YouTuber built 30-frame-per-second grayscale Game Boy, then open sourced it for all e-paper displays
Not afraid of custom waveforms frying your e-paper? Download it from GitHub and give it a shot on your stock screen today
Fake Arch Linux packages push malware with root privileges
A threat actor uploaded malicious packages to the Arch User Repository (AUR) that impersonated two popular helper tools, yay and paru. [...]
Sony’s WH-1000XM6 headphones are $130 off today only
If you missed out on Prime Day’s headphones deals, you’re in luck. Sony’s latest flagship headphones are selling for even less than they did during Amazon’s big fall sale. As part of B&H Photo’s Deals of the Day, you can currently pick up Sony’s WH-1000XM6 noise-canceling headphones in silver for...
White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia Was an Affiliate Marketer for a Fitness MLM
Trump's newly installed press secretary tells WIRED that in the early 2010s, she promoted a product for a company then called Beachbody, which she described as “sort of a pyramid scheme.”
Meta built a huge open-weight AI model for Macs, but you'll need 1TB of RAM to run it
Muse Spark Open is "the most capable US open-weight model to date," the company says.
Meta launches new Muse Spark Open model, optimized to run on Mac Studio
Meta today unveiled Muse Spark Open, which it says is the “most capable US open-weight model to date.” For Apple users, Meta says Muse Spark Open is optimized to run on the Mac Studio powered by M5 Ultra. more…
Rocket Lab announces another delay for its medium-lift Neutron rocket
Rocket Lab announced the Neutron rocket in 2021, aiming for a first flight in 2024.
SK Hynix bargains for chip equipment exports to its China facility in return for building a factory in US
SK Hynix’s Solidigm is reportedly seeking U.S. approval to send more chipmaking equipment to China as it weighs building a new NAND chip factory in America.
Smartphone shipments plummet as memory crisis pumps up prices
AI's appetite for components hammers budget handsets, with analysts seeing little relief before 2028
GuliKit TT Max review: The granddaddy of Switch 2 controllers
This is the Switch 2 gamepad for big hands.
Jev meets the Trolley Problem
Article URL: https://zachlandes.com/trolley-problem/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50106023 Points: 259 # Comments: 120
Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents
There's a growing trend in the consumer tech world: gadgets designed to spy on everything and everyone around you, regardless of whether or not anyone else actually consented to it. Now, with the advent of "AI personal assistants" like Meta's Muse, you're being cheerfully asked not just to give u...
Workday wants a slice of customers' labour budget that its AI agents could replace
CEO eyes usage-based billing as automation pushes HR software vendor beyond traditional IT spending
Krea 3 – An image model built for editing at scale
Article URL: https://www.krea.ai/krea-3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105648 Points: 229 # Comments: 78
Neural networks are clean
https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/2110757819427574056 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105647 Points: 462 # Comments: 175
Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher
Article URL: https://respawnfirst.com/steam-client-is-now-faster-than-epics-new-vibe-coded-launcher/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105635 Points: 265 # Comments: 268
Microsoft says it made Windows 11 zippier, especially on PCs with less RAM
The whole RAM price thing is partly Microsoft's fault so it's the least it can do.
The best reason to care about Nvidia’s RTX Spark: ‘everything’ will run on Arm
An Nvidia RTX Spark chip aboard an Asus laptop motherboard. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Fourteen years ago this month, Microsoft released an Nvidia-powered Windows PC that would become one of the greatest tech flops in modern history. The original Microsoft Surface, which ran a stripp...
E Ink upgraded the screen found in most color e-readers
E Ink announced the next generation of its Kaleido color e-paper screen technology today, delivering several welcome improvements. The company's existing Kaleido 3 displays can be found in e-readers and tablets from companies like Kobo, PocketBook, and Boox, while Amazon's Kindle Colorsoft uses a...
Show HN: Proa – A Rust web framework with fast SSR and multi-target rendering
Video: https://youtu.be/-CfCyvIKYyo?si=hCLuStkXxanCUJD1 Video on multi-target rendering: https://youtu.be/pJx84jdBDKU?si=HRRd6dgUWXiqeWhq Benchmarks: https://github.com/Proa-Labs/proa-benchmarks Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105467 Points: 84 # Comments: 22