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Bernie Sanders proposes banning ‘superintelligence’ and putting violators in prison

Bernie Sanders proposes banning ‘superintelligence’ and putting violators in prison

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) have introduced new legislation that would ban anyone from developing artificial superintelligen…
The Download: India’s smart glasses menace and AI’s trillion-dollar gamble

The Download: India’s smart glasses menace and AI’s trillion-dollar gamble

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. …
‘Trump TV’ is just reruns of the president on YouTube

‘Trump TV’ is just reruns of the president on YouTube

The White House is now airing reruns of President Donald Trump's speeches, bill signings, and other moments on a YouTube livestream that it's calling …
4 ways to address the failures we found along the US border’s “virtual wall”

4 ways to address the failures we found along the US border’s “virtual wall”

MIT Technology Review today published our investigation into how many people have died near the “virtual wall” of surveillance towers that the US gove…
How we made the first comprehensive map of deaths along the US border’s “virtual wall”

How we made the first comprehensive map of deaths along the US border’s “virtual wall”

Our 15-month investigation into death and surveillance along the US-Mexico border began with a simple question: Why did so many people die near govern…
Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue

Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue

Article URL: https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/business/korea-raises-data-breach-fines-to-10-of-revenue/12869899 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat…
The scourge of x86 emulation

The scourge of x86 emulation

Article URL: https://fex-emu.com/Scourge-of-emulation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49750094 Points: 246 # Comments: 67…
ZCode, the GLM coding agent, silently uploads your Git history

ZCode, the GLM coding agent, silently uploads your Git history

Article URL: https://tokenstead.ai/guides/zcode-silent-git-history-upload Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752422 Points: 247 # Co…
Manus seeks $4B valuation in new $500M fundraise as it resumes independent ops

Manus seeks $4B valuation in new $500M fundraise as it resumes independent ops

Manus, which earlier this year had to break off a merger with Meta, is in discussions to raise $500M at a $4B valuation.…
Automattic’s 33-Hour Coup, and can AI labs police themselves?

Automattic’s 33-Hour Coup, and can AI labs police themselves?

A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan to…
Trump’s Anti-Bias AI Order Is Just More Bias

Trump’s Anti-Bias AI Order Is Just More Bias

The Trump administration says it wants AI models free from ideological bias, as it pressures their developers to reflect the president’s worldview.…
I made a build visualizer to understand Bun's compile times

I made a build visualizer to understand Bun's compile times

Article URL: https://lalitm.com/post/buildprof/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49672842 Points: 159 # Comments: 30…
Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests

Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/12/revolut-confirms-customer-data-breach-through-fake-government-requests/ Comments URL: https://news.ycom…
I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc

I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc

Article URL: https://dreamstation.systems/personal/tesla.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49686766 Points: 166 # Comments: 40…
Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard

Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard

Article URL: https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/117201594980991062 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49675902 Points: 180 # Comments: …
Nine coding harnesses vs. your laptop

Nine coding harnesses vs. your laptop

Article URL: https://nasutton.notion.site/Nine-coding-harnesses-vs-your-laptop-3d139990182b80d59fa3cf500f0450ba?pvs=74 Comments URL: https://news.ycom…
Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE

Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE

Article URL: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/src/branch/forgejo/release-notes-published/16.0.4.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item…
Show HN: Bodily Oddities

Show HN: Bodily Oddities

When I was about 11 years old, my best friend and I were playing during recess at school, and I was carrying him around on my back, presumably pretend…
Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract

Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract

Article URL: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2026-09-09/blizzard-video-game-workers-ratify-union-contract Comments URL: http…
Another researcher says OpenAI trained on conversations, then claimed breakthrou

Another researcher says OpenAI trained on conversations, then claimed breakthrou

Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ckaz32jwl6t2cno6fmuw2nhn/post/3mv4mt4ikss2d Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49643112 …
Neki – Sharded Postgres

Neki – Sharded Postgres

Article URL: https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-neki Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645686 Points: 269 # Comments: 149…
The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac

The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac

Article URL: https://auberon.xyz/blog/posts/deathray/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49649124 Points: 259 # Comments: 182…
Oracle tries to appease Stargate data center opponents with renewables push

Oracle tries to appease Stargate data center opponents with renewables push

Renewables pledge won’t change the Oracle and OpenAI data center’s use of gas.…
Meta Sued Over Training Data for Its AI and Face-Recognition Systems

Meta Sued Over Training Data for Its AI and Face-Recognition Systems

The proposed class action alleges Meta illegally harvested people’s Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-generation models and to build…
Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route

Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cmd683p01eljt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658299 Points: 291 # Comments: 455…
Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom

Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom

Article URL: https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/MusicTheory.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647134 Points: 274 # Comme…
Claude is no longer available for minors

Claude is no longer available for minors

Article URL: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15171100-age-assurance-on-claude Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656225 Point…
The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative

The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative

Article URL: https://www.researchagenda.news/articles/the-waymo-effect.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656496 Points: 296 # …
The White House calls Truth Social the ‘most powerful and popular’ social media platform

The White House calls Truth Social the ‘most powerful and popular’ social media platform

The White House claims the Donald Trump-owned Truth Social is the "most powerful and popular social media platform in the world." The statement, provi…
The Trump Alien ‘Disclosure Speech’ Rumors Are Reaching a Fever Pitch

The Trump Alien ‘Disclosure Speech’ Rumors Are Reaching a Fever Pitch

The US government has been sharing more information about UFOs. That's fueling excitement over the possibility of the president announcing that humans…