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Wednesday, August 5, 2026
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Google▲ 582

Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

Today, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai shared some changes with Google DeepMind teams.

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Cloudflare▲ 523

Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

Cloudflare OS is an open-source platform that lets everyone in your company build apps, automate work, and safely access internal systems, shaped around what your organization knows and how it operates.

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Wired▲ 461

Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking

Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.

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Discovery Loop▲ 676

Discovery Loop

Discovery Loop is building AI systems that automate the experimental loops of science and engineering. Continuous Exploration.

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Zed▲ 357

Zed DeltaDB

Sign up for early access to continuous source control and review.

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404 Media▲ 307

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search

"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.

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Wired▲ 279

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

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Neon▲ 272

Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models

A 4B open-source model post-trained with Castform retrieved search results as accurately as GPT-5.6 Sol, while costing 100x less.

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Axios▲ 369

Demis Hassabis is moving from CEO to Chairman at Google DeepMind

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The New York Times▲ 297

Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet

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Runarcn▲ 265

I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux

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OpenReview▲ 260

Position: LLMs Can't Jump

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Vincent Schmalbach▲ 234

TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In

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HN — Best of the Week

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Stephen Wolfram▲ 1180

In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years

In remembrance of his beloved and brilliant wife, Elise Cawley, and their 36 years together, Stephen Wolfram shares memories of their family and home and relates Elise

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Nelson▲ 749

AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog

If you’re willing to use AI-generated images, how do I know the text isn’t AI-generated?

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Toney Alexander▲ 490

Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones

Simple equations and a color picker to inclusively select simplified skin tones in a custom color space for digital art or game development.

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Valley News Live▲ 363

All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen

Lost cameras valued at about $24,000

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Mistral▲ 360

Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation

Shieldstral introduces a 3B open-weights multimodal safety classifier that outperforms models up to 7x its size.

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CNBC▲ 360

U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war

The U.S. Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its war with Iran, people familiar ⁠with the data told Reuters.

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TechCrunch▲ 351

Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI

Apple says its trade secrets investigation into OpenAI has widened. In a new court filing, Apple claims additional former staff may have retained or accessed confidential information.

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Birchtree▲ 614

Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc

Jay Peters: Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc An extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening hasn’t just caused issues for people trying to play digital games — it blocked…

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Troy Hunt▲ 265

Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)

I've been getting a lot of those "your parcel couldn't be delivered" phishing attacks lately and if you're a human with a phone, you probably have been too. Just as a brief reminder, they…

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