Kalshi will require employment info for some bets as an insider trading precaution
The rules may pose a minor hurdle for people who just have to cheat.
Exif Smuggling
Article URL: https://github.com/signalblur/exifsmugglingpoc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467759 Points: 29 # Comments: 13
Starlink charges $10 monthly hardware fee in move away from one-time purchases
Starlink, SpaceX's top moneymaker, also raised service prices by $5 to $10.
Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to ALPRs
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/this-company-will-add-phone-airpod-and-smartwatch-trackers-to-license-plate-readers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467712 Points: 47 # Comments: 13
Upcoming breaking changes for NPM v12
Article URL: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-09-upcoming-breaking-changes-for-npm-v12/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467705 Points: 71 # Comments: 20
GM Wants Your Electric Car to Power Your House—and Your Neighborhood
The automaker today is turning on vehicle-to-grid charging for its GM Energy customers. Will people actually use it?
GM's EVs will soon support more kinds of public chargers
EVs from GM will soon be able to top up at more kinds of public chargers.
GM joins race to build batteries for AI data centers and the grid
GM is developing an entirely new sodium-ion battery chemistry for use in everything from data centers to its own factories.
GM thinks EVs can help offset AI’s energy suck with vehicle-to-grid tech
At an event in San Francisco today, General Motors made a series of announcements around EV batteries, energy storage, and grid resiliency in the face of growing electricity demand from AI data centers. The automaker announced that it would be activating new vehicle-to-grid capabilities for its c...
Locked in heated rivalry with researcher, Microsoft fixes 0-day they disclosed
A separate zero-day also disclosed by Nightmare Eclipse appears to be patched as well.
Alpine Linux 3.24.0 Released
Article URL: https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.24.0-released.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467570 Points: 86 # Comments: 17
Hey, Siri, here’s what I actually want from AI
I'm desperate for a personal AI assistant, but do I really want to become the kind of person who can't function without the friendly robot voice in my phone?
If your sex life is dead, you can blame Steve Jobs
Economists find signs of a ‘large and causal relationship between iPhones and fertility' in AT&T exclusivity-era data
Here’s everything new coming to Safari on macOS 27 Golden Gate
macOS 27 includes several additions and improvements in Safari, including optional AI-powered features that help organize tabs and keep users up to date on changes to the websites they’re watching. Here’s everything new. more…
Anthropic’s Fable 5 can make weirdly fun video games with the click of a button
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 is going to be a big hit with the web's vibe coders.
iOS 27 will make customer service phone calls so much easier, here’s how
At WWDC26 this week, Apple announced its series of new software updates – iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, and everything else. Of course, Siri and Apple Intelligence ended up being the star of the show, and Apple finally delivered on its AI promises from 2 years ago. Apple didn’t stop there though. ...
Three key vital signs make up the "urban pulse" of a city
Cities are dynamic, not static grids, and urbanization is a "spiky," cyclical, and asynchronous process.
Claude Fable 5 brings Mythos to the masses — Anthropic's new frontier model is 'state-of-the-art on nearly all tested benchmarks'
After first announcing its scarily capable Mythos Preview model back in April, Anthropic is releasing a public version of Mythos, called Fable 5, that it says is "safe for general use."
Commonwealth Fusion makes the physics case for its 400 MW reactor
Five peer-reviewed papers update the design and model its expected output.
Microsoft AI head calls out Anthropic for acting like Claude is conscious
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says it's "really, really dangerous" for Anthropic to speculate about Claude's consciousness inside its "constitution," or the instructions that tell the model how to behave. During an episode of Decoder, Suleyman argues that this kind of speculation may have set...