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AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative?

WindBorne Systems has raised $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts.

TechCrunch • Aug 5, 2026 • Tim Fernholz
Technology Aug 5, 2026

Saudi Aramco backs India’s Mitti Labs to make Asia’s rice farming more water-resilient

Mitti Labs plans to expand beyond India and enter the Philippines and Indonesia while growing its carbon credits and agr...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

No One Can Afford to Make ‘Myst’ Games Anymore

“Myst” sold over 6 million copies in the ’90s. Its latest sequel couldn’t shore up any funding, pointing to an e...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

No Data Centers in My Backyard

Article URL: https://jasmi.news/p/no-data-centers-in-my-backyard Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=491...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Viral Mugshot Accounts Are Ruining Women’s Lives

Mugshawtys and similar pages often frame mugshots as thirst traps. The women featured are humiliated and are sometimes h...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Trump’s AI testing plan is limited and vague

The Trump administration's framework for assessing potential cybersecurity risks posed by advanced AI reportedly has no ...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Making difficulty curves in games

Article URL: http://www.davetech.co.uk/difficultycurves Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49180649 Poi...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

The software group Palantir paid just £2M in corporation tax in the UK in 2024

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/05/palantir-corporation-tax-uk-2024-accounting-practices C...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Helsinki Hacker News Meetup

Article URL: https://calpaterson.com/helsinki-hn.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49180407 Point...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

A New Device Eases One of the Most Annoying Parts of Routine Physicals

Nobody likes getting a swab shoved up their nose. A startup in Japan has developed a much less intrusive system.

Technology Aug 5, 2026

The AI Notetaker Has Been Invited to All the Meetings

Wispr Flow, a popular dictation tool, has released a live notetaker that transcribes and summarizes meetings. It joins a...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Ted Lasso returns at an important time for Apple TV

2026 is shaping up to be an excellent year for Apple TV. Apple's streaming service has built out an impressive slate tha...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

SpaceX is coming for T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon

SpaceX is preparing to build a terrestrial mobile network to "acquire quite a few" of the customers now subscribed to T-...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

The Sound and Music of 'Hyper Light Drifter' [video]

Article URL: https://gdcvault.com/play/1024135/The-Sound-and-Music-of Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy

Article URL: https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/08/05/rust-langrust-is-adopting-an-llm-policy/ Comments URL: h...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

The sale of Electronic Arts has been finalized

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjejyl34345o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49178702...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.29377 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49178608 Points: 3 # C...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

An SLM trained on $8 ESP32-S3

Article URL: https://github.com/Carloscodix/qapla Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49178464 Points: 6...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

The auto industry is building for a past that's never coming back

Article URL: https://www.wardsauto.com/news/the-auto-industry-is-building-for-a-past-thats-never-coming-back/825594/ Co...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product Are Restricted

Article URL: https://www.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2026080416131786841 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Gallium: Why the US Cannot Produce Precision Missiles and Fully-Functional F-35s

Article URL: https://sonar21.com/the-galling-gallium-chokehold-why-the-us-cannot-produce-precision-missiles-and-fully-f...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04221 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176983 Points: 7 # C...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Bugtraq Is Back

Article URL: https://lists.securityfocus.com/hyperkitty/list/bugtraq@securityfocus.com/thread/CHKLXLA7SJEWLDFHWXB3QU57A...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Flowise Is Shutting Down

Article URL: https://flowiseai.com/sunset Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176920 Points: 8 # Comme...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

AI Influencers Are Heading Into Uncharted Territory

Some creators fear the EU AI Act’s regulatory chaos will upend their lucrative businesses. Others are owning it by inc...

Technology Aug 4, 2026

Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI

Article URL: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3807963 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176830 Po...

Technology Aug 4, 2026

IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay

Article URL: https://mysk.blog/2026/08/04/webkit-proxy-icloud-private-relay-ip-leak/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombin...

Technology Aug 4, 2026

Pass the Passkey: A Novel Attack Surface in Passwordless Authentication

Article URL: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/passwordless-authentication-security-risks/ Comments URL: https://news...

Technology Aug 4, 2026

FIPS 140-3 is not a security guarantee, and auditors know it

Article URL: https://808bits.com/articles/fips-140-3-not-a-security-guarantee/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c...

Technology Aug 4, 2026

Don’t screw this up, Marvel

In less than a week, Spider-Man: Brand New Day raked in $1 billion worldwide and had the biggest box office opening week...