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.
TikTok Shoppers Thought They Were Bidding on iPhones. Instead, They Won Teddy Bears
Sellers on TikTok used pricey items to lure bidders to “Surprise Sets” livestreams, but most of the auctions yielded only cheap prizes. Gambling experts are concerned about the potential for harm.
Threads adds new personalization and community features as it reaches 500M monthly users
The Meta-owned social platform announced a series of new features launching today, including a "Your Algo" tool that lets users control what they see in their feeds
CISA warns of another cPanel plugin flaw exploited in attacks
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has given U.S. government agencies three days to secure their servers against an actively exploited vulnerability (CVE-2026-54420) in the LiteSpeed cPanel user-end plugin. [...]
SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/spacex-buy-anysphere-60-billion-2026-06-16/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48553224 Points: 304 # Comments: 603
Amazfit Cheetah 2 Ultra Smartwatch Review (2026): Solid Off-Road Performer
Amazfit’s trail running smartwatch delivers solid off-road performance at a bargain price compared to its competitors.
Intel's long-lost data center prototype 'Arctic Sound' Xe-HP multi-tile GPU surfaces in new engineering sample — Company's cancelled AI processor features 32GB of HBM2E
Intel's cancelled "Arctic Sound" AI GPU based on the original Xe-HP architecture has been pictured sporting two tiles and 32GB of HBM2E.
ChatGPT’s market share slips below 50% for first time
The chatbot still remains the most popular AI assistant worldwide with over 1.1 billion monthly users, followed by Gemini with 662 million and Claude with 245 million.
Capita is about to sail past deadline to fix civil service pensions scheme
Union says outsourcer will miss June 30 target after portal meltdown and mounting complaints
Ransomware gang abuses Microsoft Teams relays to hide malicious traffic
DragonForce ransomware used a custom malware named 'Backdoor.Turn' to hide command-and-control traffic inside Microsoft Teams relay infrastructure. [...]
ZTE Day 2026 in Almaty Showcases Innovations Shaping Kazakhstan's Intelligent Telecom Future
PARTNER CONTENT: Empowering Kazakhstan’s "Year of Digitalization and AI" with Next-Gen Connectivity and Supercomputing Solutions
Amazon UK has slashed 43% off this excellent 4K 32-inch OLED gaming monitor — lowest-ever price on this ASUS ROG Strix OLED now just £599
Get 43% off this excellent Asus ROG Strix OLED monitor.
Apple @ Work Podcast: Leebry aims to unify your SaaS tools for AI use
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SQL Server may be too lucrative for Microsoft to ditch, but too legacy to love
Analysts say Redmond still has billions of reasons to keep backing its flagship DBMS, even as Azure, Postgres, and AI hog the spotlight
Project Jupiter AI data center build raises concerns about water usage in rural New Mexico desert — Oracle calls water usage 'negligible' for 11 million gallon one-time fill
Oracle's Project Jupiter is targeting a New Mexico desert already struggling with water consumption, but the company assures residents that the data center's water usage is "negligible."
Streamer IShowSpeed Is Gen Z’s ESPN
At 21, Speed has pushed the limits of streaming by transforming a distinctly solo format into a global group chat. His song for this year’s World Cup is becoming the tournament’s unofficial anthem.
Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2
Article URL: https://tck.mn/blog/correlated-randomness-sts2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552844 Points: 195 # Comments: 61
Trinket.io shutting down, so we saved it and hosted it a trinket.strivemath.org
Article URL: https://trinket.strivemath.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552723 Points: 89 # Comments: 11
Enthusiast hacks Valve’s AMD-first gaming OS to run on Intel hardware — SteamOS boots on Intel Arc B580 desktop GPU, but it takes a Radeon card, installer workaround, and Resizable BAR fix
A Reddit user has shown SteamOS running on an Intel Arc B580 desktop GPU, but the early proof of concept required a Radeon-assisted install workaround and Resizable BAR to recover performance.