Category: Google

Article URL: https://robert.ocallahan.org/2026/09/goodbye-google.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49840314 Points: 9 # Comments: 2

“To career” means “to move at a fast, reckless, or uncontrolled speed, similar to the original meaning of a horse’s gallop.” That’s about right. It should be clear by now that for many (if not most) people, the idea of a single,...

Electricity is the once and future drivetrain for automobiles, but until the advent of lithium batteries their capabilities were somewhat modest. One EV blip on the automotive timeline is the XP-512E commuter prototype by GM....

The Silicon Valley firm is aligning its India fundraising cycle with its global funds for the first time, as it shifts to a shorter investment period.

FreeBSD is now available for the desktop, in a roundabout way. Colin Percival, a maintainer and release engineering lead for the open-source OS’s release, announced the desktop distro on Thursday. “Most people think of FreeBSD...

Google has augmented its live dialogue model Gemini 3.8 Live with a feature called “Live Avatar” that’s capable of conjuring animated characters and realistic human simulacra to lip-sync Gemini’s...

A crook has been using three open source AI harnesses to target hundreds of online retailers and other companies, swiping more than 600,000 credit card records and installing card-stealing skimmers – and all at trivial...

Article URL: https://www.kartikpansuriya.com/blog/jev-system-one-model-calibrated-decisions Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49839510 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Island Inc., a startup with a browser optimized for the enterprise market, today announced that it has raised $400 million in funding. Evolution Equity Partners led the Series F round. It was joined by J.P. Morgan, Sequoia...

Article URL: https://status.gitlab.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49838034 Points: 9 # Comments: 4

In the past month, Waymo has expanded its fleet in Texas by 49%. There are other hotspots as well.

[Jude Robinson]’s robot Daisy has an unusual function: making a literal chain of daisies. The device is his student final project and demonstrates how a system can replace sensing with clever mechanical constraints. Instead of...