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Google’s AI now lets you talk to your Gmail inbox

Google expands Gmail’s AI Inbox with conversational voice search, letting users ask Gemini to find buried email details.

Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements

College graduates are booing speakers at commencement ceremonies who promote artificial intelligence, viewing the…

Cursor Cloud Agents Down

Cursor's Cloud Agents experienced a widespread outage on May 19, 2026, failing to initialize and making the product…

CopyFail: From Pod to Host

# Summary CVE-2026-31431 (Copy Fail) is a critical Linux kernel vulnerability that enables attackers to perform…

AI, "Humanity", and Dr. Manhattan Syndrome: A Communications Intervention

Greg Brockman, president of OpenAI, donated $25 million to a partisan political organization while publicly framing his…

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People Are More Willing to Lie to AI Than Humans, Study Finds

Consumers feel less social pressure when lying to an AI chatbot, research finds, while human-like social cues reduce…

KV Sharing, MHC, and Compressed Attention

Recent open-weight LLM releases like Gemma 4, DeepSeek V4, and others are implementing new architectural…

The era of 1,000 Hz gaming monitors has arrived, but why?

LG's latest hits one frame per millisecond at a full 1080p resolution.

RuView – See through walls with WiFi

RuView is a WiFi-based sensing platform that uses Channel State Information (CSI) from low-cost ESP32 sensors to detect…

NVIDIA Ships Vera AI CPUs to OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceXAI

NVIDIA’s new AI hardware release is making waves, with the company saying its Vera AI CPU systems have already landed at…

Civilization VII finally lets you build a civ that stands the test of time

Civ 7’s devs talk walking back the game's most controversial decision.

Tor Project to lead Web3 crowdfunding to support internet freedom

Global internet freedom has declined for 15 consecutive years, with more countries restricting access to more of the…

AI is too expensive

# Summary The article argues that AI is economically unviable, with major tech companies hemorrhaging billions despite…

Show HN: Superlog (YC P26) – Observability that installs itself and fixes bugs

Hey HN, we’re Nico and Arseniy, co-founders of Superlog (https://superlog.sh).

I've built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of

A developer has created a comprehensive virtual museum containing over 1,700 pre-configured operating system…

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team

Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic to work on pre-training.

The minimalist Light Phone teams up with Andrew Yang’s Noble Mobile, which pays you to stop doomscrolling

"The Light Phone is designed to be used as little as possible," founder Joe Hollier told TechCrunch.

Hackers have compromised dozens of popular open source packages in an ongoing supply chain attack

The attacks are part of a wider campaign known as Mini Shai-Hulud, which has already compromised several open source…

Gentoo News: Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia Kernel Vulnerabilities

Three Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerabilities—Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia—have been recently…

Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic

US cyber agency CISA exposed reams of passwords and cloud keys to the open web

The federal cybersecurity agency left plaintext passwords in a spreadsheet uploaded to a public GitHub repository, per a…

Show HN: I made a 3D pose maker for artists

SetPose is a free online 3D pose maker tool designed for artists to practice drawing human figures and anatomy.

Apple announces Apple Intelligence powered accessibility feature updates

Apple is introducing a feature to let Vision Pro control a compatible wheelchair with their eyes

Forget the feed: Status AI raises $17M to turn social media into interactive entertainment

Interactive social media site Status announced Tuesday $17 million in combined seed and Series A funding, with…

‘Survivor’ stars Kyle Fraser and Kamilla Karthigesu introduce a goal-tracking app, Paprclip

A new app from Survivor 48 winner Kyle Fraser and castmate Kamilla Karthigesu aims to turn goal tracking into a social…

AI Slop Floods Bug Bounty Programs as Companies Struggle with Fake Reports

Bug bounty platforms and software companies are struggling to handle a surge of low-quality, AI-generated vulnerability…

Electrical utility megamerger is all about the data centers

NextEra’s blockbuster deal with Dominion likely means higher bills for consumers.