Arcturus could halve the grid’s electrical losses using its nano-infused copper

Stealthy startup Arcturus uses lasers to infuse carbon nanomaterials into copper, dramatically improving its ability to conduct electricity.

2026-06-30 · 15:01 UTC
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Amazon launches new $1 billion FDE org, following OpenAI and Anthropic

2026-06-30 · 15:00

Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast deployments and…

Podcasting platform Riverside enters the newsletter publishing game

2026-06-30 · 15:00

Users will be able use AI to create newsletters based on their recordings.

What Is Quantum Computing? A Beginner’s Guide to the Technology That Could Reshape Crypto

2026-06-30 · 14:29

Imagine you own a safe.

Words Are a Byproduct of Consciousness. For LLMs, It's Backwards

2026-06-30 · 14:16

The article argues that large language models (LLMs) fundamentally differ from human consciousness in a crucial way:…

Have You Restarted Your Computer This Week?

2026-06-30 · 14:15

The author describes their personal practice of manually restarting their Mac on Saturday mornings as a form of stress…

Looking Ahead to Postgres 19

2026-06-30 · 14:14

Postgres 19, now in beta, features a mix of major and incremental improvements including the addition of REPACK…

Lumo, Proton’s privacy-focused AI chatbot, gets an upgrade

2026-06-30 · 14:00

Proton's Lumo 2.0 is dropping this week, giving users a broader variety of capabilities.

Your brand deserves its own stage — Side Events at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

2026-06-30 · 14:00

From October 10-16, host a Side Event and command the room during the week of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.

From Julia to Rust: a differentiable tensor stack for scientific computing

2026-06-30 · 13:49

Tenferro-rs is a new Rust-based tensor library for scientific computing that bridges gaps in the existing Rust ecosystem…

Knoppix

2026-06-30 · 12:54

KNOPPIX is a bootable live operating system distributed on CD, DVD, or USB drives that contains GNU/Linux software with…

Microsoft reveals why Windows 11 keeps saying a file is in use after closing app

2026-06-30 · 12:49

Microsoft's Azure CTO Mark Russinovich explained why Windows displays "file in use" errors even after closing…

Robinhood Launches Trump Accounts App Before July 4 Launch

2026-06-30 · 11:41

Robinhood has officially launched the Trump Accounts app, opening access to all eligible US households ahead of the…

China Expands Its Open-source AI Strategy

2026-06-30 · 11:05

The militarization of cutting-edge language models is redefining the map of global technological power, turning computer…

Parse, Don't Validate – In a Language That Doesn't Want You To

2026-06-30 · 10:48

The article discusses how TypeScript developers often "validate" data (checking if it's correct) rather than "parsing"…

European digital ID wallets are a gift to Google and Apple

2026-06-30 · 10:36

European governments are rolling out digital ID wallets that rely on Google's Play Integrity API and Apple's device…

I spent 6 days building my VDOM library as I hated how React handles memo

2026-06-30 · 10:35

A developer created Tyaff, an experimental virtual DOM library built in 6 days as an alternative to React, featuring…

Zluda 6 release (run unmodified CUDA applications on non-Nvidia GPUs)

2026-06-30 · 10:34

ZLUDA Version 6 has been released, enabling unmodified CUDA applications to run on non-NVIDIA GPUs with significant new…

Show HN: Bored People Chat – Anonymous global chat room

2026-06-30 · 06:04

Bored People Chat is a minimal, anonymous global chat room inspired by the old internet that doesn't have sign-up, ads…

US Supreme Court Just Blew Up EU-US Data Transfers

2026-06-30 · 05:17

The US Supreme Court's Trump v.

Popping the GPU Bubble

2026-06-30 · 05:14

GPU bubbles occur during AI model inference when the GPU sits idle waiting for the CPU to complete housekeeping tasks…

The end of the AArch64 desktop experiment

2026-06-30 · 04:51

A developer ended an 11-month experiment using an Ampere Altra AArch64 system as a desktop after encountering persistent…

The AI jobs debate just got messier

2026-06-30 · 04:01

A new report finds "high-intensity AI adopters” saw headcount increase 10.2%.

Loko Scheme 0.13.0

2026-06-30 · 02:39

Loko Scheme 0.13.0 has been released with bug fixes, performance improvements, and new features.

Vibe coding platform Base44 launches own model as AI startups seek defensibility

2026-06-30 · 02:28

Wix-owned vibe coding platform Base44 has started rolling out its own AI model — with hopes that it will eventually…

Why Won't Europe Build AI Data Centers in Iceland?

2026-06-30 · 01:30

The EU's new Tech Sovereignty Package aims to triple European data center capacity within five to seven years to reduce…

Exploring PDP-1 Lisp (1960)

2026-06-30 · 00:56

Lisp was developed in 1958 by John McCarthy at MIT as a high-level symbolic programming language for AI research, and…

Memory Safe Context Switching (longjmp, setjmp) in Fil-C

2026-06-30 · 00:38

Fil-C implements memory-safe versions of context-switching APIs like setjmp/longjmp and ucontext functions that normally…

LongCat-2.0, a large-scale MoE model with 1.6T total and 48B Active

2026-06-30 · 00:30

Open Memory Protocol – One Memory Store for Claude, ChatGPT, Curso

2026-06-30 · 00:05

Open Memory Protocol (OMP) is a vendor-neutral standard that allows AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor to share…

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