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Wikipedia turns 25 and shares a glimpse into the lives of its volunteer editors

It's been 25 years since the launch of Wikipedia on January 15th, 2001, and it's come a long way from housing just 100 pages to becoming a behemoth of online knowledge with more than 65 million articl...

Jan 15The VergeTechnologyImpact

LIVE: Everything Announced at Xbox Developer Direct 2026

Microsoft is kicking 2026 off with a new Xbox Developer Direct showcase, which will feature some of the biggest games it has coming out this year. Confirmed to appear at the showcase is Playground’s F...

3dIGNTechnologyImpact

LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman says companies are approaching AI the wrong way

LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman Dominik Bindl/Getty Images LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman says most companies are thinking about AI adoption the wrong way. Instead of focusing on pilot projects, he s...

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Show HN: Text-to-video model from scratch (2 brothers, 2 years, 2B params)

Writeup (includes good/bad sample generations): https://www.linum.ai/field-notes/launch-linum-v2 We're Sahil and Manu, two brothers who spent the last 2 years training text-to-video models from scratc...

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David Ellison shakes up Paramount's data and insights team as his tech vision comes into focus

David Ellison's Paramount Skydance is putting data and insights front and center. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images David Ellison is making data a key pillar of Paramount Skydance. Paramount is b...

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Tesla launches robotaxi rides without a human chaperone in Austin

Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images Tesla says some of its cars are now driving passengers without a human monitor in the front seat. CEO Elon Musk has been pushing to launch more se...

3dBusiness InsiderTechnologyImpact

Sony announces its first turntables in years

Sony is releasing a new turntable for the first time since 2019. Two, in fact. The entry-level PS-LX3BT ($399.99) and step-up PS-LX5BT ($499.99) are designed for easy operation with both wired and Blu...

3dThe VergeTechnologyImpact

Kaoss Pad V is the first major upgrade to Korg’s touch-based effects in 13 years

The Kaoss Pad has seen many different iterations , but the mainline effect unit and sampler hasn't received an update since the launch of the KP3+ in 2013. Korg has finally given it the attention it d...

Jan 18The VergeTechnologyImpact

Google brings its AI videomaker to Workspace users

An AI-generated scene created by Flow. Google is expanding access to its AI videomaking tool. Launched last May , Flow was initially only available to Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers, but now, ...

Jan 16The VergeTechnologyImpact

Spotify is hiking prices again

Plans are increasing by $1-$2 per month. The price of Spotify Premium is about to jump again in the US , marking its third price hike since 2023. Spotify announced that subscribers in the US, Estonia,...

Jan 15The VergeeconomicsImpact

Verizon’s wireless network is down for many people nationwide

The first big outage of 2026 is here, as Verizon customers across the US, including several of our phones, complain that service has been spotty or nonexistent since just after noon ET, with phones sw...

Jan 14The VergeTechnologyImpact

Animal Crossing’s big 3.0 update has fans itching to return to the cozy life

Animal Crossing , like Kirby , has come back when it seems like the world needs it most. In 2020, Animal Crossing: New Horizon s released on the Nintendo Switch. The game instantly became a smash hit,...

Jan 14The VergeTechnology

Show HN: See the carbon impact of your cloud as you code

Hey folks, I’m Hassan, one of the co-founders of Infracost ( https://www.infracost.io ). Infracost helps engineers see and reduce the cloud cost of each infrastructure change before they merge their c...

4dHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

I landed a job at Snap after guessing the recruiter's email address. Here's my advice for other recent graduates looking for tech roles.

Sreeja Apparaju Amy Graves/Getty Images for Prime Video Sreeja Apparaju decided to pursue a tech role after graduating, despite having no tech internships. She said a networking trick and the support ...

3dBusiness InsiderTechnology

Asus may have made its last phone

The Zenfone 12 Ultra is Asus’s latest — and perhaps final — flagship phone. Asus chairman Jonney Shih told Taiwan's Inside that the company is done making phones for now, marking the end of its Zenfon...

6dThe VergeTechnologyImpact

Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?

I've been trying to get agentic coding to work, but the dissonance between what I'm seeing online and what I'm able to achieve is doing my head in. Is there real evidence, beyond hype, that agentic co...

6dHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Nominated for (Almost) Every Game Developers Choice Award

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is once again sweeping award nominations, this time at the Game Developers Choice Awards, where it's been nominated for all but one award. The organization announced its no...

Jan 15IGNEntertainmentImpact

Ashley St. Clair sues Elon Musk's xAI over alleged explicit Grok deepfake images

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...

Jan 16Business InsiderTechnologyImpact

The Sony Bravia 8 II is a TV enthusiast’s dream

The Bravia 8 II draws you in. Sony has a history of making excellent TVs, from the Trinitron CRTs of last century to the world's first OLED nearly 20 years ago to 2016's ZD9 mini-LED that delivered ex...

Jan 15The VergeTechnologyImpact

Tesla to stop selling FSD as a standalone package and switch to subscription only

Tesla Model Y electric vehicles (EV) at a dealership in Colma, California, US, on Tuesday, July 1, 2025. As its sales continue to slip and its robotaxi strategy seems to falter , Tesla CEO Elon Musk s...

Jan 14The VergeTechnology
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