FAA orders investigation into Blue Origin’s New Glenn mishap
The New Glenn rocket will have to stay grounded while the company investigates what caused the apparent failure of its upper stage.
iPhone 18 coming later than usual with new cost-cutting measures, per leaker
Apple’s flagship iPhone lineup could look fairly different than usual this fall, and new posts from Weibo leaker Fixed Focus Digital provide insight into the later launch timing and new cost-cutting measures for the base iPhone 18. more…
Schmoozebots: study finds flattery will get AI everywhere
Excessive friendliness may cause users to forget they're talking to a very confident autocomplete A study into how humans interact with chatbots suggests the fastest way to make an LLM feel human isn't making it smarter – it's making it seem nicer.…
NSA spies are reportedly using Anthropic’s Mythos, despite Pentagon feud
NSA is said to be using Anthropic's restricted Mythos AI model.
Chinese chipmakers made record profit in 2025, despite slipping margins — U.S shipments fall 34% as Beijing shores up local chipmaking efforts
Applied Materials, Lam Research, and KLA booked a combined $19 billion in China revenue across their fiscal 2025 reporting periods.
DaVinci Resolve 21 hands-on: A viable Lightroom alternative for casual users
Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve is a highly capable free color grading tool with a history dating way back to the ‘80s, but it has never been thought of as a rival to Adobe’s Lightroom due to its video origins. Now, Blackmagic Design has released a new version in beta that may change people’s...
Birdfy’s new 4K feeder wants to teach you about the birds it identifies
Birdfy has announced a new version of its camera-equipped metal feeder with an upgraded camera to make you feel even closer to nature while staring at your phone from the sofa. The Birdfy Feeder Metal 2 has a similar design to the original, using metal panels that animals like squirrels can't che...
WhatsApp is testing a premium subscription, but it is mainly cosmetic
WhatsApp is testing a subscription after Meta debuted a similar subscription for Instagram earlier this year
One of Europe's sovereign cloud picks may not be so-sovereign after all
US-based cloud providers could have to disclose certain data under American legal orders The European Commission has awarded four contracts designed to advance cloud sovereignty in the EU, but one uses services from S3NS, a joint venture between Thales and Google Cloud, raising questions about it...
AI cloud company Vercel breached after employee grants AI tool unrestricted access to Google Workspace — hacker seeking $2 million for stolen data
The breach exposed non-sensitive environment variables, and a threat actor operating under the ShinyHunters name has claimed responsibility.
Dyson PencilVac Fluffycones review: Almost the perfect floor cleaner for tiny apartments
The big deal with Dyson’s new vacuum is how small it is. While “pencil” is certainly an ambitious noun to compare a floor vacuum to, the slender body of the PencilVac Fluffycones ($600) brings to mind mops and brooms rather than hulking cyclone-suction tech and connected cleaning. As we described...
The Elden Ring movie hits theaters on March 3, 2028
Bandai Namco and A24 have announced that the Elden Ring movie will hit theaters on March 3, 2028. Filming is set to begin in the next several weeks. The movie was first revealed over a year ago, so this is a welcome update. We also got a full cast announcement, though the companies haven't said ...
Humanoid ‘Lightning’ robot smashes the half-marathon record
The autonomous “Lightning” robot finished the race in under an hour. | Photo: VCG / Getty Images An autonomous scarlet robot named "Lightning" finished a 13-mile race in Beijing on Sunday in just 50 minutes and 26 seconds, less than half the time of last year's fastest robot, which took two hou...
Apple Vision Pro used to help make next Star Wars movie: The Mandalorian & Grogu
Apple and Star Wars share a history of collaboration, and that continues with the newest film premiering in May. The Mandalorian & Grogu director Jon Favreau recently described how he used Apple Vision Pro to help bring Grogu to the biggest of big screens. more…
Deals: M5 Pro MacBook Pro $200 off, AirPods 4/Pro 3, M3 iPad Air and AirTag clearance from $14, more
Joining the ongoing AirPods Pro 3 deal, today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break is headlined by Apple’s least expensive 2026 16-inch M5 Pro MacBook Pro hitting its best price ever at $200 off alongside the 24GB/1TB M5 MacBook Pro at its best price of the year ($240 off launch) and 1TB 15-inch M5 MacBook Air...
CEO and CFO suddenly depart AI nuclear power upstart Fermi
The startup, co-founded by former U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, has faced headwinds with its AI campus in Texas.
Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding
Article URL: https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k2-6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835735 Points: 518 # Comments: 261
ChatGPT and Codex are both currently experiencing outages [U]
OpenAI has confirmed that ChatGPT and Codex are both experiencing issues, with many users unable to load the services. Here are the latest details. more…
New Android development tool designed for robots, not humans
Google previews Android CLI as agentic development continues to snowball Google has introduced a new Android command-line interface built specifically for AI agents, claiming a 70 percent cut in token usage and three times reduction in task completion time.…
Artemis II commander shares a remarkable video of Earth vanishing behind the Moon
We’ve seen some astonishing photos of an Earthset — the Earth setting behind the Moon — from the Artemis II crew’s history-making trip around our planet’s closest neighbor. Now, Reid Wiseman, the mission’s commander, has shared a remarkable video of that same phenomenon. While mission specialist ...