The US government has launched an online portal allowing importers and customs brokers to submit refund requests for tariffs deemed illegal by the Supreme Court two months ago. The Court had ruled that President Trump's ...
A team published results showing they ran the Qwen3.5-27B large language model at 207 tokens per second on a single consumer-grade RTX 3090 GPU using their LuceBox Hub framework. The benchmark is notable for demonstratin...
A Wired analysis examines how war memes are transforming real-world conflict into shareable entertainment. The piece argues that while the jokes may seem humorous, the underlying systems driving their spread carry more s...
AI company Kimi has released a new tool called Kimi Vendor Verifier, designed to let users verify whether third-party inference providers are accurately running the models they claim to offer. The tool addresses growing ...
Mercedes-Benz has unveiled the C 400 4MATIC, its first all-electric version of the C-Class compact sedan. Built on an 800-volt architecture, the car has an estimated range of up to 762 kilometers (473 miles) and is descr...
Formula 1 stakeholders have settled on a series of solutions to address the hybrid energy issues introduced with the sport's all-new 2026 powertrains. The new cars feature significantly more powerful electric motors than...
Sonos is running a certified refurbished sale offering the Era 100 smart speaker at $85 off its regular price. The deal is positioned as an alternative to the newer, microphone-free Era 100 SL for customers who want to r...
A humanoid robot built by Chinese smartphone maker Honor completed a half-marathon in Beijing on April 19 in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, autonomously navigating the 21-kilometer course and surpassing the human world recor...
Music streaming platform Deezer says it receives nearly 75,000 AI-generated song submissions per day, accounting for approximately 44 percent of all daily uploads. The figures suggest AI-created music is on the verge of ...
Deezer reports that AI-generated tracks now account for 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily, according to both TechCrunch and Ars Technica. Despite the high upload rate, actual consumption remains low at 1–3% o...
North Korean state-linked hackers have been blamed for stealing $290 million in cryptocurrency from Kelp DAO, making it the largest crypto heist of 2026 so far....
Mastodon's flagship server was struck by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, coming less than a week after rival decentralized social platform Bluesky was similarly targeted with junk web traffic....
The classic British science-fiction comic Rogue Trooper, published in 2000 AD for nearly five decades, is being adapted for a silver-screen film. The character, part of the Genetic Infantry, joins a small number of 2000 ...
A technical post by cryptographer Filippo Valsorda argues that quantum computers do not pose a practical threat to 128-bit symmetric encryption keys, countering widespread concerns in the security community. The analysis...
A widely read blog post contends that widespread digital surveillance became normalized not through explicit public consent but through incremental design choices, platform incentives, and user convenience trade-offs. Th...
The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered an investigation into an apparent failure of the upper stage of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket. The rocket will remain grounded until the investigation into the cause of th...
The National Security Agency is reportedly using Anthropic's restricted Mythos AI model, according to TechCrunch. The report comes amid a broader feud between Anthropic and the Pentagon over AI deployment....
Both the CEO and CFO of Fermi, an AI-focused nuclear power startup co-founded by former U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, have suddenly departed. The company has faced headwinds with its AI data center campus project in ...
An Android Authority piece gaining significant traction argues that Amazon's recent decisions around the Kindle e-reader—citing changes to features, ecosystem lock-in, or hardware direction—are driving long-time user...
Kimi has unveiled K2.6, a new open-source model focused on improving coding performance, generating substantial community discussion on Hacker News with nearly 230 comments. The release positions Kimi as a continued cont...