India temporarily blocks Telegram, claiming it was done to prevent exam fraud
India has temporarily blocked Telegram, claiming it's to prevent cheating on a crucial entrance exam.
Cardiac monitor maker's security skips a beat as data thieves go for the jugular
Attackers used social engineering to access third-party business apps and steal patient information
Commodore announces Linux-based flip phone with ‘no social media, no browser’ — the Callback 8020 will be available in five retro colorways starting at $499, runs 99% of Android apps
After some teasing and a couple of red herrings Commodore today unveiled a retro-styled flip phone dubbed the Callback 8020.
Mechanical Watch (2022)
Article URL: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48553550 Points: 456 # Comments: 86
This startup’s super metals could soon be in military drones, luxury watches, and chef’s knives
Instead of heating metals, Foundation Alloy beats them into submission. The startup has raised $22 million to scale up production of its alloys.
Save 40% on this ultra-fast Samsung microSD card with 256GB storage, now just $47.99 — $32 saving on P9 Express model with read speeds of up to 800 MB/s, perfect for a gaming laptop or a Nintendo Switch 2
Save $32 on this Samsung P9 Express microSD card with read speeds up to 800MB/s.
Get an RTX 5090 gaming laptop for less than $3,000 — Acer's 16-inch Predator with 2TB of storage and 32GB of RAM is now $500 off
Save $500 on a super-powerful 16-inch gaming laptop with RTX 5090 graphics and a 240Hz OLED screen. Acer's Predator Helios AI falls to just $2,999.
SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO
The deal is supposed to help SpaceX's struggling AI division. The company told IPO investors it sees a $26 trillion addressable market in AI.
Critical Copilot vulnerability allowed hackers to seal 2FA code from users
SearchLeak exploit shows why the industry's approach to LLM security fails over and over.
Qualcomm said to be circling AI chip biz Tenstorrent in $10B RISC-V power play
Potential takeover would represent significant commitment to the open instruction set architecture
Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator
Article URL: https://www.unicorn-engine.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48553450 Points: 50 # Comments: 13
These are the four keyboards I'm still using after reviewing keyboards for years — How a 500 Hz TKL and a Stream Deck layout dominated my desk
It's hard to find a keyboard that's satisfying for both writing and gaming and I'm not sure the perfect board even exists. But while I wait to find it, these are the keyboards I keep coming back to, for one reason or another.
AMD’s massive SP7 socket for EPYC Venice and Intel’s gargantuan 9,324-pin socket for Diamond Rapids appear at Computex — SP7 and LGA9324-1 sockets will power the next generation of AI servers
Next-generation data center processors from AMD and Intel with 16 DDR5 memory channels are even bigger than today’s designs.
Finland charges Russian captain and crew member of ship suspected of damaging undersea cables — prosecutors claim ship had eight more targets before it was stopped by coast guard
Finnish prosecutors charged two crew members of a cargo ship suspected of deliberately damaging two undersea cables at the turn of the year, with two more remaining detained in Finland. This is the second investigation to result in charges, although the first case failed to secure a conviction, w...
15 Best Office Chairs of 2026— We Tested 70 to Pick Them
Sitting at a desk for hours? Upgrade your WFH setup and work in style with these comfy WIRED-tested seats.
15 Best Office Chairs of 2026— We Tested 70 to Pick Them
Sitting at a desk for hours? Upgrade your WFH setup and work in style with these comfy WIRED-tested seats.
Scammers keep scoring: Brits fleeced for £1.3B as Americans lose $3.5B to impersonators
More reasons to love social media and AI
Reports of iPhone Ultra launch delays are ‘false,’ says leaker
Alongside question marks on whether the first folding iPhone will be branded as the iPhone Fold, iPhone Ultra, or something else, there’s also been uncertainty about the launch timings. (I’m going to refer to it as the iPhone Ultra purely to avoid clumsy phrasing.) There have been multiple report...
Meta's Threads app now has half a billion monthly users
Almost three years in, Meta's X competitor is still growing.
TSMC says panel packaging won't replace CoWoS anytime soon for the largest future AI processors — wafer-level tech can scale to 58 massive dies in one package
TSMC is exploring panel-level packaging and is working on its CoPoS technology, but the company's Kevin Zhang says wafer-level packaging technologies is considerably more advanced than panel-level packaging.