Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/07/apple-to-increase-spend-with-broadcom-to-produce-billions-more-us-chips/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48830565 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
Former OpenAI exec Kevin Weil is now on the board of Stoke Space
Kevin Weil's new role at Stoke Space suggests reusable rockets are the next hot thing in Silicon Valley.
DuckDuckGo Browser can now block video ads, including YouTube’s
DuckDuckGo will now block video ads by default in its browser.
GitHub ‘Verified’ Commits Can Be Rewritten Into New Hashes Without Breaking Signatures
New research shows that a signed Git commit's hash is not the one-of-a-kind name that much of the software world assumes it to be. Given any signed commit, someone without the signing key can mint a second commit with the same files, author, and date, and a valid...
List of European organizations that have banned personal messaging apps at work
Article URL: https://www.birdy.chat/blog/the-growing-list-of-european-organisations-that-ban-personal-messaging-apps-at-work Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48830371 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
We Got This Wrong. and We Are Fixing It
Article URL: https://community.hubspot.com/t/we-got-this-wrong-and-we-are-fixing-it/152063 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48830388 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
Chili’s is on fire! The untold story of how it’s keeping the party going
At first glance, the toile wallpaper is pure class: cream-colored and printed with intricate, brick-red drawings. But as I look more closely, I see . . . Wait. Is that a pair of chili peppers riding a Jet Ski? And is that other pepper, the one on a chaise longue,...
Apple loses legal fight over its App Store ‘gatekeeper’ status in Europe
Apple has lost its court challenge against EU rules forcing it to open up its platforms to third parties.
Apple reportedly testing RAM chips from US-blocked Chinese company
Apple is testing devices with Chinese-made DRAM made by CXMT, which reportedly has ties to the People's Liberation Army.
CNBC: The US wants to restrict corporate use of Chinese AI
US companies are increasingly turning to Chinese-made AI models to cut costs, something the government isn't happy about.
Your purpose statement is just the start. Here’s how to make it a reality
Every leadership conference has them. The beautifully crafted purpose statement, unveiled with ceremony, celebrated internally—and then quietly forgotten as the urgency of quarterly targets reasserts itself. Purpose becomes wallpaper. It looks good. It signals good...
Don’t become a meme: How to tell your team you’re going AI-first
AI has become a trigger word for thousands of skilled professionals worldwide. From students booing commencement speeches celebrating AI as the next industrial revolution to thousands of laid-off employees, people are sick and tired of being reminded how replaceable...
3 Android Auto automations that make my drives much easier – and how I set them up
Android automations are nothing new, but incorporating them into you car can change your drive.
This DIY Time Server is More Accurate Than You Need
You almost certainly don’t have an application for the sort of accurate timekeeping that’s made possible by this enhanced version of [Cristiano Monteiro]’s satellite-backed time server. By his own admission, the vast majority of users will be more than happy to have...
Seasonic Lists RTX 50 Super Cards in PSU Calculator
This is the latest major hint that refreshed Blackwell cards are coming, after all.
CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited ColdFusion, Langflow, Joomla Flaws
Two newly disclosed critical vulnerabilities in Adobe ColdFusion and Langflow join two Joomla extension flaws in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, with federal agencies given until July 10 to patch. The post CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited...
Critical Vulnerability Exposes GitHub Agentic Workflows to Prompt Injection
Researchers show how attackers can use a crafted public GitHub Issue to trick AI-powered workflows into exposing data from private repositories without authentication. The post Critical Vulnerability Exposes GitHub Agentic Workflows to Prompt Injection appeared first...
The weird and fascinating origin stories of your favorite team’s soccer kits
Did you know that Brazil’s original jersey was deeply resented by its own fans after it lost to Uruguay in the 1950 World Cup final, leading to a redesign made by a teenager three years later? Neither did I, until I went digging. The stories behind the kits of...
CDC warns of rising parasite infections with a horrifying symptom: 2026 cyclosporiasis outbreak spreads
Here’s something you don’t see everyday: Local health officials are warning Americans to be on the lookout for cyclosporiasis, a parasitic infection that causes “explosive” diarrhea—yes, we said it—and has sickened nearly 700 people in the at least two U.S. states,...
Why Abu Dhabi wants to become the next hub for air taxis and autonomous aviation
San Jose-based Archer Aviation expects to begin U.S. operations of its Midnight air taxi this year, following hundreds of test flights at its facility in Salinas, California. The company has signed deals with Nvidia for AI technology that can provide pilot assistance...
The SpaceXAI logo is so bad that even Grok hates it
Elon Musk’s latest brand is called SpaceXAI. It will be the face of all the AI services offered by SpaceX, from Grok to its AI server farms on Earth and in space. Its new Frankenlogo is about as visually convoluted as the company’s name suggests. It shows the iconic...
Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road
Other regions of Germany are starting to move away from proprietary tools and cloud services from the US in favor of FOSS. The state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in the northeast of Germany, has confirmed it is on the road to digital sovereignty and in the process of...
Prediction Markets Are Entering Their Infrastructure Era
Prediction markets closed out June with the biggest month in the sector's history. Combined trading volume across Kalshi, Polymarket, and Polymarket US reached $44.8 billion, up 75% from May's $25.66 billion, according to The Block, with the FIFA World Cup doing most...
How Float Runs an AI Energy Company on a 3-Person Team with Tiger Data
:::info Danish startup achieves 99.3% compression on 1Hz smart meter data, powering real-time appliance-level energy analytics for hundreds of homes. ::: Float is a Danish AI and energy startup that collects 1Hz smart meter data from hundreds of homes and...
RAG Was Read-Only. Meet the File Agent.
Every team I talk to has the same drawer of half-finished AI experiments. A bot that answers questions about the employee handbook. A "chat with your PDFs" tab nobody opens anymore. A Slack assistant that summarizes threads. They were all genuinely useful for about a...
Bittensor Cleans House: Inactive Subnets To No Longer Get Weekly Emissions Says Const
Bittensor co-founder Const announced that the network now pauses weekly emissions to subnets that have no miner distribution through active mechanisms or lack functional code. The review runs every Monday on an ongoing basis. Subnets can be reinstated on a...
Fleet Safety Camera System Engineering Knowledge Series
Foreword: Why This Knowledge System is Needed In the field of image engineering, every engineer faces a common challenge: how to translate perfect designs from the laboratory into consistent quality on the mass production line, ultimately delivering a reliable product...
Why Your NAS Is Wasting Power on Cold Files
Most home labbers and more than a few enterprise IT teams build storage systems under a quiet delusion: that every byte they own needs to be one millisecond away, forever. It's why people drop $3,000 on an 8-bay NAS, fill it with matched enterprise drives, and run...
The Smartphone Is the New Office, But Workplace Software Has Not Caught Up
Once upon a time, “Sent from my iPhone” used to be a sort of an apology, an explanation why there were some typos or a slightly terse reply. Today, it has turned into a comment on modern-day work. Our workplaces have moved into our palms; however, most of the...
From Open Port to Compromised Host: The Complete Nmap Offensive Workflow
SMB enumeration, CVE mapping, Metasploit integration, evasion, and pivot scanning — one chain. Most Nmap articles teach you to scan. This one teaches you what to do with the results. There's a gap that doesn't get talked about enough — the space between "port 445 is...