Ubisoft reportedly shuts down more studios and lays off staff in Barcelona and San Francisco
Ubisoft is reportedly trying to cut costs without leaving key franchises like Rainbow Six: Siege in the lurch with a new round of layoffs.
Policy on the AI Exponential
Article URL: https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48480719 Points: 106 # Comments: 159
Oracle PeopleSoft servers hacked in ShinyHunters data theft attacks
Oracle PeopleSoft servers are being targeted in ongoing data theft attacks by the ShinyHunters extortion gang, which claims to have stolen data from over 100 organizations. [...]
The Best USB-C Cables (2026): for Smartphones, Tablets, and Laptops
Unravel the tangled world of cords and find the ones you need to charge your gadgets and transfer data.
iOS 27 gives FaceTime huge upgrade with this powerful new feature
iOS 27 brings exciting new features to Messages, Apple Notes, Wallet, and more. But FaceTime is getting one of the biggest upgrades thanks to a powerful new Dual Camera feature for iPhone 17 and newer. more…
Microsoft, like, totally gets why students are booing AI-pilled graduation speakers
New college graduates around the country have been booing and heckling commencement speakers who hype up AI. Microsoft would like everyone to talk it out. In a blog post running more than 3,100 words, Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith addressed the recent spate of viral clips from gra...
GeoLibre 1.0
Article URL: https://geolibre.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479852 Points: 106 # Comments: 8
The future of AI regulation is courting the strangest, most anxious bedfellows
(L-R) Sen. Mike Rounds, Pamela Brown, Chris Malachowsky, Kevin O'Leary, Gabriele Caccia, Tammy Haddad, Michele L. Jawando, Sen. Mark Warner, Michael Kelly and Major General Patrick Ellis attend the Second Annual AI Honors. | Getty Images for Washington AI N Hello and welcome to Regulator, a new...
We managed to glean some interesting details about the Artemis III mission
"I was on the phone with Blue Origin leadership that night, all the next day, all through the weekend."
How JPL keeps the 13-year-old Curiosity rover doing science
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/curiosity-rover-jpl-mars-science Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479705 Points: 143 # Comments: 28
iOS 27 just broke 15 years of muscle memory on iPhone and iPad
Since iOS 5 in 2011, the iPhone and iPad have included Notification Center, a central place to find alerts from various apps in chronological order. Starting with iOS 27, Apple is making a major change to how users open Notification Center on iPhone and iPad. more…
Google won’t just admit it’s feeding YouTube creators to its music AI
A group of independent musicians is suing Google claiming it trained Lyria on their uploads. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge If you've uploaded a song to YouTube, Google almost certainly considers your video fair game for training its Lyria music AI, it just won't admit it right now. A grou...
Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google
Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.
Netflix expands revamped mobile app across Asia and doubles down on kids’ gaming
The media giant is pushing to expand its mobile and gaming business.
After Belfast riots, UK reminds social platforms they're obligated to remove hateful content
The UK's communications regulator has reminded social media platforms they have a duty to minimize hateful content, not encourage it.
Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/29045 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479452 Points: 301 # Comments: 205
Final Fantasy 16 headlines the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog additions for June
Sony is starting to spread its PS Plus Game Catalog updates throughout the month.
‘AI-pilled’ firms spend $7,500 per employee each month on AI
The most AI-obsessed firms are spending roughly $7,500 monthly per employee on AI, per Ramp AI Index. That's not more than an engineer's salary — yet.
You can just tell the Instagram algorithm what you want now
Instagram is going to let you tweak what its algorithm shows you on your main feed. With the Your Algorithm feature, "you can now see the topics we think you're interested in, and change them, across all the major parts of Instagram," according to Instagram boss Adam Mosseri. Right now, the featu...
Cheap Iranian drone downed $25 million US Army helicopter—maybe by chance
The US military struck Iran again after an Iranian drone’s lucky midair strike.