SpaceX alum nabs $22M to turn rocket engines into geothermal power plants
Critical Energy is turning rocket engines into geothermal power plants, and it wants to build 300 GW per year by 2045.
First official details of AMD's next-gen 'Mustang Peak' Threadripper CPUs come into view — chips feature DDR5, PCIe 6.0, and a new socket
We now have the first confirmed details about AMD's Zen 6-based Threadripper CPUs, code-named Mustang Peak.
India's Telegram ban hit the UAE too. Here's how to get around it
India has banned Telegram until June 22 after the app was used to circulate leaked exam papers. CEO Pavel Durov accuses telecom Reliance of BGP hijacking that disrupted the app as far away as the UAE. Here's what happened, and how to get around the block with an MTProto proxy. [...]
Want your images back? That'll be $5
Article URL: https://www.lutr.dev/want-your-images-back-sure-that-ll-be-5-dollars Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48569954 Points: 583 # Comments: 240
Apple's WebKit performance tax leaves iOS browsers stuck in the slow lane, says Microsoft
Rival rendering engines could make pages load almost 30% faster on iPhones, Redmond claims
Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone
Article URL: https://www.thesignalist.io/s/the-dialogue-dividend/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48569894 Points: 137 # Comments: 65
Jamf announces new native AI Governance control plane for macOS
Today, Jamf announced the upcoming release of its AI Governance technology, a new capability within Jamf Pro designed to give IT and security teams visibility and control over Gen AI tools running on their managed Macs. The new feature functions as a native, macOS-level control that aims to bridg...
The all-new Google Home speaker has finally arrived for $100
Upgrades include 360-degree audio and deeper integration with Google's Gemini.
The Gemini-Powered Google Home Speaker Is Finally Here
Arriving six years after Google’s last smart speaker, the new HomePod-style device was redesigned to play host to Gemini’s chatbot.
Seeing Siri AI in action has me excited for the future
Like a great many people, I’ve been impatiently waiting to leave the Siri AI waitlist, and that finally happened last night. It’s early, but what I’ve seen so far has me very excited for the future …
Canadian pension giant joins race to fund India’s AI-fueled data center boom
The Canadian pension giant will acquire an 8.2% stake in CtrlS, a tech giant that operates more than 15 data centers across India.
I Found 22 Early Prime Day Deals That Are Worth Shopping Now
We’ve trawled the depths of Amazon to find the best deals on gear we’ve tested.
DeepL acquires Mixhalo for live-event audio streaming and translation
With this acquisition, DeepL is opening an office in San Francisco to expand its U.S. business.
Intel starts cooking up enhanced 18A-P silicon for would-be foundry customers
Chipzilla claims 9% speed bump without extra power draw but is compatible with designs for 18A
Save $500 on this Acer 16” Predator Helios Neo 16 IPS Gaming laptop — just $1,499.99 gets you a powerful portable gaming rig with an RTX 5070, 32GB DDR5, and Intel Core Ultra 9 275 HX processor
Save $500 on Acer’s Predator Helios Neo 16 AI Gaming laptop and score a powerful gaming laptop with 32GB of RAM and RTX 5070 for only $1,499.99.
The Download: a reality check for geoengineering and the science of interoception
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. Hacking the atmosphere: geoengineering gets a reality check Solar geoengineering, the controversial idea that we could deliberately intervene in the climate sy...
ViewSonic VX2738-2K 27-inch OLED review: An OLED value play
ViewSonic’s VX2738-2K OLED is a high-performance 27-inch QHD gaming monitor with 240 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR and Quantum Dot color. It delivers smooth speed, quick response and saturated color for a relatively low price.
Nvidia reveals AI robots that taught themselves to install GPUs into motherboards — video shows robot ‘solve high-precision tasks like… installing GPUs all by itself’
Nvidia showcases agentic robots that can teach themselves high-precision and dexterous tasks - like PC building - in the real world.
MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C
Article URL: https://github.com/rxi/microui Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48569205 Points: 167 # Comments: 57
Windows devs rerolled old code to save precious bytes
There really was a time when Microsoft cared about every KB