Google's Wear OS 7 update is starting to roll out today for the Pixel Watch 2, 3, and 4, adding a new Live Updates feature that tracks live events from your Android smartwatch. Live Updates will now sync with Wear OS devices, so updates like sports scores or an ongoing meal delivery will show up […]
Google has released Android 17 and Wear OS 7, introducing new multitasking features, parental controls, security tools, and smartwatch upgrades. The launch is also accompanied by a Pixel Drop that brings Google’s latest AI models to its devices.
The decision comes after a prolonged period of difficulty for the chain, which has faced increasing competition from a range of rivals.
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged multiple ClickFix campaigns that deliver three malware loaders called BabaDeda Loader, Lorem Ipsum Loader, and Potemkin, per independent reports from Morphisec, BlueVoyant, and Huntress, respectively. Attacks involving BabaDeda Loader, observed in April 2026, have targeted education and financial organizations. "Earlier BabaDeda activity was known for
Verizon is launching a new Simplicity plan that starts at $30 / month for new customers, or $45 / month for existing ones. In its announcement, Verizon says the plan drops activation and upgrade fees, while offering one flat price for each line. The $30 price for new customers is an "initial promotional offer" that […]
Article URL: https://tim.blog/2026/06/12/has-ai-already-killed-nonfiction/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558489 Points: 333 # Comments: 390
Now that we're clear of WWDC and all of the new AI-powered features coming to Apple's platforms, Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman has more details about rumored new hardware, like the camera-equipped AirPods he'd previously written about. He says they are currently on schedule for a late 2027 launch, and that while we're checking out beta […]
The Project Aura glasses collaboration between Xreal and Google is now one step closer to being something you can buy. Reservations for the second Android XR device, now dubbed the Xreal Aura, are available for $99 starting today, with a full launch in the US, UK, Japan, Canada, and South Korea expected sometime this Fall. […]
Smart glasses are still a nascent category, but chipmaker Qualcomm is hard at work upgrading the silicon to power the next wave of XR devices: the Snapdragon Reality Elite. Although Qualcomm is announcing the chip today at Augmented World Expo, we've technically already gotten a hands-on with a device powered by the new chip at […]
Snap is launching its first AR glasses geared toward the broader public instead of developers.
Snap is finally launching augmented glasses for the public. Specs, which Snap describes as "a wearable computer built into see-through augmented reality glasses," will cost $2,195. You can preorder a pair of Specs now at specs.com with a $200 refundable deposit, and Snap says they're expected to ship "this fall" in the US, UK, and […]
Article URL: https://gist.github.com/samsch/0d1f3d3b4745d778f78b230cf6061452 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558147 Points: 406 # Comments: 233
WordPress VIP’s latest survey suggests consumers are wary of AI-generated answers even as companies increasingly view AI search as an important referral channel.
Legal victories have dampened the Trump admin’s efforts to halt wind and solar power.
Article URL: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-is-meta-destroying-its-engineering Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558045 Points: 576 # Comments: 502
Article URL: https://mareksuppa.com/til/bash-dev-tcp-http-without-curl/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558018 Points: 301 # Comments: 150
Separately, neither could compete. Now they hope they can.
Run your AI agents over any app, even games. Discussion | Link
More than 10,000 enterprises have used the GitHub Code Quality public preview to detect maintainability and reliability issues, enforce quality gates, and track code coverage. On July 20, 2026, Code… The post GitHub Code Quality generally available July 20, 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Organization administrators can now enable or disable GitHub Code Quality across all repositories in their organization with a single toggle, instead of configuring each repository individually. What’s new A new… The post Organization-level enablement for GitHub Code Quality appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Elon Musk's rocket firm has overtaken the retail and media empire in value after a surge in its share price.
Release: datasette-tailscale 0.1a0 A very experimental alpha plugin which lets you do this: datasette tailscale mydata.db \ --ts-authkey tskey-auth-xxxx --ts-hostname datasette-preview This starts a localhost Datasette server with a Tailscale sidecar that connects it to your Tailnet, such that http://datasette-preview/ serves Datasette. It's using the Python bindings for the experimental tailscale-rs library. I filed an issue asking if there's a cleaner way of setting up the proxy mechanism. Tags: datasette , tailscale
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/leaked-financial-docs-show-openai-is-losing-billions-of-dollars-a-year/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577208 Points: 355 # Comments: 4
The first public arena for AI agents Discussion | Link