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iOS 27 might add a lot more customization to the Camera app

Apple's next iOS update could include something phone photographers have been waiting for: a lot more control over the Camera app. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the Camera app will be "fully c...

The Verge • May 12, 2026 • Stevie Bonifield
Technology May 12, 2026

FDA chief resigns after Trump admin forced approval of fruity e-cigs

Makary reportedly spent his year bucking Trump admin and making industry enemies. ...

Technology May 12, 2026

Meta employees protest against mouse tracking tech at US offices

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/meta-us-employees-organize-protest-against-mouse-tra...

Technology May 12, 2026

Scrcpy v4.0

Article URL: https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/releases/tag/v4.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology May 12, 2026

MAHA Keeps Being Weird as Hell About Fertility

RFK Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz’s comments about teen sperm count and “underbabied” Americans at a recent women’s heal...

Technology May 12, 2026

Meta won’t let you block its AI account on Threads

Meta announced on Tuesday that it's testing a Threads feature that lets users tag a Meta AI account to get answers to qu...

Technology May 12, 2026

How to make your text look futuristic

Article URL: https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/02/18/futuristic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Technology May 12, 2026

The Audemars Piguet x Swatch Collaboration Is Here for Real

With Instagram awash with inaccurate AI-generated concepts for its Royal Pop collab, Swatch was forced to reveal the gen...

Technology May 12, 2026

Meta will tell parents when their teens add new interests to their Instagram algorithm

Starting Tuesday, parents can get more details about what their teens are up to on Instagram. Meta is adding a feature t...

Technology May 12, 2026

Beyond Semantic Similarity

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05242 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113518 Points: 7 # C...

Technology May 12, 2026

Snowflake Postgres, Lakebase, HorizonDB: Picking the Lock-In You Want

Article URL: https://thebuild.com/blog/2026/05/12/snowflake-postgres-lakebase-horizondb-picking-the-lock-in-you-want/ C...

Technology May 12, 2026

The Rise of the Bullshittery

Article URL: https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/the-rise-of-the-bullshittery/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology May 12, 2026

Twin brothers wipe 96 gov't databases minutes after being fired

A case study in why credentials are revoked before firings.

Technology May 12, 2026

Iran Is Using Tiny ‘Mosquito’ Boats to Shut Down the Strait of Hormuz

Iran’s traditional naval fleet has been almost completely destroyed by US-Israeli raids. But Iran’s military has put...

Technology May 12, 2026

“Will I be OK?” Teen died after ChatGPT pushed deadly mix of drugs, lawsuit says

Teen trusted ChatGPT to help him “safely” experiment with drugs, logs show. ...

Technology May 12, 2026

Kevin Hartz’s A* just closed its third fund with $450 million

Early-stage venture firm A* Capital just took the wraps off its $450 million Fund III.

Technology May 12, 2026

Former Tesla exec and Heron Power CEO Drew Baglino has founded a heat pump startup

Sadi Thermal Machines is Drew Baglino's second startup since leaving Tesla in 2024.

Technology May 12, 2026

CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq

Article URL: https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2026q2/018471.html Comments URL: https://news.yc...

Technology May 12, 2026

Musk mulled handing OpenAI to his children, Altman testifies

OpenAI's CEO recalls a "particularly hair-raising" conversation with the SpaceX founder.

Technology May 12, 2026

Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model

Hey HN, Henry here from Cactus. We open-sourced Needle, a 26M parameter function-calling (tool use) model. It runs at 6...

Technology May 12, 2026

SQL: Incorrect by Construction

Article URL: https://chreke.com/posts/sql-incorrect-by-construction Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology May 12, 2026

Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol

Article URL: https://duckdb.org/2026/05/12/quack-remote-protocol Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=481...

Technology May 12, 2026

Dead.letter (CVE-2026-45185) Humans vs. LLM for Unauthenticated RCE Race on Exim

Article URL: https://xbow.com/blog/dead-letter-cve-2026-45185-xbow-found-rce-exim Comments URL: https://news.ycombinato...

Technology May 12, 2026

Microsoft will lean on your CPU to speed up Windows 11's apps and animations

"All modern operating systems do this, including macOS and Linux."

Technology May 12, 2026

The Deathbed Notes of Henry James (1968)

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/flashbks/james/jnote.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

Technology May 12, 2026

Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era

Article URL: https://deepmind.google/blog/ai-pointer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111581 Point...

Technology May 12, 2026

Googlebook

Article URL: https://googlebook.google/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111545 Points: 41 # Commen...

Technology May 12, 2026

Anthropic warns investors against secondary platforms offering access to its shares

The company named Open Doors Partners, Unicorns Exchange, Pachamama Capital, Lionheart Ventures, Hiive, Forge Global, Sy...

Technology May 12, 2026

Canada's Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year's Surveillance Nightmare

Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/canadas-bill-c-22-repackaged-version-last-years-surveillance-nightma...

Technology May 12, 2026

Sam Altman says Elon Musk’s mind games were damaging OpenAI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Elon Musk did "huge damage" to the culture of the AI startup. During testimony as part of Mus...