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Katalyst's satellite rescue mission is now in pursuit of NASA's Swift

It will take several weeks for the Link spacecraft to rendezvous with NASA's Swift observatory.

Ars Technica • Jul 6, 2026 • Stephen Clark
Technology Jul 6, 2026

If you use Google, you’re training its AI. Here’s how to opt out.

PSA: A change to Google's privacy settings let it train its AI on more of your data. Here's how to opt out.

Technology Jul 6, 2026

The Supreme Court Just Lit a Fuse Under Flock's License Plate Camera Empire

Article URL: https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/supreme-court-just-lit-fuse-130900307.html Comments URL: http...

Technology Jul 6, 2026

OfficeCLI: Office suite for AI agents to read and edit Microsoft Office files

Article URL: https://github.com/iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48807225 Points:...

Technology Jul 6, 2026

Secret Claude tracker shocks users after Anthropic’s anti-surveillance stance

Anthropic accused of spying on users; engineer says “experiment” is over. ...

Technology Jul 6, 2026

Stealth robotics startup (YC S26) is hiring principal engineers (Palo Alto)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48806976 Points: 0 # Comments: 0

Technology Jul 6, 2026

Former Xbox studios Double Fine and Compulsion will keep games after going indie

Microsoft is spinning off four of its Xbox game studios - Compulsion Games, Double Fine Productions, Ninja Theory, and U...

Technology Jul 6, 2026

Apple brings back card payments for Apple Account purchases in India after a four-year hiatus

Apple has started a phased rollout of card payments for Apple Account purchases in India after adapting to the country's...

Technology Jul 6, 2026

Orasort: 5x faster column-sorting with an expired patent from Oracle

Article URL: https://deepsystemstuff.com/how-oracles-secret-column-sorting-technique-became-public-after-its-patent-exp...

Technology Jul 6, 2026

Show HN: Pulpie – Models for Cleaning the Web

Hey HN, I'm Shreyash, founder of Feyn. We built Pulpie, a family of Pareto optimal models for cleaning the web. Pulpie ...

Technology Jul 6, 2026

Union Busters Coming After Me

Article URL: https://www.nlrbedge.com/p/union-busters-coming-after-me Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology Jul 6, 2026

The incredible shrinking Xbox: Five studios, 3,200 employees let go

Move affects ~20% of the gaming division, which will refocus on its biggest franchises. ...

Technology Jul 6, 2026

I spy

I've long argued that Hollywood has simultaneously set and ruined our expectations for smart glasses. But after binge-wa...

Technology Jul 6, 2026

Kani: A Model Checker for Rust

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01504 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48806410 Points: 3 # C...

Technology Jul 6, 2026

F1 in Britain: Automated software to blame for crushing expectations

Sometimes races finish behind a safety car, but it's not always satisfying. ...

Technology Jul 6, 2026

The AI Superforecasters Are Here

Article URL: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-ai-superforecasters-are-here Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c...

Technology Jul 6, 2026

Should DayQuil Be Legal?

Article URL: https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/should-dayquil-be-legal Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology Jul 6, 2026

Eternal Software Initiative Based on Subleq One-Instruction-Set Computer

Article URL: https://github.com/adriancable/eternal Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48806156 Points:...

Technology Jul 6, 2026

Car touchscreens are cheap, not good

Article URL: https://ben.stolovitz.com/posts/car-touchscreens-are-cheap-not-good/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinato...

Technology Jul 6, 2026

1k Words: A Writing Contest

Article URL: https://writingclub.world/1picture1000words Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48806073 Po...

Technology Jul 6, 2026

Electric anti-aircraft interceptor drone breaks world air speed record at 434mph

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/electric-drone-breaks-world-air-speed-record-at-434-mph-...

Technology Jul 6, 2026

CS2 Fog Of War: Server-sided anti-wallhack occlusion culling for CS2 servers

Article URL: https://github.com/karola3vax/CS2FOW Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48805965 Points: 1...

Technology Jul 6, 2026

Reddit is using LLMs to solve a problem LLMs largely created

In the AI era, platforms have no choice but to fight fire with fire to cull spam.

Technology Jul 6, 2026

There were not one, but two asteroid encounters this weekend

The Torifune asteroid turns out to be shaped like a peanut.

Technology Jul 6, 2026

The DJI Osmo Pocket 3 lookalike is down to $329

Initially, I was going to tell you about a good deal happening on the DJI Osmo Pocket 3, which is down from the $500 itâ...

Technology Jul 6, 2026

Microsoft lays off nearly 5,000 employees across Xbox, commercial sales

Microsoft cut around 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, on Monday — the latest in a series of layoffs thatâ...

Technology Jul 6, 2026

Multilingual Experience Linked to Delayed Aging in Populations and Individuals

Article URL: https://fens2026.abstractserver.com/program/#/details/presentations/5474 Comments URL: https://news.ycombi...

Technology Jul 6, 2026

Google Chrome Installed a 4GB AI Model on Your PC

Article URL: https://oztalking.com/en/issues/hidden-4gb-ai-model Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=488...

Technology Jul 6, 2026

AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit

Article URL: https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/07/06/amd-ryzen-ai-halo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Technology Jul 6, 2026

Do you really need separate systems when you already have Postgres?

Article URL: https://postgresisenough.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48805564 Points: 7 # Comm...