Connie Ballmer, wife of former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, has donated $80 million to NPR — roughly equivalent to seven years of government funding. The gift comes with strings attached, according to The Verge....
Netflix announced it will roll out a redesigned mobile app at the end of April 2026 featuring a vertical video feed. The company says the update will better reflect its expanding entertainment offering and make content e...
Robotics startup Physical Intelligence has released a new model called π0.7, which the company describes as an early but meaningful step toward a general-purpose robot brain capable of figuring out tasks it was never ex...
Netflix co-founder and chairman Reed Hastings announced he will not stand for re-election to the board, effectively ending his nearly 30-year tenure at the company. The news was disclosed as part of Netflix's Q1 2026 ear...
A new benchmark called Sir-Bench has been proposed in an arXiv paper to evaluate the performance of AI agents specifically on security incident response tasks, filling a gap in existing agent evaluation frameworks....
A theoretical model of the cyclic universe suggests that dark matter could consist of black holes that existed before the Big Bang. The hypothesis offers a novel cosmological explanation for one of physics' most enduring...
European Union civil servants are being directed to stop using WhatsApp and migrate to alternative messaging platforms, according to a Politico report, as EU institutions push to reduce reliance on U.S.-based consumer ap...
The Clojure programming language has released an official documentary page featuring the full documentary video along with shownotes and supplementary links, drawing substantial discussion in the Hacker News community....
Slash, a Ramp competitor originally founded by teenagers, has raised $100 million at a $1.4 billion valuation. The founders, now 24, say the startup has reached $300 million in annualized revenue five years after launch....
OpenAI has released a major update to its agentic coding tool Codex, adding new powers and abilities including greater control over the user's desktop. The upgrade is seen as a direct move to compete with Anthropic's cod...
Duke University has incorporated the Playdate handheld gaming device into its game design curriculum, with the platform's constraints and unique crank controller offering students a distinctive and focused development en...
The Federal Trade Commission, joined by eight U.S. states, filed suit against advertising giants Dentsu, Publicis, and WPP for allegedly conspiring to withhold digital ad spending from conservative news and opinion sites...
Live Nation-Ticketmaster says it will fight the jury verdict finding it violated antitrust law on several counts. The company issued a statement warning it intends to contest the ruling....
An unannounced Teenage Engineering device called the KO-Amp 35 has surfaced in FCC filings, suggesting the company best known for quirky synthesizers may be expanding into instrument amplifiers....
Europe has released a free, privacy-preserving age verification app intended for use by porn sites and social media platforms to restrict access by minors. The app is described as 'completely anonymous' and shifts compli...
In a coordinated operation, Europol targeted for-hire DDoS services, resulting in four arrests and the seizure of 53 domains. As part of the campaign, authorities emailed 75,000 people warning them to stop participating ...
Casely has reannounced a recall of over 429,000 of its 5,000mAh Power Pod wireless power banks, originally recalled in April 2025 for fire and burn hazards. The renewed alert follows a reported fatality associated with t...
Google has announced an Android command-line interface tool that claims to accelerate Android app development by a factor of three when used with AI coding agents....
OpenAI has released a major update to its Codex desktop app, introducing the ability to perform tasks on a user's PC in the background without interfering with active work. The update also expands Codex beyond developer ...
Anthropic's Chief Product Officer has stepped down from Figma's board following reports that Anthropic plans to launch a product that would compete directly with Figma. The move intensifies investor concerns about major ...