Ford says that it rehired hundreds of auto industry veterans after realizing that an overreliance on AI caused some expensive headaches at the company. The carmaker folded 350 “gray beard” engineers into its workforce over the last three years, including many former...

For as popular as the piano is in music studios, homes, and schools, it almost defies logic. Compared to a guitar, harmonica, or drum set, pianos are incredibly complex machines that can have somewhere on the order of 8,000 moving parts in a case that can easily weigh...

Here's how to leverage your power station's capabilities when it's not during an emergency.

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Flooded basements, mold growth, and rotting wood are all symptoms of the alarming uptick in flood damage facing property owners nationwide. Its costs, which can reach nearly a staggering half a trillion in the U.S. each year, are surging as the impact of climate...

Below, Ric Bucher shares five key insights from his new book, Coachable: How the Greatest Performers Reach Their Highest Potential. Ric is a longtime sportswriter and TV analyst for ESPN, TNT, and most recently Fox Sports. His writing has been recognized by the Pro...

Article URL: https://www.jonathanbeard.io/blog/2026/06/27/the-80-percent-problem.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48723276 Points: 15 # Comments: 8

One listing for the 512GB variant starts at $3,200.

Microsoft has found a malicious Chrome extension that posed as the AI search engine Perplexity and quietly logged what people searched for. It routed every query and every character typed into the address bar through an attacker-controlled server before redirecting...

Microsoft's support policy for its .NET runtime and development platform is too short for enterprises, according to a developer who has revived a long-standing complaint in a new GitHub issue. The current release lifecycle for modern .NET, formerly known as .NET Core,...

Kobo users can now automatically sync their reading progress to StoryGraph, making it easier to track books, reading stats, and challenges without relying on Amazon’s Goodreads.

A few weeks ago, I replaced my iPhone 14 Pro battery at the Apple store - and was pleasantly surprised by the results.

Depending on which trend piece you’re reading this week, America’s shopping malls are either dying a gruesome death or experiencing a Gen Z-driven renaissance . While it’s true that the complexities of retail don’t necessary lend themselves to simple narratives,...

For most of the past century, the United States has not left innovation to chance. At the height of the Space Race in the 1960s, federal investment in research and development reached nearly 2% of GDP. Today, that number has fallen below 1%. At the same time, total...

I don’t remember the valuation of the deal. I don’t remember most of the presentations. I don’t even remember many of the people who were in the room. But more than 20 years later, I still have a candle from the hotel. I was in my early 20s working as an investment...

The problem began on Amazon but is spreading to other online ebook vendors.

The companies confirmed to TechCrunch that their unusual partnership in Phoenix recently ended after nearly three years..

Perhaps the hardest thing for amateur astronomers just starting out is finding the things you want to look at. Prolific maker [mircemk] has submitted a quick-and-easy star-hopper device that will help guide your binoculars with laser-like precision using things you...

As Anthropic forges a closer relationship with the state of California, the federal government has made an enemy out of the OpenAI rival.

The world's two largest memory chip companies vow to build more memory lab fabs as South Korea positions itself as an AI tech powerhouse country.

The central bank for central banks is concerned about the eye-watering sums being invested into AI, and it's raising the specter of a global recession should the bubble burst. In its annual report for 2026, the Bank for International Settlements compared the current...

Rocket Lab has agreed to acquire Iridium Communications in an $8 billion cash-and-stock deal, potentially creating another challenger to SpaceX and Amazon for vertically integrated satellite broadband. Both Rocket Lab and Iridium's boards unanimously agreed to the...

Mageia 10 marks 15 years since the distribution's first release in June 2011. The project began the previous year as a fork of Mandriva, itself formerly known as Mandrake Linux. We last looked at Mageia alongside the other Mandrake descendants in 2022. What sets...