Oratomic raises $300M to build a viable quantum computer that needs only 20K qubits
The new startup raised $300 million co-led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures.
OpenAI’s Atlas browser doesn’t make it to its first birthday
OpenAI has decided its AI browser experiment has run its course, pulling the plug on ChatGPT Atlas less than a year after launch and moving its browser-based agent features into ChatGPT and Codex. The company said Atlas will stop working on August 9 as it rolls out...
Netflix could be planning ‘always-on’ live TV channels
Amid signs of slowing engagement, Netflix is reportedly considering launching "always-on" live channels, giving subscribers something to tune into 24/7.
Researcher Details WhatsApp-to-Host Attack Chain Using Three OpenClaw Flaws
Details have emerged about three now-patched security flaws in the OpenClaw personal artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that, if successfully exploited, could enable credential theft, privilege escalation, and arbitrary code execution on the host. A brief...
Facebook and Instagram have to dismantle these addictive design features, says EU watchdog
The European Union accused Meta on Friday of breaching its social media law by designing Facebook and Instagram to get users hooked, and demanded it disable “key addictive features” like infinite scrolling.The EU’s executive arm issued a fresh set of charges against...
The funky font on Norway’s World Cup jersey? It’s inspired by Nordic runes
When Norway’s national soccer team first experimented with kits that used a font inspired by the runic alphabet, an ancient Scandinavian written language used by Vikings, it was too hard to read. Characters on Norway’s 2024 jerseys were jagged, sharp, and not easily...
Best Buy is selling a 70-inch Fire TV for just $350 right now – and it’s a model I recommend
Upgrade your home theater with a big-screen Insignia F50 for less than $400 right now at Best Buy.
EU threatens Meta with fines over addictive features on Facebook and Instagram
The tech giant is in breach of the Digital Services Act by focusing on features like infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and the highly personalized recommendation algorithms, the European Commission said.
Engadget Podcast: Xbox resets with layoffs
This week on the Engadget Podcast, we dive into Microsoft's brutal Xbox layoffs with Mike Futter of the Virtual Economy Podcast.
Florida ransomware negotiator convicted for helping ransomware gang extort US companies
A third ransomware negotiator has been jailed for helping a notorious ransomware group to extort American victim companies into paying the hackers.
ActivityPub over ATProto
Article URL: https://berjon.com/ap-at/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859784 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Offline tool to stabilize TV volume using IR control and spike detection
Article URL: https://github.com/AdBusterOfficial/Adbuster--WinApp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859781 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
Proton AG Services is currently experiencing some issues
Article URL: https://status.proton.me/incidents/01lxtcq155lc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859752 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
Successful Companies Go Blind
Article URL: https://ianreppel.org/how-successful-companies-go-blind/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859678 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Write code like a human will maintain it
Article URL: https://unstack.io/write-code-like-a-human-will-maintain-it Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859701 Points: 13 # Comments: 3
Scarf has moved away from Haskell
Article URL: https://avi.press/posts/2026-07-10-after-7-years-in-production-scarf-has-reluctantly-moved-away-from-haskell.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859673 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
I'm a heavy vim user, but now that I look at the code less and less I'm wondering if it still makes sense. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859439 Points: 12 # Comments: 10
Punk, or why I don’t stream anymore
Article URL: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/05/03/punk-or-why-i-dont-stream.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859671 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
AI-driven datacenter builds drive Microsoft’s emissions up a quarter in one year
Microsoft says it matched its entire electricity consumption with renewable energy last year. The bad news is it also increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 25 percent due to datacenter construction. The cloud and software biz has released a 2026 Environmental...
This Week in Security: Escaping Linux VMs, Vulnerable Solar, Confusing AI (Again), and Confusing NPM Malware
The Januscape vulnerability allows a user in a guest VM managed by the Linux Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) to corrupt memory in the host system and break out of isolation. KVM virtualization is used by major hosting platforms like Amazon AWS, Google GCP, Digital Ocean,...
Dairy Queen store closures: Beloved ice cream chain joins list of retailers to see locations shutter in 2026
Every news cycle seems to bring reports of another fast food chain closing down stores, and this week is no exception. Three Dairy Queen stores have suddenly shuttered this month in Alaska, according to the Anchorage Daily News. “The franchise owner of the...
New York City construction scare highlights the challenges of converting offices into housing
When two steel columns buckled this week inside the former Pfizer headquarters in midtown Manhattan, the scare prompted evacuations and halted work on one of the nation’s largest office-to-apartment conversions.It also highlighted the complex engineering behind...
Is Microsoft Teams really going to start tracking employee locations?
Microsoft's new "Workspace Check-in" feature for Teams rolled out last month.
Volkswagen will dramatically shrink its model lineup and factory footprint
It follows reports of 100,000 jobs being under threat at the German automaker.
Ryanair Passenger Sucked Toward Broken Window After Midair Engine Failure
Article URL: https://simpleflying.com/ryanair-thessaloniki-diversion-window-damage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48858997 Points: 8 # Comments: 3
New MODBEACON RAT Uses gRPC Streaming for Encrypted C2 Traffic
The China-linked cybercrime group known as Silver Fox has been attributed to a new Rust-based remote access trojan (RAR) called MODBEACON. Chinese cybersecurity company QiAnXin said that while the threat cluster may appear like a low-sophistication, high-activity...
HP OmniBook Ultra 14 review: HP’s best ultraportable in years
While fully loaded models are quite pricey, the HP OmniBook Ultra is hard to beat for those in the market for a premium Windows ultraportable.
Xreal’s $299 lightweight a01+ AR glasses are now available to buy
The latest glasses from Xreal are designed to appeal to gamers and movie-watchers who want a big screen wherever they are.
China becomes the second country to recover a rocket booster
China made a breakthrough in its space program with the successful capture of a Long March 10B rocket booster.
AI doesn’t know how to forgive and cannot forget
Article URL: https://tejassuds.com/blog/ai-cannot-forget Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859047 Points: 10 # Comments: 4