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Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-28/advent-stripe-consortium-is-said-to-drop-pursuit-of-paypal Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49473483 Points: 6 # Comm...

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Technology Aug 28, 2026

The GTA VI ‘extended look’ is now streaming on YouTube

Rockstar has officially published its "extended look" at Grand Theft Auto VI on YouTube and on its website, as promised....

Technology Aug 28, 2026

Terminal-Bench-Science: Evaluating AI agents on scientific research workflows

Article URL: https://www.terminal-bench-science.ai/announcement Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4947...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

The biggest video game of all time looks like a movie

I think I know why Rockstar Games debuted its "extended look" of Grand Theft Auto VI on Netflix instead of immediately d...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

The Twelve-Factor App (2025)

Article URL: https://12factor.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49472216 Points: 274 # Comments: ...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

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Article URL: https://pfrazee.leaflet.pub/3mu3p2smmis22 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49472161 Poin...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal

https://web.archive.org/web/20260826205502/https://www.newsc...https://archive.ph/zahjc Comments URL: https://news.yco...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world

Standardized driver interface aims to let devices talk to AI and each other. ...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance

Article URL: https://github.com/elyosh/OpenTIE/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49471965 Points: 5 #...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

AI Engineer Notebooks – free, framework-free RAG/agents/evals on Colab

Article URL: https://github.com/calmrocks/ai-engineer-notebooks Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4947...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Meta addresses ‘pervert glasses’ reputation with a privacy fix and a new marketing campaign

Meta is updating its AI-powered smart glasses to close a loophole that allowed wearers to keep recording after covering ...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

6 Takeaways From the GTA VI Extended Look

Grand Theft Auto VI is nigh. Here’s what the developer revealed about its highly anticipated game.

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Show HN: We built open OpenRouter that turns usage into a better model

Hi HN, we built an open source model gateway. It's a single place to manage our own self hosted, frontier, and open sou...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

AI Agents Are Hacking Systems. Could That Push the US and China to Cooperate?

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” senior writer Will Knight talks his recent visit to China and the future of AI collab...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says

xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.

Technology Aug 27, 2026

$900M paid out to end wind farm project going to firm run by Mar-a-Lago neighbor

Article URL: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-windfarm-money-neighbors-florida-b3040...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Meta Paid $17B – Gets to Write Safety Rules for Other SocMedia Platform

Article URL: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/26/meta-just-paid-nearly-17-billion-to-make-sure-it-gets-to-write-the-kid...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Rivian’s CFO is leaving the company

Claire McDonough is stepping down on October 30 to pursue a new opportunity, the company said in a filing on Thursday.

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Bluesky adds an ‘algorithmic opt-out’ feature for those who don’t want to go viral

Sometimes people just want to post to their followers, Bluesky says.

Technology Aug 27, 2026

GOP heads to Supreme Court after losing case over TV election ad prices

GOP campaign committees want quick ruling before election ads ramp up next week. ...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Buried in Meta’s $18B settlement is a legal pass on kids’ data

Meta’s settlement with 29 states allows it to retain certain data from children under 13 to train and test age-detecti...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Silicon Valley is in denial in face of widespread backlash

Article URL: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/with-the-backlash-to-data-centers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion

Nvidia is nabbing critical infrastructure for open models as interest grows. ...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

YouTube now lets creators tag Amazon products and earn commissions from purchases

The update turns product recommendations into a more direct revenue stream for creators, and for Amazon, the move puts i...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google

Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup's CTO, led a brief stint...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

GTA VI looks just as great as we could hope for

Netflix and Rockstar Games finally debuted their "extended look" at Grand Theft Auto VI. It showed that the new game loo...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Google’s AI note-taking app now allows you to interact with books

Google's AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, can now pull information from the books you've purchased. The new "Expert ...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Google Engineer Accused of Polymarket Insider Trading Says He Was Just ‘Gambling’

Michele Spagnuolo was arrested for alleged insider trading on Polymarket, but the Switzerland-based engineer says he was...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Benchmarking Pocket-Scale Inference

Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/hardware-inference-stack/mobile-phones Comments URL: https://news.ycombinato...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable”

Tech industry is perplexed by Trump’s plan to win AI race by taxing data centers. ...