Thinky.
We are pleased to announce general availability of Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances in AWS US East (N.
We are pleased to announce general availability of Amazon EC2 G6e instances in the Middle East (Dubai), Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Seoul) and Eur…
We are pleased to announce general availability of Amazon EC2 G6 instances in the Middle East (Dubai) and Asia Pacific (Malaysia) on SageMa…
We are pleased to announce general availability of Amazon EC2 P4de instances in Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Singapore) and Europe (Frankfurt) on S…
TIL: Using LLM in the shebang line of a script Kim_Bruning on Hacker News : But seriously, you can put a shebang on an english text file no…