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Google is working on Chrome updates that don’t require restarts

Google is working on Chrome updates that don’t require restarts

Google is working on a way to apply Chrome updates without requiring you to restart your browser. In a post on Thursday, Google outlines its approach …
Meta says AI is making it easier to build new apps — and more are coming

Meta says AI is making it easier to build new apps — and more are coming

Meta says AI is making it dramatically easier to build and launch new consumer apps, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg telling investors the company has more n…
A second lens makes DJI’s Osmo Pocket 4P my new favorite video camera

A second lens makes DJI’s Osmo Pocket 4P my new favorite video camera

DJI's Osmo Pocket 4P is a pretty simple proposition: an Osmo Pocket 4 with a second camera lens slapped inside. But is that extra lens worth the added…
LinkedIn Won’t Be Expanding Its Data Centers in the Next Year

LinkedIn Won’t Be Expanding Its Data Centers in the Next Year

Despite the ongoing AI boom, LinkedIn is holding the line on compute spending. Instead, it’s challenging engineers to make every GPU count.…
OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Was a Human Mistake

OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Was a Human Mistake

If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open interne…
Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/blog/agent-intrusion-technical-timeline Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089500 Points: 264 # …
Superlogical

Superlogical

https://mitchellh.com/writing/superlogical Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098965 Points: 351 # Comments: 246…
Xbox revenue drops 10 percent as Microsoft’s cloud and AI business surges

Xbox revenue drops 10 percent as Microsoft’s cloud and AI business surges

Xbox is having yet another tough quarter, as revenue from content and services like its Game Pass subscription dipped 10 percent over the past few mon…
Elon Musk finally launches X Money. What could possibly go wrong?

Elon Musk finally launches X Money. What could possibly go wrong?

Expect bumps with X Money rollout as major US financial markets are excluded.…
The Nothing Ear 3A deliver great, but sometimes buggy, performance for the price

The Nothing Ear 3A deliver great, but sometimes buggy, performance for the price

Nothing has had a strong visual identity since the Ear 1 were released in 2021 for $99 and challenged the notion that a highly featured headset requir…
The AI Hype Index: Unsexy AI

The AI Hype Index: Unsexy AI

It feels bad enough when an open letter signed by leading economists warns that AI might steal your job. The fact it may soon be better than you at ma…
ICE’s New Detention Center Contracts Declare State Laws ‘Shall Not Apply’

ICE’s New Detention Center Contracts Declare State Laws ‘Shall Not Apply’

One day after a federal judge ordered an ICE detention center opened to state health inspectors, the agency posted new contract terms that would void …
NASA’s New 3D Model Shows the Earth Is a Lumpy Mess

NASA’s New 3D Model Shows the Earth Is a Lumpy Mess

We like to think of our home as a nice, smooth sphere. But mapping the Earth’s gravitational field provides a different view of the planet.…
Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books

Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books

Parents are getting fed up with garbled bedtime stories that feature characters based on actual photos of their children.…
Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%

Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9q9w3x9qn2o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49066962 Points: 213 # Comments: 190…
The Download: OpenAI’s predictable hack, and an AI stock sell-off

The Download: OpenAI’s predictable hack, and an AI stock sell-off

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. …
Future euro banknote design proposals

Future euro banknote design proposals

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/future_banknotes/ht... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033110 Points: 265 # Comments: 27…
AMD and Anthropic reach $5 billion AI infrastructure deal

AMD and Anthropic reach $5 billion AI infrastructure deal

AMD says it's going to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, while helping to expand the AI company's computing power, according to an announcement on…
Samsung’s newest foldable finally feels Ultra

Samsung’s newest foldable finally feels Ultra

While we wait for Apple's rumored foldable iPhone, Samsung is polishing a design it already has on the market. I just spent three hours with my hands …
Tesla Robotaxis go to Florida

Tesla Robotaxis go to Florida

It must be earnings day, because Tesla is making a Robotaxi announcement. The company said in a post on X that it was launching its Robotaxi service i…
America needs to stop getting shocked by Chinese AI

America needs to stop getting shocked by Chinese AI

Last week, two Chinese AI companies unveiled models they say can credibly compete with the best systems from OpenAI and Anthropic. The response was sw…
Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024)

Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024)

Article URL: https://curiouscoding.nl/posts/static-search-tree/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951898 Points: 190 # Comments: 15…
GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims

GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims

Article URL: https://privacypros.com.au/privacy-hub/articles/dv-safe-phone-australia/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48942454 Poin…
CD sales growth outpaced vinyl in the first half of 2026

CD sales growth outpaced vinyl in the first half of 2026

Article URL: https://consequence.net/2026/07/the-cd-revival-is-getting-hard-to-ignore/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48937398 Poi…
A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp

A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp

Article URL: https://scotto.me/blog/2026-07-17-which-lisp/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947455 Points: 191 # Comments: 150…
The Best Motion Sensors and Home Security Gadgets Without Cameras

The Best Motion Sensors and Home Security Gadgets Without Cameras

If you prefer not to have cameras in and around your home, try one of these more private, WIRED-tested security devices.…
Mathematics of Data Science

Mathematics of Data Science

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11938 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939896 Points: 205 # Comments: 14…
The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning

The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning

Article URL: https://github.com/alxndrTL/little-book-rl/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48941104 Points: 204 # Comments: 26…
EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams

EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003876 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48943745…
Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them

Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them

Patreon is strengthening its defenses against AI scraping by working with Cloudflare to block bots that train AI models on creators’ content without p…