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Meta Is Charging a Subscription for Smart Glasses Features. Welcome to the New Era of Consumer Tech

You bought the hardware. Now you’ll need to subscribe for “expanded access” to the most advanced features.

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Technology Jul 2, 2026

Amazon has enough satellites to launch its Starlink competitor

Amazon says it now has enough satellites operating in low-Earth orbit to light up its Starlink internet competitor. With...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Heat Domes Are Dangerous. July Fourth Activities Will Make Things Worse

Long hours outdoors, day drinking, and World Cup matches are among the factors raising the risks of heat-related illness...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/alphabet-google-android-eu-antitrust-fine-4-1-billion-euro-appeal.html Com...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

We Don't Have to Be This Bad at Improving Society

Article URL: https://kasperjunge.com/blog/we-dont-have-to-be-this-bad-at-improving-society/ Comments URL: https://news....

Technology Jul 2, 2026

The Fall of the Theorem Economy

Article URL: https://davidbessis.substack.com/p/the-fall-of-the-theorem-economy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....

Technology Jul 2, 2026

MarketFish – Simulate a market with 128 AI consumers before you launch

Article URL: https://github.com/Key-wxh/market-fish Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48757500 Points:...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

The gauge broke: devs felt 20% faster with AI, measured 19% slower

Article URL: https://intrepidkarthi.com/writing/the-gauge-broke/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=487...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Indian tech tycoon bets $30M of his own money to build AI alternative to Microsoft Office

Neo is Bhavin Turakhia’s fifth venture and his latest involving enterprise software. This time he's taking on Microsof...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

CursorBench 3.1

Article URL: https://cursor.com/evals Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48756840 Points: 13 # Comments...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot

Article URL: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-01-kimi-k2-7-is-now-available-in-github-copilot/ Comments URL: https...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Show HN: Meow – The 4th and final JavaScript runtime and toolchain

Yes, I said final. Fight me in the comments.But seriously: there are basically exactly 3 serious JS runtimes in the wor...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

A new Android malware from Google

Article URL: https://f-droid.org/2026/07/01/adv-malware.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4875596...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Senior SWE-Bench: open-source benchmark that assesses agents as senior engineers

Article URL: https://senior-swe-bench.snorkel.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48755928 Points: 3...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Bring Back Crappy Forums

Article URL: https://tedium.co/2026/07/01/online-web-forums-retrospective/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Avoiding Fallback in Distributed Systems

Article URL: https://builder.aws.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48755653 Points: 8 # Comments: ...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Fable 5 update: Still willing to cybercrime

Article URL: https://alec.is/posts/fable-5-update-still-willing-to-cybercrime/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

LibreCAD in the Browser

Article URL: https://magik.net/librecad/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48755075 Points: 3 # Commen...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum – Meet Oomwoo

Article URL: https://makerspet.com/blog/building-an-open-source-robot-vacuum-meet-oomwoo/ Comments URL: https://news.yc...

Technology Jul 2, 2026

Billions of doses later: Global review confirms mRNA vaccines safe and effective

Article URL: https://news.ubc.ca/2026/06/mrna-vaccines-are-safe-effective-and-full-of-promise/ Comments URL: https://ne...

Technology Jul 1, 2026

Meta Caps Internal AI Token Spending After Costs Approach Billions in 2026

Article URL: https://mlq.ai/news/meta-caps-internal-ai-token-spending-after-costs-approach-billions-in-2026/ Comments U...

Technology Jul 1, 2026

Apple is reportedly planning new iPad Pro and MacBook Pro releases early next year

Apple is readying several new iPad Pro tablets, and a budget-friendly MacBook Pro, reports suggest.

Technology Jul 1, 2026

The <Usermedia> HTML Element

Article URL: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/usermedia-html-element Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology Jul 1, 2026

The Best July 4 Grill and Griddle Deals: Weber, Traeger, Recteq

Fourth of July weekend is the last great grill and griddle sale of the summer, including $250 off my favorite pellet smo...

Technology Jul 1, 2026

Healthy but Sedentary People Show Early Decline in Cellular Energy Production

Article URL: https://news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories/healthy-but-sedentary-individuals-show-early-decline-in-cellular-...

Technology Jul 1, 2026

Bending Spoons defies SaaS slump, surges 40% on first day of trading

The company has grown rapidly by acquiring and revamping last-generation tech brands like AOL, Eventbrite, Evernote, Mee...

Technology Jul 1, 2026

Apple’s entry-level MacBook Pro could be up for a redesign

Apple is working on a "revamped" version of its entry-level MacBook Pro that it could launch as soon as the first half o...

Technology Jul 1, 2026

The Underhanded C Contest

Article URL: https://underhanded-c.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48754080 Points: 10 # Commen...

Technology Jul 1, 2026

After $18B IPO, Bending Spoons founder says success comes from minimizing luck

The co-founders of Bending Spoons, the Italian company quietly buying beloved, ailing Internet brands, learned big lesso...

Technology Jul 1, 2026

Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance

Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/opening-up-zero-knowledge-proof-technolog...