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Sony Says the PS6 Will Let You Play ‘Beyond the Living Room’
But it could cost $1,000 to make, which doesn't bode well for its actual price tag.
The Internet I Grew Up with Doesn’t Exist Anymore
Article URL: https://cleberg.net/blog/internet.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48744655 Points: 11 # Comments: 9
UN report says policymakers are struggling to keep up with pace of AI development
UN panel says 'AI is neither inherently good nor bad,' but better safeguards around it are needed.
Citrix says it’s back as a mainstream server virtualization player that won’t send scary bills
Citrix says it has returned to the mainstream server virtualization market with the release of XenServer 9. The hypervisor was a contender in the early 2010s but struggled to compete with VMware and Microsoft. By 2014, analyst firm Gartner suggested Citrix had stopped...
Memory Chip Shortage Aggravated by Rush to Build More Data Centers
AI data center demand is tightening memory chip supplies, forcing manufacturers to prioritize AI hardware over consumer devices and raising concerns about higher prices and future shortages. The post Memory Chip Shortage Aggravated by Rush to Build More Data Centers...
Brit competition cops fast-track £2B borging of Netomnia into Openreach challenger
Britain's competition watchdog wants to cast a close eye over the proposed takeover of Substantial, owner of Netomnia, by a consortium that includes Virgin Media O2 owners Liberty Global and Telefónica. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has referred the...
Purism launches supersized 16-inch laptop for buyers who put privacy before price
Purism has launched the Librem 16, a privacy-focused Linux laptop with a 16-inch display and hardware controls designed to disable potentially intrusive components. The machine runs Coreboot firmware and disables Intel's Management Engine. Founder and CEO Todd Weaver...
Inside the $9 billion Texas startup building a drone armada for the U.S. Navy
It was September 2022, and Dino Mavrookas was trying to build the future of U.S. naval power atop an $800 dinghy. A former Navy SEAL turned tech investor, Mavrookas had recently launched the startup Saronic Technologies with a vision for shoring up America’s defenses:...
Meet the creator tracking outlandish claims from AI executives every day
When Brian Patrick wakes up each day, he logs on to his computer and starts combing through social media, news articles, and YouTube videos to find the craziest things prominent AI executives have ever said. He always finds something. There’s the clip of Oracle...
Getty Images is canceling its $3.7 billion Shutterstock merger due to UK restrictions
Getty Images has moved to terminate a $3.7 billion merger with rival Shutterstock due to restrictions imposed by UK regulators.
Adobe Patches Critical ColdFusion, Campaign Classic Vulnerabilities
Seven of the security defects have a maximum severity rating of 10/10 and could lead to arbitrary code execution. The post Adobe Patches Critical ColdFusion, Campaign Classic Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Citrix Patches NetScaler Vulnerabilities, Including New ‘HTTP/2 Bomb’ Attack
Citrix urges customers to patch NetScaler after fixing six vulnerabilities, including the HTTP/2 Bomb flaw and a high-severity CitrixBleed-style information disclosure bug. The post Citrix Patches NetScaler Vulnerabilities, Including New ‘HTTP/2 Bomb’ Attack appeared...
Future OLED Macs and iPads Rumored to Offer Major Color Upgrade
Though nothing has been confirmed as of yet, these screens could bring Apple hardware closer to what humans see in the real world.
Microsoft Accelerates Post-Quantum Cryptography Shift to 2029
Microsoft on Tuesday said it's accelerating its quantum safe security roadmap, stating technology advances in quantum computing are making it essential to replace existing encryption standards sooner than previously expected. "Advances in quantum research and...
Inside Samsung’s design process to make your earbuds fit just right
Federico Casalegno has been thinking about ears. Billions of ears. “Ears are almost like fingerprints. Every one of us has a different one,” says Casalegno, executive vice president of design at Samsung. It’s a pertinent topic for Samsung, maker of a variety of...
Terminus is a Text Only Phone Because Telephony is Dead Anyway
This may say more about us than the current state of the telephone network, but unless your Grandma is still kicking, how many phone calls do you take that are actually worth picking up? Around here it’s one variety of scam or another, with the odd cold-calling...
Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report
Article URL: https://asahilinux.org/2026/06/progress-report-7-1/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48744518 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
Pine64 launch $50 smart speaker for Home Assistant tinkerers
Article URL: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/pine64-pinevoice-riscv-smart-speaker-launch Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48744446 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
Trump wanted a redesigned Washington, D.C., for the nation’s birthday. He’ll have to wait
Ahead of the country’s big 250th birthday, America’s capital doesn’t exactly look party ready. The White House grounds are a construction zone where the East Wing once stood, and the South Lawn is yellowed and flat after the staging for a UFC cage match was packed up...
How to avoid AI in as many places as possible
It’s not easy wanting nothing to do with AI these days. As a tech advice journalist, I’ve heard from plenty of folks who were perfectly happy with how their apps and operating systems worked before the artificial intelligence boom. They’re not interested in...
Do you still need third-party antivirus on your Windows PC?
Earlier this year, Microsoft quietly deleted a post that argued Windows 11's built-in Microsoft Defender Antivirus was good enough for most people. But independent evidence says they were right.
BMW’s X5 finally goes electric with an impressive 435 miles of range
BMW's X5 lineup finally has an electric option with impressive range.
How Small Postgres Metadata Tables Quietly Throttle Your Largest Queries
Most time-series performance work starts with the obvious suspect: the fact table. Five hundred million rows of sensor readings, hundreds of daily partitions, an autovacuum worker fighting write load. That is where engineers go first. That is where the Optimization...
Nobody Reviewed the Model. They Just Reviewed the Code Around It
Before signing a contract, a customer's security team conducted a vendor review, and one question on their list left our ML lead speechless: “Which exact model weights are running in production, and who reviewed the code that loads them?” We answered the first half....
The Compounding Latency Crisis of Multi-Step AI Workflows
Chaining multiple LLM calls, vector database lookups, and API tools creates a severe performance bottleneck, dragging response times from seconds to minutes. Every sequential step introduces extra network and token processing overhead that quickly ruins the user...
No AI Agent Without Identity (Part 5): Auditability and the Minimum Bar for Governed Autonomy
Series Context In Part 4: Deterministic Control, Revocation, and MCP Enforcement, we covered how to enforce agent boundaries through deterministic scope, runtime credentials, revocation behavior, and MCP-aware authorization. In this final part, we focus on...
LTX-2.3-3DREAL-LoRA Turns 3D Renders Into Photoreal Video
LTX-2.3-3DREAL-LoRA converts 3D renders, Blender blockouts and game engine footage into photorealistic videos.
What 500 People Taught Me About AI That Nobody Else is Talking About
500 people. 20 hours. 3 lessons about AI that nobody talks about — and why the barrier was never the technology.
Inside My Strange Chat With a Pro-Israel Textbot
A strange text from “Emma” opens a rabbit hole into AI political outreach, foreign agent rules, and chatbot disclosure laws.