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Moto’s Tag 2 tracker is $20 for a limited time

Announced at CES 2026, the Moto Tag 2 has finally arrived in the US. The Bluetooth tracker with improved battery life over its predecessor, plus UWB sensing for more accurate tracking, is available th...

The Verge • Jun 30, 2026 • Cameron Faulkner
Technology Jun 30, 2026

I built a mmWave material classification radar

Article URL: https://gauthier-lechevalier.com/radar Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48736137 Points:...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Netflix is using an AI-generated Gene Wilder voice in its Willy Wonka reality show

A new teaser trailer confirmed that Wonka's The Golden Ticket will premiere on Netflix on September 23rd, following its ...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Claude Science

Article URL: https://claude.com/product/claude-science Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48735770 Poin...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Supreme Court takes sledgehammer to federal regulatory structure

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/06/29/nx-s1-5875161/supreme-court-takes-sledgehammer-to-much-of-federal-governmen...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Rockstar workers push to unionize ahead of GTA VI’s launch

Workers at Grand Theft Auto VI developer Rockstar Games have submitted a request for their union, the IWGB Game Workers ...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Google’s killing off Tenor GIF searches in other apps

The GIF-picking interfaces in some of your favorite online platforms might look different going forward, as Google prepa...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Anthropic’s Claude Science bets on workflow, not a new model, to win over scientists

Anthropic's Claude Science is a workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research, saving the...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Threads adds new features to Live Chats as it expands access

The updates include translations, new tools for hosts, and more.

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Xbox weighs canceling Blade game and shuttering Arkane

Microsoft is set to announce a wave of layoffs for its Xbox studios and employees next week. Sources familiar with Micro...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Trump's plan to redesign every .gov website leads to AI-designed horrors

A year in, National Design Studio delays plan to update government web standards. ...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works

Article URL: https://unix.foo/posts/last-people-who-know-how-it-works/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Xsnow "protestware" in Debian

Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1079385/3d7a57da58b41aa9/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Show HN: My 13-year-old built an ant colony tracker

He's 13 years old. He wanted to track his own ant colonies — growth, feeding, humidity, and other metrics. He built t...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Nano Banana 2 Lite

Article URL: https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-image/flash-lite/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Crypto firms have spent $189M so far on 2026 US election, report says

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/crypto-firms-have-spent-189-million-so-far-2026-us-election-report-says-2026...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Anthropic has embedded hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code

Article URL: https://twitter.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2071971609183678544 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

EU commissioners shut down air conditioning for employees, leave theirs on

Article URL: https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-commission-heatwave-hq-forced-shut-down-air-conditioning-europe/ Commen...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Blue Origin still doesn’t know why its New Glenn rocket blew up last month

But the company is still claiming that New Glenn will return to flight this year.

Technology Jun 30, 2026

BMW iX5 Blows Away the Competition with 460-KW Charging, 435-Mile Range

Article URL: https://insideevs.com/news/800125/bmw-ix5-neue-klasse-ev-electric-suv/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

County with 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to 'Conserve Electricity'

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/henrico-virginia-datacenter-energy-cost-email/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

The Bose Soundlink Max is $120 off ahead of the July 4th weekend

The Bose Soundlink Max is usually $399, but has been on steep discount this week at Amazon, Best Buy, and directly from ...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

The US going 100% EV by 2040 would save more than 100k lives, study says

Much of it comes from heavy-duty trucks and buses that burn diesel.

Technology Jun 30, 2026

What is a quantum computer good for? Absolutely nothing — yet

To this day, we have yet to see a quantum computer conclusively perform a single useful task. Existing machines are simp...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don't Exist

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/scammers-sell-seeds-for-exotic-ai-generated-flowers-that-dont-exist/ Comments URL:...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests

Article URL: https://thereallo.dev/blog/claude-code-prompt-steganography Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Trump asked Musk for SpaceX stock to seed US kids’ savings accounts, report says

Sources suggest Musk may be mulling big donation to Trump Accounts.

Technology Jun 30, 2026

The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level

Article URL: https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/06/the-post-covid-decline-in-the-labor-share/ Comments ...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Tesla starts testing Cybercab without pedals or a steering wheel in Austin

The company may finally be ready to try to deliver on Elon Musk's years-long promise of launching a robotaxi network of ...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Libby will filter out AI content, kind of

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated...