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Sheetz moves 838 stores off VMware: Broadcom created “too much uncertainty"

The conveneince store chain will use StorMagic instead.

Brendan Carr plans to let broadcast giants dominate the airwaves

The Federal Communications Commission will vote next month on whether a single company can own broadcast stations that reach more than 39 percent of US TV households. In a Breitbart op-ed on Wednesday, Republican Chair Brendan Carr announced an August 6th vote to end the national ownership cap rule, which was intended to prevent one […]

xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM ‘deepfakes’

The Elon Musk-owned xAI is suing a South Carolina man who allegedly used the company's Grok AI chatbot to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In a lawsuit reported earlier by Reuters, xAI claims Terry Wayne Harwood "knowingly and intentionally used Grok to circumvent safeguards, alter nonconsensual images, and generate and distribute CSAM," breaching the […]

Judge: Trump can’t deport researchers just for working in content moderation

Disinformation researchers praise ruling blocking Trump visa denials and deportations.

The End of Creativity

Article URL: https://hugodaniel.com/posts/the-end-of-creativity/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927136

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Must actively fund open source AI [pdf]

Article URL: https://www.siegelendowment.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/fortune-david-siegel-open-source-ai.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927095

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Engineer identifies and explains every '90s computer seen in Jurassic Park

Yes, it was, in fact, a Unix system.

Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

This is the entire Firefox browser rendering to a element. Gecko, all UI components, and the Spidermonkey JS engine are all compiled and running in WebAssembly.

Here are a few things you might find interesting:

- This is fully end to end encrypted! We use the WISP protocol for TCP-over-websockets.

- There is a novel WASM->JS JIT for experimental site speedup

- This port cost over 25k in opus/fable tokens for debugging and JIT research

This was just a fun experiment to push the boundaries of WebAssembly. For a more usable "browser in browser" experience, we also built https://github.com/HeyPuter/browser.js that eats a bit less RAM.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48926939

Points: 11

# Comments: 5

Intel Officials Predict the Pentagon’s Bill for the Iran War Will Exceed $100 Billion

The Trump administration has not disclosed its cost estimates for the Iran war.

Here’s the Truth About Whether Meta’s NameTag Face Recognition Tech ‘Exists’

Since WIRED reported on Meta’s NameTag face recognition system, company executives have made confusing and conflicting remarks about its very existence.