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Leaked images reveal Xbox Elite 3 controller with mysterious new buttons

Hours after a smaller Xbox Cloud Gaming controller appeared online, Brazil's Anatel regulator has also accidentally published images of what appears to be Microsoft's upcoming Xbox Elite 3 controller....

The Verge May 14, 2026 Tom Warren
Technology May 14, 2026

Minimal Structures

Article URL: https://chefcinnamon.github.io/memo/posts/minimal-structures/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Technology May 14, 2026

Lovable just backed a company that’s looking to bring vibe coding to hardware

Hardware company Atech raised $800,000 in pre-seed funding, including from a16z’s scout fund, Sequoia Scout Fund, and ...

Technology May 14, 2026

Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet

Article URL: https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/exploiting-the-tesla-wall-connector-from-its-charge-port-connect...

Technology May 14, 2026

New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references

Article URL: https://twitter.com/tdietterich/status/2055000956144935055 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

Technology May 14, 2026

An Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta

Meta employees in the US and UK are organizing against corporate software that tracks workers’ keystrokes and mouse ac...

Technology May 14, 2026

Cerebras IPO makes billions for Benchmark but VC Eric Vishria almost didn’t take the meeting

Benchmark almost never backs hardware startups. So Eric Vishria dragged his feet ten years ago before agreeing to hear ...

Technology May 14, 2026

Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt

Article URL: https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/amazonbot-respecting-robots-txt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/...

Technology May 14, 2026

RISC-V Router

Article URL: https://router.start9.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140541 Points: 5 # Comment...

Technology May 14, 2026

Work with Codex from Anywhere

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/work-with-codex-from-anywhere/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology May 14, 2026

OpenAI’s Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

OpenAI is going to let users access Codex, its desktop AI tool that can write code and use apps on your computer, from t...

Technology May 14, 2026

What happens when AI starts building itself?

Richard Socher's new $650 million startup wants to build an AI that can research and improve itself indefinitely — and...

Technology May 14, 2026

Meta’s summer sale drops Ray-Ban’s new smart glasses to record-low prices

If you’ve been curious about Ray-Ban’s Meta smart glasses, right now they’re on sale in Meta’s biggest deal even...

Technology May 14, 2026

Cell phone users can't stop incriminating themselves

People confide almost everything to their phones.

Technology May 14, 2026

Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers

Town’s 49,000 California residents compete with Nevada data centers for energy. ...

Technology May 14, 2026

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Backs KDE with €1.3M

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/oses/2026/05/14/kde-bags-13m-as-europe-realizes-it-might-need-an-os-of-its-own...

Technology May 14, 2026

OpenAI is reportedly preparing legal action against Apple; it wouldn’t be the first partner to feel burned

According to Bloomberg, OpenAI has enlisted an outside law firm to work through its options.

Technology May 14, 2026

Green Card Holders Targeted for Deportation by New 'Removal Apparatus'

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/us/politics/green-cards-immigration-deportation-trump.html Comments URL...

Technology May 14, 2026

Clawdmeter turns your Claude Code usage stats into a tiny desktop dashboard

A new open source gadget called Clawdmeter turns Claude Code usage stats into a tiny desktop dashboard for AI coding pow...

Technology May 14, 2026

Trump’s Tech Posse in China, Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman, and Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories

Today on Uncanny Valley, we discuss how Donald Trump’s visit to China could influence conversations between world lead...

Technology May 14, 2026

WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward

Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/discussions/11096 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

Technology May 14, 2026

Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses

Microsoft first started opening up access to Claude Code in December, inviting thousands of its own developers to use An...

Technology May 14, 2026

Early Memorial Day Tech Deals: Sony, Apple, Beats (2026)

Lots of our most-recommended headphones, power banks, and other gadgets are on sale for Memorial Day.

Technology May 14, 2026

Linux devs are fighting the new age-gated internet

In January, Colorado lawmakers introduced a proposal to make operating systems collect users' ages and pass them to app ...

Technology May 14, 2026

YouTube viewers watch 2 billion hours of Shorts on TVs each month

Short-form video is built for mobile, so it may seem counterintuitive, but it's true: YouTube Shorts are becoming quite ...

Technology May 14, 2026

AMD promises to bring improved, hardware-backed FSR 4 upscaling to older Radeon GPUs

FSR 4.1 running on RDNA3 or RDNA2 GPUs may take a bigger performance hit.

Technology May 14, 2026

German intelligence offices snub Palantir software

Article URL: https://www.dw.com/en/german-intelligence-offices-snub-us-based-palantir-software/a-77160897 Comments URL:...

Technology May 14, 2026

Judge probes whether Musk settlement with Trump admin is tainted by corruption

Trump admin wants to let Musk pay $1.5M fine to settle $150 million Twitter suit. ...

Technology May 14, 2026

The AI Zombification of Universities

Article URL: https://www.thenewcritic.com/p/the-great-zombification Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology May 14, 2026

The Power of a Free Popsicle (2018)

Article URL: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/power-free-popsicle Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...