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Phone manufacturers are pretty direct in their guidance on this one.

Haptics tech company Taction sued Apple in 2021, alleging it infringed two of its patents. Now a federal jury in San Diego has awarded Taction over $5.7 billion in damages. According to CNBC, "The lawsuit centered around U.S. Patent Nos. 10,659,885 and 10,820,117, which both involve vibration-bas...

Blue Cross Blue Shield says hospital use of AI tools led to an additional $942M in healthcare spending over a two-year period.

TikTok will pay Alabama at least $100 million in a settlement tied to allegations that the short-form video platform misled users about safety and was designed to addict children.

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Article URL: https://jadidbourbaki.github.io/blog/prompt-lookup-llama-cpp/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859982 Points: 62 # Comments: 10

The WiCi One is available for preorders starting at $1,999.

Article URL: https://clydesnotes.blogspot.com/2026/08/video-cds-break-windows-explorer.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859759 Points: 91 # Comments: 33

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact. iOS 27 debuted to the public almost two weeks ago, with the flagship feature being Siri AI. While Siri ...

Drums on film. | Image: Decap I don't think I'm going to hurt anyone's feelings by pointing out that Decap doesn't have the name recognition of Kendrick Lamar, Olivia Rodrigo, or Charli XCX. But his fingerprints are all over tracks from them, as well as many other artists, including Freddie Gib...

The Sift will first be released with Minecraft Dungeons 2 later this month before arriving in the base game.

The ShinyHunters extortion gang is using a URL-encoding trick to bypass web application firewall rules that mitigate the Oracle PeopleSoft CVE-2026-35273 flaw, allowing the threat actors to resume widespread exploitation of a flaw on vulnerable servers. [...]

You probably don't think much about your PlayStation's power cord unless it needs to be replaced. If that time comes, here's what to know.

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An old netbook can automate the devices that otherwise aren't interested in talking to one another.

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22978 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859112 Points: 125 # Comments: 34

Start with the vents before you reach for a screwdriver.

At least one social media company seems to be reversing its stance on whether it will accept advertising for Alex Gibney’s upcoming documentary about Elon Musk.

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Middle schoolers, likely blocked from other apps and social networks, apparently turned the Spotify comment section under an episode of NPR's Wild Card into an impromptu group chat. In a new episode of This American Life, host Ira Glass digs into how the kids landed there and why. But it mostly b...