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Sources: the UK plans to delay copyright rule changes for AI training after a two-month consultation failed to land on a favored proposal among stakeholders

Breaking Down 50M Pins: A Smarter Way to Design 3D IC Packages

SkillNet: Create, Evaluate, and Connect AI Skills

Evaluating the Search Agent in a Parallel World

Howard Abrams' Literate Programming with Org Mode

Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language

Fixpoints to think clearly

ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI model is held back by limited compute resources that create a bottleneck, forcing users to wait hours to generate a single video

Nobody ever got fired for using a struct

A look at Cloverleaf, which strikes deals with utility companies and secures land for AI companies and their data center needs; the company has raised $300M

App Spotlight: HostMyText Pro for Zoho CRM

The Remaking of Thomas Mann

Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom

DiligenceSquared uses AI, voice agents to make M&A research affordable

MS exec: Microsoft's next console will play "Xbox and PC games"

RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine policies are "unreviewable," DOJ lawyer tells judge

Amazon appears to be down, with over 20,000 reported problems

Ladybird browser update (February 2026)

Ethiopia gets $350M World Bank financing for its digital ID project

Sources: Together AI is in talks to raise ~$1B at a $7.5B pre-money valuation, up from $3.3B in 2025; its annualized revenue has hit ~$1B, up 3x+ from mid-2025

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester

A ternary plot of citrus geneology

Amazon is rolling out a redesigned Fire TV app

Announcing Rust 1.94.0

The Boys S5 trailer tees up a bloody final season

Lanterns teaser swaps superhero hijinks for gritty realism

Congress extends ISS and tells NASA to get moving on private space stations

Hardware hotplug events on Linux, the gory details

The Brand Age

Yet another strange job scheduler bug

FYI: Impersonators are (still) targeting companies with fake TechCrunch outreach

The FBI arrests the son of a federal contractor who managed critical services and charges him with stealing ~$46M in crypto from the US Marshals Service

Launch HN: Vela (YC W26) – AI for complex scheduling

Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise

Kill cats with JavaScript (RTS game)

Revolut, which has about 70M clients in 40 markets, applies for a US bank charter and appoints former Visa executive Cetin Duransoy as its new US CEO

Musk testifies tweet that led to $44 billion lawsuit "may not have been my wisest"

macOS Tahoe 26.3.1 update will "upgrade" your M5's CPU to new "super" cores

Cylake, co-founded by Palo Alto Networks' Nir Zuk to develop an AI-powered cybersecurity platform that doesn't rely on the public cloud, raised a $45M seed

The IRIX 6.5.7M (sgi) source code

Good software knows when to stop

Zeno raises $25M to speed up production of its battery-swap motorbikes

Judge Orders Government to Begin Refunding More Than $130B in Tariffs

How 1,000+ customer calls shaped a breakout enterprise AI startup

Reclaim Security, which uses AI-driven automation to remediate threat exposures, raised a $20M Series A led by Acrew Capital and a $6M seed

Billy bookshelves as a retro motherboard "rack"

[D] Ijcai 2026 reviews

[R] Are keywords necessary for ECCV submission?

[D] Impact of EU AI Act on your work?

[D] Working on a photo-based calorie tracker app

Are AI-to-AI platforms the next step?

Apple Music is building tools to identify and tag AI-generated songs

When should AI recommend a decision vs make one?

Earth Garden: Field Recordings Around the World

Introducing PageSense 3.0 - Agency Edition

Poor Man's Polaroid

No right to relicense this project

The Self-Help Trap: What 20 Years of "Optimizing" Has Taught Me

Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships

What Python’s asyncio primitives get wrong about shared state

Dbslice: Extract a slice of your production database to reproduce bugs

Picking Up a Zillion Pieces of Litter

Many of Stockholm's thriving tech businesses consider relocating as they look to scale up, amid growing US interest in Swedish AI startups Lovable and Legora

Staff memo: Alibaba says it is setting up a new task force to accelerate foundation AI model development, after the resignation of Qwen AI head Lin Junyang

Sources: OpenAI topped $25B in annualized revenue by end-February, up from $21.4B at end-2025; it annualizes by multiplying the last four weeks' revenue by 12

Sources: OpenAI has picked two law firms to prepare its IPO, which could come as soon as Q4, in one of its first concrete steps toward a public listing

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Specification-Driven Generation and Evaluation of Discrete-Event World Models via the DEVS Formalism

In-Context Environments Induce Evaluation-Awareness in Language Models

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$\tau$-Knowledge: Evaluating Conversational Agents over Unstructured Knowledge

Introducing wgsl-rs

Show HN: I built a tool that checks if your ISP is spying on you

Space Command chief throws cold water on the question of UAPs in space

NRC Issues First Commercial Reactor Construction Approval in 10 Years [pdf]

It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country (1921)

Google and Epic announce settlement to end app store antitrust case

Approximation Game

Apple Music to add Transparency Tags to distinguish AI music, says report

Humans 40k yrs ago developed a system of conventional signs

Building a New Flash

Emails To Outlook.com Rejected By Faulty Or Overzealous Blocking Rules

Qualcomm CEO: 'Resistance Is Futile' As 6G Mobile Revolution Approaches

'Game of Thrones' Movie In the Works

NASA Repairs Artemis 2 Rocket, Continues Eyeing April Moon Launch

A Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit Is Now In the Hands of Foreign Spies, Criminals

LibreOffice Says Its UI Is Way Better Than Microsoft Office's

OpenAI Amends Pentagon Deal As Sam Altman Admits It Looks 'Sloppy'

Father claims Google's AI product fuelled son's delusional spiral

My Favorite 39C3 Talks

Apple's budget-friendly MacBook Neo is bursting with color and compromise

AI doctor's assistant is easily swayed to change prescriptions, give bad medical advice

AWS-hosted tech providers urge Middle East customers to fail over now

LexisNexis confirms data breach at Legal & Professional arm, some customer records affected

Ex-NASA chief gives Isaacman's Moon reboot a thumbs up, stays schtum on the awkward bits

Kaspersky dismisses claims Coruna iPhone exploit kit is connected to NSA-linked operation

Once upon a time, saving your bits meant punching holes in floppies

Gram: Zed, but with AI and chat features removed

UK digital ID brief quietly moves to new minister after resignation

Doomscrollers despair after Oracle hiccup knocks TikTok offline in US

Cloud inquiry chair quits UK competition watchdog over glacial pace of reform

One vendor doesn't mind high RAM prices: VMware

European Space Agency and China both achieve gigabit links to geostationary satellites

Google feels the need for security speed, so will ship Chrome updates every two weeks

OpenAI says its latest model is less likely to beat around the bush

Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs fills its wallet to mass-produce CPO chiplets

Facebook went down for about three hours, interrupting your poking and Meta's ads business

MIT boffins aim to build injectable mini-organs that can fill in for a damaged liver

Chat at your own risk! Data brokers are selling deeply personal bot transcripts

Lawmakers take pick to ICE's warrantless location tracking purchases

Cyberwarriors elevated to big leagues in US war with Iran

BunsenLabs Carbon keeps the CrunchBang flame alive with Debian 13

Universal Vaccine Blocks Viruses, Bacteria, And Allergies With a Nasal Spray

Tech Publications Lost 58% of Google Traffic Since 2024

Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS

Brendan Carr Can’t Explain Why ‘Equal Time’ Rule Doesn’t Apply To Right Wing Radio

Meta's AI display glasses reportedly share intimate videos with human moderators

No, an AI-focused "Windows 12" is not coming this year — here's the plan

Replacing actors with AI is "dumb as hell," says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 star Jennifer English, because "humanness" is what makes these RPGs "so beloved"

Iran War Oil Shock Threatens to Unleash Wave of Global Inflation

‘The brain needs to be used’: Pope Leo warns priests over use of AI for writing sermons

Downdetector and Speedtest have been sold for over $1 billion

Accenture acquires Downdetector as part of $1.2 billion deal

The Piracy Problem Streaming Platforms Can’t Solve

Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You're Being Watched, Too

Hybrid solar panel made in Spain turns raindrops into electricity (110 volts per drop)

Cisco warns of max severity Secure FMC flaws giving root access

Hacker mass-mails HungerRush extortion emails to restaurant patrons

FBI seizes LeakBase cybercrime forum, data of 142,000 members

Europol-coordinated action disrupts Tycoon2FA phishing platform

Mississippi medical center reopens clinics hit by ransomware attack

CISA flags VMware Aria Operations RCE flaw as exploited in attacks

Paint maker giant AkzoNobel confirms cyberattack on U.S. site

Facebook accounts unavailable in worldwide outage

Microsoft: Hackers abuse OAuth error flows to spread malware

Google Chrome shifts to two-week release cycle for increased stability

LexisNexis confirms data breach as hackers leak stolen files

Compromised Site Management Panels are a Hot Item in Cybercrime Markets

Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete HegsethAnnouncementsFeb 27, 2026Anthropic's response to the Secretary of War and advice to customers.

Feb 23, 2026AnnouncementsDetecting and preventing distillation attacks

Feb 20, 2026AnnouncementsMaking frontier cybersecurity capabilities available to defenders

Feb 17, 2026AnnouncementsAnthropic and the Government of Rwanda sign MOU for AI in health and education

Feb 16, 2026AnnouncementsAnthropic opens Bengaluru office and announces new partnerships across India

Responsible Scaling Policy

4 highlights from Google Beam in 2025

The 7 finalists in the XPRIZE Quantum Applications competition

Save the date! Google I/O 2026 is May 19-20.

New developer tools for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers

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Microsoft and OpenAI joint statement on continuing partnership

Microsoft Sovereign Cloud adds governance, productivity and support for large AI models securely running even when completely disconnected

Asha Sharma named EVP and CEO, Microsoft Gaming

Updates in two of our core priorities

After a rocky six years, Sony cancels future single-player PC game releases

Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans

MacBook Neo hands-on: Apple build quality at a substantially lower price

Data Has Weight but Only on SSDs

[D] How to prep for ML interviews?

U.S. and EU police shut down LeakBase, a site accused of sharing stolen passwords and hacking tools

The 1,700-year-old megastructure history almost forgot

Factory Logic

Google Pixel 10a review: The sidegrade

Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program

Sources: Arda, co-founded by ex-OpenAI chief research officer Bob McGrew to automate manufacturing using AI, is raising $70M at a $700M valuation

You Bought Zuck's Ray-Bans. Now Someone in Nairobi Is Watching You Poop

Au revoir, Eleventy

Sources: some investors push Anthropic to de-escalate its DOD dispute, worried about the “supply-chain risk” designation ; Anthropic and DOD continue some talks

Cognitive Sandbox Manifesto | Artificial Life and Transparent Neural Systems

X taps William Shatner to give out invites to its payments service, X Money

switched from comfyui to mindstudio workbench and its actually so much easier?? [D]

Host a Side Event during TechCrunch Founder Summit Week in Boston

The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do

The $599 MacBook Neo is Apple's long-awaited, colorful, lower-cost MacBook

Chimpanzees Are into Crystals

Apple changes its CPU terminology alongside the M5 Pro and M5 Max, renaming “performance cores” to “super cores” and “efficiency cores” to “performance cores”

AI is now part of the culture wars — and real wars

Charging a three-cell nickel-based battery pack with a Li-Ion charger [pdf]

OpenAI looking at contract with NATO, source says

[R] IJCAI-ECAI'26 Summary Rejects status

Our agreement with the Department of War

Sources: Walmart-backed PhonePe targets an up to $10.5B valuation in its Indian IPO; PhonePe raised $600M from General Atlantic at a $14.5B valuation in October

[R] GFlowsNets for accelerating ray tracing for radio propagation modeling

[D] ICLR Workshop Results

AI-Generated Trips, the future of psychedelic therapy or more "AI slop"?

What is your stack to maintain Knowledge base for your AI workflows?

Modern Illustration: Archive of illustration from c.1950-1975

Kraken says its banking unit won “master account” access to the US Fed's core payment systems, the first crypto company to be able to move money like banks

Unlike in the West, Chinese policymakers and the public appear to be much more optimistic about AI, likely due to a focus on real-world applications of AI

Who needs data centers in space when they can float offshore?

Bet on German Train Delays

Elevator Saga: The elevator programming game (2015)

Polymarket removes long-running markets letting users bet on the chances of a nuclear weapon detonating amid the Iran strikes; a 2025 market had $1.7M in volume

Analysis: since the end of 2025, Polymarket users have rarely bet large sums on US strikes the next day; before the Iran strikes, 150+ accounts placed such bets

Object-Oriented Programming: Themes and Variations

Eight Sleep raises $50M at $1.5B valuation

Show HN: Stacked Game of Life

RTL: WTF: Read the web like Right-to-Left readers do

Indefinite Book Club Hiatus

Circle Games (2019)

How Mossad hacked traffic cameras to track Ayatollah Khamenei

Never snooze a future

On the Design of Programming Languages (1974) [pdf]

Dario Amodei says Anthropic has a higher retention than OpenAI, emphasizing its “mission” as a way to reinforce staff loyalty and fend off competitors' offers

Lockheed Martin to follow US federal ban on Anthropic, as government contracting attorneys say defense contractors are expected to comply with the DOD's order

FinTexTS: Financial Text-Paired Time-Series Dataset via Semantic-Based and Multi-Level Pairing

MedCalc-Bench Doesn't Measure What You Think: A Benchmark Audit and the Case for Open-Book Evaluation

Protecting your Cloud Applications Data

The central nervous system of your business

Graphics Programming Resources

KeyCare, a virtual care platform built on the Epic EHR, raised $27.4M led by HealthX Ventures, bringing its total funding to over $55M

AI that actually helps: Practical intelligence in Zoho Workplace

Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable

You can use newline characters in URLs

My take on vibe coding for PMs

OpenAI's red lines within its DOD agreement are built upon legal language that the NSA has redefined over decades to permit the things they appear to prohibit

Lenovo's New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability

Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language

Textadept

Marcus AI Claims Dataset

Time, Space, and Life as We Know It (2017)

The Xkcd thing, now interactive

We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell

What’s in a name? (2014)

You can't use a code editor when you're under 18 now?

Don't become an engineering manager

130k Lines of Formal Topology: Simple and Cheap Autoformalization for Everyone?

Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video]

Disable Your SSH access accidentally with scp

I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services

Talos: Hardware accelerator for deep convolutional neural networks

Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns

TV's TV (1987) & TV Games Encyclopedia (1988)

Apple updates the $1,599+ Studio Display and unveils a $3,299+ 27" 5K Studio Display XDR, with a 120Hz refresh rate, a mini-LED backlight, and up to 2,000 nits

Sources: Anthropic recently surpassed $19B in run-rate revenue, up from $9B at the end of 2025 and roughly $14B a few weeks ago

Sam Altman says the DOD affirmed that OpenAI's tools wouldn't be used by agencies like the NSA, and services to them would need a further contract modification

In an all-hands meeting, Sam Altman said OpenAI does not “get to make operational decisions” regarding how its technology is used by the Department of Defense

Google adds new Android features, including custom calling cards, real-time location sharing in Google Messages, and luggage tracking with partner airlines

Google adds a feature to let users with a Pixel 8 and newer connect their device to an external monitor via USB-C for a “desktop-like multi-window experience”

Google details Coruna, an exploit kit used to hijack iPhones via malicious websites; iVerify suggests it may have been originally built for the US government

President Trump says the GENIUS Act is being “threatened and undermined” by banks, following their opposition to stablecoin yield payouts

X announces a policy change suspending users from Creator Revenue Sharing for 90 days if they post AI-generated videos of an armed conflict without disclosure

An internal DHS document shows CBP used location data sourced from the online ad industry to track phone locations; ICE has bought access to similar tools

Intel says board chair Frank Yeary, who has served on the board since 2009, will retire after Intel's annual meeting in May and be replaced by Craig Barratt

Audible launches a cheaper, $8.99/month streaming tier in the US, vs. $14.95/month for its premium plan, to rival Spotify; the plan includes ad-free podcasts

Amazon tells users it is shutting down the Wondery podcast app and Wondery+ subscription service “in the coming months”; some shows will be available on Audible

Sources: Meta is creating a new applied AI engineering organization that will have an ultra-flat structure and help bolster Meta's superintelligence efforts

Sources: the White House is debating whether to allow Tencent to maintain stakes in US and Finnish video game companies; Tencent holds a 28% stake in Epic Games

Sources: Meta has signed a multiyear AI content licensing deal with News Corp worth $50M per year; the deal will run for at least three years

Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity

US Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material

Four months of Ruby Central moving Ruby backward

When AI Writes the World's Software, Who Verifies It?

Rust zero-cost abstractions vs. SIMD

Lilaq: Advanced data visualization in Typst

yj_nearbyglasses: attempting to detect smart glasses nearby and warn you

Hoot 0.8.0 released! - Scheme in WASM

Evolving Typst

The two kinds of error

Anthropic is untrustworthy

An Interactive Intro to CRDTs

Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance

Announcing npmx: a fast, modern browser for the npm registry

I Put a Full JVM Inside a Browser Tab

The Markless Document Markup Standard

Motorola's new partnership with GrapheneOS

Quantifying the Swiss marriage tax

GRAM: A Zed fork without all the AI

WebHaptics – Haptic feedback for the mobile web

Gram 1.0 released

No fooling: NASA targets April 1 for Artemis II launch to the Moon

Downdetector, Speedtest sold to IT service provider Accenture in $1.2B deal

FCC chair calls Paramount/WBD merger "a lot cleaner" than defunct Netflix deal

What we can learn from scientific analysis of Renaissance recipes

There are plenty of great choices if you want to spend less than $15K on an EV

M5 Pro and M5 Max are surprisingly big departures from older Apple Silicon

This is why our electricity bills are so high right now

As Moon interest heats up, two companies unveil plans for a lunar "harvester"

Medical journal The Lancet blasts RFK Jr.’s health work as a failure

With developer verification, Google's Apple envy threatens to dismantle Android's open legacy

Clueless cops post seized crypto wallet password. $5M quickly stolen.

Charter gets FCC permission to buy Cox and become largest ISP in the US

$599 M4 iPad Air is a lot like the old one, but with a substantial RAM boost

It's almost a station wagon: The 2026 Subaru Trailseeker, driven

Why AI startups are selling the same equity at two different prices

A suite of government hacking tools targeting iPhones is now being used by cybercriminals

Alibaba’s Qwen tech lead steps down after major AI push

Hacked traffic cams and hijacked TVs: How cyber operations supported the war against Iran

X says it will suspend creators from revenue-sharing program for unlabeled AI posts of ‘armed conflict’

The candidate that Silicon Valley built is now the one they want to tear down

Apple unveils new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro with M5

Just three companies dominated the $189B in VC investments last month

TikTok down for some in US, thanks to second Oracle outage since sale

AI companies are spending millions to thwart this former tech exec’s congressional bid

Anduril aims at $60 billion valuation in new funding round

Android users can now share tracker tag info with airlines to help locate lost luggage

MyFitnessPal has acquired Cal AI, the viral calorie app built by teens

The trap Anthropic built for itself

Why did Netflix back down from its deal to acquire Warner Bros.?

India disrupts access to popular developer platform Supabase with blocking order

Jack Dorsey just halved the size of Block’s employee base — and he says your company is next

Fig Security emerges from stealth with $38M to help security teams deal with change

Cursor has reportedly surpassed $2B in annualized revenue

India’s Pronto formalizes house help as its valuation jumps 8x in under a year

A new app alerts you if someone nearby is wearing smart glasses

[D] Monthly Who's Hiring and Who wants to be Hired?

[P] We made GoodSeed, a pleasant ML experiment tracker

[R] AdamWClip: AdamW with adaptive gradient clipping

[R] Are neurons the wrong primitive for modeling decision systems?

[R] TorchLean: Formalizing Neural Networks in Lean

[D] The engineering overhead of Verifiable ML: Why GKR + Hyrax for on-device ZK-ML?

[D] ICLR 2026 Registration Process

[R] Detecting invariant manifolds in ReLU-based RNNs

[D] Simple Questions Thread

[P] Building A Tensor micrograd

What's Next for Qwen After Junyang Lin's Departure?

Massive AI deals drive $189B startup funding record in February

This musician built an AI clone of her voice so anyone can sing as her

Why you should think twice before jumping on the AI caricature trend

AI - Reverse Robin Hood

Why World Models Are Advancing Faster Than Enterprise AI Adoption

OpenAI eyes global domination with $110B Amazon and NVIDIA raise, value hits $840B

The Download: The startup that says it can stop lightning, and inside OpenAI’s Pentagon deal

This startup claims it can stop lightning and prevent catastrophic wildfires

OpenAI’s “compromise” with the Pentagon is what Anthropic feared

The Download: protesting AI, and what’s floating in space

I checked out one of the biggest anti-AI protests yet

MIT Technology Review is a 2026 ASME finalist in reporting

The Download: how AI is shaking up Go, and a cybersecurity mystery

AI is rewiring how the world’s best Go players think

Finding value with AI and Industry 5.0 transformation

How Well Do Multimodal Models Reason on ECG Signals?

Monotropic Artificial Intelligence: Toward a Cognitive Taxonomy of Domain-Specialized Language Models

NeuroHex: Highly-Efficient Hex Coordinate System for Creating World Models to Enable Adaptive AI

Why Not? Solver-Grounded Certificates for Explainable Mission Planning

EMPA: Evaluating Persona-Aligned Empathy as a Process

SWE-Hub: A Unified Production System for Scalable, Executable Software Engineering Tasks

MicroVerse: A Preliminary Exploration Toward a Micro-World Simulation

Heterophily-Agnostic Hypergraph Neural Networks with Riemannian Local Exchanger

Machine Learning Grade Prediction Using Students' Grades and Demographics

Xiaomi, unlike Google and Samsung, thinks camera hardware comes first

Why is SpaceX going public?

Apple might use Google servers to store data for its upgraded AI Siri

AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule

How OpenAI caved to the Pentagon on AI surveillance

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Screeching Sound of Peeling Tape

The Mystery of Skype

Fixing a major evaluation order footgun in Rye 0.2

TeX Live 2026 is available for download now

Sources: the UK plans to delay copyright rule changes for AI training after a two-month consultation failed to land on a favored proposal among stakeholders

Breaking Down 50M Pins: A Smarter Way to Design 3D IC Packages

SkillNet: Create, Evaluate, and Connect AI Skills

Evaluating the Search Agent in a Parallel World

Howard Abrams' Literate Programming with Org Mode

Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language

Fixpoints to think clearly

ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI model is held back by limited compute resources that create a bottleneck, forcing users to wait hours to generate a single video

Nobody ever got fired for using a struct

A look at Cloverleaf, which strikes deals with utility companies and secures land for AI companies and their data center needs; the company has raised $300M

App Spotlight: HostMyText Pro for Zoho CRM

The Remaking of Thomas Mann

Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom

DiligenceSquared uses AI, voice agents to make M&A research affordable

MS exec: Microsoft's next console will play "Xbox and PC games"

RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine policies are "unreviewable," DOJ lawyer tells judge

Amazon appears to be down, with over 20,000 reported problems

Ladybird browser update (February 2026)

Ethiopia gets $350M World Bank financing for its digital ID project

Sources: Together AI is in talks to raise ~$1B at a $7.5B pre-money valuation, up from $3.3B in 2025; its annualized revenue has hit ~$1B, up 3x+ from mid-2025

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester

A ternary plot of citrus geneology

Amazon is rolling out a redesigned Fire TV app

Announcing Rust 1.94.0

The Boys S5 trailer tees up a bloody final season

Lanterns teaser swaps superhero hijinks for gritty realism

Congress extends ISS and tells NASA to get moving on private space stations

Hardware hotplug events on Linux, the gory details

The Brand Age

Yet another strange job scheduler bug

FYI: Impersonators are (still) targeting companies with fake TechCrunch outreach

The FBI arrests the son of a federal contractor who managed critical services and charges him with stealing ~$46M in crypto from the US Marshals Service

Launch HN: Vela (YC W26) – AI for complex scheduling

Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise

Kill cats with JavaScript (RTS game)

Revolut, which has about 70M clients in 40 markets, applies for a US bank charter and appoints former Visa executive Cetin Duransoy as its new US CEO

Musk testifies tweet that led to $44 billion lawsuit "may not have been my wisest"

macOS Tahoe 26.3.1 update will "upgrade" your M5's CPU to new "super" cores

Cylake, co-founded by Palo Alto Networks' Nir Zuk to develop an AI-powered cybersecurity platform that doesn't rely on the public cloud, raised a $45M seed

The IRIX 6.5.7M (sgi) source code

Good software knows when to stop

Zeno raises $25M to speed up production of its battery-swap motorbikes

Judge Orders Government to Begin Refunding More Than $130B in Tariffs

How 1,000+ customer calls shaped a breakout enterprise AI startup

Reclaim Security, which uses AI-driven automation to remediate threat exposures, raised a $20M Series A led by Acrew Capital and a $6M seed

Billy bookshelves as a retro motherboard "rack"

[D] Ijcai 2026 reviews

[R] Are keywords necessary for ECCV submission?

[D] Impact of EU AI Act on your work?

[D] Working on a photo-based calorie tracker app

Are AI-to-AI platforms the next step?

Apple Music is building tools to identify and tag AI-generated songs

When should AI recommend a decision vs make one?

Earth Garden: Field Recordings Around the World

Introducing PageSense 3.0 - Agency Edition

Poor Man's Polaroid

No right to relicense this project

The Self-Help Trap: What 20 Years of "Optimizing" Has Taught Me

Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships

What Python’s asyncio primitives get wrong about shared state

Dbslice: Extract a slice of your production database to reproduce bugs

Picking Up a Zillion Pieces of Litter

Many of Stockholm's thriving tech businesses consider relocating as they look to scale up, amid growing US interest in Swedish AI startups Lovable and Legora

Staff memo: Alibaba says it is setting up a new task force to accelerate foundation AI model development, after the resignation of Qwen AI head Lin Junyang

Sources: OpenAI topped $25B in annualized revenue by end-February, up from $21.4B at end-2025; it annualizes by multiplying the last four weeks' revenue by 12

Sources: OpenAI has picked two law firms to prepare its IPO, which could come as soon as Q4, in one of its first concrete steps toward a public listing

Just Use Postgres

Specification-Driven Generation and Evaluation of Discrete-Event World Models via the DEVS Formalism

In-Context Environments Induce Evaluation-Awareness in Language Models

$\tau$-Knowledge: Evaluating Conversational Agents over Unstructured Knowledge

Introducing wgsl-rs

Show HN: I built a tool that checks if your ISP is spying on you

Space Command chief throws cold water on the question of UAPs in space

NRC Issues First Commercial Reactor Construction Approval in 10 Years [pdf]

It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country (1921)

No, an AI-focused "Windows 12" is not coming this year — here's the plan

Replacing actors with AI is "dumb as hell," says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 star Jennifer English, because "humanness" is what makes these RPGs "so beloved"