Politics

Kagi Brings Back Old-School Search, One Human-Made Website at a Time

If you’re tired of sponsored and AI-summarized search results, Kagi gives you a curated—and human-centric—way to find what you’re looking for.…

2026-07-24

AI Kill Switch Act would let Trump admin order shutdown of rogue AI systems

Bill would let Homeland Security chief decide when an AI should be shut down.…

2026-07-24

Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI

https://littletech.org/https://static.politico.com/4a/bf/9c4021d8404386b0a311dcccf0... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023016 Poi…

2026-07-23

Sony's decision to ditch discs was practically inevitable, data shows

Circana numbers show US gamers overwhelmingly voting with their wallets.…

2026-07-23

Google hit with $1 billion in fines as EU braces for Trump battle

Google becomes third tech giant to face huge fines under the Digital Markets Act.…

2026-07-23

OpenAI is making big claims as it rolls out ChatGPT Health to everyone

OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Health to everyone in the US on Thursday, allowing more people to connect their medical records and health-tracking info…

2026-07-23

Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good

"I don't think you get a model this strong and this quickly on the heels of Fable doing strictly distillation," one expert told TechCrunch.…

2026-07-23

White House report says Trump can usher in a "new golden age" of science

The resulting report is a near-random mixture of real problems and grievances.…

2026-07-23

America’s Hot Hybrid Summer

Gas prices are up, and US car dealerships are full of hybrids. Customers are going for it.…

2026-07-23

The Trump Administration Wants to Change Public Engagement Rules for Polluters

The EPA has proposed a rule change that would let states decide how much input the public has on air pollution permits. It would be a huge boon for da…

2026-07-23

Why Lettuce Is Always Making People Sick

The cyclospora diarrhea outbreak isn’t an isolated incident. It’s part of a pattern of leafy greens wreaking digestive havoc.…

2026-07-23

Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business

Google's cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to report record profits.…

2026-07-23

GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization

Article URL: https://github.com/marcelroed/gigatoken/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010167 Points: 244 # Comments: 47…

2026-07-23

ISPs' long nightmare of having to list all the fees they charge is finally over

FCC lets ISPs stop listing all fees after companies complained it was too hard.…

2026-07-23

Top Red-Light Therapy Deals at Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale (2026)

Save on WIRED-tested LED therapy devices from TheraFace, HigherDose, and more.…

2026-07-23

Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned the U.S. government could sanction Chinese AI companies after White House officials accused Moonshot of distil…

2026-07-23

The White House Is Trying to Figure Out What to Do About Chinese AI

There’s a debate going on in the Trump administration over how to handle increasingly powerful Chinese AI models.…

2026-07-23

LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps

Article URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/lg-to-ban-residential-proxies-from-smart-tv-apps/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=…

2026-07-22

Utility companies are promising to spare us from AI’s energy bill

In the face of backlash to concerns the AI boom will increase consumer electricity bills, the largest utility companies and data center developers in …

2026-07-22

States Want ICE Agents to Show Their Faces. The Trump Administration Is Blocking Them

Federal lawyers say anti-mask laws would endanger immigration agents, citing an ICE face-recognition art project that doesn’t actually work.…

2026-07-22

Nintendo customers have no legal right to tariff refunds, company tells judge

Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit.…

2026-07-21

TreeSize won't renew perpetual-license support unless users subscribe

"Current economic conditions" have shifted TreeSize's business model.…

2026-07-21

2027 Kia Seltos first drive gives you plenty of SUV for not much $

It starts at just under $25,000, but the hybrid won't arrive until next year.…

2026-07-21

Perfection is not over-engineering

Article URL: https://var0.xyz/posts/perfection-is-not-over-engineering.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48979120 Points: 198 # …

2026-07-21

Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac

Article URL: https://blaizzy.github.io/nativ/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982681 Points: 209 # Comments: 80…

2026-07-21

Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled

Article URL: https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/human-mathematicians-are-being-outcounterexampled/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co…

2026-07-21

Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public

Article URL: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/tracking-alpr-cameras/flock-safety-credibility-lost-as-it-repeatedly-lies-to-city-councils-p…

2026-07-21

LEDs’ potential to save our night skies

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/led-light-pollution Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978350 Points: 205 # Comments: 156…

2026-07-21

Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved

The final approval settles one case, but it doesn't resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.…

2026-07-21

Trump’s latest AI czar has already resigned

The director role for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has become a revolving door since David Sacks left his position as czar.…

2026-07-21