The US Government Will Ask Data Centers How Much Power They Use
In a letter obtained by WIRED, the Energy Information Administration tells two senators that it plans to develop a mandatory assessment of data centers' energy use.
Motorola sues social platforms and creators over posts, raising speech concerns in India
Motorola is suing dozens of content creators and social media platforms including Instagram, X, and YouTube over posts it alleges are defamatory.
The Vivo X300 Ultra is a powerful camera phone aimed at videographers
Chinese phonemaker Vivo has been pushing the limits of smartphone photography in the last few years. However, the availability of its phones — like last year’s X200 Ultra, with its beefy add-on telephoto — has been intermittent in the West. The company says the X300 Ultra its first global flagshi...
Airwallex is about to take on Stripe and the rest of the payments industry — in the physical world
Airwallex, valued at $8 billion, is launching a point-of-sale product that lets businesses accept in-person payments in multiple countries via a single platform.
Show HN: Libretto – Making AI browser automations deterministic
Libretto (https://libretto.sh) is a Skill+CLI that makes it easy for your coding agent to generate deterministic browser automations and debug existing ones. Key shift is going from “give an agent a prompt at runtime and hope it figures things out” to: “Use coding agents to generate real scripts ...
Good Omens S3 trailer sets up a blessed conclusion
Prime Video's supernatural comedy will end with a special 90-minute final episode.
Deals: Most affordable M5 Pro MacBook Pro $150 off, Apple Watch from $219, black Apple USB cables from $7, more
Today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break is headlined by the most affordable 2026 M5 Pro MacBook Pro at $150 off and ongoing $150 price drops on all 2026 M5 MacBook Air configs. We also have current-gen Apple Watch models from $219, rare deals on official black Apple USB-C cables from just over $7, the first...
Open Source Isn't Dead. Cal.com Just Learned the Wrong Lesson
Article URL: https://www.strix.ai/blog/cal-com-is-closing-its-code-due-to-ai-threats Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47780712 Points: 91 # Comments: 42
YMTC's third Wuhan fab clears Beijing's 50% local tooling threshold as two more are planned — move positions company toward 3D NAND production to capitalize on wafer bonding strengths
China’s YMTC is expected to start operations at its Phase 3 Wuhan fab late this year as the first leading-edge memory plant built to comply with Beijing's unwritten 50% tooling requirement.
Apple TV has three unique crime thrillers premiering soon, here’s what’s coming
Apple TV has made crime thrillers one of its biggest genres, and that trend will only continue with three unique new series premiering soon. Here’s what’s coming. more…
Not all networks can handle AI traffic – and experts are sounding alarms
Y'all been focusing on compute and forgot about how the data moves around AI is reshaping the demands on network infrastructure, and many organizations are not prepared – including some of the so-called neocloud providers offering AI services.…
9to5Mac Daily: April 15, 2026 – Amazon and Apple satellite deal, more
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Valve might be adding a 30-day price tracker to Steam — feature is already available in some EU countries to spoof out fake discounts
Your Steam games are about to get some new glanceable information next to their price boxes, according to recent changes discovered in the client's backend. Valve might be adding a 30-day price tracker to the platform, letting you see if the game currently costs the lowest it has been in the last...
Allbirds abandons clothes, pivots to "AI compute infrastructure"
Desperate stock-boosting move recalls 2017's "Long Island Blockchain" frenzy.
Cal.com is going closed source
Article URL: https://cal.com/blog/cal-com-goes-closed-source-why Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47780456 Points: 161 # Comments: 138
Netflix ruined its Apple TV app by switching to a custom video player
Netflix has once again made a controversial change to its Apple TV app. In recent weeks, the company has stopped using the native tvOS 26 video player in favor of a custom player similar to the one it uses on other TV platforms. In practice, this makes the most common interactions more cumbersome...
Memory cards and flash drives prices rocket 124%, some products peak at 261% jump — increases from 2025 driven by AI chip shortage across a range of formats and capacities
USB flash drives, SD cards, and microSD cards are becoming expensive as the NAND chip shortage takes its bite and expands to other storage options.
Windows takes a crash dump after one McDonald's order too many
We've all been there Bork!Bork!Bork! Windows is doing what it does best in California, with a Blue Screen of Death on the wall of a fast food restaurant where order progress is supposed to be.…
New 3D map of Universe could solve dark energy mystery
Latest data must still be analyzed but could help determine if dark energy is constant or varies over time.
MAGA Is Starting to Look Beyond Trump
A seemingly endless torrent of criticism directed toward Trump from former MAGA allies suggests the president is losing support from his base.