Instagram expands what partner schools can do on its app
Instagram has expanded the features its School Partnership Program can access.
The midrange Dell XPS 13 is the one you actually want
8GB of RAM for a Windows 11 laptop just isn't enough anymore.
Fireflies adds dictation to its desktop notetaking apps
Fireflies said that it won't charge extra for the new dictation feature, which can be used with any desktop app.
Leaked IPO docs: Anthropic tempts investors with existential risk warning
Just wait until you hear the bad news
OpenAI apologizes to Australia after its AI agents breached government sites
The company also detailed how some of those breaches had happened, and outlined additional measures it is taking to assess the impact of the events.
How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/delhi-electricity-loss Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49892245 Points: 317 # Comments: 187
Silicon is starting to design silicon — how AI is being used in chipmaking, from EDA tools to OpenAI's Jalapeño and beyond
How close is AI to designing the very same chips it runs on? We explore how artificial intelligence is being used in modern chip design today.
iPhone video stabilization continues to wow me in the iPhone 18 Pro
I first talked about how much iPhone video stabilization impressed me when I tested it on the iPhone 13 Pro back in 2021. It’s been improved significantly since then, with both the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro having a version Apple refers to as “ultra-stabilized video.” While it doesn’t sound...
Without the Hot Air
Article URL: https://www.withouthotair.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49892175 Points: 99 # Comments: 48
1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds
Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7361622 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49892120 Points: 152 # Comments: 92
Investors are pricing in a 32.6% AI productivity boost for software engineers
Economists turn stock movements into an estimate of anticipated gains – while warning that markets can get carried away
Reco raises $55M as AI agent security startups crowd the market
The round builds on a $30 million fundraise in February, taking the company's total funding to $140 million.
Save 40% on a new budget gaming keyboard
Save 40% on this SteelSeries Apex 3 gaming keyboard at Woot
The Download: climate tech companies to watch and AI’s discovery problem
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. Coming soon: our 2026 list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch With the planet nearing 1.5 °C of warming, climate policies being unraveled, and Big Tech backped...
Show HN: Jevstiller – Distill Jev into a local model, with a disagreement bound
Article URL: https://jevstiller.pages.dev/posts/the-guarantee/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49891769 Points: 42 # Comments: 6
Starship finally makes orbit but engine trouble cuts the victory lap short
SpaceX deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites before bringing its planned ten-hour flight home after three
Intel's next-gen Nova Lake platforms pass compliance at USB and PCIe standards bodies as launch looms
Intel is prepping Core Ultra 400-series 'Nova Lake' platform launches as CPUs and chipsets pass interoperability and compliance tests with PCI-SIG and USB-IF.
Feature Request: One change for the most important use of Notify Me
A key new feature in macOS 27 is Safari’s Notify Me function. This has the Apple Intelligence automatically monitor a web page for updates and send a notification when it occurs. This feature can be useful in a wide variety of ways, with price drops being one of the most obvious. Unfortunately, a...
Anthropic warns of ‘catastrophic’ AI risks in its own IPO filing
As Anthropic gears up for its greatly anticipated public debut, a preview of the company's IPO filing reportedly details its mounting losses, leadership proposals to retain power, and how its AI development plans could "further increase the risk that our models cause harm." These disclosures come...
Vietnamese man charged in $16 million 'pig butchering' crypto scam
A Vietnamese national was charged with money laundering for his role in a massive "pig butchering" scam, which defrauded a victim out of $16 million worth of cryptocurrency. [...]