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Rotting corpse found with knife in neck inside NYC home: sources
A rotting 58-year-old man's body was found with a knife sticking out of his neck inside a Brooklyn home Sunday afternoon, according to cops and sources.…
Show HN: Mu – Tools for Agents
Tools for Agents. Contribute to micro/mu development by creating an account on GitHub.…
AerynOS Issues First Development Update & New ISOs In Three Months
It's been just over three months since the last AerynOS development update and new ISO spin but fortunately that's been succeeded today by a new development update and ISO images…
Kernel prepatch 7.2-rc6
The 7.2-rc6 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Quoth Linus: 'Hmm. This rc is huge. Even by t [...]…
In a twist of irony, a Chinese open source GLM 5.2 AI model contained 'rogue' OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol in a Hugging Face hack just as the US mulls banning open-weight AI
Chinese AI unexpectedly rescues Hugging Face after rogue OpenAI agent sparks fierce new battle over America's open-weight AI future…
Sources detail the troubled development of Tencent's ambitious, GTA-like game Last Sentinel, which has burned hundreds of millions of dollars over six years (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg : Sources detail the troubled development of Tencent's ambitious, GTA-like game Last Sentinel, which has burned hundreds of millions of dollars over six …
4 Discord settings I always change to free up GPU resources while gaming
You don't want Discord wasting CPU or GPU resources when you're in-game.…
Ex-‘60 Minutes’ boss Bill Owens wants to launch rival news show with Scott Pelley, other fired staffers: sources
Owens has quietly been raising cash for the digital news venture in recent months, sources close to the situation said.…
Ohio Rep Marcy Kaptur hospitalized after car crash on way to church
Rep. Marcy Kaptur was hospitalized after a car crash near Toledo, Ohio, while traveling to church Sunday morning. Her office said she suffered injuries that are not life-threatenin…
AI learns language from skewed sources. It could change how humans speak/think
Large language models aren’t trained on real-life conversations. As we encounter their language, it could affect our own…
This one free open-source tool replaced three paid apps I'd used for years
I thought free office suites always came with compromises, but this open-source tool proved I was completely wrong.…
Show HN: Sprocket – The Best AI Agent for Hardware and Software Development
Agentic platform for streamlining hardware and software development - spikonado/sprocket…
Mozilla's Inaugural 'State of Open Source AI' Report Is Here
Open source AI has crossed a threshold. For years the debate has centered around whether open models could ever compete with closed ones. This is no longer…
Thoughts on Apple Upgrade; sources: MacBook Air is now facing shortages too; Apple wants to turn its future glasses and headsets into health and fitness devices (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
I'm finally ditching Google Chrome for an open-source browser, and its AI does what Chrome can't
Chrome does what it's supposed to do, but this does more…
Show HN: Handoff is await human() for AI agents
await human() for AI agents: when an agent hits a wall, a real phone rings and a person takes the wheel in its live browser. - OmegaAgent/handoff…
First open-source firmware for AM5 officially launches — Dasharo v0.9.0 brings Coreboot and openSIL to Zen 4 APUs on MSI B850
3mdeb is the first company to make open-source firmware for the AM5 platform.…
Anthropic is paying $1.5 billion over pirated books, but it can still legally cut up purchased ones
Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement covers pirated ebooks, while the court separately allowed it to scan and destroy lawfully purchased print books, a distinction now worrying Aust…
Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops
Bor v0.8.0 is out. This release adds three new policy types — Thunderbird, Microsoft Edge for Business, and Firewalld zones — alongside a full web UI overhaul, finer-grained RBAC, …
Prolific Team Fortress 2 collector is selling his in-game case arsenal for an estimated $100,000 — 1.7 million items collected over 10 years are enough to fund a house purchase
Cases are worth a few pennies in most instances, but when you have nearly two million of them……
Box64 v0.4.4 Released With New Box64-Configurator App
Box64 0.4.4 released today as the newest version of this open-source user-space Linux x86_64 emulator for running binaries on 64-bit ARM, RISC-V, and LoongArch systems.…
JobRadar: Open-source job search agent that scores listings with a local LLM
🎯 AI-Powered Job Search Agent — searches multiple job boards and rates them against your profile using a local LLM - ANIRudH-lab-life/job-radar…
Bipartisan Anti-Tech Populism May Just Help the Left
Opposition to data centers and Flock cameras advance the left’s agenda without scoring concrete wins for the right. The post Bipartisan Anti-Tech Populism May Just Help the Left ap…
docs: Add AI Section to CONTRIBUTING.md
💬 Modern, responsive, cross-platform, self-hosted web IRC client - docs: add AI section to CONTRIBUTING.md by MaxLeiter · Pull Request #5130 · thelounge/thelounge…
Justice Dept. Subpoenas Times Freelancer in Effort to Identify Sources
The most powerful open-source model of the year just dropped, and you still can't run it at home
Kimi K3 is one of the best models out there right now.…
Open-Source AI Platform Orbit
Self-hosted, OpenAI-compatible AI gateway for private RAG, natural-language data access, and tool-calling agents. - schmitech/orbit…
Morten Linderud resigning from Arch Linux development team
MPEG-4 Patent Expiration, RADV On Windows, Open-Source AI & Other July Highlights
Last month on Phoronix there were 257 original Linux/open-source related news articles and another 20 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles…
This year's Defcon badges include Baochip-1x, an open source chip whose security is verifiable and that can also be used as a hardware security token (Kim Zetter/Wired)
Show HN: Free AI Prompt Gen – A local-first, open-source prompt engineering tool
The best free AI prompt generator. Craft optimal text, image & code prompts for ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude & Midjourney using proven RTF and CO-STAR frameworks.…
Prominent Arch Linux Developer Resigns After 10 Year Run
Arch Linux developer, security team member, AUR maintainer, and package maintainer Morten Linderud 'Foxboron' announced today he is resigning from the project.…
How fruit flies chase invisible ribbons of smell to get to their source
Tracking smells in turbulent air takes a keen sense of direction and sharp memory.…
Defcon's new badge is a security key you can see inside
A removable chip lets hackers inspect their badge—and keep using it after Defcon.…
At the UN AI for Good summit, a big Chinese delegation argued Chinese open-source AI models are the future for most of the world, while US presence was muted (J.D. Capelouto/Semafor)
Sources detail how OpenAI fell behind Anthropic in revenue growth and valuation after prioritizing consumer chatbots and flashy side projects over coding tools (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
Rogue AI hacking incidents amplify debate over open-source tech
Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)
Tuesday was Stateless MCP day - the rollout of MCP 2.0, or the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification to use the more formal but less memorable name. This is the most sign…
Sources: OpenAI demoed a new "Astra" AI model family to US policymakers and regulators this week, touting its improved abilities to complete long-running tasks (The Information)
Filing: Amazon has completed its $50B investment in OpenAI; source: OpenAI received the final tranche this week, taking Amazon's position to roughly 5% (Financial Times)
I replaced Lightroom with an open-source alternative, and Adobe's subscription suddenly felt pointless
Why pay to manage your own photos?…
Lerd, an open source Herd-like PHP development environment for Linux and macOS
Open-source, Herd-like local PHP development environment for Linux and macOS. Automatic .test domains, per-project PHP/Node isolation, one-command TLS. Podman-native, rootless. - l…
Sources: OpenAI has discovered other instances where AI agents escaped containment; none of the agents were thought to have left OpenAI's network (Reuters)
The First Open-Source Firmware Released For Modern AMD Ryzen AM5 Platform
Last month 3mdeb released their open-source firmware for a modern AMD EPYC motherboard from Gigabyte that was built off the new AMD openSIL project and Coreboot…
Shotcut 26.7 Video Editor Released With Stock Asset Library
Shotcut 26.7 is out today as the newest feature release to this open-source, cross-platform video editing solution.…
Show HN: Doubt – Source-grounded evidence maps for AI research
Turn contested questions into interactive, source-grounded evidence maps. - alsoleg89/doubt…
Sources: NXP is in talks to buy Ambarella, which has a market cap of ~$3.3B and makes image-processing chips for security cameras and self-driving cars (Oliver Barnes/Financial Times)
Sources: Moonshot has a computing power agreement with Alibaba for the use of ~20K Nvidia chips; some say the deal is for H200 chips, which Alibaba denies (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)
LLM-mock – open-source REST API to test LLM integrations for real
Self-hosted OpenAI-compatible mock server — test your LLM integrations without exposing your API key. By Axium. - axium-lab/llm-mock…
Arch Linux AUR Under Another Wave Of Malicious Packages, Package Adoptions Halted
Last month the Arch Linux User Repository 'AUR' saw more than 1,500 malicious packages amid a sophisticated malware attack and then also seeing an influx of spam and profanities am…
Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy
At conferences and meetups, and in conversations online, many Ruby developers have asked me about Ruby Central and my disagreement with them. This post is my attempt to answer the …
Sources: Eric Trump-backed Space-Eyes, which develops AI-powered defense tech for the public sector, agrees to go public via a SPAC merger at a $638M valuation (Reuters)
Reuters : Sources: Eric Trump-backed Space-Eyes, which develops AI-powered defense tech for the public sector, agrees to go public via a SPAC merger at a $638M valuation — Defense …
Sources: the Trump admin is weighing a $100K fee for foreign students seeking to work in the US after graduation; a judge blocked Trump's $100K H-1B fee in June (Michelle Hackman/Wall Street Journal)
Florida Saw 36 Leprosy Cases Last Year. The Source May Surprise You
The state has continued to report cases of the rare but potentially debilitating infection.…
New open source printer has 7 toolheads that swap in 5 seconds for fast, zero-waste multi-color 3D printing — Sovol M1D 3D printer is the first open-source IDEX design with an integrated tool-changer
True dual-nozzle independent operation for a competitive price.…
Building a Reproduction PlayStation Motherboard
Thanks to things like spilled drinks, leaky batteries, and the general ravages of time, older consoles can be tough to keep going. In particular, excessive damage to a motherboard …
Letter: Situational Awareness is down ~67% in July, but remains up ~80% in 2026; sources say it planned to sell $3.5B of its Anthropic stake but backed out (Wall Street Journal)
LinkedIn is crowdsourcing its fight against AI slop
LinkedIn is turning to the community to help combat its AI slop problem with a button that lets users flag AI writing.…
The New Defcon Badges Pack a Unique Open Source Chip That Doubles as a Security Key
Created by legendary hardware hacker Andrew “bunnie” Huang, the badges for this year’s famed security conference aim to push the boundaries of security and transparency.…