Apple Fitness chief Jay Blahnik retiring in July after 13-year tenure
Apple has confirmed to The New York Times that Jay Blahnik, the company’s vice president of Fitness Technologies, will retire in July. Here are the details. more…
Trump’s birthright citizenship ban may fail — but the administration already got too far
On Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Trump v. Barbara, a case challenging President Donald Trump's 2025 executive order banning birthright citizenship. Justices seemed skeptical of the administration's argument, but by taking up birthright citizenship at all, they showed how...
A new C++ back end for ocamlc
Article URL: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14701 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608058 Points: 137 # Comments: 8
IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember
Article URL: https://sentence2ipv6.tib3rius.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47607923 Points: 49 # Comments: 60
Amazon ‘in talks’ to acquire Globalstar, and Apple’s stake is a key factor
Amazon is reportedly “in talks” to acquire Globalstar, the company that connects Apple’s iPhone and Apple Watch satellite features. Apple’s 20% stake in the company is a key factor in negotiations. more…
New CrystalRAT malware adds RAT, stealer and prankware features
A new malware-as-a-service called CrystalRAT is being promoted on Telegram, offering remote access, data theft, keylogging, and clipboard hijacking capabilities. [...]
De-fi platform Drift suspends deposits and withdrawals after millions in crypto stolen in hack
Blockchain trackers put the cryptocurrency heist in the hundreds of millions of dollars and is already on track to be the largest crypto theft in 2026 so far.
NASA launches four astronauts toward the Moon on the Artemis II mission
NASA's Artemis II flight, which is set to take four astronauts toward the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years, successfully launched on Wednesday evening. The Artemis II mission, part of NASA's Artemis program that's intended to bring humans back onto the Moon as early as 2028, will bri...
Artemis II lifts off: four astronauts begin 10-day lunar mission
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/live/2026/apr/01/artemis-ii-launch-nasa-orion-moon-trip-live-updates Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47607447 Points: 52 # Comments: 6
Apple Sports adds support for the 2026 FIFA World Cup
Apple has updated the Apple Sports app to support the upcoming 2026 FIFA World Cup, scheduled to kick off on June 11 at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. Here’s how to follow your favorite teams. more…
SolveSpace (open source 2D/3D CAD) working on Windows 2000 (2025)
SolveSpace just became "officially" available for the Web (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586614), it is also officially supported on Windows (Vista-11), Linux and macOS. However with a little effort it also compiles for and runs on Windows 2000. Here it is: https://github.com/solvespace/...
9to5Mac Daily: April 1, 2026 – iOS 18 update, Siri multitasking
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The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands
Article URL: http://techkettle.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-windows-equivalents-of-most-used.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47607326 Points: 34 # Comments: 17
Google's TurboQuant saves memory, but won't save us from DRAM-pricing hell
Chocolate Factory’s compression tech clears the way to cheaper AI inference, not more affordable memory When Google unveiled TurboQuant, an AI data compression technology that promises to slash the amount of memory required to serve models, many hoped it would help with a memory shortage that has...
Anthropic took down thousands of GitHub repos trying to yank its leaked source code — a move the company says was an accident
Anthropic executives said it was an accident and retracted the bulk of the takedown notices.
Swappa.com for GrapheneOS compatible devices – Stay Away
Article URL: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/33727-swappacom-for-grapheneos-compatible-devices-stay-away Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47607067 Points: 41 # Comments: 25
'Uncle Larry’s biggest fan' cut by email in early morning Oracle layoff spree
WARN filings in two states show 1,000+ layoffs, but wider cuts remain unconfirmed By his third failed attempt to log into Oracle’s VPN on Tuesday morning, a decades-long employee of the company started to get a bad feeling.…
Apple expands iOS 18 updates to more iPhones to block DarkSword attacks
Apple has now made it possible for more iPhones still running iOS 18 to receive security updates that protect against the actively exploited DarkSword exploit kit. [...]
Meta alerts iPhone users who downloaded spyware-laced version of WhatsApp
Italy’s Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (ANSA) reports that Meta has issued an alert to approximately 200 users who were tricked into downloading a fake version of WhatsApp. Here are the details. more…
DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
Article URL: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/dram-pricing-is-killing-the-hobbyist-sbc-market/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606840 Points: 119 # Comments: 73