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I scraped 5.94 billion TikTok videos and 3.23 billion profiles in 3 weeks. Uploaded full dataset to Hugging Face for free. Step by step tutorial and code below. [P]

Just uploaded the full 5.94 billion TikTok video dataset to Hugging Face. It’s fully open source: https://huggingface.co/datasets/kuben-developer/tiktok-videos-4b This dataset was collected using a TikTok mobile app reverse-engineering method I developed a few years ago. The method allowed me to ext

Reddit r/MachineLearning 2026-09-03

AI & ML

Pangram’s Max Spero on why AI detection is harder than ‘Real or Fake’

The internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling up with AI slop. AI-generated text and images are now making their way into job applications, product reviews, and even insurance claims, leaving platforms and users alike scrambling to figure out what’s real.

TechCrunch 2026-09-03

DevOps

[$] Securely suspending LUKS-encrypted disks

When a laptop is asleep, its memory is not unreadable. The right tooling can attach to the computer's memory bus and read out its contents, and cold-boot attacks can theoretically read values from memory for a short time after the computer loses power. That is really an unavoidable fact about the h

LWN.net 2026-09-03

Frontend

doc-scraper, a year later: incremental crawling, SQLite crawl history, and an MCP server (still no CGO)

I posted an early version of this here about a year ago. It crawls a documentation site and spits out clean Markdown plus a JSONL file, mainly for feeding docs into LLM pipelines. A year of changes: it does incremental crawls now (only flags pages whose actual content changed, not the nav), keeps cr

Reddit r/golang 2026-09-03

AI & ML

Deepity: A C++ library showing Predictive Coding Networks can match Backprop (97.73% on MNIST in 60s) [P]

I've spent the last month building a local C++ machine learning library called Deepity to test alternative credit assignment algorithms; specifically Predictive Coding Networks (PCNs). While PCNs are fascinating for biological plausibility and continual learning, naive implementations are painfully

Reddit r/MachineLearning 2026-09-03

Industry

The best tech and gadgets announced at IFA so far

The doors to Europe's largest consumer tech show haven't opened to the public yet, but there's already plenty of news coming out of IFA 2026 in Berlin, Germany. If you're already struggling to keep up with what has been announced, here are some of the best new gadgets and upgrades from the show - in

The Verge (Tech) 2026-09-03

AI & ML

Researchers fear safety disaster ahead of OpenAI’s Astra release

OpenAI is on the cusp of releasing its most powerful AI model yet, Astra, following weeks of delays to shore up safety protocols after its agents attacked real targets during testing. As details about the model trickle out, researchers are warning it "may be the single worst development for AI secur

The Verge (Tech) 2026-09-03

DevOps

JFrog Moves to Secure Agentic Engineering Workflows

JFrog today at its swampUP 2026 conference added a zero touch remediation capability that ensures the most secure version of a binary is provided even when application developers request a version that has known vulnerabilities. Additionally, JFrog is adding tools and capabilities to secure artifici

DevOps.com 2026-09-03

AI & ML

Google is sending MrBeast into the wilderness, armed with AI

MrBeast will feature Gemini, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air in upcoming videos as part of a multi-year partnership with Google. The deal will kick off with a video featuring Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson turning to Gemini for wilderness survival advice: First up on September 5 is a new MrBeast video

The Verge (Tech) 2026-09-02

Security

UK Moves to Block High-Risk Tech Suppliers From Critical Infrastructure

Late amendments to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill would give ministers new powers to restrict risky technology providers as supply chain attacks intensify. The post UK Moves to Block High-Risk Tech Suppliers From Critical Infrastructure appeared first on SecurityWeek.

SecurityWeek 2026-09-02

General

Google dodges another breakup attempt

US District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema declined the Justice Department's request to make Google sell off parts of its ad tech business, accepting milder remedies to restore competition to markets it illegally monopolized for years. Brinkema said she would adopt most of the behavioral changes propos

The Verge (Tech) 2026-09-02

Open Source

go-sr: deterministic, no-lookahead support/resistance detection for Go

I’ve been working on go-sr, a small Go module for support/resistance detection aimed at trading systems and backtests where reproducibility matters. The main design goal is avoiding accidental lookahead bias: operate on closed candles confirmation-based pivots in zone mode deterministic output for

Reddit r/golang 2026-09-02