President Trump announced Dr. Erica Schwartz as his third nominee for CDC director — a board-certified preventive medicine physician and former public health official who supports vaccination and evidence-based medicin...
Cursor, the AI-powered coding assistant, is reportedly in talks to raise more than $2 billion in a new funding round that would value the company at $50 billion, driven by surging enterprise adoption. Returning investors...
Tesla is still asking Hardware 3 owners to be patient regarding Full Self-Driving capabilities, despite customers having waited approximately seven years for the promised feature. The situation highlights ongoing frustra...
Two TechCrunch pieces examine the growing practice of 'tokenmaxxing'—pushing AI models to generate maximum output—arguing it is making developers less productive due to higher costs and increased need to rewrite gene...
The used electric vehicle market has expanded significantly, with thousands of EVs available nationwide in the $20,000–$25,000 bracket. Despite the Trump administration abolishing the used clean vehicle tax credit, buy...
A 2018 ESA article resurfacing on Hacker News details how all twelve astronauts who walked on the Moon suffered allergic-like reactions from lunar dust, which they described as smelling like gunpowder. The fine abrasive ...
New satellite and drone imagery reveals that roughly 40 percent of US data center projects may not be completed on schedule this year. Major construction and power supply challenges, along with growing local opposition, ...
The rise of prediction market platforms has blurred the line between journalism and speculation, raising ethical questions about whether reporters can or should bet on events they cover. The ability to monetize almost an...
SNK has announced a reissue of its iconic NeoGeo AES retro console under the name NeoGeo AES+, notable for running original hardware rather than relying on software emulation. The announcement has generated interest amon...
A security researcher publicly disclosed three vulnerabilities in Windows Defender along with proof-of-concept exploit code, and threat actors have already begun leveraging the flaws against real organizations, according...
Amazon has confirmed that all future Fire TV Stick devices, starting with the Fire TV Stick 4K Select released in October, will run on its new Vega platform and will not support sideloading of third-party Android apps. T...
Director Ridley Scott has released the first trailer for The Dog Stars, a post-apocalyptic film based on Peter Heller's acclaimed 2012 novel. The story follows the aftermath of a deadly flu virus that decimates humanity....
The Poetry Camera is a consumer gadget that photographs scenes and prints AI-generated poems on receipt paper. While praised for its playful design, reviewers found its AI-written verse charming but often frustratingly s...
A new open-source project called Smol Machines (smolvm) has been released on GitHub, offering portable virtual machines with subsecond cold-start times. The project has attracted significant attention on Hacker News for ...
Tinder has integrated Sam Altman's Worldcoin orb technology to verify that users are real humans by scanning their irises. The feature represents a novel approach to combating fake profiles on the dating platform....
A personal blog post on StrangelyEntangled.com reflects on 1980s computing hardware and the modern cyberdeck hobbyist scene, drawing connections between vintage machines and contemporary DIY portable computing culture....
Y Combinator Winter 2023 alumni Kyber has posted an opening for a Head of Engineering role on the YC jobs board....
Six days after returning from their mission around the Moon, the Artemis II crew spoke with media, with pilot Victor Glover sharing his experience flying and landing the Orion spacecraft. Glover discussed the mission's s...
Gigs is a new iPhone app that uses AI to parse old concert tickets, screenshots, and emails to build a personalized live music history, complete with statistics and memories....
An open-source macOS utility called PanicLock has been released on GitHub, designed to disable Touch ID and require password authentication whenever a MacBook lid is closed. The tool is aimed at users who need a quick wa...