Instagram expands its movie-inspired content restrictions for teens internationally
Instagram debuted its movie-rating-inspired content settings in limited countries in 2025.
The Pro-Iran Meme Machine Trolling Trump With AI Lego Cartoons
Since the beginning of the Iran war, the group Explosive Media has released over a dozen viral videos mocking Trump and the US.
Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation
Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/meta-social-media-addiction-ads Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703419 Points: 297 # Comments: 139
I Tested the Instagram-Famous Ridge Wallet and I’m a Convert
This bare-bones, no-nonsense wallet has continuously impressed me since I started using it.
Security researchers tricked Apple Intelligence into cursing at users. It could have been a lot worse
Wash your mouth out with digital soap Apple Intelligence, the personal AI system integrated into newer Macs, iPhones, and other iThings, can be hijacked using prompt injection, forcing the model into producing an attacker-controlled result and putting millions of users at risk, researchers have s...
Spotify now lets you turn off all video
Sometimes, you just want your dang music streaming app to play music. Spotify, which has increasingly incorporated video features through the years, is finally giving us the option to turn that mess off. Behold: universal video toggles. Spotify's video settings control several areas. First, the o...
Waymo robotaxis are tracking potholes and sharing that data with Waze users
Two Alphabet-owned businesses are teaming up to find potholes and share that information with cities.
Radify’s sci-fi plasma reactors could break China’s dominance of rare-earth elements
Radify Metals is developing a new way to process a variety of metals that promises to be pollution free.
Collide Capital raises $95M fund to back fintech, future-of-work startups
Collide Capital, founded by Brian Hollins and Aaron Samuels, announced the close of a $95 million Fund II.
This founder helped build SpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine. Now he’s building a ‘fighter jet for orbit.’
The company's novel rocket engine could be a game changer for the U.S. military.
Waymo is offering to help cities fix their potholes
In recent months, some cities have sought a new recruit in their forever war against potholes: Waymo. Municipal officials in multiple cities where Waymo operates have reached out to the robotaxi operator for help in locating potholes on their streets, assuming that Waymo kept such data. Fortunat...
UK navy tracked three Russian submarines near undersea cables, damage would 'have serious consequences,' Putin warned — US and allies expand seabed protection efforts
A Royal Navy warship and P8 maritime patrol aircraft have tracked three Russian submarines, including two Gugi-class deep-sea vessels, attempting to survey undersea cables and pipelines.
How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU
Article URL: https://pizzalegacy.nl/blog/traffic-system.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703123 Points: 187 # Comments: 38
Session is shutting down in 90 days
Article URL: https://getsession.org/donate Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703065 Points: 90 # Comments: 101
Microsoft developer chief Julia Liuson is logging off
Departure may accelerate further AI-centric moves for programming tools Julia Liuson, president of Microsoft's developer division (DevDiv), will resign at the end of June, though she will continue in an advisory role.…
Show HN: 41 years sea surface temperature anomalies
Article URL: https://ssta.willhelps.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47702791 Points: 126 # Comments: 42
The Download: AstroTurf wars and exponential AI growth
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. Is fake grass a bad idea? The AstroTurf wars are far from over. In 2001, Americans installed just over 7 million square meters of synthetic turf. By 2024, tha...
Webinar: From noise to signal - What threat actors are targeting next
Threat actors often signal their intentions before launching attacks, from dark web chatter to access-broker listings and credential requests. Join our upcoming webinar with Flare Systems to learn how to turn those early warning signs into proactive defensive action before an intrusion begins. [...]
DIY MacBook Neo upgrade can boost the SSD to 1TB using iPhone parts
If you’ve thought the MacBook Neo could be for you, but the 512GB maximum storage size wasn’t enough, a YouTuber may have good news for you. They carried out a DIY upgrade to swap out the SSD for a 1TB one, which is also faster than the stock one supplied in the device … more…
Launch HN: Relvy (YC F24) – On-call runbooks, automated
Hey HN! We are Bharath, and Simranjit from Relvy AI (https://www.relvy.ai). Relvy automates on-call runbooks for software engineering teams. It is an AI agent equipped with tools that can analyze telemetry data and code at scale, helping teams debug and resolve production issues in minutes. Here’...