Sony says new PlayStation games will go disc-free in 2028
Physical production will stop for titles released from January 2028, while earlier disc releases remain unaffected under the announced policy.
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Sony warns 551 purchased StudioCanal titles will leave PlayStation libraries
A licensing change is set to remove previously bought films and television programs on September 1, according to a notice reproduced online.
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Developer finds hidden classification markers in Claude Code prompts
A reverse-engineering report said Claude Code 2.1.196 could encode information about custom API hosts and two timezones through tiny changes to an apostrophe and date separators.
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Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 across all subscription plans
The company prices its new model at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens while emphasizing agentic work and safety changes.
Read report »Waag challenges Big Tech checks in European identity wallets
The digital-rights organization says reliance on Google and Apple attestation could exclude alternative mobile systems from public services.
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Ford recalls more than 741,000 US vehicles over transmission park-system risk
Certain Ford and Lincoln models from the 2018–2021 model years require a software update and inspection after regulators warned that transmission damage could allow unintended movement while parked.
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Repeated resume tests expose unstable scores in open-source hiring agent
An engineer’s 100-run experiment found that an AI resume evaluator could move the same applicant above or below a hiring cutoff without any change to the resume.
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Pragmatic Engineer says false copyright claim removed Pollen investigation from Google
Writer Gergely Orosz says he appealed after Google delisted his 2022 article under a complaint alleging it copied an unrelated 1998 New York Post story.
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Qwen3.6 27B test points to practical local coding on high-memory computers
A Quesma developer reported useful one-shot coding results and about 30 tokens per second on a 128GB MacBook, while stressing the model’s heavy hardware demands.
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Fossil stored for 40 years identified as Antarctica’s earliest-found dinosaur bone
A vertebra collected on James Ross Island in 1985 has been recognized as a titanosaur tail bone, revising the history of dinosaur discovery on the continent.
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Press-freedom advocates challenge 30-year sentence tied to transporting political zines
An Intercept commentary says Daniel Sanchez Estrada’s punishment risks treating possession and movement of political literature as evidence of extremist conspiracy.
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Privacy campaign relaunches ahead of disputed EU chat-scanning talks
Former MEP Patrick Breyer says parallel negotiations over temporary and permanent rules could revive scanning mandates, as his campaign urges citizens to contact EU officials.
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GLM 5.2 tops Claude Code in Semgrep’s narrow access-control benchmark
The open-weight model reached 39% F1 in an IDOR detection test against Claude Code’s 32%, but remained behind Semgrep’s purpose-built security pipeline.
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EFF warns KIDS Act could push platforms toward broad age checks
The digital-rights group says a US legislative package ties duties to users’ ages in ways that may pressure services to collect IDs, estimate age or limit lawful speech.
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Exploitarium repository publishes unreported vulnerability proofs of concept
An anonymous GitHub maintainer has consolidated dozens of exploit demonstrations while saying the findings were unreported at publication and warning readers against malicious use.
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Satirical ‘CVE-2026-LGTM’ report skewers automated security review
Andrew Nesbitt’s fictional incident chronicle imagines AI agents repeatedly trusting hostile instructions, exhausting context and amplifying a software supply-chain breach.
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Researchers virtually unwrap and read preserved Herculaneum scroll end to end
X-ray tomography, surface reconstruction and machine learning recovered the surviving text of PHerc. 1667 without physically opening the carbonized papyrus.
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FIRE warns age-verification mandates can become identity checks for all users
The free-expression group points to Australia’s under-16 social-media rules, data collection and a recent breach as reasons to question expanding online age gates.
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German founder documents €9,600 cost and 152-day wait to invoice
Giulio Paolino says a two-company structure, registration work and delayed VAT identification left his new business unable to bill foreign clients after five months.
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OpenAI unveils Jalapeño inference chip developed with Broadcom
The custom processor is being tested for serving AI models, with OpenAI claiming improved performance per watt and lower costs for real-time coding workloads.
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Bunny removes DNS query fees and offers hosting for 500 domains
The infrastructure provider says Bunny DNS now has no per-request charges or query caps, though accounts remain subject to a $1 monthly minimum spend.
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Baidu Repository Presents Unlimited-OCR for Long-Horizon Document Parsing
The public project outlines GPU-based inference, PDF and image workflows, and several deployment routes for a document-parsing model.
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F3 research prototype proposes extensible successor to columnar data formats
The SIGMOD 2026 project combines a redesigned storage layout with embedded WebAssembly decoders, while warning that its current implementation is not for production use.
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FUTO releases compact swipe-typing models and C++ inference library
The system combines a universal path encoder, a small context model and an English QWERTY decoder trained with a public dataset of one million volunteered swipes.
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