Sanctioned Chinese AI Firm SenseTime Releases Image Model Built for Speed
With US restrictions limiting its access to advanced tech, SenseTime is doubling down on open source with a new model optimized to run on Chinese-made chips.
iPhone 18 Pro to have some of Apple’s biggest camera upgrades ever: report
iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max are coming this fall, and a new report says they’re set to offer “some of the biggest camera hardware upgrades in the lineup’s history.” more…
Cloudflare says autocrats, wars and elections caged the internet in Q1
Iran went dark twice, AWS got droned, oh and TalkTalk broke something it refuses to talk about The first quarter of 2026 saw a surge in severe and prolonged internet disruptions, from government shutdowns to power outages to the occasional mystery incident.…
Yet another experiment proves it's too damn simple to poison large language models
There is no 6 Nimmt! champion, but a $12 domain registration and one Wikipedia edit convinced several bots there was Unlike search engines that let you judge competing sources, search-backed AI chatbots can turn shaky web material into confident answers. Case in point: A security engineer convinc...
Google Photos Wardrobe will scan your pictures to compile a digital version of your closet
At least now you can figure out what to wear without physically going to your closet?
Laws of UX
Article URL: https://lawsofux.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951137 Points: 142 # Comments: 25
Motorola reveals 2026 Razr lineup with modest upgrades and higher prices
Motorola's foldable lineup is bigger and more spendy than ever.
Meta's multi-billion-dollar Graviton deal highlights intensifying CPU shortages in AI infrastructure — the industry signals a shift to Agentic inference workloads, pushing demand
Meta signed a multibillion-dollar, multi-year deal with Amazon Web Services last week to deploy tens of millions of Graviton5 CPU cores across AWS data centers.
Virtualisation on Apple Silicon Macs is different
Article URL: https://eclecticlight.co/2026/04/29/virtualisation-on-apple-silicon-macs-is-different/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951037 Points: 55 # Comments: 15
Camera in iOS 27 to feature Siri mode with enhanced Visual Intelligence, per report
Apple is saving its big Siri upgrade for iOS 27’s reveal in June, and it sounds like one of the biggest iPhone apps will benefit. A new report details Siri features coming to the Camera, better Visual Intelligence features, and more. more…
Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/maryland-grocery-stores-ban-surveillance-pricing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951007 Points: 208 # Comments: 145
Vine reboot app Divine arrives with a ban on AI slop
Do it for Divine all over again.
Google Photos uses AI to make the iconic closet from ‘Clueless’ a reality
Google recreates Cher's closet from "Clueless" with AI.
More Gemini features are coming to Google TV
Google TV just got more Gemini features, including the ability to transform photos and videos with tools Nano Banana and Veo.
At Protocol: Building the Social Internet
Article URL: https://atproto.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950575 Points: 54 # Comments: 26
Bill Gurley, Jack Altman back startup Pursuit, which helps companies sell to government
On Wednesday, Pursuit announced a $22 million seed round led by Mike Rosengarten, the co-founder of OpenGov with out big-name VCs participating.
FastCGI: 30 Years Old and Still the Better Protocol for Reverse Proxies
Article URL: https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/fastcgi_is_the_better_protocol_for_reverse_proxies Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950510 Points: 15 # Comments: 0
Get 32GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM for just $249 — act fast and don't miss Woot's blowout sale
Save 25% on this Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR5-6000 RAM, on sale at Woot for a limited time only.
Motorola's latest family of Razrs includes its first book-style foldable
The new Razr Fold even has native stylus support, unlike Samsung's most recent flagship.
NASA boss: Make Pluto A Planet Again
Despite looming science cuts, Isaacman finds resources to poke the planetary hornet nest NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman delivered some potentially good news at a Senate hearing this week, as well as some slightly odd news: in an environment of constrained budgets, the space agency was somehow ...