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AI buildout gives tech investors new reasons to watch bond market
Tech giants are depleting cash reserves and raising debt in their ambitious data center buildouts, a dynamic that's forcing investors to watch interest rates.
Toy Story has the right take on tech
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 133, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy belated Juneteenth, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Sam Bankman-Fried and PE Guy and admin nights (which we […]
The UK will scan asylum-seekers’ faces for age checks—despite knowing the tech is flawed
Tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors.
CSSQuake
Article URL: https://cssquake.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608223 Points: 395 # Comments: 88
Losing Fable made the best case yet for AI models you can run yourself
The most-said line in one of my group chats this week was three words, on repeat: “I miss Fable.” I The post Losing Fable made the best case yet for AI models you can run yourself appeared first on The New Stack .
Hackers Exploit Gravity SMTP WordPress Plugin Bug to Expose API Keys
Threat actors are exploiting a recently patched security flaw impacting Gravity SMTP, a WordPress plugin that's installed on about 100,000 sites. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-4020 (CVSS score: 5.3), is a medium-severity information disclosure flaw that can allow unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data, such as configuration data, API keys, secrets, and OAuth tokens
Data2Story turns a CSV file into a verified interactive news article using seven AI agents
Seven AI agents work together like a newsroom. The "Data Journalist Agent" from Oxford and Stanford turns a CSV file into a finished interactive article with graphics, web research, and verifiable source links for 93 percent of all statements. In a reader study, 74 percent preferred the agent's output over the human original. But against elaborately crafted long-form reports, the agent managed a tie. The article Data2Story turns a CSV file into a verified interactive news article using seven AI agents appeared first on The Decoder .
French President Urges US to Share Cutting-Edge AI and Democracies to Cooperate on Regulation
French President Emmanuel Macron urged the world’s wealthy democracies to work together on regulating advanced AI systems. The post French President Urges US to Share Cutting-Edge AI and Democracies to Cooperate on Regulation appeared first on SecurityWeek .
99% might be enough (or not)
A 100-foot long boat that’s 99% complete is going to sink before it leaves the dock. That gaping hole is more than enough to do it in. On the other hand, a baked ziti that’s 99% as good as the best baked ziti ever made is exactly good enough to serve in any setting. Mediocrity […]
Massive bonuses for South Korea's chip workers puts central bank on inflation alert
Workers from tech industries receive bonus worth millions of won, prompting the Bank of Korea to warn of the upward pressure to inflation.
ChatGPT keeps creeping toward becoming your AI personal assistant with new scheduled task controls
OpenAI is upgrading ChatGPT's scheduling feature. A new "Scheduled" page in the sidebar puts all active tasks in one place, letting users view, pause, edit, or delete them. Research tasks search the web and connected apps, sending alerts only when something actually changes. The previous "Pulse" feature is being retired. The article ChatGPT keeps creeping toward becoming your AI personal assistant with new scheduled task controls appeared first on The Decoder .
OpenAI tripled revenue to $5.7 billion in Q1 but burned through $3.7 billion to get there
In the first quarter of 2026, OpenAI pulled in $5.7 billion in revenue and burned through about $3.7 billion, both figures tripled year over year. Stock-based compensation alone ate up over $2.3 billion. With $73 billion in reserves, OpenAI doesn't need fresh capital right now, but a price war with Anthropic could change that fast. The article OpenAI tripled revenue to $5.7 billion in Q1 but burned through $3.7 billion to get there appeared first on The Decoder .
SwitchBot’s Standing Circulator Fan is worth fighting for
I can't remember the last time I got excited about a fan. Normally, I just buy whatever Vornado or Dreo model fits my budget, but that was before I started testing the battery-powered Standing Circulator Fan from SwitchBot. As the name indicates, the SwitchBot fan is a 3D circulator - a fancy way of saying […]
I Stored a Website in a Favicon
Article URL: https://www.timwehrle.de/blog/i-stored-a-website-in-a-favicon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48606619 Points: 277 # Comments: 95
Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering
Article URL: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/its-quite-a-bit-more-than-we-expected-satellite-reveals-immense-scale-of-gps-signal-tampering Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48606271 Points: 163 # Comments: 89
Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You
Article URL: https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/where-to-find-the-colors-your-screen-cant-show-you/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48606140 Points: 358 # Comments: 90
New video game console aims to get kids moving
The Nex Playground will cost £269 (€319) when it is released on 22 June in the UK and Ireland.
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He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he’s doing that for robots.
French serial entrepreneur and open source legend Jean-Baptiste Kempf has been building Kyber, an infrastructure layer to control remote devices in real time.
Hey, n00b, we didn't hire you to complete tasks
Article URL: https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/hey-n00b-we-didnt-hire-you-to-complete Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48604851 Points: 199 # Comments: 115
v16.3.0-canary.59
Misc Changes Upgrade to swc 70: #94814 [turbopack] Sort modules in chunks to reduce duplicates: #94961 router instrumentation: refactor client hook dispatch (1/7): #94755 [otel] Add more verbose-mode OTEL spans for App Router: #94894 Enforce route segment configs on metadata routes under Cache Components: #94962 typegen: default to Turbopack: #94952 router instrumentation: add transition start context (2/7): #94766 fix: after(callback) called after response end: #94974 fix: request APIs in promises passed to after() in actions/handlers: #94964 Credits Huge thanks to @mischnic , @sampoder , @feedthejim , @unstubbable , @wbinnssmith , and @lubieowoce for helping!
Quoting Sean Lynch
The real valuable capability MCP offers over skills/CLI is isolating the auth flow outside of the agent’s context window, and potentially out of the harness completely. [...] Maybe the idealized form of MCP is just an auth gateway for the API and nothing else. That’d still be a win. — Sean Lynch , comment on Hacker News Tags: model-context-protocol , llms , ai , generative-ai , skills
Americans express unease over SpaceX's influence on retirement savings
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/19/spacex-retirement-savings-elon-musk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48604186 Points: 226 # Comments: 130