Microsoft wants users to be addicted to Scout, their AI personal assistant
6 June 2026 Jason Koebler, and Emanuel Maiberg, writing for 404 Media: An internal Microsoft strategy document says that the plan for its just-announced “Scout” personal assistant AI is to “make people addicted” to the tool before rolling out additional functionality, 404 Media has learned. “Three phases from addictive app to agentic platform,” the documentation. […]
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Cloudflare CEO Is Lying to You About the Bot Traffic Jump
A magic trick is a trick. It misrepresents reality. What the Cloudflare CEO published as bot traffic increasing, is a trick. He misrepresents reality. The explanation is simple. The claim is false as stated: …bots passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet’s history. The Cloudflare data shows online traffic is still […]
Adyen Selected as Payment Services Provider for GOV.UK Pay
The Government Digital Service (GDS) has appointed Adyen, the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, as the new payment services provider (PSP) for non-Crown card payments and pay by bank services. GOV.UK Pay, the government’s online payment service built by GDS, enables public sector organisations to take payments quickly, securely and accessibly. […]
Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen
public sector Means residents can skip the credit card and use ’pay by bank’ for local authorities and services The UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS) has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen as its processor for many payments made through its GOV.UK Pay service. Adyen will take over GOV.UK Pay card payments for local authorities, […]
Mantine-datatable (and others) compromised – owner account suspended
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Launch HN: General Instinct (YC P26) – Frontier models on edge devices
Hey HN, Guanming and Bill here from General Instinct (https://general-instinct.com/). After years of working in robotics, we kept running into the same problem: the best models never fit the hardware we actually had available. The models that performed best were usually designed around datacenter assumptions: large GPUs, lots of memory bandwidth, and reliable network access. […]
Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing compression for mobile and laptop efficiency
Since releasing Gemma 4 two months ago, we’ve been continuously working to expand its capabilities. First, we introduced Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) to accelerate inference, and just a couple of days ago, we released a 12B model to bridge the gap between our E4B and 26B MOE models. Today, we are releasing new checkpoints optimized with […]
pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution
Long-running, fault-tolerant SQL functions for teams that already keep their state in Postgres and want to stop stitching together cron jobs, workers, queues, and status tables to make background work reliable. Define the workflow in SQL, let pg_durable checkpoint each step, and resume after crashes, restarts, or failed steps. Durable execution is now a standard […]
Stop Using Conventional Commits
You’ve almost certainly encountered Conventional Commits before. It may have reared its ugly head in the changelog of an open source project you’ve used. It may have been the enforced commit format for an open source project you contributed to. A lot of people swear by it. I swear at it. Even though it is […]