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This software outperformer reports earnings this week. Jay Woods says to watch these key levels

Snowflake could hit a key $330 level after its earnings report, setting it up to potentially set a new record high above $400 per share, per Jay Woods.

22 best-performing stocks of August, as the software industry continues its recovery

The energy and technology sectors did well in August, while Moderna’s stock was the best performer by a wide margin.

Oscar Winner Brings Monsters to Life With His Simulation Software

While walking to school as a child, Jernej Barbič would marvel at how beautiful his home was.

PDF Solutions (PDFS): A Semiconductor Software Winner Returned 52% in Q2

Honda (HMC), Nissan Edge Toward a Software Alliance

AI isn’t eating software after all — and the sector’s ‘epic’ rally could run through October

Months of panic that AI would replace subscription software are easing after a strong week of software earnings.

id Software's former co-owner says they absolutely would've used gen AI back in the day: 'John Carmack would be like making Skynet or something'

Generative AI is a hot-button topic in the industry, and for good reason—it's been kinda destructive, whether that's jacking up hardware prices or putting people out of a job —and while there have been some fairly mundane use cases that seem helpful, it's been hard to escape the

Salesforce’s stock rockets 20% and gives the software sector a major lift

Salesforce’s earnings showed that AI isn’t killing traditional software, and that the operators of major AI models are willing to strike partnerships with legacy vendors.

Salesforce rockets 22% for second-best day ever, leading software rally

Salesforce reported a strong beat on second-quarter earnings and announced an expanded AI partnership with Anthropic.

Just as Genshin Impact was called a Zelda: Breath of the Wild ripoff, Nodusfall is accused of copying FromSoftware's homework

The reveal of Nodusfall , Hoyoverse's Monster Hunter-like co-op action game, has sparked comparisons to FromSoftware games like Elden Ring, and it's taking me right back to the earliest days of Genshin Impact, when Hoyoverse was still more widely known as miHoYo.

2 of our software stocks face major tests of whether their rallies are for real

Here are the questions we are looking to answer when CrowdStrike and Salesforce report earnings Wednesday evening.

I’m An Elden Ring Sicko, But 10 Hours With The Duskbloods Has Me Worried FromSoftware’s Next Game Isn’t For Me

What if someone just irredeemably sucks at PvP?

Connectivity issues force FromSoftware to close The Duskbloods network test early

UPDATE 2PM BST: FormSoftware has closed today's The Duskbloods network test early due to connectivity issues. Read more

Microsoft blames RGB peripherals for crashing Windows 11 — RGB software is causing blue screens, crashes, and game freezes

Like clockwork, it's a new month and a new OS-breaking bug has been discovered in Windows 11's latest monthly update, KB5121003. Users reported random system instability, with games freezing or outright crashing, and even BSODs in worst-case scenarios. Microsoft investigated the

Miyazaki suggests FromSoftware is keen to return to single-player games after The Duskbloods and Elden Ring: Nightreign

Hidetaka Miyazaki , the president of FromSoftware and director of so many revered Soulsian games, has suggested the studio is keen to return to making single-player games after The Duskbloods. Read more

2 Software Stocks That Whale Rock Is Betting Will Survive the Apocalypse

Nissan and Honda partner to develop software for cars

Japanese automakers Nissan and Honda entered a deal to jointly develop computer parts and software for vehicles set to enter the market in fiscal 2029, both sides said Monday.

Nissan and Honda Announce Software and Electronics Partnership

Although the Honda and Nissan merger fell apart in early 2025, the two Japanese giants plan to work together on software-defined vehicles.

ATM Flaws Reveal Key Weaknesses in the Software Supply Chain

A security researcher discovered nine vulnerabilities impacting ATM encryption and authentication software. But the problems extend far beyond your local cash machine.

Malleable software = solid bases and custom code

Article URL: https://www.mdubakov.me/malleable-software-solid-bases-custom-code/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508059 Points: 63 # Comments: 21

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt

California’s legislature has passed Assembly Bill 1856 , exempting open-source operating systems from the State’s Digital Age Assurance Act months before the law is due to take effect on January 1, 2027.

Lucid Air Recall Has Owners Parking Outside While Software Plays Firefighter

More than 27,000 Air sedans need an update after lighting circuits proved capable of getting far too hot

The growing divide between AI hype and software engineering reality

Article URL: https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/why-open-source-projects-ban-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491113 Points: 15 # Comments: 10

Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need

Article URL: https://geekyschmidt.com/post/2026-08-25-verschlimmbesserung/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49479072 Points: 151 # Comments: 103

Salesforce is surging again — but the best software setups may be elsewhere: One Big Investment Idea

Microsoft’s stock seals its longest winning streak of the year as AI software fears fade

Microsoft’s software offers capabilities that will be critical for AI, one analyst notes.

Nepal flash floods: Software engineer from A.P.’s Kuppam ‘missing’, family appeals for assistance

V.S. Balasubrahmanyam had travelled to Nepal on August 13 with a batch of Kailash Manasarovar Yatra pilgrims

Launch HN: Salem Robotics (YC S26) – Software for industrial inspection robots

Hi HN, we're the founders of Salem Robotics ( https://salemroboticsinc.com ).

Samsung’s Galaxy S26 FE pairs last year’s hardware with last month’s software - The Verge

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Europe needs to fight back against US software dominance – and now is the time

Technological dominance is won by carving out protected space in which a domestic alternative can grow.

Software engineering is about managing complexity

Article URL: https://hack8s.com/422/once-again-software-engineering-is-about-managing-complexity Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49465381 Points: 25 # Comments: 3

This software stock's AI pivot is starting to pay off, Goldman Sachs says

Salesforce reported strong quarterly financial results and guidance on Wednesday, boosting confidence in the growth potential of its stock, per Goldman Sachs.

Samsung’s Galaxy S26 FE pairs last year’s hardware with last month’s software

The Fan Edition phones are rarely Samsung's most exciting launches of the year, but the new Galaxy S26 FE feels especially familiar.

Software is crushing chips by a record margin: Chart of the Day

BlackBerry found a second life in car software. Now it’s looking to robotics

BlackBerry CEO John Giamatteo explains how its QNX car software helped reshape the company — and why it sees robotics as a major growth opportunity.

Apple reportedly cut more than 200 jobs across Vision Pro and Siri software teams

Apple has laid off employees in its Vision Pro and Siri teams as it shifts focus to smart glasses and next-gen AI tech.

3 Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Stocks with Big Upside from AI

Hadith computational science in the age of large language models: a critical narrative review

arXiv:2608.20364v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We examine how hadith computational science is being reshaped by transformer models, retrieval-grounded pipelines, and large language models (LLMs). Recent reviews document growth in the literature, but they do not yet provide a cri

Multilingual Verifier Bias in RLVR: Benchmark, Rollout Diagnosis, and the Cross-Lingual Selection Bottleneck

arXiv:2608.20362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is a standard recipe for training large language models on mathematical reasoning, where an answer verifier serves as a language-neutral reward function. We show that this assump

A Incredible Looking and Unofficial 'Zelda Maker 64' Is Coming to Steam

Temple Maker 64 is the work of a solo dev who left his full-time software engineering job to make a Zelda-like level creation suite

Call of Duty Touts Anti-Cheat Commitment Ahead Of Modern Warfare 4

Call of Duty has served 80 cease-and-desist letters to cheat developers in an attempt to stop them from continuing to distribute their software.

The Switch 2 Is About to Face Its Toughest Challenge Yet

It's been mostly smooth sailing for Nintendo in the Switch 2's first year, but the console is about to face a FromSoftware-sized test.

The Best College Student Discounts For Back-to-School

Once verified, students can start saving on everything from laptops and software to fashion and food delivery

Elden Ring Update Patch Notes Reveal Biggest Changes in Years

FromSoftware has delivered a surprise Elden Ring update, revealing the biggest changes its critically acclaimed action-RPG has gotten in years.

The Duskbloods Feels Like a Nintendo Party Game in a Bloody Wrapper

Once you go beneath the surface of its wonderfully grotesque, unwelcoming exterior that’s right in line with FromSoftware’s house style, The Duskbloods plays so much like a classic multiplayer Nintendo game.

Hoyoverse’s Nodusfall has Elden Ring fans split over “ripped off” boss designs

Hoyoverse’s Nodusfall has divided Elden Ring fans over whether its similar-looking bosses are inspired by FromSoftware or blatant ripoffs.

Should You Play Elden Ring On Switch 2?

From Software's masterpiece, Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition, finally hits the Nintendo Switch 2. Jake's spent the last week seeing how the game holds up on the handheld.

Elden Ring on the Switch 2 isn’t tarnished

FromSoftware is hoping to make a splash on the Switch 2 later this year when it launches The Duskbloods, a gothic competitive multiplayer game that's unlike anything the studio has made before. But before that, Switch 2 owners have a chance to experience the studio's biggest hit

I tried Nothing OS 5.0 to see the improvements. Here are 5 ways it really impressed me

Software that didn't need a redesign gets spot-on refinements

Despite being a Switch 2 exclusive, The Duskbloods closed network test had more applications than Elden Ring Nightreign

The Duskbloods is already looking like it's going to be a very popular game. Developer FromSoftware revealed the game's network test, which finished yesterday , attracted more player applications than those for Elden Ring Nightreign , despite it only being available for one platf

Miyazaki explains how The Duskbloods plans to protect newcomers from its best players

FromSoftware is stepping into one of multiplayer gaming's most divisive arguments with The Duskbloods, confirming the upcoming Switch 2 exclusive will lean on skill-based matchmaking to keep newcomers safe from its most battle-hardened players. Read more

My FOMO over The Duskbloods not coming to PC evaporated once I actually played it

As a big Elden Ring person with an additional 600 hours in Nightreign, the FOMO of FromSoftware's next multiplayer experiment, The Duskbloods, being a Switch 2 exclusive was hitting me hard. That is, until I actually played it: I spent the majority of the closed network test held

Trilingual Topic Modeling of Sri Lankan Parliamentary Debates

arXiv:2608.20365v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sri Lankan parliamentary debates (Hansards) constitute a trilingual corpus of speeches in Sinhala, Tamil, and English, including code-mixed content, yet remain inaccessible to standard NLP pipelines due to layout-complex PDFs, multi

Scalpel3: A High-Performance Data Carving Architecture for Recovery of Fragmented Files

arXiv:2608.20363v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: File carving recovers files from raw storage media without relying on filesystem metadata, a key capability in digital forensics, data recovery, and digital exploration. Traditional tools such as Foremost, Scalpel v1/2, and PhotoRec

Toward Auto-Research: Mining Falsifiable Research Ideas from Paper Knowledge Graphs with Categorical Structure

arXiv:2608.20361v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated research-idea generation systems built on large language models (LLMs) share a structural weakness: they reduce ideation to free-text recombination, random paper pairing, or embedding-similarity retrieval. The three approa

TriPLU: Bypassing the Gate with Direct Trilinear Product FFNs in Tiny Language Models

arXiv:2608.20360v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study whether tiny decoder-only language models benefit from feed-forward layers that directly multiply learned feature projections. TriPLU, a Trilinear Product Linear Unit, replaces the usual gated FFN branch with a product-only

Self-Speculation for Faster Reasoning Models

arXiv:2608.20359v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are deployed for increasingly complex tasks involving planning and multi-step decision making, but high-quality performance on these tasks often requires generating long reasoning traces. This is a poor

bikiDATA: A Python Library to Query and Explore Large-Scale RDF Datasets

arXiv:2608.20358v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While knowledge graphs offer unparalleled data flexibility, the semantic gap between RDF triples and the native objects used by software engineers remains a significant barrier to entry. Developing knowledge-graph-backed application

Clarify-Then-Search: A Clarification Benchmark for Deep Search with End-to-End Nugget Restoration

arXiv:2608.20357v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep search is brittle on underspecified user queries: missing constraints such as time, location, scope, or definitions can lead to retrieval drift and incomplete answers. We introduce Clarify-Then-Search, a benchmark for evaluatin

Disentangling Structure and Semantics: How Schema Representation Affects LLM-Based SQL Generation

arXiv:2608.20356v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based text-to-SQL pipelines read the database schema as text, which carries both structural cues (tables, keys, relationships) and semantic cues (table and column names); prior work has studied each axis in isolation, leaving op

ExpertIVS: Sociological Expert Driven Individual Value Simulation in Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.20355v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents have demonstrated considerable potential for social simulation, yet struggle to accurately model individual value systems. Most existing methods mechanically stitch survey responses into prompts, wh

The Divergence Hypothesis: Unmasking Lexical Interference and Label Bias in Mental Health NLP

arXiv:2608.20353v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computational mental health (CMH) classifiers often degrade under distribution shift because human annotators and distant-supervision pipelines reward different linguistic signals. We introduce TSS (Triple-Stream Stress probe), a mu

Ghost Echoes: Semantic Erasure Failure in Retrieval-Backed Applications

arXiv:2608.20352v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although vector databases correctly implement API-visible deletion, this does not guarantee complete semantic erasure for retrieval-backed applications. We present Ghost Echoes, a black-box attack framework showing that deleted reco

Exploratory As-Analyzed No-Detection of Culturally-Marked Predicate-Triggered PII Amplification in a Synthetic-English RAG Probe: A Predicate-Resource-Confounde

arXiv:2608.20351v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We ask whether stereotype-loaded queries about culturally marked people leak more personal information from a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system than otherwise-equivalent neutral queries. We pre-register a four-culture audi

How to Train a Real-World Silicon Concierge? Internalizing Complex Business Workflow to Only OneModel

arXiv:2608.20350v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traditional industrial agents rely on modular pipelines, including Router, Retriever, Planner, Executor, Responder, Reviewer, and other components. These systems often fracture into a labyrinth of ad-hoc patches, leading to cascadin

Beyond Prompt Engineering: A Systematic Analysis of Prompt Lexical Sensitivity and Its Impacts on Quality

arXiv:2608.20349v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit extreme sensitivity to surface-level prompt variations, in which minor lexical changes can trigger disproportionate performance fluctuations. Moving beyond black-box optimization and coarse-grain

Inhibitory Attention for Clinical Long-Context Reasoning: Characterizing and Mitigating Lost-in-the-Middle Effects in EHR Processing

arXiv:2608.20348v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electronic health records now routinely exceed 100,000 tokens per patient. Yet large language models exhibit the lost-in-the-middle (LitM) effect: information near the center of a long context is retrieved less reliably than informa

Who Do Language Models Think Is Competent? A Mechanistic Analysis of Occupational Bias

arXiv:2608.20347v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models (LMs) often pass behavioral bias evaluations, but it remains unclear whether they no longer represent the underlying associations that give rise to biases, or have merely learned not to express them. In this study, w

When Vocabulary Comprehension Fails Clinical Reasoning: Evaluating Therapy Bots' Safety Risks for Generation Alpha

arXiv:2608.20345v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conversational AI systems have become informal mental health support resources for Generation Alpha (Gen Alpha, born 2010-2024), with 13.1% of U.S. adolescents (5.4 million) using generative AI for mental health advice. While these

Building and Evaluating a Synthetic Bengali Speech Resource for Telecom Customer Care

arXiv:2608.20346v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speech systems used in customer-facing applications often require domain-specific language coverage. We present a synthetic Bengali speech dataset for telecom customer-care scenarios. The dataset contains 10,000 audio-text pairs, ap

Bankruptcy Prediction via Hybrid Resampling and Stacking Ensemble Techniques with Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)-Driven Analysis

arXiv:2608.20343v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study develops and evaluates a bankruptcy prediction framework that integrates consensus-based feature selection, hybrid resampling, stacking ensembles, and explainable artificial intelligence to improve minority-class detectio

Beyond Raw Transcripts: Structured Persona Extraction for LLM-Based Digital Twins

arXiv:2608.20344v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based "digital twins" aim to simulate how an individual would behavein new environments or respond to novel questions, given some representation of that individual's prior responses. A common approach constructs this representat

SDAD: Spec-Driven Agentic Development for the AI-Native SDLC

arXiv:2608.20341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier coding agents backed by large language models with context windows from hundreds of thousands to millions of tokens are restructuring the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Rich context handling and multi-step reasonin

PrimeAgentOrchestrator: Memory-Primed Agent Spawning for Personal AI Infrastructure

arXiv:2608.20342v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) coding agents start each session with an empty context window, discarding accumulated knowledge from prior work. We present PrimeAgentOrchestrator (PAO), a system that spawns new instances of Claude Code -

Garmin Cirqa review: A fine but utterly inessential smart band

Garmin's Cirqa band lacks the software and AI insights to make it a true Whoop rival.

Pocket's AI made my game ideas real. Now Meta controls the results.

The relatively recent rise of AI-assisted coding tools and the whole concept of "vibe coding" have effectively upended entire software development workflows.

Apple releases beta 8 for iPadOS 27, watchOS 27, and more

Apple has just released a new round of beta software for testing. Beta 8 is here for iPadOS 27, tvOS 27, and more. Here’s what to expect. more…

Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra fix backfires, swapping red tint for screen dots

Software update doesn't do the trick

Car owners want tech they can ignore

Automakers keep shoving more tech into their cars, despite evidence that consumers are increasingly fed up with huge screens and glitchy software.

From AI Copilots to Agent Swarms

The impact of AI on software development has been both profound and ever-evolving.