Article URL: https://www.bundeskartellamt.de/SharedDocs/Meldung/EN/Pressemitteilungen/2026/08_17_2026_Apple_ATTF.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331222 Points: 195 # Comments: 70
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If you have kids returning to school or college, the back to school sales are great timing to equip them with tech that can help them carry out their study assignments. Apple last month launched its own back to school promotion, offering a $150 gift card with qualifying Mac and iPad purchases, a...
Preview also brings compact icons, Start menu sizing, and the final shove for WMIC
CVE-2026-54121 lets a standard domain user turn your Enterprise CA into a Domain Controller. The patch is the easy part. The lesson is standing privilege, implicit trust, and treating PKI as the Tier 0 identity infrastructure it has always been. [...]
Dozens of states accuse the company of violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
Today I’m talking to Ben Smith, the editor-in-chief of Semafor. Everywhere you go, people say they don’t trust the media — and yet they’ve never consumed more of it. Audiences have moved on from legacy names in favor of Substacks and podcasts and TikTok news influencers that seem to be everywhere...
Github has been down consistently over the last few months - does it make sense to switch to alternatives? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331033 Points: 293 # Comments: 180
App Tracking Transparency (ATT) is an Apple privacy initiative intended to allow iPhone owners greater control over how developers collect and use their data. However, the company was accused of treating its own apps more favourably than third-party ones. The company has now agreed to apply new r...
Article URL: https://turbopuffer.com/blog/control-plane Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330978 Points: 46 # Comments: 6
Analysis of historical price data trends indicates that the memory crisis has driven RAM prices to never-before-seen heights.
Apple’s foldable iPhone Ultra will be unveiled in just a few weeks, and new leaks cover what to expect from release timing, availability, and the product’s name.
Article URL: https://duckdb.org/2026/08/17/duckdb-20-highlights Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330781 Points: 305 # Comments: 48
"It highlights the brutality of medieval warfare," said paleopathologist Jo Buckberry.
Just got this message: "No server is currently available to service your request. Sorry about that. Please try refreshing and contact us if the problem persists." Edit: at the time of posting there was not an incident on githubstatus.com. Now there is. https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwb...
As someone who writes for a living, you would correctly guess that I’m wholeheartedly in favour of allowing AI-generated text to be detectable and marked as such. There’s just a ridiculous amount of AI slop out there, and an “AI content” label means I don’t need to waste my time reading any of it...
You probably use Bluetooth regularly, but different accessories call for different types of Bluetooth.
Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/08/17/nx-s1-5928263/cialis-viagra-tadalafil-longevity-heart-health Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330456 Points: 79 # Comments: 57
Uber is also making investing in Zipline a part of the tie-up.
Initial £31M deal comes with scope to scale sharply during a major outbreak