Technology

RFK Jr. won't back CDC director on vaccines as agency scraps positive data

Kennedy's tesimony sets up another clash over vaccines with next CDC director.

Ars Technica • Apr 22, 2026 • Beth Mole
Technology Apr 22, 2026

Alexis Ohanian shocks Washington with pro-immigration remarks

Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge readers about tech politics, political tech, and how they're mudd...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

How SpaceX preempted a $2B fundraise with a $60B buyout offer

Cursor was on track to close a $2 billion funding round this week but chose to halt discussions after SpaceX offered a $...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

You want your Moon landings in HDTV? So does NASA—here's how it's happening.

"You just push this button, and in three hours, you're counting photons."

Technology Apr 22, 2026

France confirms data breach at government agency that manages citizens’ IDs

The French government agency that issues and manages national IDs, passports, and other documents, announced that hacker...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Microsoft issues emergency update for macOS and Linux ASP.NET threat

When authentication fails, things can go very, very wrong.

Technology Apr 22, 2026

New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production. It's no contest

Article URL: https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/04/new-study-compares-growing-corn-for-energy-to-solar-productio...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones

The iPhone and iPad bug allowed law enforcement using forensic tools to read messages that had long been deleted by the ...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics

Article URL: https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/highlights/ltt/2023/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Former MrBeast exec sues over ‘years’ of alleged harassment

A former employee of Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson has filed a lawsuit alleging that she faced "intentional infliction of em...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

From the stage to the future: Where are Startup Battlefield’s alumni now?

We wanted to show you what happens after the confetti falls. We checked in with some of our recent alumni, many of whom ...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Google Cloud launches two new AI chips to compete with Nvidia

Google's newest TPUs are faster and cheaper than the previous versions. But the company is still embracing Nvidia in its...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Anthropic tested removing Claude Code from the Pro plan

Untenable demand has Anthropic exploring new approaches to rationing its service. ...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

OpenAI: Workspace Agents for Business

Article URL: https://openai.com/business/workspace-agents/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867085 ...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Website streamed live directly from a model

https://x.com/zan2434/status/2046982383430496444 (https://xcancel.com/zan2434/status/2046982383430496444) Comments URL...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

5 AI Models Tried to Scam Me. Some of Them Were Scary Good

The cyber capabilities of AI models have experts rattled. AI’s social skills may be just as dangerous.

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Ember’s self-heating smart mug is more than $50 off ahead of Mother’s Day

Coffee is what gets many of us through the workday, and a proper smart mug can keep it hot for hours so you can maintain...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Coyote vs. Acme is finally getting released—with a killer trailer

What was Warner Bros. even thinking, shelving this film for so many years?

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Coding Models Are Doing Too Much

Article URL: https://nrehiew.github.io/blog/minimal_editing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4786691...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Workspace Agents in ChatGPT

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-workspace-agents-in-chatgpt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Watch Sony’s elite ping-pong robot beat top-ranked players

Humans have been building ping-pong playing robots for decades, such as Omron's FOREPHUS that challenged amateur competi...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Parallel Agents in Zed

Article URL: https://zed.dev/blog/parallel-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866750 Points: 2...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities

Article URL: https://fingerprint.com/blog/firefox-tor-indexeddb-privacy-vulnerability/ Comments URL: https://news.ycomb...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Google turns Chrome into an AI coworker for the workplace

Google brings Gemini-powered 'auto browse' capabilities to Chrome for enterprise users, letting workers automate tasks l...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries

Article URL: https://lpeproject.org/blog/surveillance-pricing-exploiting-information-asymmetries/ Comments URL: https:/...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Anker made its own chip to bring AI to all its products

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/916463/anker-thus-chip-announcement Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Google unveils two new TPUs designed for the "agentic era"

Google's new generation of Tensor AI chips is actually two chips, one for inference and one for...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Fusion power may not be sci-fi. Just ask the people who sunk $5B into it.

Fusion energy has been “20 years away” for decades, but has the science finally caught u...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

MythosWatch: Tracking who has access to Anthropic's Mythos AI

Article URL: https://www.mythoswatch.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866297 Points: 7 # Comme...

Technology Apr 22, 2026

Threads is adding Live Chats to boost real-time engagement

Users can send messages, photos, videos, links, and emoji reactions in Live Chats.