McDonald’s plans to introduce new value-oriented meal bundles early next year after a disappointing third quarter that saw lower traffic at U.S. restaurants. McDonald’s Chairman and CEO Chris Kempczinski said Wednesday that the...
Chrome might receive a much-needed addition.
Article URL: https://www.ricursive.com/ripple Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50369925 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
The AI design giant Canva just announced the first-ever major round of layoffs in its 13-year history. As part of the restructuring, 1,271 people—around 22% of the company’s overall staff—will either be laid off, asked to change...
Although not very glamorous, wax motors are a fairly common type of linear actuator. They use the thermal response of waxes and the resulting volumetric expansion or reduction to create a relatively fast, smooth, and highly...
Open source models are becoming more mainstream as enterprises, governments and startups alike rely on the promise of lower costs, more control, and more flexibility. But as increasingly capable models become more freely...
DuckDuckGo is courting schools frustrated by Google’s AI restrictions, pointing educators to its search engine and options to disable AI features.
Alex Karp, CEO of US spy-tech company Palantir, used this week’s historic US midterm election results to claim an unlikely mantle for a military software supplier: pioneer of an antiwar movement.Palantir’s Q3 revenue...
Article URL: https://blog.kagi.com/education-should-not-be-held-for-ransom Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50369657 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://www.bwplotka.dev/2026/rust-microbenchmarks-benchstat/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50369462 Points: 10 # Comments: 2
Fedora 45 is here, after not one but two week-long delays as the team found last-minute issues. Although both the original and second announcements were irksomely non-specific, in general we prefer this “when it’s...
Article URL: https://www.conductor.build/changelog/0.93.0-conductor-is-joining-meta Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50369840 Points: 5 # Comments: 3
