AMD Confirms RX 9050 4GB—But It’s OEM Only
So just don't let your friends buy a 4GB VRAM gaming PC accidentally.
Google’s new Gemini Robotics 2 platform allows for ‘intelligent whole-body control’
The company made a video of the bots in action doing stuff like cleaning trash and picking up watering cans.
Australia Looks to Italy for the Next Phase of Its Social Media Ban
Florence just opened a digital addiction clinic for teenagers — and it points to the next phase of Australia's world-first social media crackdown. The post Australia Looks to Italy for the Next Phase of Its Social Media Ban appeared first on TechRepublic.
Synthetic-user startup Simile raises $200M at $2B valuation 5 months after $100M Series A
Add another member to the fast-and-furious AI unicorn club: Simile
Spotify launches ‘User notes’ to let users add memories to songs
Spotify launches ‘User notes’ to let users add memories to songs Go to Source Spotify says the new feature is designed to let users add personal captions to their favorite songs, such as noting why a track was added to a playlist or...
Global smartphone sales fall by six percent amid memory cost crisis
Despite the slump, Apple and Samsung have both seen their market share go up.
From price spikes to a cyclospora outbreak: Lettuce is hitting some restaurants hard
It’s been a choppy year for restaurants that lean into lettuce. Lettuce prices rose sharply in the first half of 2026 due to hot weather in Arizona, where about one-third of America’s lettuce is grown. Now, restaurants are dealing with the fallout from a cyclospora...
Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick
Article URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/read-this-before-you-buy-that-tv-streaming-stick/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112744 Points: 21 # Comments: 2
Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-frontier-with-gpt-5-6/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112867 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
Microsoft Says Windows Secure Boot Certificate Rollout Is Ongoing
The original certificates expired in June.
Rise Reforming (YC S26) Is Hiring
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rise-reforming/jobs/wJ9Q9nv-senior-chemical-process-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112683 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
How Olinia Turns Mexico’s EV Ambition into Reality
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/mexico-olinia-car-electric-vehicle Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112368 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Toot.community Is Shutting Down
Article URL: https://social.jorijn.com/@jorijn/statuses/01KYN00AP3NCZXCFB96KQB8GN2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112327 Points: 6 # Comments: 2
Citi is giving cardholders access to Fashion Week, Formula 1, and award-winning chefs. Tickets start at $100
For years, premium credit card issuers competed with increasingly generous welcome bonuses, airport lounge access, and travel credits. Today, many of those perks have become table stakes. The next battleground is proving harder to copy: exclusive access. Citi’s...
How the AI industry forgot two of its best ideas
Technological progress is usually told as a story of accumulation. We imagine each generation inheriting everything the previous one learned and adding something new. Reality is less tidy. Sometimes technologies do not disappear because they failed. They disappear...
What the FCC ban on foreign-made robot vacuums means for your Roomba
The FCC's robot ban includes many of the world's most popular vacuums and lawn mowers. Is that Roomba in your closet a security risk?
I compared these popular sleep earbuds to my Oura Ring 5 – the results surprised me
The Ozlo Sleepbuds 2 improve on what made me fall in love with the first generation, but they're not perfect.
Don’t Take Your Robot on a United Flight if It Looks Anything Like You (or Your Dog)
AI- and remote-controlled robots that mimic real creatures are no longer allowed on the plane.
LinkedIn is testing a ‘seems like AI slop’ reporting tool
LinkedIn is testing a 'seems like AI slop' reporting tool Go to Source The company is also removing some of its own AI-writing features.
Mastercard spent decades training its fraud system to see bots as thieves. Now bots are the ones doing the buying.
Every time a Mastercard gets tapped, the network has less than a tenth of a second to judge how likely the purchase is to be fraudulent. It made that call across 175 billion transactions last year. Now the buyer on the other side of that judgment is starting to...
Pgtestdb’s template cloning approach to testing is fast
Article URL: https://brandur.org/fragments/pgtestdb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111687 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
Show HN: I think I made my own web version of minimalistic audacity
Article URL: https://github.com/askpext/HERTZ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111312 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Expensive phone cases: When and why it’s worth paying more
Phone cases vary dramatically when it comes to pricing, but it's not always as simple as "you get what you pay for."
Hush Security says the AI security problem has shifted from protecting models to governing identities as autonomous agents spread
Less than a year after emerging from stealth to tackle non-human identity security, Israeli cybersecurity startup Hush Security believes the enterprise AI security conversation has fundamentally changed.The company, which earlier this week announced a $30 million...
Trump visits General Motors plant, touting ‘amazing’ tariffs, but even some of this supporters are worried
Flying to a rally at General Motors this week, President Donald Trump declared that “car companies are doing better than they’ve ever done” thanks to his tariffs.“All because of Trump,” he said.It was a message the Republican president repeated while touring a...
The AI industry is rallying around open models. Is it more than talk?
Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. I’m Mark Sullivan, a senior writer at Fast Company, covering emerging tech, AI, and tech policy. Sign up to receive this newsletter every week via...
Your Windows download keeps getting bigger, and AI is to blame – here’s why it matters
It's not your imagination. Windows installation files have been creeping up in size. It might even be fair to call them bloated. And you'll never guess where the problem comes from.
Okta buys AI security startup Permiso; source says for about $200M
Okta buys AI security startup Permiso; source says for about $200M Go to Source The deal gives Okta identity threat detection capabilities as enterprises seek to secure AI agents and other non-human identities across cloud...
ThreatsDay: AI-Powered Hacking, 370 Chrome Flaws, SonicWall Attacks, DNS Hijacking + 22 More Stories
ThreatsDay: AI-Powered Hacking, 370 Chrome Flaws, SonicWall Attacks, DNS Hijacking + 22 More Stories Go to Source A lot of security still comes down to trusting the wrong screen. This week, that screen might be a login page, an...
OpenAI’s rogue agent didn’t stop at Hugging Face – here’s what we know
OpenAI's rogue agent didn't stop at Hugging Face - here's what we know Go to Source The same autonomous OpenAI agent that escaped its test environment and breached Hugging Face was also busy hacking other AI systems. Lucky us.