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You Can Finally Buy Snap’s New AR Specs—for $2,150

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel lays out the company’s vision for its augmented-reality smart glasses, arriving later this year.

Wired • Jun 16, 2026 • Boone Ashworth
Technology Jun 16, 2026

Snap’s first consumer AR glasses are coming this fall for $2,195

Snap is finally launching augmented glasses for the public. Specs, which Snap describes as "a wearable computer built in...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

Stop Using JWTs

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/samsch/0d1f3d3b4745d778f78b230cf6061452 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

Sixty percent of U.S. consumers say ‘AI’ in brand messaging is a turnoff, survey finds

WordPress VIP’s latest survey suggests consumers are wary of AI-generated answers even as companies increasingly view ...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

Trump admin abandons fight against wind energy as clean energy output surges

Legal victories have dampened the Trump admin’s efforts to halt wind and solar power. ...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?

Article URL: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-is-meta-destroying-its-engineering Comments URL: https://ne...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP

Article URL: https://mareksuppa.com/til/bash-dev-tcp-http-without-curl/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

SpaceX to acquire AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion

Separately, neither could compete. Now they hope they can.

Technology Jun 16, 2026

Making ast.walk 220x Faster

Article URL: https://reflex.dev/blog/why-ast-walk-when-you-can-ast-sprint/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year

Audited accounting shows growing revenues being dwarfed by R&D, other expenses. ...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

Never talk to the police

Article URL: https://www.campolalaw.com/why-you-should-never-talk-to-the-po Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

GateGPT: 56k tokens per second Transformer (KV cache) on FPGA at 80 MHz

Article URL: https://twitter.com/fguzmanai/status/2065832668172845209 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/942854/apple-vehicle-motion-cues-review-really-work Comments URL: https://ne...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

Nothing’s Ear (a), our favorite budget earbuds, are cheaper than ever ahead of Prime Day

If you’re looking for a cheap Father’s Day gift that delivers more than you’d expect for the price, No...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity

Article URL: https://therepublicofletters.substack.com/p/calvin-and-hobbes-and-the-price-of Comments URL: https://news....

Technology Jun 16, 2026

UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts

Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/uk-to-require-id-or-face-scan-before-you-can-make-social-me...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

Payments startup Flutterwave hits $3.2B valuation, backed by Ripple

African payments infrastructure company Flutterwave has hit a new valuation and landed blockchain company Ripple as inve...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

CJEU: Social networks are the 'publishers' of algorithmically-altered feeds

Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/stevepeers.bsky.social/post/3mofdspytds2l Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....

Technology Jun 16, 2026

Fable ban was never about a jailbreak

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/the-us-governments-anthropic-models-ban-was-never-about-an-ai-jailbreak/...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

We now know how DJI’s dual camera Osmo Pocket 4P compares to Insta360’s

After a brief debut at the Cannes film festival last month, DJI announced all the details of its Osmo Pocket 4P stabiliz...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

Around the World, These Building Solutions Keep Things Local

Designers are finding sustainable building solves close to home—in ancient practices and cutting-edge innovations alik...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

After AI Takes Everything

Article URL: https://ursb.me/en/posts/after-ai-takes-everything/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=485...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

Verizon Simplicity, Verizon Shine, and Verizon Dollars: What You Need to Know

Verizon introduced a new plan that costs $45 per month, revamped rewards programs, and more today.

Technology Jun 16, 2026

Google Chrome's Next Update Will Mark the End of Popular Ad Blockers

Article URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/06/15/205219/google-chromes-next-update-will-mark-the-end-of-popular-ad...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

DOJ claims xAI’s unpermitted gas turbines are a matter of ‘national, economic, and energy security’

The Justice department says the Pentagon needs xAI to keep using its unpermitted gas turbines.

Technology Jun 16, 2026

In Praise of a Dumb House

Tech has been encroaching on the family domicile for years—but actor, writer, and satirist Jill Kargman is all in on a...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

The Cybercab is the lightest, most efficient Tesla ever made

Against all odds, the Tesla Cybercab is in production. And while Elon Musk's company may not have a very coherent plan f...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

Plaud says its software business topped $100M in ARR after shipping over 2M AI notetakers

Plaud is trying to make a mark in a crowded market full of AI-powered meeting notetakers.

Technology Jun 16, 2026

Pour one out for Roku City

By this time next year, Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch intends to have added Roku to his already expansive media em...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

10 Designers Share the Trends Defining Dwellings of Tomorrow

From friend compounds and meditation spaces to shaded outdoor areas and rooms just to make coffee, homes are getting eve...