Technology

US renewable boom passes key milestone in April

Small-scale solar helped renewables nearly triple coal generation on the US grid.

Ars Technica • Jun 29, 2026 • John Timmer
Technology Jun 29, 2026

Supreme Court ruling guts government’s use of geofence warrants

SCOTUS falls short of deeming geofence warrants unconstitutional, though.

Technology Jun 29, 2026

Segmenting Robot Video into Actionable Subtasks

Article URL: https://macrodata.co/blog/annotating-robot-video-subtasks Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...

Technology Jun 29, 2026

Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Support Self-Hosting

Article URL: https://hccf.onmy.cloud/2026/06/21/reclaiming-our-digital-selves-hccfs-vision-for-a-human-centered-top-lev...

Technology Jun 29, 2026

Tidal won’t pay royalties on AI-generated music but isn’t banning it outright

Tidal shared its new policies regarding AI-generated music today and how the platform plans to "protect artists" and "in...

Technology Jun 29, 2026

Sony’s next-gen PlayStation will go ‘beyond the living room’

Sony hinted in a recent Q&A with investors that the next generation PlayStation will offer some kind of experience t...

Technology Jun 29, 2026

Sony erases digital content from libraries; we're reminded we don’t own what we buy

Sony has been scaling down its digitial store for a few years.

Technology Jun 29, 2026

Watch out, Amazon: the Kobo eReader now has a Goodreads rival

Kobo users can now automatically sync their reading progress to StoryGraph, making it easier to track books, reading sta...

Technology Jun 29, 2026

JumpServer: Open-Source Privileged Access Management

Article URL: https://github.com/jumpserver/jumpserver Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48723677 Point...

Technology Jun 29, 2026

Ozone loss was a thing even before CFCs were widely used

With today’s scientific tools, the problem could have been spotted in the 1950s. ...

Technology Jun 29, 2026

CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3

https://www.nikhef.nl/en/news/final-run-for-the-current-lhc-... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=487...

Technology Jun 29, 2026

OpenAI is teasing new hardware… for Codex

OpenAI is releasing some sort of device related to its AI-powered coding tool, Codex, on July 15th. In a video posted to...

Technology Jun 29, 2026

.garden TLD's change to a bad neighborhood

Article URL: https://discourse.ifin.network/t/garden-tlds-change-to-a-bad-neighborhood/627 Comments URL: https://news.y...

Technology Jun 29, 2026

Waymo and Uber quietly part ways in Phoenix

The companies confirmed to TechCrunch that their unusual partnership in Phoenix recently ended after nearly three years....

Technology Jun 29, 2026

The 80% Problem: The Last 20% Is Where the Engineer Used to Live

Article URL: https://www.jonathanbeard.io/blog/2026/06/27/the-80-percent-problem.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombi...

Technology Jun 29, 2026

Google warns EU's plans to weaken its monopoly could expose user data

The EU wants Google to share search data with competitors and open up AI on Android, but Google...

Technology Jun 29, 2026

Anthropic and Gov. Newsom forge deal allowing California government to use Claude at half price

As Anthropic forges a closer relationship with the state of California, the federal government has made an enemy out of ...

Technology Jun 29, 2026

South Korean tech giants commit over $550B to ease ‘ RAMageddon’

The world's two largest memory chip companies vow to build more memory lab fabs as South Korea positions itself as an AI...

Technology Jun 29, 2026

Micro-Agent: Beat Frontier Models with Collaboration Inside Model API

Article URL: https://vllm.ai/blog/2026-06-29-micro-agent-frontier-models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology Jun 29, 2026

Quantum computing startup says it will leapfrog everybody

But the system would require a massive leap from any of its existing hardware. ...

Technology Jun 29, 2026

At $499, Apple’s M3-powered iPad Air is a good deal

Most of Apple’s price increases have gone into effect, resulting in iPads and other products costing hundreds more...

Technology Jun 29, 2026

Kalshi sues Illinois over new tax on prediction market sports bets

Illinois now a key battleground in fight over prediction market sports bets. ...

Technology Jun 29, 2026

Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, is now a $100M business

The startup, which runs a popular free AI leaderboard, launched its commercial service just last September.

Technology Jun 29, 2026

Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding

Article URL: https://github.com/deepreinforce-ai/Ornith-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48722052 P...

Technology Jun 29, 2026

Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development

Article URL: https://quesma.com/blog/qwen-36-is-awesome/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721903 Po...

Technology Jun 29, 2026

Cursor now has a mobile app for guiding your coding agent on the go

Cursor has launched a new mobile app for remote oversight over coding agents.

Technology Jun 29, 2026

Trump administration threatens 92 GW of new electricity supply with red tape

The Trump administration's moves threaten $121 billion in new solar and wind power, two energy sources that are the bigg...

Technology Jun 29, 2026

The best July 4th sales we found so far

July 4th sales are typically a precursor to what we’d see during a mid-July Prime Day, but obviously things are fl...

Technology Jun 29, 2026

TIDAL cracks down on AI music by cutting off monetization

TIDAL's new policy will prevent AI-generated music from making money on its service.

Technology Jun 29, 2026

The Radiation Exposure Lie

Article URL: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-to-lie-about-radiation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it...