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The Best MagSafe Wallets for Your Everyday Carry (2026)

The Best MagSafe Wallets for Your Everyday Carry (2026)

The slim and convenient magnetic wallets you’ll actually want stuck to the back of your phone.…
Why Lettuce Is Always Making People Sick

Why Lettuce Is Always Making People Sick

The cyclospora diarrhea outbreak isn’t an isolated incident. It’s part of a pattern of leafy greens wreaking digestive havoc.…
Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business

Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business

Google's cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to report record profits.…
GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization

GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization

Article URL: https://github.com/marcelroed/gigatoken/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010167 Points: 244 # Comments: 47…
ISPs' long nightmare of having to list all the fees they charge is finally over

ISPs' long nightmare of having to list all the fees they charge is finally over

FCC lets ISPs stop listing all fees after companies complained it was too hard.…
Top Red-Light Therapy Deals at Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale (2026)

Top Red-Light Therapy Deals at Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale (2026)

Save on WIRED-tested LED therapy devices from TheraFace, HigherDose, and more.…
Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable

Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned the U.S. government could sanction Chinese AI companies after White House officials accused Moonshot of distil…
The White House Is Trying to Figure Out What to Do About Chinese AI

The White House Is Trying to Figure Out What to Do About Chinese AI

There’s a debate going on in the Trump administration over how to handle increasingly powerful Chinese AI models.…
LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps

LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps

Article URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/lg-to-ban-residential-proxies-from-smart-tv-apps/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=…
Utility companies are promising to spare us from AI’s energy bill

Utility companies are promising to spare us from AI’s energy bill

In the face of backlash to concerns the AI boom will increase consumer electricity bills, the largest utility companies and data center developers in …
States Want ICE Agents to Show Their Faces. The Trump Administration Is Blocking Them

States Want ICE Agents to Show Their Faces. The Trump Administration Is Blocking Them

Federal lawyers say anti-mask laws would endanger immigration agents, citing an ICE face-recognition art project that doesn’t actually work.…
Nintendo customers have no legal right to tariff refunds, company tells judge

Nintendo customers have no legal right to tariff refunds, company tells judge

Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit.…
TreeSize won't renew perpetual-license support unless users subscribe

TreeSize won't renew perpetual-license support unless users subscribe

"Current economic conditions" have shifted TreeSize's business model.…
2027 Kia Seltos first drive gives you plenty of SUV for not much $

2027 Kia Seltos first drive gives you plenty of SUV for not much $

It starts at just under $25,000, but the hybrid won't arrive until next year.…
Perfection is not over-engineering

Perfection is not over-engineering

Article URL: https://var0.xyz/posts/perfection-is-not-over-engineering.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48979120 Points: 198 # …
Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac

Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac

Article URL: https://blaizzy.github.io/nativ/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982681 Points: 209 # Comments: 80…
Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled

Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled

Article URL: https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/human-mathematicians-are-being-outcounterexampled/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co…
Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public

Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public

Article URL: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/tracking-alpr-cameras/flock-safety-credibility-lost-as-it-repeatedly-lies-to-city-councils-p…
LEDs’ potential to save our night skies

LEDs’ potential to save our night skies

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/led-light-pollution Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978350 Points: 205 # Comments: 156…
Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved

Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved

The final approval settles one case, but it doesn't resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.…
Trump’s latest AI czar has already resigned

Trump’s latest AI czar has already resigned

The director role for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has become a revolving door since David Sacks left his position as czar.…
Pay up or not? Ransomware surge has victims facing tough choices

Pay up or not? Ransomware surge has victims facing tough choices

Governments look at banning ransom payments in face of increasingly sophisticated threats.…
The FBI reportedly won’t investigate ICE anymore

The FBI reportedly won’t investigate ICE anymore

According to the New York Times, federal agents have been told that the FBI will no longer be investigating confrontations involving ICE agents. The D…
Will AI fix prior authorization—or make it worse?

Will AI fix prior authorization—or make it worse?

The government is piloting a program that uses AI for insurance-coverage decisions.…
Troubling new details emerge on diabetes ouster controversy

Troubling new details emerge on diabetes ouster controversy

American Diabetes Association blocked publication of op-ed articles so the authors posted them as a preprint.…
ICE Is Using Data Broker Tools to ‘Identify Unaccompanied Minors’ and ‘Fraud’

ICE Is Using Data Broker Tools to ‘Identify Unaccompanied Minors’ and ‘Fraud’

A newly renewed, $25 million-per-year contract with a subsidiary of Thompson Reuters further expands the power of ICE under the Trump administration.…
Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning

Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning

Article URL: https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/llm-classifier/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936880 Points: 219 # Comments: 162…
Blatant AI slop just won a 25k USD DeepMind Kaggle Grand Prize

Blatant AI slop just won a 25k USD DeepMind Kaggle Grand Prize

Article URL: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/kaggle-measuring-agi/discussion/724918#3498423 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=489…
Trump is selling high-speed access to his market-moving Truth Social posts

Trump is selling high-speed access to his market-moving Truth Social posts

Trump Media, the company behind Truth Social, is selling Wall Street faster access to the "most market-moving" posts on the US President's social medi…
FCC took pricey gifts from Paramount as the company needed approval for deals

FCC took pricey gifts from Paramount as the company needed approval for deals

FCC chair has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of tickets by CBS or its parent company.…