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Colorado and California Exempt Open Source from Age Attestation

Article URL: https://system76.com/blog/post/co-and-ca-exempt-open-source-from-age-attestation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287007 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

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Trump admin wants nuclear startups to use plutonium for their reactors

The U.S. government is sitting on dozens of tons of weapons-grade plutonium. It's hoping startups can find a use for it.

Technology May 26, 2026

DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search

Google overhauled Search at I/O 2026, replacing blue links with AI agents. The backlash has been swift. DuckDuckGo app i...

Technology May 26, 2026

Is Peter Thiel the target of Pope Leo's Gandalf quote? An investigation.

Parsing a papal proclamation.

Technology May 26, 2026

NASA’s permanent Moon base plans start with three missions this year

On Tuesday, NASA announced several upcoming lunar missions to the Moon's South Pole region. These missions will pave the...

Technology May 26, 2026

From Rust to Ruby

Article URL: https://xlii.space/eng/from-rust-to-ruby/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48286561 Poin...

Technology May 26, 2026

Bouncy Castle Communism Is the Solution

Article URL: https://www.laborpolitics.com/p/bouncy-castle-communism Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology May 26, 2026

Musk says US military suicide drones used Starlink in violation of SpaceX rules

Musk says drones used Starlink instead of Starshield, blames military contractor. ...

Technology May 26, 2026

Phloto for My Photo Flow

Article URL: https://cceckman.com/writing/phloto/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48286028 Points: 3...

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Starship’s path to reusability looks murky after SpaceX’s S-1

Musk has said that Starship is the key to keeping Starlink's costs under control, even saying that SpaceX could go bankr...

Technology May 26, 2026

NASA takes steps toward building Moon Base, including discussing a "perimeter"

"We also obviously want to be very mindful of the Outer Space Treaty."

Technology May 26, 2026

We're starting to see some PC makers respond to Apple's MacBook Neo

Sub-$600 laptops have existed for years, but consistently good ones remain rare. ...

Technology May 26, 2026

Why the Vatican Invited Anthropic to the Pope’s AI Encyclical Presentation

Pope Leo’s first encyclical marks an unprecedented alliance between the Church and Silicon Valley.

Technology May 26, 2026

Big Tech's Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

Article URL: https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943 Comments URL: https:...

Technology May 26, 2026

There are now more ETFs than stocks in the US

Article URL: https://www.apollo.com/wealth/the-daily-spark/more-etfs-than-stocks Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator...

Technology May 26, 2026

What Pope Leo XIV’s First Encyclical Says About the Power of AI

In Magnifica Humanitas, the Pope decries the concentration of technological power in a few global players.

Technology May 26, 2026

The worst job interview I ever had

Article URL: https://www.oliverio.dev/blog/the-worst-job-interview-i-had Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology May 26, 2026

Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package

"BadHost" was found in Starlette, a package with 325 million weekly downloads. ...

Technology May 26, 2026

DeepSWE: A contamination-free benchmark for long-horizon coding agents

Article URL: https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/blog Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284939 Points: 26 #...

Technology May 26, 2026

Chemistry behind the Garden Grove chemical tank

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/methyl-methacrylate-tank Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....

Technology May 26, 2026

The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters

Article URL: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-strange-melancholy-of-slaying-monsters/ Comments URL: https://news....

Technology May 26, 2026

Google Health is here, but a lot of people want their Fitbit app back instead

The Fitbit app is no more. Along with the launch of the new Fitbit Air (which you can expect a full review of once we've...

Technology May 26, 2026

GE’s nugget ice maker is nearly half off if you buy it refurbished

If you’re looking for ways to make staying cool and hydrated easier this summer, Woot is currently selling a refurbish...

Technology May 26, 2026

SpaceX’s Starlink nabs American Airlines contract, another win for its IPO

American Airlines said Tuesday it plans to install Starlink on more than 500 Airbus aircraft, the latest carrier win for...

Technology May 26, 2026

Modern Blu-ray drives can now rip GameCube, Wii, and Xbox 360 games to PC

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/modern-blu-ray-drives-can-now-rip-gamecube-wii-and...

Technology May 26, 2026

Stop Advertising in Your Commits

Article URL: https://akselmo.dev/posts/stop-advertising-in-your-commits/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology May 26, 2026

OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year

OpenRouter has raised a $113 million Series B led by CapitalG. Its 5x growth in usage over six months indicates the mult...

Technology May 26, 2026

Want an oxygen-rich atmosphere? Stuff oxygen’s friends in the mantle.

Getting carbon and sulfur into Earth’s interior may be part of oxygen’s story. ...

Technology May 26, 2026

AltTab.app makes free features paid, drops old releases

Article URL: https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos/discussions/5533 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology May 26, 2026

FBI agent explains how easy it is to ID people posting AI porn without consent

A creepy saved post on Instagram linked man to AI porn account, FBI says.