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Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web

Anthropic’s Claude Cowork is now available on web and mobile for Max subscribers. Until now, Cowork largely lived on a user’s laptop. With the update, users can start a task from their desk, get s...

TechCrunch • Jul 7, 2026 • Rebecca Bellan
Technology Jul 7, 2026

MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released

Article URL: https://github.com/mplsllc/macsurf/releases/tag/v1.86 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Technology Jul 7, 2026

Weighing smoke: why AI visibility dashboards are mostly useless

Article URL: https://betterthangood.xyz/blog/weighing-smoke/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4881995...

Technology Jul 7, 2026

Facing US export controls, China's DeepSeek plans to make its own chips

It's early, but the plan is to reduce dependency on Nvidia and Huawei.

Technology Jul 7, 2026

Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop

Claude’s desktop app is brilliant, but for our own daily work we kept wanting it to be less like a chat app and more ...

Technology Jul 7, 2026

Doom developer id reportedly cut in half as part of Xbox layoffs

As part of the mass layoffs hitting Xbox, Doom developer id Software has laid off around 50 percent of its staff, accord...

Technology Jul 7, 2026

Shut Those Laptops! Anthropic Puts Its Claude Cowork Agent on Your Phone

Claude Cowork now keeps working on tasks even after you close your laptop. It’s part of a larger push toward smartphon...

Technology Jul 7, 2026

30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format

Article URL: https://30papers.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48819608 Points: 21 # Comments: 5...

Technology Jul 7, 2026

Dragonflies maneuver like fighter pilots

Male dragonflies' dramatic aerial combat maneuvers emerge from relatively simple vision-based r...

Technology Jul 7, 2026

Sites that block AI training crawlers mostly ignore the answer time bots

Article URL: https://sitedex.dev/insights/robots-txt-2023-war-memorial Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...

Technology Jul 7, 2026

Better Auth is joining Vercel

Article URL: https://better-auth.com/blog/better-auth-joins-vercel Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Technology Jul 7, 2026

Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler

Article URL: https://pgdog.dev/blog/why-yet-another-connection-pooler Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology Jul 7, 2026

Software Bonkers

Article URL: https://craigmod.com/essays/software_bonkers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48819250 ...

Technology Jul 7, 2026

Microsoft Fire IdTech Team at Id Software

Article URL: https://gamefromscratch.com/microsoft-fire-idtech-team-at-id-software/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

Technology Jul 7, 2026

Midtown Manhattan blocks evacuated after beams buckling at construction site

Article URL: https://abcnews.com/US/midtown-manhattan-blocks-evacuated-after-beams-found-buckling/story?id=134549272 Co...

Technology Jul 7, 2026

Secret Tracker in Claude Code Uncovered, Anthropic Directly Deletes Code

Article URL: https://voi.id/en/technology/583552 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48819084 Points: 7 ...

Technology Jul 7, 2026

X adds a video editor to encourage creators to post original content, not stolen reposts

X is rolling out a new video editor and recorder for iOS with multilingual captions, green screen effects, and other edi...

Technology Jul 7, 2026

Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament

Article URL: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Showdown-in-Strasbourg-The-unexpected-return-of-Chat-Control-1-0-11356680.htm...

Technology Jul 7, 2026

Amazon Without the Knockoffs

Article URL: https://knockoff.shopping/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48818963 Points: 10 # Commen...

Technology Jul 7, 2026

Automating AI Away

Article URL: https://replicated.live/blog/away Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48818937 Points: 4 # ...

Technology Jul 7, 2026

Discord accidentally banned over 8,000 people for posting grids and other ‘benign’ images

Discord says a bug affecting its safety system caused it to mistakenly ban more than 8,000 accounts since May. The platf...

Technology Jul 7, 2026

Chemistry Ventures is raising $500M for its second fund

Chemistry Ventures, the VC firm launched by Bessemer, Index Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz alums, is raising $500M fo...

Technology Jul 7, 2026

The Revenge of the Philosophy Majors

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/business/philosophy-majors-ai-jobs.html Comments URL: https://news.ycom...

Technology Jul 7, 2026

AI law startup Norm raises $120M, hits unicorn valuation

AI law startup Norm has raised a $120 million Series C round led by Khosla Ventures, valuing the startup at $1.2 billion...

Technology Jul 7, 2026

Anker’s noise-blocking earbuds for sleeping are nearly half off

You might have a great bed and a good sleepy time routine, but if you’re still struggling to fall (or stay) asleep, An...

Technology Jul 7, 2026

Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained

Article URL: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/chat-control-overview Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48818...

Technology Jul 7, 2026

Sodium-ion "salt" batteries will revolutionize electric-vehicle and grid storage

Article URL: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2532997-salt-batteries-are-about-to-shake-up-evs-and-grid-storage/ Co...

Technology Jul 7, 2026

Show HN: Halo – open-source, tamper-evident runtime evidence for AI agents

Hi HN, I'm Brian, I spent the last few years at Vanta (YC W18), helping startups and enterprises become compliant and I...

Technology Jul 7, 2026

This startup pits dealerships against each other to bid on your used car

Bidbus, which lets dealerships bid on used cars, has raised $15 million in a Series A round that was led by early-stage ...

Technology Jul 7, 2026

iRobot’s newest floor cleaner isn’t a robot

iRobot just announced its first-ever non-robotic floor cleaner. The $399 Roomba Electro Plus is a 5-in-1 hard-floor clea...