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XPeng’s New ‘Budget’ EV Looks Like the Ferrari Luce

XPeng’s New ‘Budget’ EV Looks Like the Ferrari Luce

The electric L03 is looking to punch above its weight in style and tech as it launches in 60 countries worldwide.…
The Best Backpacking Water Filters of 2026

The Best Backpacking Water Filters of 2026

We’ve tested filters from Sawyer, Katadyn, LifeStraw, MSR and more to find the best option for every adventure.…
Hisense XR10 Smart Projector Review: RGB-Powered Wonder

Hisense XR10 Smart Projector Review: RGB-Powered Wonder

Projectors are adopting RGB backlighting, the hottest tech from the world of TVs. This large but vivid projector is a great option for summer movie ni…
COMPUTER COPS: Inside the big business of selling AI to the police

COMPUTER COPS: Inside the big business of selling AI to the police

I stood before a hulking glass and brick structure in the heart of Fort Worth, Texas. Thousands gathered inside to see what had been billed as "the fu…
Gay Men Flocked to Goose for Friendship. Some Still Feel Excluded

Gay Men Flocked to Goose for Friendship. Some Still Feel Excluded

Despite positioning itself as an anti-hookup app, users tell WIRED that Goose has fake profiles, harsh acceptance standards, and problems with inclusi…
Please Stop Making Me Opt Out of AI

Please Stop Making Me Opt Out of AI

I’m sick of “opt-out” toggles for automatically enabled generative AI features. It’s past time to make “opt in” the default setting for sensitive feat…
Astronomers Have Found a Sugar Molecule in Deep Space for the First Time Ever

Astronomers Have Found a Sugar Molecule in Deep Space for the First Time Ever

Researchers identified traces of erythrulose, a monosaccharide, thousands of light-years away.…
The lost joy of music piracy

The lost joy of music piracy

Article URL: https://www.pigeonsandplanes.com/read/music-piracy-what-cd-oink-nine-inch-nails-streaming Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item…
Collection of Digital Clock Designs

Collection of Digital Clock Designs

Article URL: https://clocks.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48923380 Points: 212 # Comments: 38…
Applied Computing wants to give oil and gas operators an AI model for the entire plant

Applied Computing wants to give oil and gas operators an AI model for the entire plant

Applied Computing has raised a $20M Series A to build a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry.…
OpenAI loses trademark dispute at EU court

OpenAI loses trademark dispute at EU court

Article URL: https://dpa-international.com/economics/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:260715-930-389143/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU

Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU

Article URL: https://www.neomindlabs.com/2026/06/08/running-gemma-4-26b-at-5-tokens-sec-on-a-13-year-old-xeon-with-no-gpu/ Comments URL: https://news.…
Grok Build is open source

Grok Build is open source

Article URL: https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48926590 Points: 214 # Comments: 262…
Buzz Aldrin sells famous felt-tip pen that helped launch Apollo from the Moon

Buzz Aldrin sells famous felt-tip pen that helped launch Apollo from the Moon

While an impressive sale, the pen and switch did not break records.…
Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic

Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic

Microsoft is looking to sell its in-house AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than its competitors' models.…
Skullcandy’s bass-boosting Crusher headphones now come with Bose’s ANC

Skullcandy’s bass-boosting Crusher headphones now come with Bose’s ANC

Skullcandy announced a new version of its Crusher wireless headphones today featuring a few of Bose's audio technologies including its QuietControl AN…
Can Bose Help Skullcandy Shake Its Bargain-Bin Reputation?

Can Bose Help Skullcandy Shake Its Bargain-Bin Reputation?

Skullcandy’s audio products aren’t exactly known for their stellar audio quality or noise cancellation, but its latest headphones are getting an assis…
Valve says iFixit will keep selling Steam Deck batteries after all

Valve says iFixit will keep selling Steam Deck batteries after all

Valve has been incredibly friendly to customers who need repairs - which is why it was so surprising to hear that Valve was already discontinuing the …
Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations have a deployment problem, not a platform problem — and most are calling chatbots agents

Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations have a deployment problem, not a platform problem — and most are calling chatbots agents

Across 101 enterprises, agent orchestration is consolidating onto model-provider platforms — Anthropic’s Claude leads by a wide margin — chosen for th…
Apple’s reportedly raising the price for AppleCare Plus on Macs and iPads

Apple’s reportedly raising the price for AppleCare Plus on Macs and iPads

An AppleCare Plus subscription for a Mac or iPad will cost more soon, with prices going up by $0.50 per month or $5 per year for new sign-ups while re…
HP’s OLED-equipped 2-in-1 laptop is a solid back-to-school deal

HP’s OLED-equipped 2-in-1 laptop is a solid back-to-school deal

With storage and memory prices still at an all-time high, we’re happy to tell you about a solid deal on a good laptop when we find one, rare as they a…
The Northeast Is Being Blanketed in Canadian Wildfire Smoke

The Northeast Is Being Blanketed in Canadian Wildfire Smoke

Roughly 100 wildfires are raging out of control in Ontario, sending smoke streaming more than 1,000 miles from their origin.…
Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)

Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)

Article URL: https://dev.moe/en/3025 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48920475 Points: 219 # Comments: 109…
Engineer identifies and explains every '90s computer seen in Jurassic Park

Engineer identifies and explains every '90s computer seen in Jurassic Park

Yes, it was, in fact, a Unix system.…
Sheetz moves 838 stores off VMware: Broadcom created “too much uncertainty"

Sheetz moves 838 stores off VMware: Broadcom created “too much uncertainty"

The conveneince store chain will use StorMagic instead.…
xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM ‘deepfakes’

xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM ‘deepfakes’

The Elon Musk-owned xAI is suing a South Carolina man who allegedly used the company's Grok AI chatbot to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM).…
Windows 0-day drops the same day Microsoft releases record number of patches

Windows 0-day drops the same day Microsoft releases record number of patches

HiveLegacy is a "powerful primitive" that's likely capable of other nefarious actions.…
Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex

Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex

OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light-up keyboard designed to be pa…
AI slop movies are the new direct-to-video cash grabs

AI slop movies are the new direct-to-video cash grabs

This weekend, cinephiles across the world will march to their local theaters to feast their eyes on Christopher Nolan's new adaptation of The Odyssey.…
Roblox is shutting down its video chat service

Roblox is shutting down its video chat service

Roblox will be shutting down Roblox Connect, its video calling service introduced in 2023. Roblox Connect let you video chat with other people using y…