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Elon Musk Boosts New Yorker’s Sam Altman Exposé on X as Trial Begins

The move comes as the trial for Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI kicks off in federal court in Oakland.

Wired • Apr 27, 2026 • Maxwell Zeff, Paresh Dave
Technology Apr 27, 2026

EU tells Google to open up AI on Android; Google says that's "unwarranted intervention"

Gemini gets preferential treatment on Android, but maybe not for long (in Europe). ...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

L123: A Lotus 1-2-3–style terminal spreadsheet with modern Excel compatibility

Article URL: https://github.com/duane1024/l123 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47926480 Points: 3 # ...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

With new patch design, the Crew-13 astronauts clearly aren't superstitious

Houston, we have another "13."

Technology Apr 27, 2026

U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back

Article URL: https://restofworld.org/2026/sam-altman-worldcoin-zoom-tinder-partnerships/ Comments URL: https://news.yco...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Consumers lost $2.1 billion to social media scams in 2025, FTC reports

The agency reports that losses from social media scams have increased eightfold, and that social media scams resulted in...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Cole Allen Charged With Attempting to Assassinate Trump

The suspected shooter at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner faces three felony charges. He remains ...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Our principles

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/our-principles/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47925679 Point...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

United Wizards of the Coast

Article URL: https://unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/announcing-united-wizards-coast-cwa Comments URL: https://news.yc...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

"Super ZSNES" is a stab at a modern SNES emulator from the original developers

Upgrades to SNES graphics and sound go way beyond the typical screen filtering. ...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Trump demands ABC fire Jimmy Kimmel

President Donald Trump is calling for Disney to fire Jimmy Kimmel. On Thursday, Kimmel joked that Melania Trump had look...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Google employees ask Sundar Pichai to say no to classified military AI use

Over 600 Google employees signed a letter to CEO Sundar Pichai demanding that Google block the Pentagon from using its A...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

China kills Meta’s acquisition of Manus as US-China AI rivalry deepens

The unwinding of Meta’s deal shows how tech founders struggle to cut China ties. ...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Study: Infrasound likely a key factor in alleged hauntings

Low-frequency infrasound (below 20 Hz) can raise cortisol levels in saliva and increase irritab...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator

Article URL: https://zsnes.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47924877 Points: 9 # Comments: 0

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Open-Source KiCad PCBs for Common Arduino, ESP32, RP2040 Boards

Article URL: https://github.com/Hanqaqa/Easyduino Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47924813 Points: 3...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

GitHub is having issues now

Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47924775 Points: 35 # Comm...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

OpenAI ends Microsoft legal peril over its $50B Amazon deal

OpenAI has won major concessions from its largest shareholder, Microsoft, that will allow it to sell products on AWS, wh...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Steam Controller: The Ars Technica review

Valve's new hardware is solid but might not justify its $99 price.

Technology Apr 27, 2026

DeepMind’s David Silver just raised $1.1B to build an AI that learns without human data

Ineffable Intelligence, a British AI lab founded a mere few months ago by former DeepMind researcher David Silver, has r...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Conspiracy theories are swirling about the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting

On Saturday evening, a room full of journalists, media personalities, and senior members of Donald Trump's administratio...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Hacker who allegedly carried out cyberattacks for China is extradited to U.S.

Xu Zewei is accused of participating in a Chinese government hacking group that broke into thousands of U.S. organizatio...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

A Brain Implant for Depression Is About to Be Tested in Humans

While many brain-computer interface companies are focused on helping paralyzed people communicate, Motif Neurotech is ta...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

We reviewed Valve’s new Steam Controller, ask us anything

Hey hey, it's Jay Peters, senior reporter at The Verge. Today, Valve finally announced that the second version of the St...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Valve launches the Steam Controller without the Steam Machine

Last November, Valve introduced the world to its new vision of living room gaming: the Steam Machine and Steam Controlle...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Valve’s new Steam Controller isn’t perfect, but I’m buying one anyway

After my brief hands-on last year with Valve's new Steam Controller, I said it might be my dream controller. I've been l...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Why the Steam Controller is (and isn’t) a big deal

Most PC gamers already have a controller they love using with Steam - a Sony DualSense, a 8BitDo Ultimate, a Nintendo Sw...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Canada's first sovereign wealth fund

Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/sovereign-wealth-fund-carney-major-projects-9.7178238 Comments URL: https...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Decoupled DiLoCo: Resilient, Distributed AI Training at Scale

Article URL: https://deepmind.google/blog/decoupled-diloco/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47924181...

Technology Apr 27, 2026

Samsung’s first smart glasses have leaked

The upcoming Samsung Galaxy Glasses look nearly identical to Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses in leaked images from Android ...