Hi HN, In most codebases I’ve worked on, temporary hacks (“TODO: remove later”, “just for this release”) slowly become permanent. Nobody remembers why they exist, but they keep shipping to production....
UK prime minister says xAI will restrict the image generator as billionaire pledges to follow laws in all markets...
The search giant says displaying AI summaries constitutes lawful innovation, in its latest defense against year-long publisher lawsuits....
Meta is laying off around 10% of staff at its Reality Labs division as part of sweeping cuts set to affect more than 1,000 people. This includes the closure of a number of VR-first studios, such as Tw...
It was an overcast January morning in 2025 the day I decided to delete my operating system. The Ubuntu installer warned me that it would remove everything on my hard drive, permanently wiping the enti...
Germany's GDP grew 0.2% in 2025, ending a run of two consecutive years of recession, new figures show. The justice minister wants to combat the misuse of AI to create sexualized images. DW has more...
North America is becoming a less dominant force in the Bitcoin mining industry, ceding newly minted BTC to adversaries like China....
If you were to purchase a standalone Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card today, you'd be paying $3,000 or more. Why not just get a complete RTX 5090 prebuilt gaming PC for a similar price? HP is cur...
The Vienna-based crypto platform is weighing a potential 2026 listing in Germany as more digital asset companies position for public markets....
The Neo 2 looks a lot like the first Neo, but it’s had plenty of upgrades. I'm not a drone guy. In fact, I've always been a bit nervous to play around with them too much. They're big, fragile, and exp...
Witnesses and lawmakers at a foreign affairs hearing blasted the Trump administration’s approval for the sale of Nvidia’s H200 AI chips to China and called for it to reverse the decision, as the White...
If you compare the value proposition of getting one of Remarkable’s Paper Pro E-Ink tablets vs. buying a laptop, the latter will win in most scenarios. Laptops are more capable, with more ports, apps,...
Embark Studios’ Arc Raiders cheater purge is underway, and it seems popular streamer Turner Tenney, a.k.a. Tfue, has found himself in – and back out of – the line of fire. The internet personality, wh...
Verizon was down for tens of thousands of customers for most of the day on January 14, 2026. Paul Squire/Business Insider Over 170,000 Verizon customers reported a service outage on Wednesday. The out...
Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek continues to keep the world guessing on when its next major release – the much-anticipated updates to its V3 and R1 models – will be launched, according t...
Deadhaus Sonata, the indie-developed action-RPG from Legacy of Kain, Eternal Darkness, and Too Human creator Denis Dyack that IGN first revealed in 2018, has "reawakened" with a new trailer and a targ...
Monster Hunter Wilds fans are asking Capcom for answers after one player seemed to discover that PC performance is dictated by the number of DLCs a user has. de_Tylmarande puts their theory plainly: “...
Chinese artificial intelligence firm Zhipu AI said its new image generation model was trained on chips from Huawei Technologies, making it the first powerful open-source model to be developed on an en...
The ripple effects from the RAM shortage have already been resonating throughout the PC industry, but the situation just got even worse for PC gamers. The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti has apparently reached en...
EA and Battlefield Studios have announced the Battlefield 6 Season 2 release date has been delayed as it works to address community feedback with an extended Season 1. The team behind last year’s new ...