US data centers could consume more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined by 2035
The AI frenzy could push U.S. data centers to become one of the largest consumers of natural gas in the world.
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ZuckOff Is a Free App That Sees Meta Glasses Before They See You
You can’t always tell if someone is recording you with their smart glasses, but your phone can help.
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US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ck790xg41ygro Comments URL:…
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GM gives its most important trucks a new UI—and includes CarPlay
The new look debuts in the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado and 2027 GMC Sierra pickup trucks.
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Trump EPA moves to wipe out climate rules for power plants
EPA says power plant emissions have no material impact on climate change.
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How The Oregon Trail became a generational icon
Whether you played it in the back of your classroom or on your computer at home, if you were a kid in the last 30 years…
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google have been in talks on AI safety for weeks
OpenAI confirms weeks of AI safety talks with Anthropic and Google DeepMind, as Trump's team dismisses safety concerns…
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Join WIRED@Night for an Uncanny Valley Live Recording on Women, Tech and Power
An evening of podcasting in San Francisco (with a discount for WIRED readers).
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Vintage Violence is an absurdist crime thriller for phone addicts
There are a lot of movies that have tried to seamlessly integrate modern tech - text messages, livestreams, etc. - into…
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25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough
Article URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/25-years-of-mass-surveillance-is-enough.html Comments URL:…
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Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
Article URL: https://github.com/arnegiacomo/fugleramme Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49711544…
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Now Light’s minimalist phone can easily call an Uber
More than a decade after its Kickstarter proposed a "cell phone designed to be used as little as possible," Light is…
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AEO startup Profound hits unicorn valuation, raises $180M Series D 7 months after last round
Profound has raised a $180 million Series D at a $1.8 billion valuation, less than seven months after it raised a $96…
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4 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Last day to exhibit at Disrupt is Sept 18. 4 days left. Get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors,…
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Discover how to take your startup from prototype to production at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Learn how to scale your startup breakthrough from prototype to production at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 with scaling…
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Former TikTok execs built an app that uses AI to teach you how to pose for a photo
Essentially a camera app, Superpose analyzes selfies or photos and generates four potential poses using AI.
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Linux from Scratch
Article URL: https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49707627 Points: 267…
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AI models need more data about biology, and OpenAI is paying to create it
Last year, the clinical trial policy analyst Ruxandra Teslo posted an idea for super-charging medical AI systems: use…
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The Download: AI doomers, whistleblowing agents, and de-aged livers
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going…
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Salesforce and Nvidia’s new reasoning model is everything the AI labs should fear
Salesforce Koa is built on Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron model and is trained to do sales, marketing and…
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I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea
Article URL: https://notnottalmud.substack.com/p/why-i-cant-stop-thinking-about-papua Comments URL:…
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‘I Felt Super Violated’: Men Wearing Meta Glasses on Dates Is an Instant Red Flag
As anxieties over surveillance tech grow, unsuspecting singles are sharing stories of being covertly filmed on dates by…
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Why the Postpandemic Tech Bust Sent Billionaires to Trump
Following mass layoffs in 2022 and 2023, many tech workers turned against their employers. When liberal politicians…
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GM updates its trucks’ native software to coexist with CarPlay
General Motors is polishing up the software experience in its bestselling trucks in an effort to reduce the amount of…