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Ten months later, the $100 Google Home Speaker is finally available for preorder
Google's new smart speaker is more about Gemini than audio quality.
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Jun 17, 2026
Towers once planned for California shuttle launches leveled for SpaceX rockets
"Space Launch Complex-6 represents six decades of American innovation."
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Jun 17, 2026
We got free GTA V upgrades before GTA VI
Rockstar Games will allow players to upgrade older versions of Grand Theft Auto V to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X / S...
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Jun 17, 2026
SanDisk’s new PlayStation 5 SSD will cost you more than three PS5 Pros
SanDisk has announced an expensive way to boost the PlayStation 5's storage capacity. The company's new Optimus GX PRO 8...
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Jun 17, 2026
TREX: An AI code reviewer that runs your code
Article URL: https://www.greptile.com/blog/trex-code-execution Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571...
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Jun 17, 2026
Agentic coding deserves more than a chat box bolted onto VS Code
Article URL: https://github.com/evanklem/polypore Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571811 Points: 1...
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Jun 17, 2026
The slowtech revolution is here to kill your phone addiction and rescue your attention span
“People just really want to take back control of their time, their lives, their attention... They’re down for whatev...
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Jun 17, 2026
French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/french-physicist-and-media-star-loses-doctorate-after-plagiarism-i...
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Jun 17, 2026
Anthropic employees accuse Trump administration of targeting them
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/technology/anthropic-trump-administration-fable.html Comments URL: http...
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Jun 17, 2026
"Truly evil" FDA rejection of gene therapy overturned after Trump official ousted
Gene therapy company UniQure had another FDA meeting after Vinay Prasad's exit. ...
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Jun 17, 2026
Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users
Article URL: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/35949-volkswagen-app?page=3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it...
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Jun 17, 2026
Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it.
If physical AI is going to match the accomplishments of LLMs, there's a data problem that needs to be solved.
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Jun 17, 2026
Why stdx is not on crates.io
Article URL: https://kerkour.com/stdx-cratesio Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571266 Points: 4 # ...
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Jun 17, 2026
Epic Games announces Lore version control system
Article URL: https://lore.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571081 Points: 49 # Comments: 30
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Jun 17, 2026
In a big year for horror, Widow’s Bay still stands apart
Horror is having a moment. In 2026, the genre is especially well-represented: new blood is dominating the box office thr...
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Jun 17, 2026
Paramount Plus is two dollars for two months of ad-free viewing
Paramount Plus is offering new and former subscribers a discounted rate until June 25th, 2026. You’ll pay 99 cents per...
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Jun 17, 2026
Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress (1.5mil users)
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/pentagon-boasts-of-using-ai-to-write-reports-mandated-by-congress/ Comm...
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Jun 17, 2026
AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less
Article URL: https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-demands-more-engineering-discipline Comments URL: https://news.yco...
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Jun 17, 2026
Pramaana Labs raises $27M seed round from Khosla Ventures to bring formal verification to AI
Pramaana will focus on highly sensitive verticals like law, drug discovery, and tax preparation — where errors can be ...
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Jun 17, 2026
ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants' Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/ice-appears-to-be-buying-immigrants-tax-identifiers-from-a-data-broker/ Comments U...
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Jun 17, 2026
How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart
Article URL: https://arun.is/blog/jr-logo/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570730 Points: 111 # Co...
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Jun 17, 2026
In Toy Story 5, the problem really is these damn phones (and tablets)
The Toy Story franchise began with a story about a vintage doll feeling threatened by the arrival of an electronic actio...
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Jun 17, 2026
How to find the best deals during Amazon’s Prime Day sale
Amazon’s Prime Day is one of the biggest shopping events of the year, and the four-day sale for 2026 begins June 23rd ...
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Jun 17, 2026
SpaceX alum nabs $22M to turn rocket engines into geothermal power plants
Critical Energy is turning rocket engines into geothermal power plants, and it wants to build 300 GW per year by 2045.
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Jun 17, 2026
AI search grounded in Facebook posts? What could go wrong?
AI is pretty reliable at putting things on your calendar these days, but it hasn't quite cracked answering the related a...
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Jun 17, 2026
The best Apple deals you can already get ahead of Prime Day
Amazon’s Prime Day sale kicks off on June 23rd, but already we’re seeing some notable Apple deals trickle in. Wh...
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Jun 17, 2026
Want your images back? Sure... That'll be $5!
Article URL: https://www.lutr.dev/want-your-images-back-sure-that-ll-be-5-dollars Comments URL: https://news.ycombinato...
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Jun 17, 2026
A Google ad penalty halved our revenue; fixing it meant becoming a publisher
Article URL: https://www.scrumpoker-online.org/en/blog/recovering-from-a-google-ad-penalty/ Comments URL: https://news....
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Jun 17, 2026
Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone
Article URL: https://www.thesignalist.io/s/the-dialogue-dividend/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48...
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Jun 17, 2026
The Gemini-Powered Google Home Speaker Is Finally Here
Arriving six years after Google’s last smart speaker, the new HomePod-style device was redesigned to play host to Gemi...