Does your work even matter?
If you can’t connect your work to a meaningful outcome, never hear back after a big push, or keep hitting walls on projects that matter to you, that’s not laziness. Here are five signs your work may be pointless and what to actually do about it.
Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font
If you don't want AI scrapers training themselves on your website, there's a new way to stop them that doesn't involve server-side blocking or praying they respect your instructions in robots.txt. A team of creatives have teamed up with a typography company to create...
PSP classic Lumines hits iOS and Android
The mobile and tablet ports of the remastered puzzle game include a free trial.
Leaked Pixel 11 Pro Fold photos also include mysterious new camera bar feature
Google's next foldable doesn't look all that different, save for the camera bar.
LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop’
LinkedIn is introducing new ways to reduce low-quality AI-generated posts, including a “seems like AI slop” reporting option. It's also replacing its own AI writing feature with a proofreading tool.
We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447
Article URL: https://www.bottlenecklabs.com/blog/autonomously-run-businesses Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113059 Points: 22 # Comments: 3
AMD Confirms RX 9050 4GB—But It’s OEM Only
So just don't let your friends buy a 4GB VRAM gaming PC accidentally.
Google’s new Gemini Robotics 2 platform allows for ‘intelligent whole-body control’
The company made a video of the bots in action doing stuff like cleaning trash and picking up watering cans.
Australia Looks to Italy for the Next Phase of Its Social Media Ban
Florence just opened a digital addiction clinic for teenagers — and it points to the next phase of Australia's world-first social media crackdown. The post Australia Looks to Italy for the Next Phase of Its Social Media Ban appeared first on TechRepublic.
Synthetic-user startup Simile raises $200M at $2B valuation 5 months after $100M Series A
Add another member to the fast-and-furious AI unicorn club: Simile
Spotify launches ‘User notes’ to let users add memories to songs
Spotify launches ‘User notes’ to let users add memories to songs Go to Source Spotify says the new feature is designed to let users add personal captions to their favorite songs, such as noting why a track was added to a playlist or...
Global smartphone sales fall by six percent amid memory cost crisis
Despite the slump, Apple and Samsung have both seen their market share go up.
From price spikes to a cyclospora outbreak: Lettuce is hitting some restaurants hard
It’s been a choppy year for restaurants that lean into lettuce. Lettuce prices rose sharply in the first half of 2026 due to hot weather in Arizona, where about one-third of America’s lettuce is grown. Now, restaurants are dealing with the fallout from a cyclospora...
Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick
Article URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/read-this-before-you-buy-that-tv-streaming-stick/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112744 Points: 21 # Comments: 2
Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-frontier-with-gpt-5-6/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112867 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
Microsoft Says Windows Secure Boot Certificate Rollout Is Ongoing
The original certificates expired in June.
Rise Reforming (YC S26) Is Hiring
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rise-reforming/jobs/wJ9Q9nv-senior-chemical-process-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112683 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
How Olinia Turns Mexico’s EV Ambition into Reality
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/mexico-olinia-car-electric-vehicle Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112368 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Toot.community Is Shutting Down
Article URL: https://social.jorijn.com/@jorijn/statuses/01KYN00AP3NCZXCFB96KQB8GN2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112327 Points: 6 # Comments: 2
Citi is giving cardholders access to Fashion Week, Formula 1, and award-winning chefs. Tickets start at $100
For years, premium credit card issuers competed with increasingly generous welcome bonuses, airport lounge access, and travel credits. Today, many of those perks have become table stakes. The next battleground is proving harder to copy: exclusive access. Citi’s...
How the AI industry forgot two of its best ideas
Technological progress is usually told as a story of accumulation. We imagine each generation inheriting everything the previous one learned and adding something new. Reality is less tidy. Sometimes technologies do not disappear because they failed. They disappear...
What the FCC ban on foreign-made robot vacuums means for your Roomba
The FCC's robot ban includes many of the world's most popular vacuums and lawn mowers. Is that Roomba in your closet a security risk?
I compared these popular sleep earbuds to my Oura Ring 5 – the results surprised me
The Ozlo Sleepbuds 2 improve on what made me fall in love with the first generation, but they're not perfect.
Don’t Take Your Robot on a United Flight if It Looks Anything Like You (or Your Dog)
AI- and remote-controlled robots that mimic real creatures are no longer allowed on the plane.
LinkedIn is testing a ‘seems like AI slop’ reporting tool
LinkedIn is testing a 'seems like AI slop' reporting tool Go to Source The company is also removing some of its own AI-writing features.
Mastercard spent decades training its fraud system to see bots as thieves. Now bots are the ones doing the buying.
Every time a Mastercard gets tapped, the network has less than a tenth of a second to judge how likely the purchase is to be fraudulent. It made that call across 175 billion transactions last year. Now the buyer on the other side of that judgment is starting to...
Pgtestdb’s template cloning approach to testing is fast
Article URL: https://brandur.org/fragments/pgtestdb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111687 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
Show HN: I think I made my own web version of minimalistic audacity
Article URL: https://github.com/askpext/HERTZ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111312 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Expensive phone cases: When and why it’s worth paying more
Phone cases vary dramatically when it comes to pricing, but it's not always as simple as "you get what you pay for."
Hush Security says the AI security problem has shifted from protecting models to governing identities as autonomous agents spread
Less than a year after emerging from stealth to tackle non-human identity security, Israeli cybersecurity startup Hush Security believes the enterprise AI security conversation has fundamentally changed.The company, which earlier this week announced a $30 million...