NASA plans to launch three massive rockets for the Artemis 3 crewed lunar test mission
NASA has detailed how the next Artemis 3 test will happen, but it doesn't have a concrete date for it yet.
Acer's Predator Atlas 8 gaming handheld finally launches at Best Buy on November 1 for $1,300
The Predator Atlas 8 gaming handheld PC is coming to the US after all on November 1st for $1,300.
Attack on email hosting provider for German far right party AfD exposed 345k accounts
Alternative für Deutschland swats away scandals as reporters swarm leaked email tranche
This super cute app turns your iPhone Duo into tiny vintage Macs
It’s kind of ironic that the most fun apps we’ve seen for a brand new iPhone turn it into a decidedly old device. We’ve already seen a 1980s Sony Walkman emulator, and now Tiny Computers turns the Duo into a whole series of vintage Macs and more. You can choose between four vintage Macs and a ran...
Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible
Article URL: https://www.bitlog.com/2026/10/27/software-may-be-getting-worse-but-it-used-to-be-horrible/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257548 Points: 24 # Comments: 4
Intel's APX offers 'better performance' in Windows 11 according to new Insider setting
Microsoft has begun testing the option to enable Intel's Advanced Performance Extensions, or APX, which will bring a performance boost to some apps — although no chips with APX support are available as yet.
Industrial Intelligence: The next growth opportunity for manufacturing
Every manufacturer has its own industrial intelligence. Some is documented, and some resides in the knowledge of experienced workers. Consider an experienced operator preparing to restart a line after a changeover. The machine settings matter, but so does knowing how a particular material behaves...
Apple knows the iPad mini market, but internet unimpressed by 60Hz
Apple yesterday officially launched what it describes as “the biggest update ever” to the iPad mini, featuring an OLED screen and a thinner, lighter design. However, while there are a significant number of upgrades, internet commentators were very focused on the one thing Apple didn’t upgrade: th...
Grab 32GB of DDR5 RAM for just $151 in this 4-in-1 Newegg bundle with the 9800X3D and a 2TB SSD
Grab the 9800X3D with a matching Gigabyte motherboard, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 2TB SSD, all for just $1,180.99, giving you a $358.98 discount that makes the equivalent RAM price just $151.
Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/wikipedia-wikiproject-ai-writing-cleanup Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257326 Points: 18 # Comments: 4
Slate teams up with Smarties to add candy colors to its EV trucks
Fancy making your Slate EV look like halloween candy? Now you can.
20 Years of MacBook: How Apple shaped the laptops we use today
Apple has influenced everything from unibody laptop cases to high-res screens.
UK ministers had plenty of time for AI datacenter bosses, but none for environmental groups
Investigation finds businesses dominated govt meetings while communities were left out of decisions about AI Growth Zones
Nvidia is bankrolling AI accelerator supply chain buildout to reserve production capacity
Nvidia is committing billions to expand substrate, co-packaged optics, advanced packaging, and chip-testing capacity through 2028, reserving capacity at nearly every stage of its AI accelerator supply chain.
AI Agents Are Media’s New Favorite Audience
As agents go mainstream, some publishers are hoping that people will pay for content tailor-made for AI—not humans.
Nvidia backs Indian startup helping companies run AI models with fewer GPUs
Simplismart says its annualized revenue run rate has grown 14-fold in six months, with the U.S. accounting for more than half its revenue.
Sterling Anderson doesn’t think humanoid robots should be building cars
Sterling Anderson, General Motors’ chief product officer, delivers a speech during the brand's annual technology event in New York on October 21st, 2026. Photo: Charly Triballeau / AFP via Getty Images | AFP via Getty Images At a splashy event in New York City last week, General Motors unveiled...
NASA’s Oldest Martian Spacecraft Have Been Running for Decades. Here’s How
Two orbiters have long outlasted their expected lifespans and completely reshaped our understanding of the Red Planet, all while operating 140 million miles from Earth.
Apple backports CoreGraphics zero-day patches to older iPhones
Apple has backported security patches released last month to older iPhones and iPads, addressing a zero-day bug exploited in "extremely sophisticated" targeted attacks on iOS devices. [...]
60,000 Microsoft employees offered voluntary buyouts as AI buildout costs bite
Microsoft is offering buyouts to around 60,000 members of its workforce as it looks to balance the books amid a ramp-up in AI data center spending.