Pick up a new 34-inch gaming monitor from Acer for just $189 — save 24% on this curved ultrawide with a QHD resolution
Just $189 for a 34-inch curved ultrawide gaming monitor with a QHD resolution and 1500R curve.
Apple’s HomePad smart home hub launching on Oct 13 with iMac G4 design – Bloomberg
Apple’s long-awaited smart home hub, which we’ve been referring to as the HomePad, is set to launch on October 13, according to Bloomberg. The device is said to feature a 6-inch display and a design inspired by the iMac G4, and will launch alongside a HomePod mini update with new colors and a new...
Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use
Article URL: https://nltimes.nl/2026/09/30/data-centers-refusing-say-much-water-electricity-use Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49907057 Points: 14 # Comments: 0
Small number of iPhone 18 Pro users report speaker ‘pops’ or ‘clicks’
A small number of iPhone 18 Pro users are reporting an issue where the speaker sometimes “pops” or “clicks,” describing it as a faint sound when doing things like switching apps … more…
America is planning more AI datacenters than its chip supply can fill
Satellite imagery shows construction accelerating, but advanced packaging could cap 2027 deployment in the low 20s of gigawatts
“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer
Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face, OpenAI is still putting out fires. A steady drip of disclosures about other hacks in the weeks since has kept OpenAI in the spotlight and raise...
Apple Pay finally arrives in India on a limited basis
Apple Pay is now available in India, but it only supports cards by Axis Bank for now.
Pentagon gets pwned as breach exposes sensitive data on nearly three million military and civilian personnel
Hackers have breached the U.S. Department of Defense's information systems. The Pentagon says that it has already secured the source of the leak, but the records of millions of DoD personnel are now in the wild.
Black Twitter Is Thriving—on Threads
From outrage over Nolan Wells’ death to analysis of HBO Max’s Lanterns, Threads has transformed into a vital artery of the Black social media ecosystem.
More than half of UK businesses lack confidence in basic cyber skills
Government survey puts the figure at 808k, says detecting and removing malware most common weakness
Former EVGA employee recounts company’s degrading relationship with Nvidia before 2022 blow-up
In a personal blog, former EVGA product manager Brendon Ray Hedrick shared how the first Nvidia Founders Edition GPUs alarmed the company and how pricing pressure and risky forward-looking tech ultimately led to the end of the two companies' storied partnership.
How Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West Bank
Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it.
Pi.dev: You Said No MCP
Article URL: https://earendil.com/posts/you-said-no-mcp/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49906637 Points: 138 # Comments: 54
The US government's new AI chatbot gives Minecraft's end poem a bureaucratic twist
The new America.gov chatbot will write you a remixed version of Minecraft's end poem, then deny ever doing it.
Best Mattresses for Kids (2026): Saatva, Birch, Helix, and More
Learn what to look for when buying a kids’ mattress, plus how six top models stack up, according to my 2-year-old.
AMD acquires AI legend Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion
AMD has agreed agreed to buy generative AI world model developer World Labs for $8.2 billion in stock. Legendary CEO and co-founder Fei-Fei Li will join the company as an executive vice president and chief scientist.
KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8, but the X11 session isn't invited
Plus, Klassik recreates the KDE 3 desktop experience on Qt 6
Jacques Barzun, Cultural historian and critic (1980)
Article URL: https://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0717/071710.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49906295 Points: 7 # Comments: 3
UK rail cops' £320K face-scanning spree nets zero matches
British Transport Police’s six-month facial recognition pilot produced one alert, and it was a false positive
Sony implements a lottery system to deal with the PS5 Pro shortage in Japan
Gamers in Japan will have to prove they actually use their PS consoles to be able to buy a PS5 Pro.