New York alleges Kalshi is running an 'illegal gambling operation' in new lawsuit
Kalshi, which is headquartered in New York, has already been sued by multiple states.
Google Earth’s AI deepfake tool only lasted one day
Pompeii reimagined with Nano Banana 2 in Google Earth. | Image: Google Google has shut down Google Earth feature it launched Thursday that allowed users to edit satellite images with text prompts using AI. The tool essentially let users create AI deepfakes of the real world using text prompts; ...
Dev who gave HashiCorp its name returns with a faster terminal multiplexer
Persistent sessions could be just the beginning
Snapchat is cracking down on AI slop in Spotlight
Videos made with AI will no longer appear in Snapchat's public recommendations.
Google rolls back the needless AI generation tools it added to Google Earth
People had less than a day to make misleading Google Earth images with AI before Google pulled the feature.
Would you get tattooed just to interview at a 7-days-a-week AI startup?
LemonLime’s CEO got “carried away” with tattoo gimmick.
Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion
Article URL: https://tailscale.com/blog/hugging-face-intrusion Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127306 Points: 358 # Comments: 147
VC-backed startups commit more fraud, and researchers think they know why
New research from the U.K.’s Imperial College and France’s Emlyon Business School mapped out how Silicon Valley founders commit fraud — and the role investors play.
OpenAI says its new GPT 5.6 models are becoming more cost-efficient
OpenAI says it has reduced the price of two GPT-5.6 models, cutting Luna's API price by 80% and Terra's by 20% as it works to make its models more efficient. [...]
Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types
Article URL: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/80590 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127031 Points: 109 # Comments: 61
The NHTSA is investigating 1.2 million Tesla vehicles over suspension failure reports
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is probing nearly 1.2 million Tesla vehicles after receiving complaints about a suspension failure that could cause "a loss of vehicle directional control," as reported earlier by Reuters. The preliminary investigation includes the 2018-2...
Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner [video]
Article URL: https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2026-74-1-using-the-railway-network-as-a-flatbed-scanner Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126919 Points: 41 # Comments: 21
Pandora's ad-free subscription is less than $10 a month in 2026: Is it worth it?
The Pandora experience is different from the Spotify one most of us are used to. Pandora Premium is worth it for some.
Termixer (TUI DJ Mixer)
Article URL: https://github.com/l00sed/termixer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126883 Points: 44 # Comments: 32
Google might launch a ‘Pixel Tag’
Google is seemingly working on an item tracker that might compete with Apple's AirTag. 9to5Google obtained an image of something called a "Google Pixel Tag" that has a small oval shape. The publication also linked to a Slovenian store listing about the Pixel Tag that describes the gadget as an it...
Report: Apple hit a record 49% share of global smartphone revenue for Q2
According to Counterpoint Research, Apple captured nearly half of global smartphone revenue during the second quarter, despite a market-wide decline in shipments. Here are the details.
June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more
Article URL: https://servo.org/blog/2026/07/31/june-in-servo/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126765 Points: 86 # Comments: 29
Chinese AI Researchers Are Finding Their Voice on X
As OpenAI and Anthropic employees grow quieter online, researchers at Chinese AI labs are flocking to X to explain their work, recruit talent, and shape the global conversation on AI.
High school defends staying silent while boys made AI nudes of 59 classmates
Gaps in laws may help Pennsylvania high school escape AI nudes scandal.
Everyone is building LLM routers, we deprecated ours
Article URL: https://manifest.build/blog/why-we-deprecated-our-llm-router/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126630 Points: 79 # Comments: 39