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Second complete map of a fruit fly brain completed

Second complete map of a fruit fly brain completed

Every neuron and connection in the brain of a fly has been mapped—twice.…
Valve secretly leaked a Left 4 Dead 2 trailer to dodge the ESRB

Valve secretly leaked a Left 4 Dead 2 trailer to dodge the ESRB

"I think we can't get in trouble for that now. It's like 20 years ago."…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3

Article URL: https://arcprize.org/blog/astra Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49555691 Points: 222 # Comments: 135…
Solving the Jane Street Reverse Engineering Challenge

Solving the Jane Street Reverse Engineering Challenge

Article URL: https://jestoph.com/2026/09/04/jane-street-challenge.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562657 Points: 223 # Comme…
Nintendo’s next two Direct events are both happening next week

Nintendo’s next two Direct events are both happening next week

Nintendo just announced two Direct events for next week, scheduled back to back. First up is the Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct on September …
Google’s Gemini Spark can now manage your Google Photos library

Google’s Gemini Spark can now manage your Google Photos library

Gemini Spark can edit and curate photo albums, create shared collections, turn photos into calendar events, and handle other Google Photos tasks for A…
What to expect at Apple’s September 9th launch event

What to expect at Apple’s September 9th launch event

Apple's September 9th launch event could be one of its biggest in years. It will be Apple's first event since John Ternus took over as CEO on Septembe…
Alienware’s refurbished 16 Aurora is almost $200 off at Woot

Alienware’s refurbished 16 Aurora is almost $200 off at Woot

Gaming laptop deals aren’t what they used to be (stares daggers at RAMageddon), which is why I consider Woot’s deal on a refurbished Alienware 16 Auro…
Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It's Basically Alive: Inside the Great AI Consciousness Debate

Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It's Basically Alive: Inside the Great AI Consciousness Debate

While philosophers ponder AI consciousness, the models have ideas of their own.…
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

Article URL: https://collusion.wiki/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563355 Points: 256 # Comments: 157…
Rocket Report: Engines installed for Artemis III; Long March 6C breakup in LEO

Rocket Report: Engines installed for Artemis III; Long March 6C breakup in LEO

Two of Europe's leading launch startups announced new fundraising this week.…
Xbox app is coming to TCL TVs just as Microsoft rolls out pay-as-you-go cloud gaming

Xbox app is coming to TCL TVs just as Microsoft rolls out pay-as-you-go cloud gaming

Microsoft is partnering with TCL to bring its Xbox app to supported TCL smart TVs. The Xbox app lets you connect to Xbox Cloud Gaming and stream Game …
Tesla Cybercab is barely real and it’s already under investigation

Tesla Cybercab is barely real and it’s already under investigation

Elon Musk's gilded robot car barely made it on public roads before federal regulators launched an investigation into the vehicle's lack of traditional…
Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year

Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year

Article URL: http://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/hackers-had-a-live-feed-of-every-id-this-verification-company-scanned-for-over-a-year/ Comments URL: h…
iRobot unveils the Roomba Duo

iRobot unveils the Roomba Duo

The original robot vacuum company showed off a concept robot at the IFA tech show in Berlin today. The Roomba Duo combines a heavy-duty floor-washing …
Bluetti launches ‘e-generator’ to take on noisy, stinky, polluting gas generators

Bluetti launches ‘e-generator’ to take on noisy, stinky, polluting gas generators

Bluetti doesn't want you to call the Pioneer 5000 a solar generator (SoGen) even though that's what it is. What makes it slightly different from other…
Japan Is Launching a Probe to Collect the First-Ever Samples From a Martian Moon

Japan Is Launching a Probe to Collect the First-Ever Samples From a Martian Moon

The mission to Phobos, Japan’s first Mars probe launch in 28 years, may reveal new information about our closest planetary neighbor.…
We spent the week testing IFA’s best (and weirdest) gadgets, ask us anything

We spent the week testing IFA’s best (and weirdest) gadgets, ask us anything

Europe's biggest tech trade show, IFA, has taken over Berlin this week - and we've been on the ground all week checking it out in person. We figure yo…
Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%

Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%

Article URL: https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/artificial-beaver-dams-california Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=495525…
How a Secret Orangutan Breeding Program Is Creating a Baby Boom

How a Secret Orangutan Breeding Program Is Creating a Baby Boom

The success of a program linking zoos across the US has created social media stars and generated a wave of interest in how to protect the endangered g…
Aqara goes all in on smart lighting

Aqara goes all in on smart lighting

After showing off several smart home firsts at CES, Aqara has returned to IFA with a major lineup of smart lighting compatible with both Zigbee and Th…
Lexar’s Muse is an ultra-slim portable SSD that’s less than 4mm thick

Lexar’s Muse is an ultra-slim portable SSD that’s less than 4mm thick

Following the lead of companies like Xteink, Lexar is the latest to sacrifice a USB-C port in the pursuit of slimming down its hardware. When the Lexa…
Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly

Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly

These are my notes from porting my Amiga game, which I originally built in Baghdad in 1993 in MC68000 assembly, to Godot, using Claude Fable 5 during …
The sameness problem behind those unappetizing AI-generated menus

The sameness problem behind those unappetizing AI-generated menus

While restaurant owners might look to generative AI as a shortcut to sprucing up their menu, customers can viscerally sense that something is wrong wi…
Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond

Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond

Article URL: https://reason.com/2026/09/02/virginia-mom-gets-6-month-suspended-jail-sentence-for-letting-5-year-old-walk-to-the-pond/ Comments URL: ht…
Tesla's Make-or-Break Cybercab Had a Quiet Debut in Austin

Tesla's Make-or-Break Cybercab Had a Quiet Debut in Austin

An invite-only event in Austin, Texas, kept online fans in the dark for hours.…
Nvidia will officially bring DLSS 5 to older GPUs — but won’t give gamers full control

Nvidia will officially bring DLSS 5 to older GPUs — but won’t give gamers full control

Officially, Nvidia's controversial DLSS 5 AI rendering was supposed to launch this evening with only a single game, only on Nvidia's latest RTX 50 GPU…
Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time

Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time

More than 200 people in roles such as engineering, finance, and communications will now be represented by the Communication Workers of America.…
Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation

Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation

The round came together after the data center developer reportedly secured a $13 billion contract with Jane Street.…
K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models

K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models

Article URL: https://ifm.ai/blog/k2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49551760 Points: 238 # Comments: 79…