China kills Meta’s acquisition of Manus as US-China AI rivalry deepens
The unwinding of Meta’s deal shows how tech founders struggle to cut China ties.
Joby Aviation is demoing 10-minute air taxi flights from JFK to Manhattan for a week
Joby Aviation is kicking off 10 days of electric air taxi demo flights in New York City. Before you try to book one to bypass the city's awful traffic, Joby's aircrafts aren't taking customers yet. Instead, the company is trialing the air taxis in "real flight routes and real environments," as in...
Study: Infrasound likely a key factor in alleged hauntings
Low-frequency infrasound (below 20 Hz) can raise cortisol levels in saliva and increase irritability.
Medical and utility tech companies admit digital breakins
Itron, Medtronic disclose breaches in Friday filings Digital intruders recently broke into two major tech suppliers - utility-technology firm Itron and medical-device maker Medtronic - according to filings with federal regulators.…
Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator
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Easyduino: Open Source PCB Devboards for KiCad
Article URL: https://github.com/Hanqaqa/Easyduino Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47924813 Points: 144 # Comments: 20
OpenAI ends Microsoft legal peril over its $50B Amazon deal
OpenAI has won major concessions from its largest shareholder, Microsoft, that will allow it to sell products on AWS, while Microsoft gets more cash in a revenue-share agreement.
Steam Controller: The Ars Technica review
Valve's new hardware is solid but might not justify its $99 price.
Adam Scott knows Severance’s ending, teases ‘many’ season 3 surprises
Severance season 3 is about to start filming, and in a new interview, Adam Scott teases big surprises coming while also revealing that he already knows the show’s ending. more…
You can now 3D print your own Noctua fans and accessories — CAD files available as free downloads for Noctua's top-rated products
Noctua has opened Pandora's Box by releasing 3D CAD files of many of its fans and accessories, though with some slight modifications to protect Noctua's IP.
DeepMind’s David Silver just raised $1.1B to build an AI that learns without human data
Ineffable Intelligence, a British AI lab founded a mere few months ago by former DeepMind researcher David Silver, has raised $1.1 billion in funding at a valuation of $5.1 billion.
South Africa yanks AI policy after AI-assisted drafting invents citations
Eish shame man! Maybe you shouldn't ask AI to set the rules for AI use? South Africa has pulled its draft national AI policy after discovering that it was citing sources that exist only in the fertile imagination of a chatbot.…
Inside Google's TPU V8 strategy, delivering two chips for two crucial tasks at incredible scale — network scales up to 1 million TPUs per cluster, an advantage over Nvidia AI accelerators
Google announced its eighth-gen TPUs at Cloud Next, shipping two distinct chip designs for the first time in the TPU program's decade-long history.
Conspiracy theories are swirling about the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting
Melania and Donald Trump attend the White House Correspondents' dinner on April 25, 2026. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP via Getty Images) | AFP via Getty Images On Saturday evening, a room full of journalists, media personalities, and senior members of Donald Trump's administration descended into...
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds returns for its penultimate season on July 23
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds returns for its fourth season via Paramount Plus on July 23. The ten episodes air weekly until September 24. This is actually the second-to-last batch of episodes, as the show was recently renewed for a fifth and final season. The streamer has dropped a trailer for ...
Hacker who allegedly carried out cyberattacks for China is extradited to US
Xu Zewei is accused of participating in a Chinese government hacking group that broke into thousands of U.S. organizations and stole COVID-19-related research.
Apple releases beta 4 for iPadOS 26.5, tvOS 26.5, and more [U]
Apple moved its lineup of 26.5 software updates closer to launch today, with beta 4 available now for iPadOS 26.5, tvOS 26.5, and more. Update: Just hours later, public beta versions of these updates are now rolling out too. more…
Apple releases macOS 26.5 beta 4, here’s what to expect [U]
Update: Apple is now rolling out public beta 3 (which is mismatched with developer beta 4, since Apple skipped a public beta release a few weeks ago). macOS 25.4 public beta 3 has the same build number as macOS 26.4 developer beta 4 released earlier today. Just a week after releasing macOS 26.5 b...
Apple releases iOS 26.5 beta 4 for iPhone [U]
Update: A few hours later, the new public beta version has arrived. Apple says iOS 26.5 will come out for everyone in May. Apple has released the fourth iOS 26.5 beta for developers. A previous beta introduced a splash screen that signaled the upcoming arrival of ads in Apple Maps. more…
A Brain Implant for Depression Is About to Be Tested in Humans
While many brain-computer interface companies are focused on helping paralyzed people communicate, Motif Neurotech is targeting mental health disorders.