Technology

Hands-On With Gemini Spark: I Gave It Access to My Life and It Friend-Zoned My Boyfriend

Google's new AI agent combed through my emails, documents, and calendar to plan a birthday party and still didn’t clock the person most important to me.

Wired May 29, 2026 Reece Rogers
Technology May 29, 2026

On Rendering Diffs

Article URL: https://pierre.computer/writing/on-rendering-diffs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4832...

Technology May 29, 2026

Acer’s launching a Linux handheld for streaming your PC games

The Acer Nitro Blaze Link might run on Linux, but it's no Steam Deck. Acer says it's a "streaming-first handheld and com...

Technology May 29, 2026

Botnet of more than 17 million devices dismantled

The botnet was reportedly tied to a Russia-based residential proxy network. ...

Technology May 29, 2026

Decades of Effort Restore Steelhead and Salmon Passage on Alameda Creek

Article URL: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/decades-effort-restore-steelhead-and-salmon-passage-californi...

Technology May 29, 2026

Analysis of Texas measles outbreak shows just how dangerous virus is

About 1 in 5 cases were hospitalized and most of those developed complications. ...

Technology May 29, 2026

Rothko for your current weather conditions

Article URL: https://rothko.joonas.wtf/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327367 Points: 11 # Commen...

Technology May 29, 2026

AI will be used to estimate age of asylum seekers from next year

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3pe36qe7ro Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=483272...

Technology May 29, 2026

House of the Dragon S3 trailer revels in dragons, fire, and blood

"The crown is a weight that crushes. You'll do things that spell death for all involved." ...

Technology May 29, 2026

Trump FCC warns all broadcasters to follow orders or be punished like ABC

ABC says early renewal for all stations is unprecedented, has no legitimate purpose. ...

Technology May 29, 2026

What happens when companies become too AI-pilled?

The people deciding that AI can replace your job are also the ones least likely to understand what your job truly invol...

Technology May 29, 2026

SQLite is all you need for durable workflows

Article URL: https://obeli.sk/blog/sqlite-is-all-you-need-for-durable-workflows/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator...

Technology May 29, 2026

What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/2205e2d0-50dc-4e80-9bf7-78d0272276c0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

Technology May 29, 2026

Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/robinhood-now-lets-your-ai-agents-trade-stocks/ Comments URL: https://ne...

Technology May 29, 2026

DOJ sues states that rejected ICE requests for undercover license plates

DOJ keeps accusing ICE monitoring sites of doxing, but evidence remains scarce. ...

Technology May 29, 2026

To see to it that the forces of Napoleon are driven out of Spain (1809)

https://cns.gatech.edu/CNS/GTaccountProcs.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326561 Points: 5 # ...

Technology May 29, 2026

Tech companies desperately want to film you doing chores

This week, an AI training startup called Shift said it would clean New Yorkers' homes for free. It has plans to expand i...

Technology May 29, 2026

After Nvidia’s $20B not-aqui-hire, AI chip startup Groq reportedly raising $650M

Chipmaker Groq is looking to raise $650 million in internal funding as it pivots from hardware to focus more on AI infer...

Technology May 29, 2026

Microsoft under fire for threatening security researcher with criminal investigation

A public spat between Microsoft and an independent security researcher reopens a long-running debate over who is respons...

Technology May 29, 2026

Microsoft delays Fable (again) to avoid GTA VI

Microsoft has delayed its upcoming Fable reboot once again. The game was set to launch in autumn 2026, but Microsoft now...

Technology May 29, 2026

Rsync maintainer starts uses Claude, regressions mount

Article URL: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@JeremiahFieldhaven/116654345332213390 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat...

Technology May 29, 2026

Show HN: TV Explorer. Adding advanced UI to free online TV

Article URL: https://tvexplorer.live Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325624 Points: 13 # Comments:...

Technology May 29, 2026

We Asked the ‘Future of Truth’ Author to Explain How He Used AI. It Didn’t Go Well

A book about how AI shapes perceptions of reality came under fire for using AI-generated quotes. Its problems go beyond ...

Technology May 29, 2026

Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris

Article URL: https://koenvangilst.nl/lab/mistral-ai-now-summit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325...

Technology May 29, 2026

Microsoft teases new Surface hardware and ‘a new era of PC’

I pondered the other day what's next for Microsoft's Surface PC lineup, and it looks like we're about to find out. Windo...

Technology May 29, 2026

Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T

Article URL: https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-8b-a1b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325306 Point...

Technology May 29, 2026

Startup offers free home cleaning—if it can record it all for robot training

The latest twist in paying humans to wear head cameras for robot training data. ...

Technology May 29, 2026

Cognition’s Scott Wu says AI coding agents shouldn’t replace humans

Cognition makes Devin, the first and arguably most successful AI coding agent. But famed coder Wu says it isn't designed...

Technology May 29, 2026

After years of stability, F1 reliability can no longer be taken for granted

Until recently, a driver had maybe a six in ten chance of finishing a race. ...

Technology May 29, 2026

CAPTCHAs can still detect AI agents

Article URL: https://research.roundtable.ai/captchas-detect-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4832...