This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Will the real Anthropic please stand up? After weeks of frenzied speculation, Anthropic has filed its IPO prospectus. The 335-page document (100 pages or so ar...
NASA has detailed how the next Artemis 3 test will happen, but it doesn't have a concrete date for it yet.
The Predator Atlas 8 gaming handheld PC is coming to the US after all on November 1st for $1,300.
Alternative für Deutschland swats away scandals as reporters swarm leaked email tranche
It’s kind of ironic that the most fun apps we’ve seen for a brand new iPhone turn it into a decidedly old device. We’ve already seen a 1980s Sony Walkman emulator, and now Tiny Computers turns the Duo into a whole series of vintage Macs and more. You can choose between four vintage Macs and a ran...
Article URL: https://www.bitlog.com/2026/10/27/software-may-be-getting-worse-but-it-used-to-be-horrible/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257548 Points: 24 # Comments: 4
Microsoft has begun testing the option to enable Intel's Advanced Performance Extensions, or APX, which will bring a performance boost to some apps — although no chips with APX support are available as yet.
Every manufacturer has its own industrial intelligence. Some is documented, and some resides in the knowledge of experienced workers. Consider an experienced operator preparing to restart a line after a changeover. The machine settings matter, but so does knowing how a particular material behaves...
Apple yesterday officially launched what it describes as “the biggest update ever” to the iPad mini, featuring an OLED screen and a thinner, lighter design. However, while there are a significant number of upgrades, internet commentators were very focused on the one thing Apple didn’t upgrade: th...
Grab the 9800X3D with a matching Gigabyte motherboard, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 2TB SSD, all for just $1,180.99, giving you a $358.98 discount that makes the equivalent RAM price just $151.
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/wikipedia-wikiproject-ai-writing-cleanup Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257326 Points: 18 # Comments: 4
Fancy making your Slate EV look like halloween candy? Now you can.
Apple has influenced everything from unibody laptop cases to high-res screens.
Investigation finds businesses dominated govt meetings while communities were left out of decisions about AI Growth Zones
Nvidia is committing billions to expand substrate, co-packaged optics, advanced packaging, and chip-testing capacity through 2028, reserving capacity at nearly every stage of its AI accelerator supply chain.
As agents go mainstream, some publishers are hoping that people will pay for content tailor-made for AI—not humans.
Simplismart says its annualized revenue run rate has grown 14-fold in six months, with the U.S. accounting for more than half its revenue.
Sterling Anderson, General Motors’ chief product officer, delivers a speech during the brand's annual technology event in New York on October 21st, 2026. Photo: Charly Triballeau / AFP via Getty Images | AFP via Getty Images At a splashy event in New York City last week, General Motors unveiled...
Two orbiters have long outlasted their expected lifespans and completely reshaped our understanding of the Red Planet, all while operating 140 million miles from Earth.
Apple has backported security patches released last month to older iPhones and iPads, addressing a zero-day bug exploited in "extremely sophisticated" targeted attacks on iOS devices. [...]