Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws(theverge.com)
900 points by ksec | 1058 comments
The Verge news article reporting that the European Union is scaling back GDPR privacy rules and relaxing its AI Act under pressure from Big Tech.
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Meta Segment Anything Model 3(ai.meta.com)
630 points by lukeinator42 | 126 comments
Meta AI's landing page introducing Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM 3), which segments and tracks objects in images and videos from text and visual prompts.
Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector(downdetectorsdowndetector.com)
517 points by gusowen | 156 comments
A small independent status checker that tests whether DownDetector.com is reachable from London, Auckland, and New York, showing HTTP status and latency.
The patent office is about to make bad patents untouchable(eff.org)
506 points by iamnothere | 70 comments
EFF article by Joe Mullin arguing that proposed USPTO rule changes would make it much harder to challenge bad patents.
Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max(openai.com)
462 points by hansonw | 286 comments
OpenAI product announcement introducing GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, a new agentic coding model available through the Codex CLI and tools.
Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable(theverge.com)
452 points by throwaway270925 | 334 comments
The Verge report in which Nathan Edwards explains switching his gaming desktop from Windows to Linux (CachyOS) as Linux gaming becomes more approachable.
AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power(chrbutler.com)
443 points by delaugust | 338 comments
Christopher Butler's blog essay "What AI is Really For," arguing that AI serves as a front for consolidating resources and power.
Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support(blog.thunderbird.net)
410 points by babolivier | 120 comments
Thunderbird blog post announcing native Microsoft Exchange email support in the Thunderbird mail client.
Loose wire leads to blackout, contact with Francis Scott Key bridge(ntsb.gov)
408 points by DamnInteresting | 193 comments
NTSB news release (Nov 18, 2025) reporting that a loose wire on the containership Dali caused blackouts leading to its contact with Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge.
Your smartphone, their rules: App stores enable corporate-government censorship(aclu.org)
400 points by pabs3 | 199 comments
ACLU article arguing that the Apple and Google app store oligopoly enables corporate and government censorship of smartphone apps; screenshot shows a donation modal overlay.
The Death of Arduino?(linkedin.com)
379 points by ChuckMcM | 191 comments
LinkedIn post by Adafruit criticizing Qualcomm-owned Arduino's rewritten Terms of Service and Privacy Policy as a break from open-hardware values.
Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board(cnbc.com)
304 points by koolba | 332 comments
A $1k AWS mistake(geocod.io)
295 points by thecodemonkey | 243 comments
I just want working RCS messaging(wt.gd)
289 points by joecool1029 | 277 comments
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Meta Segment Anything Model 3(ai.meta.com)
172 points by alcinos | 38 comments
How Slide Rules Work(amenzwa.github.io)
169 points by ColinWright | 50 comments
What Killed Perl?(entropicthoughts.com)
158 points by speckx | 356 comments
Broccoli Man, Remastered(mbleigh.dev)
142 points by mbleigh | 78 comments
I built a faster Notion in Rust(imedadel.com)
142 points by PaulHoule | 74 comments
Pimped Amiga 500(pimyretro.org)
81 points by onename | 37 comments
Learning to Boot from PXE(blog.imraniqbal.org)
77 points by speckx | 33 comments
Tailscale Down(status.tailscale.com)
56 points by fasz | 31 comments
CornHub(cornhub.website)
56 points by andy99 | 15 comments
