Ashley St. Clair sues xAI over Grok chatbot allegedly generating explicit deepfake images of her, using images from when she was 14 years old. Maja Smiejkowska/REUTERS Ashley St. Clair sued xAI, alleg...
Small footprint. Speedy performance. | Image: The Verge Happy Saturday, folks! This week, Best Buy kicked off its so-called “ Winter Sale ,” introducing a whole host of price cuts that range from not-...
OP here. Birth of a Mind documents a "recursive self-modeling" experiment I ran on a single day in 2026. I attempted to implement a "Hofstadterian Strange Loop" via prompt engineering to see if I coul...
Hi I’m Chris, one of the co-founders of Shimmer ( https://www.shimmer.care ), and today we’re launching our new app called Indy ( https://www.shimmer.care/indy ). Indy is an ADHD app for structured pl...
Article URL: https://thoughtfuleng.substack.com/p/junior-developers-in-the-age-of-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46617456 Points: 4 # Comments: 0...
Article URL: https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-blogging-in-the-ruins/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46604959 Points: 8 # Comments: 0...
Meta has made the decision to discontinue Workrooms as a standalone app Illustration by Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Meta is switching off Horizon Workrooms as a stand-alone...
Tobias Osborne, a Leibniz Universität Hannover physics professor, says AI apocalypse fears distract regulators and let companies evade accountability for real harms happening today. Yuichiro Chino/Get...
Article URL: https://www.doom2.net/doom2/cheating.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46656909 Points: 3 # Comments: 1...
After the self-induced tumult Sonos went through last year , I can understand why some people are reluctant to spend money on the company’s products. But newly appointed CEO Tom Conrad has shown that ...
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633378 Points: 47 # Comments: 12...
Semafor CEO Justin Smith says his company hosted close to 100 events in 2025. His ambition is to build a Washington, DC-based event that's supposed to rivals the annual Davos gathering in Switzerland....
Reddit's API is effectively dead for archival. Third-party apps are gone. Reddit has threatened to cut off access to the Pushshift dataset multiple times. But 3.28TB of Reddit history exists as a torr...
The ripple effects from the RAM shortage have already been resonating throughout the PC industry, but the situation just got even worse for PC gamers. The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti has apparently reached en...
There are all kinds of immensely powerful gaming PC setups out there, carefully crafted and assembled with components hand-picked for the most optimal performance to drive your experience. Even the mo...
Article URL: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2843883 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649489 Points: 4 # Comments: 0...
It's the second time in a week that the network has had connectivity issues for users....
Article URL: https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/16/can-you-disable-spotlight-and-siri-in-macos-tahoe/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46646958 Points: 5 # Comments: 1...
Subway Surfers City , a follow-up to the popular endless runner mobile game / sludge content star Subway Surfers , will be launching on February 26th on iOS and Android, with preregistration open now....
xAI has announced measures to rein in Grok's 'Spicy Mode' after global backlash over AI-edited images undressing women and children....