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iPhone-Android RCS Conversations Are End-To-End Encrypted In iOS 26.5

iPhone-Android RCS Conversations Are End-To-End Encrypted In iOS 26.5 (macrumors.com) 4 Apple says end-to-end encryption for RCS messages between iPhone and Android is now available in iOS 26.5, though the feature is still considered beta and depends on carrier support on both sides. MacRumors reports: Apple says that it worked with Google to lead a cross-industry effort to add E2EE to RCS. iOS users will need iOS 26.5, while Android users will need the latest version of Google Messages. End-to-...

TikTok Launches £3.99 Ad-Free Plan for UK Users

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FCC Robocall Crackdown Raises Privacy Concerns Over Mandatory ID Checks

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Mac Users Warned Over Fake Claude Install Instructions

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1.8 Billion Gmail Users May Want to Check This AI Privacy Setting

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AMD is reportedly developing an entry-level RDNA 4 GPU with 8GB of VRAM — RX 9050 rumored to debut with 2048 cores, more than RX 9060

AMD is reportedly developing an entry-level RDNA 4 GPU with 8GB of VRAM — RX 9050 rumored to debut with 2048 cores, more than RX 9060 Bizarrely, the RX 9050 will allegedly have more cores than the RX 9060, likely to compete with the RTX 5050 Despite the ongoing memory shortage, AMD is going against the grain and reportedly developing a new entry-level RDNA 4 graphics card to compete with the RTX 5050. Videocardz reports that AMD is cooking up an RX 9050 graphics card based on the Navi 44 die. De...

Best gaming and productivity laptop deals under $1,000 — beat rising laptop prices with these refreshing deals

Best gaming and productivity laptop deals under $1,000 — beat rising laptop prices with these refreshing deals The best value budget laptops for gaming and productivity that won't stretch your wallet A giant desktop gaming PC isn't for everyone! Price, space, and portability are negatives of a giant desktop gaming rig. These are things a compact and powerful gaming or productivity laptop can help to solve, especially if you can get your hands on one for under $1,000. There are, of course, obviou...

TCL 27R944K 165 Hz gaming monitor review: Mini LED with high brightness and high performance

Tom's Hardware Verdict The TCL 27R94 is one of the brightest monitors you can buy. To that, it adds high pixel density, saturated color and excellent gaming performance. Oh, and it’s a great value too. Pros - + High contrast and high brightness - + Clear, sharp and colorful image - + Smooth video processing with low input lag - + Extras like LED lighting, USB ports and internal speakers - + Excellent value Cons - - Some grayscale anomalies Why you can trust Tom's Hardware TCL is well known for i...

Samsung holds desperate final talks with union over 18-day chip factory strike that could cost $20 billion — government-mediated summit seeks to avert industrial action that could hit HBM production

Samsung holds desperate final talks with union over 18-day chip factory strike that could cost $20 billion — government-mediated summit seeks to avert industrial action that could hit HBM production A deal could cut Samsung's annual operating profit by up to 12%. Samsung and its largest labor coalition are sitting down for government-mediated negotiations over the next two days, the Korea Herald reported, with just 10 days remaining before a planned general strike that threatens to shut down the...

The tech industry is moving faster than ever. Keep up with Tom’s Hardware Premium, available from just $7 per month

The tech industry is moving faster than ever. Keep up with Tom’s Hardware Premium, available from just $7 per month The chipmaking industry is moving at breakneck speed — you can keep up to date with our Premium subscription. The future of the hardware and chipmaking industry is in flux. While the valuations of core companies are typically associated with consumer hardware, today, Nvidia, AMD, and even Intel’s profits are skyrocketing on the back of a ceaseless march to build infrastructure for ...

Palantir’s true believers are wearing this jacket

In late April, Palantir — the software company that, in recent years, has perhaps become best known for its defense industry contracts and work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement — announced that it would be adding new products to its merch store. The latest offering was a cotton chore coat. Palantir’s true believers are wearing this jacket The data mining company with extensive defense contracts is making merch to signal which side you’re on. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Me...

CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler

The cuda-oxide Book# cuda-oxide is an experimental Rust-to-CUDA compiler that lets you write (SIMT) GPU kernels in safe(ish), idiomatic Rust. It compiles standard Rust code directly to PTX — no DSLs, no foreign language bindings, just Rust. Note This book assumes familiarity with the Rust programming language, including ownership, traits, and generics. Later chapters on async GPU programming also assume working knowledge of async /.await and runtimes like tokio. For a refresher, see The Rust Pro...

Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)

When America Online purged its tiny Nullsoft branch of all but three employees this week, it lost arguably the most prolific division of the company. Not that you could really blame AOL for the mass layoffs—all of Nullsoft’s projects were spitballs tossed at the honchos upstairs. Before the AOL days, Nullsoft founder Justin Frankel and his team of whiz kids practically invented the MP3 craze when they rolled out their Winamp player and Shoutcast server. When AOL paid millions to buy the then-20-...

Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s

In this article, I try to get my own handwritten matrix multiplication code running as fast as possible for training a Large Language Model (LLM) in Swift. The aim is to give some insight into the key steps for optimizing mathematics code in Swift. I also hope that these examples will offer a sense of scale about the capabilities of the different units on Apple Silicon – CPU, SIMD, AMX and GPU. This will be the first in a series where I look at training neural networks in Swift on Apple Silicon....

Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message

I have tried it myself, the registration is no longer possible with the QR code. Supposedly, using the QR code on the smartphone triggers an SMS sent from your phone to Google in order to verify your phone number. Supposedly, this is for security. A valid argument, since finish is harder this way, although not impossible. However, this prohibits the use of services like SMSpool, too. Does anyone have any ideas how to handle account registration in the future? This only stops your average user. G...

Interfaze: A new model architecture built for high accuracy at scale

copy markdown tl;dr: Interfaze is a new model architecture that outperforms models like Gemini-3-Flash, Claude-Sonnet-4.6, GPT-5.4-Mini, and Grok-4.3 across 9 head-to-head benchmarks in OCR, vision, STT, and structured output. Humans are inefficient at computer-level tasks. We make mistakes, but we're great at decision-making and understanding nuance. Imagine telling a human to read a 50-page PDF, map every word to another document with its XY position, and translate the whole thing into Chinese...
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AMÁLIA and the future of European Portuguese LLMs

AMÁLIA and the future of European Portuguese LLMs In December 2024, the Portuguese government announced AMÁLIA: a 5.5 Million Euro investment on a large-scale LLM for European Portuguese1. The other day, while building an overview of the different Portuguese NLP efforts, I stumbled upon the technical report! I couldn't believe my eyes. Much to talk about! Let's get straight to it! Actually, before we do. A quick disclaimer: AMÁLIA is an impressive piece of work. And the researchers should be ver...

Show HN: TikTok but for Scientific Papers

Discover the right papers, understand them faster, and stay close to the conversations shaping your field. From personalized discovery to AI-powered understanding — Papel transforms how you interact with academic research. Papers ranked by your interests, trending topics, freshness, and community engagement. Choose a feed mode in Settings when you want Latest instead of recommendations. Ask questions about any paper and get grounded answers from the full PDF — powered entirely on-device using Ap...

Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed Canonical?

30 April 2026, 16:33:37 UTC. Canonical’s incident monitoring system marks blog.ubuntu.com as Service Down. Within ten minutes the rest of the company’s public web was down as well: the main site ubuntu.com, the security advisory APIs that downstream package management depends on, the developer portal, the corporate site, the training platform. These disruptions ran for roughly twenty hours. 1 May 2026, 12:44 UTC. Service Restored. The group claiming responsibility for the attack said it used a p...

I'm going back to writing code by hand

Im going back to writing code by hand This dev-log is getting a lot of attention on HN (scary!): HN Thread. To those who are coming here from HN: This started as an investigation or rather a question: "How far I can get with building a piece of software by keeping myself completely out of the loop". The tl;dr of this dev log is that I still need to be in the loop to make anything meaningful. Take aways: - like "em-dash" is to ai writing, "god-object" is to ai coding - vibe-coding makes everythin...

Venom and Hot Peppers Offer a Key to Killing Resistant Bacteria

Researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) have identified new ways to combat tuberculosis and reduce bacterial resistance, developing three new antibiotics derived from scorpion venom and habanero peppers. A team led by Lourival Domingos Possani Postay, from the Institute of Biotechnology's Morelos campus, created two drugs that demonstrated efficacy against the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, responsible for tuberculosis, as well as against Staphylococcus aureus...

Building a web server in aarch64 assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning

building a web server in aarch64 assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning ymawky is a small, static http web server written entirely in aarch64 assembly for macos. it uses raw darwin syscalls with no libc wrappers, serves static files, supports GET , HEAD , PUT , OPTIONS , DELETE , byte ranges, directory listing, custom error pages, and tries to be as hardened as possible. why? why not? the dream of the 80s is alive in ymawky. everybody has nginx. having apache makes you a square. so why not...

Holding Community Space

Building a Space People Never Want to Leave Lessons from a warehouse in Brooklyn Editor’s note: this is a guest post from Jesse Evers, adapted from a longer version on Jesse’s personal blog here. The tension between creating a community space that is welcoming, generative, AND sustainable is one we love to explore. Jesse shares his journey with Highside: the special magic that comes from trusting people with nice things, and the reasons he eventually decided to shut it down. We see echoes of mer...

Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career

Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career I don’t think there’s compelling evidence that using AI makes you less intelligent overall1. However, it seems pretty obvious that using AI to perform a task means you don’t learn as much about performing that task. Some software engineers think this is a decisive argument against the use of AI. Their argument goes something like this: - Using AI means you don’t learn as much from your work - AI-users thus become less effective engineers ov...

Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory

Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory I’ve been experimenting with running local models on and off for a bit and I’ve finally found a setup that seems to work reasonably. It’s nothing like the output of a SOTA model, but the excitement of being able to have a local model do basic tasks, research, and planning, more than makes up for it! No internet connection required! Not to mention that it’s a way of reducing your dependence on big US tech, even if just a tiny bit. I gotta say though,...

The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)

The 80-second clip above captures a rocket launch, something of which we’ve all seen footage at one time or another. What makes its viewers call it “the greatest shot in television” still today, 45 years after it first aired, may take more than one viewing to notice. In it, science historian James Burke speaks about how “certain gases ignite, and that the thermos flask permits you to store vast quantities of those gases safely, in their frozen liquid form, until you want to ignite them.” Use a s...

Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer

Press the phone firmly against the guitar body and pluck a string. Each axis trace shows raw vibration; |a| is the combined magnitude. Pitch is detected from the strongest axis (alias-corrected to the actual string frequency). motion permission required · works best on Android with high-rate IMU

Counting Fast in Erlang with:counters and:atomics

Counting Fast in Erlang with :counters and :atomics I’m just back from giving a training at ElixirConf EU about advanced concurrency patterns in Elixir. I love Erlang’s process model to death. But I also love the things that the OTP team shipped in the past few years focused on essentially escaping that model. Many languages seem to start from mutable, fast data structures and then build concurrency features, thread isolation, all that. Erlang went the opposite direction. Start with concurrency ...

An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs

You Need AI That Reduces Maintenance Costs May 10, 2026 I’ll get straight to the point: your AI coding agent, the one you use to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs. Not by a little bit, either. You write code twice as quick now? Better hope you’ve halved your maintenance costs. Three times as productive? One third the maintenance costs. Otherwise, you’re screwed. You’re trading a temporary speed boost for permanent indenture. Oh, you want to know why? Sure. Let’s go for a drive. ...

Microsoft Israel chief leaves amid ethical controversy

Last week Microsoft Israel, the local marketing and sales office of the US software giant, announced the departure of Country General Manager Alon Haimovich after four years in the job. Behind the dry announcement is major controversy. Haimovich left his position after an investigation by Microsoft's global management into Microsoft Israel’s work with the Ministry of Defense, amid concern that the company's code of ethics had been violated. Several managers in Microsoft Israel’s governance depar...

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Should you leave red herrings about yourself online?

Published Apr 30, 2026 Should you leave red herrings about yourself online? Short answer: for most people, no. Planting fake jobs, cities, and life details all over the web is a weak default. It rarely wins against systems that ingest public records, commercial data, and whatever you already leaked. It can confuse you on recovery questions, create collateral hassle, and still leave the real trail intact. The idea is easy to sympathize with. Privacy guides and OSINT-minded writers sometimes sugge...

Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability

yes, as in singular one. Back in April 2026 Anthropic caused a lot of media noise when they concluded that their new AI model Mythos is dangerously good at finding security flaws in source code. Apparently Mythos was so good at this that Anthropic would not release this model to the public yet but instead trickle it out to a selected few companies for a while to allow a few good ones(?) to get a head start and fix the most pressing problems first, before the general populace would get their hand...

A.I. note takers are making lawyers nervous

DealBook A trendy productivity hack, A.I. note takers are capturing every joke and offhand comment in many meetings. They could also potentially waive attorney-client privilege. Jeffrey Gifford is a lawyer in San Antonio who specializes in corporate governance, securities and M&A at the law firm Dykema. In the moments before virtual meetings begin, he doubles as a bouncer. “Before the meeting even starts,” he told DealBook, “when I see that A.I. note taker pop up, I’ll just say: ‘Hey, Mike, Jim,...

iOS end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging begins rolling today in beta

iOS end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging begins rolling today in beta With today's release of iOS 26.5, Apple has begun rolling out beta support for end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging. As with all things RCS, there are some basic requirements both you and the recipient of your messages will need to fulfill before you messages are secured in transit. First, you'll need an iPhone running iOS 26.5 connected to a wireless network that supports E2E encrypted messaging over RCS. You can find the full li...

Google announces its first-ever discovery of a zero-day exploit made with AI

Google announces its first-ever discovery of a zero-day exploit made with AI We can now add cybercrimes to the list of growing concerns associated with artificial intelligence. Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said it discovered, for the first time ever, a threat actor using a zero-day exploit that it believes was developed by AI." Zero-day vulnerabilities are often the most dangerous since they're unknown to the targets, leaving them with zero days to prepare for the attack. Google sai...

OpenADR and Matter are collaborating to let your smart home talk to the grid

OpenADR and Matter are collaborating to let your smart home talk to the grid OpenADR and Matter are teaming up to make it easier for smart home appliances to talk to the energy grid. This is a big deal, as Matter is the most popular smart home connectivity standard and OpenADR is a connectivity standard used by the actual energy grid. In other words, this should allow smart home devices to automatically communicate with the grid without any effort on your part. What will this do for the consumer...

Venmo's redesigned app offers more discreet payments by default

Venmo's redesigned app offers more discreet payments by default Venmo is redesigning itself to become the "go-to money movement app of the next generation," and part of that evolution is introducing some necessary privacy measures. As first spotted by The Verge, the Venmo revamp welcomes new users with a default setting that sets posts as only visible to friends. Previously, the onboarding process defaulted to posts being public so that everyone can see how much pizza and coffee you were getting...

Five vertical SaaS insights from Sessions 2026

Five vertical SaaS insights from Sessions 2026 Last month, thousands of vertical SaaS leaders gathered at Stripe Sessions and Stripe’s inaugural SaaS Platform Leaders Summit to discuss what they’re seeing in the market and how vertical SaaS can stay differentiated as AI changes expectations for software. Across the more than 16,000 platforms on Stripe—serving broad categories like home services and auto repair, as well as highly specialized verticals like tattoo parlors and funeral homes—many ar...

Guardrails for LLMs: Measuring AI ‘Hallucination’ and Verbosity

Guardrails for LLMs: Measuring AI ‘Hallucination’ and Verbosity This article discusses how to implement an infrastructure for measuring and controlling overly verbose LLM responses. # Introduction Large language models (LLMs) have a taste for using "flowery", sometimes overly verbose language in their responses. Ask a simple question, and chances are you may get flooded with paragraphs of overly detailed, enthusiastic, and complex prose. This usual behavior is rooted in their training, as they a...

Build an AI-Powered Learning Management System That Actually Trains People

Build an AI-Powered Learning Management System That Actually Trains People Learn how to build an AI-powered Learning Management System from scratch using Ollama, FastAPI, and React. A step-by-step guide for beginner and intermediate developers. # Introduction Imagine signing up for an online course, clicking through 40 slides, passing a quiz you Googled your way through, and receiving a certificate. Did you actually learn anything? This is the reality of most online learning platforms today. The...

NBC is debuting a Wordle game show, with Savannah Guthrie serving as host

Wordle, the game originally designed as a gift for the creator’s partner, has been a national obsession for years. Now it’s becoming a television game show. NBC has greenlit a new series centered around the game, which will run in prime time. Today anchor (and self-confessed Wordle megafan) Savannah Guthrie will host. The show will be executive produced by Jimmy Fallon and The New York Times, which owns Wordle. The show is scheduled to premiere in 2027, and casting is underway. If you’re interes...

AI is flooding the courts with more cases, more filings, and more fake citations

AI use is becoming pervasive across the legal system, with both experienced staff and absolute novices turning to ChatGPT and other tools to try to make the most persuasive case possible when they arrive in court, even if some of those claims turn out to be literally too good to be true. Last month, top law firm Sullivan & Cromwell was forced to apologize for filing fictitious case names and fabricated quotes in a legal document submitted in a case, as well as citing incorrect statutes in the U....

When enterprise AI finally works, it won’t look like AI

In an article a couple of weeks ago, I argued that the failure of enterprise AI was not really about enthusiasm, adoption, or even model capability. It was architectural: large language models were never built to run a company. Companies run on memory, context, feedback, and constraints, while LLMs remain, at their core, systems for predicting text. In a second one, I argued that the answer was not “better prompts,” but a deeper shift: from tools to systems, from answers to outcomes, from copilo...

When the Sensor Starts Thinking: SnortML, Agentic AI, and the Evolving Architecture of Intrusion Detection

Every IDS deployment has a gap. Anyone who has run one long enough eventually finds it, usually at the worst possible time. The gap sits between what you wrote rules for and what the attacker chose to do instead. Classic Snort signatures are genuinely impressive instruments. A well-crafted rule can catch a known exploit with near-zero false positives and overhead that barely registers on a profiler. That precision comes from specificity, and specificity is the whole problem. Write a rule for CVE...

OAuth 2.0 – Device flow explained for Engineers, especially for Backend Engineers

First time I tried to login to Netflix at a hotel TV I almost gave up. The remote was having only four arrow keys and a number pad. My password was 18 characters with symbols. Whoever designed the login screen had either never used it themselves, or they had decided suEering builds character. After few years, the same TV’s started doing something different. They showed us a short code and an URL. I opened phone, typed the URL, entered the code and we are in. No remote-control circus. No password...