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Android app developers may be unwittingly sharing their users’ location data with advertisers

Developers may not realize they are sharing their users' location data with advertisers, per new research.

1h ago

EA is now a private company

Electronic Arts has officially become a private company. Last September, EA announced that an investor group led by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners woul...

1h ago

Self-Hosting AI Models on a Raspberry Pi 5: A Complete Guide to Free, Private, Local AI Inference

I've been running an AI agent on a Raspberry Pi 5 for the past three months. It writes code, browses the web, manages my email, and even deployed a production SaaS to a DigitalOcean droplet last week....

1h ago

Your Middleware Is Not a Security Boundary (59,000 Servers Just Found That Out)

3:47 AM, and a pager alert for unusual traffic on /api/admin/*. Routes that should have been sealed off behind middleware.ts, returning a clean 401 to anyone without a session cookie. Except the logs...

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Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains.

A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing concerns that powerful open models could outpace governance and...

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I built a "real job" simulator for Spring Boot learners, free & open source

Most Spring Boot tutorials teach you to build a CRUD app and call it a day. But that's not really what the job looks like day to day, so I put together a project that mimics what you'd actually work o...

1h ago

Destin Daniel Cretton Is as Bummed as You Are That ‘Wonder Man’ Isn’t Coming Back

The director of 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' was a producer and director on the Marvel Disney+ show.

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Connecting Enterprise Databases (Postgres, Redis, Neo4j) to AI Agents via MCP

The enterprise data landscape is an intimidating maze of heterogeneous systems. On any given day, your organization relies on relational monoliths like PostgreSQL for ACID-compliant structured records...

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The Galaxy S26 FE sure does look like a Samsung phone in leaked images

Continuing the trend of Samsung’s “Fan Edition” series, the Galaxy S26 FE has just surfaced in new leaks with another evolution of “yep, that’s a Samsung phone” design.

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Google Renames NotebookLM as Gemini Notebook, Expanding Its Role Across Gemini

Google has renamed NotebookLM as Gemini Notebook, tying its source-grounded research workspace more closely to the wider Gemini ecosystem. The change is more than a new label: Google says notebooks wi...

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Tenía 100% de cobertura y aun así se cayó producción

Hoy buena parte del código que entra a mis proyectos lo escribe un modelo. No es un experimento, es cómo trabajamos. Y eso me trajo una pregunta que antes casi no me hacía, porque el código lo escribí...

1h ago

Anthropic signs $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta

Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months, and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta.

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Apache Polaris 1.7.0 and the Quiet Work of Making a Catalog Trustworthy

A Spark job commits a table update. The catalog writes the change to Postgres. Then the network drops between the catalog and the client, and the client never sees the response. The client does the se...

1h ago

Xbox's free 25th anniversary gifts include a dynamic theme and avatars

Xbox's free 25th anniversary gifts include a dynamic theme and avatars.

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Waymo Opens Up to All Riders in Dallas

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Play Gears of War: E-Day Before Others With Xbox Game Pass

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Waste: Tackling Massive AI Models with an Innovative Streaming Approach

A new GitHub project titled "Waste" aims to tackle the challenges of running enormous AI models in environments with limited RAM. By leveraging a streaming mechanism to pull activated weights directly...

1h ago

Meet Wrinkles, an app that uncovers the hidden stories of the places around you

Wrinkles, available on both iOS and Android, essentially acts as an AI-powered audio tour guide that reveals hidden history and local stories.

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Telegram CEO says extortionist planted illegal content that triggered App Store removal

Pavel Durov, Telegram’s CEO, has elaborated on what led to the app’s brief removal from the App Store last night. Here’s what he said.

1h ago

The Day I Became a Bug Hunter

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry. Did anyone ask for a bug hunter? No? Well, here I am. This is an old story and special to me, but I wanted to write a...

1h ago

Trump Begins Selling $100,000 Monthly Subscription Service to Wall Street

Trump Media has officially launched its $100,000-per-month data feed giving trading firms machine-readable access to Truth Social posts milliseconds before the public. According to Fortune, five Wall...

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WhatsApp updates group chats with new features including ‘@all’ tag

WhatsApp is rolling out some new feature updates for group chats, including the ability to tag everyone in the chat with a single “@all” tag.

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Major Pixel Watch 5 leak details battery life, specs, and features ahead of launch

Double the storage as Pixel Watch 4

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Top 7 Featured DEV Posts of the Week

Welcome to this week's Top 7, where the DEV editorial team handpicks their favorite posts from the previous week (Saturday-Friday). Congrats to all the authors that made it onto the list 👏 I Run Bare...

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Nvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress

The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out for defending against AI agents.

2h ago

Building SwiftLoad Downloader: Go Meets Swift for Modern Downloads

I recently released SwiftLoad Downloader, a fast, modern download manager built with Go and Swift. 🔧 Tech stack: Go backend for protocol handling (HTTP, BitTorrent, Magnet, eD2k). Swift frontend for...

2h ago

RevenueCat Shipaton mobile hackathon is back with $1 million worth of prizes

RevenueCat’s annual Shipaton mobile hackathon is officially back, running August 1-September 30 with major prizes available for winning apps. Here are the details.

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I Spent $4 in AI Tokens to Avoid Buying a $10 HDMI Switch (And It Was Worth It)

A journey into DDC/CI — the remote-control protocol that has been hiding inside your display cable for over twenty years, and how it turned my monitor into a KVM. My setup looks ordinary: a MacBook Ai...

2h ago

DOJ extracts $3.2 million from OpenAI over hiring discrimination allegations

DOJ extracts $3.2 million from OpenAI over hiring discrimination allegations.

2h ago

Investors in Situational Awareness deserved to lose their shirts

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/08/04/investors-in-situational-awareness-deserved-to-lose-their-shirts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173576 Poi...

2h ago

This Plant Has Been Hiding a Killer Secret. Darwin Called It 150 Years Ago

New research appears to confirm that some Saxifraga plants do indeed munch on insects for subsistence.

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Telegram CEO says an extortionist planted CSAM in a chat to get it pulled from the App Store

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov blames an extortionist for planting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in a public chat to get the app temporarily removed from Apple's App Store on Monday night. "Apple remov...

2h ago

FBI Agent Accused of Stealing $1 Million in Crypto Apparently Missed the Corruption Tutorial

Tough to get caught doing something illegal in this administration.

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Building Enola, Part 2: From Source Code to an Architectural Fact Model

In Part 1, I explained why Enola extracts deterministic architectural facts before an AI agent begins reasoning. That leaves the next design question: How should those facts be represented? The obviou...

2h ago

These Apple products are likely getting more expensive next month

Apple recently raised prices across much of its product lineup, but even more increases are expected next month for iPhone and more.

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New XCSSET variant targets macOS devs via compromised Xcode projects

A new version of the XCSSET malware is targeting thousands of macOS users through compromised Xcode projects and GitHub repositories. [...]

2h ago

How the GitHub legal team used Copilot CLI to streamline their workflows

Learn how to build tools to simplify how you work—without writing a single line of code. The post How the GitHub legal team used Copilot CLI to streamline their workflows appeared first on The GitHub...

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Identifying the Processor of a Bare-Metal Binary (Strategy 2): Testing LLMs

Industrializing the disassembly of an undocumented processor from a raw binary is a complex challenge that can be broken down into 4 main phases: Verify that the binary does not belong to an already k...

2h ago

‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Races to the $1 Billion Mark

The fourth Tom Holland Spider-Man entry became the second-fastest movie to reach that box-office milestone.

2h ago

Stephen Wolfram's Wife Has Died

Article URL: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/08/in-memory-of-my-wife-elise-cawley-1961-2026-with-thanks-for-36-wonderful-years/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173165 Poi...

2h ago

Can MS Paint run Doom? (Yes)

Can MS Paint run Doom? (Yes)

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77 Open VSX extensions found harvesting developer info

77 extensions on the Open VSX marketplace impersonated legitimate developer tools while transmitting information about the systems and development environments where they were installed. [...]

2h ago

Gemini Notebook Rollout Remains Staged Despite Expanded Access for Pro Subscribers

Google's Gemini Notebook rollout has expanded across subscriber and account groups, but Google's published information describes a staged, multi-phase release, not a confirmed global completion for ev...

2h ago

Solving the solvent problem

By focusing on electrolytes, MIT scientists are making sodium-metal batteries a more practical energy storage option.

2h ago

Apple caps bug bounty program due to deluge of AI submissions

Apple caps bug bounty program due to deluge of AI submissions.

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Decoupling Physical Control and Reasoning: DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 Architecture

Why Decouple Reasoning from Motor Control General-purpose robots have to pull off two very different jobs at once. They need to read a cluttered, full-room visual scene, hold a multi-minute plan in...

2h ago

Shelly in Home Assistant: Local Switching & Energy Metering

I didn't put Shelly Plus 1PM and 2PM behind my wall switches for the app or the cloud. I put them there because each one quietly does two jobs at once: it switches a circuit locally, and it measures e...

2h ago

Why LLMs Still Struggle With Tabular Prediction

Most business prediction problems do not arrive as prose. They arrive as rows: account attributes, transactions, sensor readings, test results, and a target column. For this kind of data, gradient-boo...

2h ago

"I didn't search for it. I didn't type it. I only talked about it."

Have you ever had this happen? A few hours later... The first thought that comes to almost everyone's mind is: Honestly... I've thought the same. And maybe you have too. So... is your phone secretly...