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Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people's locations

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/surveillance-vendors-caught-abusing-access-to-telcos-to-track-peoples-phone-locations-researchers-say/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

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Technology Apr 23, 2026

Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring

Article URL: https://jiga.io/about-us/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874734 Points: 0 # Comments...

Technology Apr 23, 2026

Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people’s phone locations, researchers say

The Citizen Lab found two separate surveillance vendors abusing the backbone of cellular networks to spy on several vict...

Technology Apr 23, 2026

These New Smart Glasses From Ex-OnePlus Engineers Have a Hidden Cost

The Kickstarter-funded glasses from L'Atitude 52°N have AI features bundled for 1 year, but the company doesn't know ye...

Technology Apr 23, 2026

Beehiiv rolls out new creator tools, including webinars and customizable paywalls

Beehiiv is clearly done being just a newsletter platform based on today's launch of a new webinar feature, customizable ...

Technology Apr 23, 2026

Govee’s new colorful outdoor lights are its first with solar power

Govee announced its first solar-powered lights today. They include a 6W panel with an integrated 4,800mAh battery that c...

Technology Apr 23, 2026

Tim Cook’s departure is the start of a new era at Apple

Apple is about to become a very different company. This September, Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down and will be repla...

Technology Apr 23, 2026

Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite

Article URL: https://github.com/russellromney/honker Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874647 Points...

Technology Apr 23, 2026

Sneaky spam in conversational replies to blog posts

Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/04/sneaky-spam-in-conversational-replies-to-blog-posts/ Comments URL: https:...

Technology Apr 23, 2026

Commenting and Approving Pull Requests

Article URL: https://www.jakeworth.com/posts/on-commenting-and-approving-pull-requests/ Comments URL: https://news.ycom...

Technology Apr 23, 2026

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Microsoft is rolling out a new Agent Mode inside Office apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint this week. Previously desc...

Technology Apr 23, 2026

The Best Robotic Pool Cleaners of 2026: Beatbot, iGarden, Dreame

Send the pool guy packing. One of these robotic buddies can maintain your water quality instead.

Technology Apr 23, 2026

Best Fitbit Models for Beginners, Athletes, and Kids (2026)

The fitness trackers I'd recommend to beginners, athletes, and kids.

Technology Apr 23, 2026

Meta will now allow parents to see the topics their child discussed with Meta AI

Topics can range from "School," "Entertainment," and "Lifestyle" to "Travel," "Writing," and "Health and Wellbeing," amo...

Technology Apr 23, 2026

Best Robot Vacuum of 2026: Shark, Eufy

Tired of vacuuming? Hand the reins to a robot vacuum.

Technology Apr 23, 2026

Show HN: Built a daily game where you sort historical events chronologically

Article URL: https://hisorty.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47873966 Points: 8 # Comments: 4

Technology Apr 23, 2026

They Made D4vd a Star. Now They Want Him Convicted of Murder

A legion of young fans propelled the singer D4vd to viral fame. Now that he’s been charged with the murder of 14-year-...

Technology Apr 23, 2026

Do you want the US to "win" AI?

Article URL: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/04/23/us-win-ai.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

Technology Apr 23, 2026

7 Best Shower Filters of 2026 Are WIRED-Tested and -Approved

I tested leading filtered showerheads to see how well they remove total chlorine from your water.

Technology Apr 23, 2026

The Adidas Hyperboost Edge Is Your New Super Trainer

How do shoe companies translate superfast racing shoe tech into your daily trainers? We break it down with some of the b...

Technology Apr 23, 2026

A Startup Says It Grew Human Sperm in a Lab—and Used It to Make Embryos

Paterna Biosciences says it has determined the set of instructions needed to turn sperm-making stem cells into "normal, ...

Technology Apr 23, 2026

Writing a C Compiler, in Zig

Article URL: https://ar-ms.me/thoughts/c-compiler-1-zig/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47873694 Po...

Technology Apr 23, 2026

FIU Student Arrested After Joking About Netanyahu on WhatsApp

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Zsb1IijYY Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47873646 Po...

Technology Apr 23, 2026

Sony Inzone H6 Air Review: Comfortable Headphones, Great Sound

Sony’s new Inzone H6 Air is a departure from the typical gaming headset design, and I’m on board.

Technology Apr 23, 2026

Email could have been X.400 times better

Article URL: https://buttondown.com/blog/x400-vs-smtp-email Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47873323...

Technology Apr 23, 2026

Honor’s new phones look like iPhones for Android

Honor has announced the 600 and 600 Pro, which it calls "accessible flagships," and they look… familiar. Especially in...

Technology Apr 23, 2026

Ars Technica: Our newsroom AI policy

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/04/our-newsroom-ai-policy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Technology Apr 23, 2026

A disabled kea parrot is the alpha male of his circus

Article URL: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)00259-9 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator...

Technology Apr 23, 2026

I am building a cloud

Article URL: https://crawshaw.io/blog/building-a-cloud Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872324 Poin...

Technology Apr 23, 2026

MacBook Neo and How the iPad Should Be

Article URL: https://craigmod.com/essays/ipad_neo/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872306 Points: ...