Apple’s $5,499 Mac Studio Is Here: Meet Its Most Powerful Mac
Apple’s M5 Ultra Mac Studio starts at $5,499. See what the extra $3,000 delivers and who actually needs its AI, memory, and GPU power. The post Apple’s $5,499 Mac Studio Is Here: Meet Its Most Powerful Mac appeared first on TechRepublic.
Simbe Surpasses 3,000 Contracted Robots for Retail Stores
Simbe says more than 3,000 Tally retail robots are under contract as it expands shelf-scanning technology into a broader store intelligence platform. The post Simbe Surpasses 3,000 Contracted Robots for Retail Stores appeared first on TechRepublic.
Meta Plans 7,000-Kilometer Subsea Cable Between US and France
Meta’s planned Petal subsea cable will connect the U.S. and France with 1 Pbps of capacity, using two-core fiber to meet rising data demand. The post Meta Plans 7,000-Kilometer Subsea Cable Between US and France appeared first on TechRepublic.
SpaceXAI Launches Grok 4.7: Low Prices, Heavy Token Use
SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.7 improves coding benchmarks and keeps API prices low, but heavy token consumption could raise the cost of completing real-world tasks. The post SpaceXAI Launches Grok 4.7: Low Prices, Heavy Token Use appeared first on TechRepublic.
iPhone 20 Pro Max Leak: Apple Could Make a Nearly 7-Inch Screen Feel Borderless
A new iPhone 20 Pro Max leak points to a nearly 7-inch display, borderless quad-curved design, and smaller Dynamic Island. The post iPhone 20 Pro Max Leak: Apple Could Make a Nearly 7-Inch Screen Feel Borderless appeared first on TechRepublic.
Trump is rolling back climate action. These 157 cities are going in the opposite direction
Trump is rolling back climate action. These 157 cities are going in the opposite direction Go to Source In June 2026, the Trump administration told states that they couldn’t use billions of dollars in Inflation Reduction Act federal...
Discord rolls out its revised age verification policy
It will offer several privacy-focused options for users who aren't automatically confirmed as adults.
Cyera raises $400M more amid AI agent security push
Cybersecurity startup Cyera Ltd. today announced that it has raised $400 million in funding from Goldman Sachs. The investment bank provided the capital as an extension to a Series G round that closed in June. The latter deal valued Cyera at $12 billion. The company...
Native apps written in TypeScript and CSS
Article URL: https://github.com/geastack/examples Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49807021 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
A Faster Shortest Path Algorithm
Article URL: https://www.vals.ai/blogs/faster-shortest-path-algorithm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49806778 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Obscura: The first VPN that can’t log your activity
Article URL: https://obscura.com/#faq-technical Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49807003 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school – Pentagon
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-iran-school-attack/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49806430 Points: 142 # Comments: 64
Explaining to business people why building software is still hard
Article URL: https://www.manager.dev/newsletter/cursing-the-day-lovable-was-born Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49806376 Points: 10 # Comments: 6
Dumpster-dived Window A/C becomes Ground-Source Heat Pump
Heat pumps are great, because they pump heat around, and we often don’t want heat where it is. Need it somewhere else? Pump it! It’s great. It’s also a bit pricey if you’re buying new, but [Craftsman Chris] over on YouTube realized that the window air conditioning...
Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI
Qualcomm said that its new top chip can run 30B mixture-of-expert model locally
Motorola’s new Signature 27 is among the first smartphone to use the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 processor
Not bad for a quick refresh.
How to set up 5.1 surround sound system for your Xbox
Your Xbox is surround-sound capable, and it's easy to enjoy 5.1 or even 7.1 immersive sound for your favorite titles.
Qualcomm is making not one but two versions of its flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chip
That video capture is nothing to sneeze at.
Pentagon: Palantir AI Overreliance Led to Strike Killing 123 Iranian Children
Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/pentagon-investigators-say-overreliance-on-palantir-ai-tech-contributed-to-u-s-strike-that-killed-123-iranian-children-2000814477 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49806430 Points: 29 # Comments: 7
SAML: A Fractal of Bad Design
Article URL: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/09/21/saml-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49806335 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
264,000 DoorDash drivers are getting money in a massive $131.5 million settlement. Here’s what happened
DoorDash has agreed to pay more than $115 million to more than 260,000 delivery workers in New York City who were underpaid as part of a $131.5 million settlement with the city. The worker settlement is being heralded as an historic win by New York Mayor Zohran...
Apple could take on Whoop with a new fitness tracker, report says
Apple may be developing a new fitness tracker as part of its new generation of hardware devices.
WordPress Issues Patch for Critical Flaw That Can Enable Code Execution on Some Servers
WordPress has fixed a critical flaw in its core software that lets an attacker with no account make a site load a PHP file from outside its theme folders. On some servers, that can go further, allowing the attacker to run their own code. The fix shipped on September...
Check Point Warns of Management Server Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks
Attackers exploited a previously unknown flaw in Check Point's Security Management Server in a handful of targeted attacks on July 23, the company said. The flaw, CVE-2026-93616, allows an attacker who can access the server's web service to run scripts on it without...
Malicious npm Package Poses as Twilio Bug-Bounty Probe, Can Exfiltrate Credentials
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a malicious npm package named "tw-pkgprobe-7731" that masquerades as a security tool targeting developers integrating Twilio into their applications, while stealthily attempting to harvest sensitive data. The...
Anthropic and OpenAI announce more powerful (and cheaper) AI models
I thought we were supposed to be slowing down the frontier.
Unreal Agent
https://github.com/unreallabsai/unreal-agent Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805748 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
20 ways to measure ROI from AI initiatives
Adoption of artificial intelligence seems to be happening at, well, the speed of AI. Instant everything doesn’t always translate to instant return on investment. Jumping on the AI bandwagon without knowing what outcomes you want and how you plan to measure them makes...
Meta admits Muse’s likeness to OpenClaw isn’t a coincidence
Meta says Muse was built from scratch, but acknowledges the AI assistant was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw — down to some of its workspace filenames and content.
The sentient intelligence gap
Years ago, when I was the director of a strategic design MBA program, I would invite business leaders to join our graduate students over dinner and conversation. Inevitably, there was a moment in the recounting of their origin story when these successful leaders would...