On Friday morning, X and Grok went offline for users around the world on both the websites and apps. Outage reports began spiking on DownDetector around 10:00AM ET, while Cisco's ThousandEyes outage m...
Marvel’s Deadpool VR. Meta is laying off about 10 percent of its Reality Labs metaverse division, and the cuts apparently include closing down some of its VR gaming studios. It "appears" Twisted Pixel...
Lenovo is the top PC manufacturer worldwide. The PC market is bracing for a turbulent year ahead , but shipments managed to exceed expectations in the recent holiday quarter. IDC reports that shipment...
I've been trying to get agentic coding to work, but the dissonance between what I'm seeing online and what I'm able to achieve is doing my head in. Is there real evidence, beyond hype, that agentic co...
Generate Podcasts will let you listen to a summary of any documents you don’t have time to read. Adobe has added new generative AI features to Acrobat that aim to help you quickly edit PDFs and summar...
Though Netflix's upcoming Star Search reboot will feature a panel of celebrity judges, viewers are going to have a hand in choosing which contestants win the competition. Ahead of Star Search 's premi...
Spotify wants audiobooks to be on the same page. Spotify appears to be working on a novel feature that will allow audiobook listeners to pick up where they left off in the physical book. Android Autho...
An internal product strategy document outlined Grindr's plans to expand its direct-to-consumer businesses. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Grindr aims to establish four successful direct-to-consumer busine...
Following the proliferation of the nonconsensual sexual deepfakes on X, the platform has detailed changes to the Grok account's ability to edit images of real people. They match the changes reported o...
Learning app Duolingo has 17 million followers on TikTok where its mascot Duo is a social-media celebrity. Isa Foltin/TikTok via Getty Images Social media is more important than ever for US retail sit...
Random access memory, or RAM, is in just about every piece of technology we use. But it’s also the technology that AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta are using to power the se...
An xAI cofounder is shifting into an advisory role after a Lyme disease diagnosis to "go founder mode on my health." Illustration by Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images An xAI cofounder sa...
Hi Everyone, Digital Carrot is a programmable and pluggable app blocker. It lets you block websites and apps on iOS, Mac and Windows until a set of conditions or goal is met. For example you can block...
OP here. Birth of a Mind documents a "recursive self-modeling" experiment I ran on a single day in 2026. I attempted to implement a "Hofstadterian Strange Loop" via prompt engineering to see if I coul...
OpenAI is expanding a low-cost subscription tier called ChatGPT Go to the US and the rest of the world. Go was released in India in August and later became available in another 170 countries prior to ...
I made this for myself, and it seemed like it might be useful to others. I'd love some feedback, both on the threat model and the tool itself. I hope you find it useful! Backstory: I've been using man...
Hi HN! In the past few months my team and I have been working on Tusk Drift, a system that records real API traffic from your service, then replays those requests as deterministic tests. Outbound I/O ...
Hi I’m Chris, one of the co-founders of Shimmer ( https://www.shimmer.care ), and today we’re launching our new app called Indy ( https://www.shimmer.care/indy ). Indy is an ADHD app for structured pl...
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...
Hi HN! Fence wraps any command in a sandbox that blocks network by default and restricts filesystem writes. Useful for running semi-trusted code (package installs, build scripts, unfamiliar repos) wit...