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The US military reportedly shot down a CBP drone with a laser

The US military mistakenly shot down a drone belonging to Customs and Border Protection near the Mexican border in Fort Hancock, Texas, according to reports from Reuters and The New York Times. The Th...

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Technology Feb 27, 2026

We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM

Article URL: https://www.mendral.com/blog/llms-are-good-at-sql Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification

Article URL: https://github.com/c3d/db48x/commit/7819972b641ac808d46c54d3f5d1df70d706d286 Comments URL: https://news.yc...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Here’s your first look at Kratos in Amazon’s God of War show

Amazon has slowly been teasing out casting details for its live-action adaptation of God of War, and now we have our fir...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

An ode to houseplant programming (2025)

Article URL: https://hannahilea.com/blog/houseplant-programming/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=471...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

The Galaxy S26 is a photography nightmare

In many ways, Samsung's new phones are fairly normal upgrades. The S26 lines come with some useful new things - particul...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Show HN: Badge that shows how well your codebase fits in an LLM's context window

Small codebases were always a good thing. With coding agents, there's now a huge advantage to having a codebase small e...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Netflix cedes Warner Bros. Discovery to Paramount: “No longer financially attractive”

Netflix shares jumped following the announcement.

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Tenth Circuit: 4th Amendment Doesn't Support Broad Search of Protesters' Devices

Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/victory-tenth-circuit-finds-fourth-amendment-doesnt-support-broad-se...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic

Article URL: https://www.understandingai.org/p/the-pentagon-is-making-a-mistake Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....

Technology Feb 27, 2026

NASA shakes up its Artemis program to speed up lunar return

"Launching SLS every three and a half years or so is not a recipe for success." ...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

NASA shakes up its Artemis program to speed up lunar return

"Launching SLS every three and a half years or so is not a recipe for success." ...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Spotify is rolling out Audiobook Charts

Similar to the streaming giant's Music and Podcast Charts, the Audiobook Charts will be updated weekly and highlight the...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Pokémon Winds and Waves launch on the Switch 2 in 2027

It's time to say goodbye to the Paldea region because a new generation of mainline Pokémon games are on the way. Du...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

We Built Secure, Scalable Agent Sandbox Infrastructure

Article URL: https://browser-use.com/posts/two-ways-to-sandbox-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Huel tries to solve the ‘burden’ of eating

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and disc...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Last 24 hours to get TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 tickets at the lowest rates of the year

The lowest rates of the year for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 end after today. Prices go up at 11:59 p.m. PT. Don't miss conn...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/openai-raises-110b-in-one-of-the-largest-private-funding-rounds-in-histo...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

New California law requires age verification for all OS accounts

Article URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/operating-systems/a-new-california-law-says-all-operating-systems-includi...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

OpenAI snags $110 billion in investments from Amazon, Nvidia, and Softbank

OpenAI has closed another round of funding, totalling $110 billion being newly committed to the maker of ChatGPT, which ...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank)

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-invest-50-billion-openai-2026-02-27/ Comments URL:...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

After Zomato, Deepinder Goyal returns with a $54M brain-monitoring bet

Zomato co-founder Deepinder Goyal's new wearable startup Temple has raised $54 million in a friends-and-family round at ...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

How to downgrade from macOS 26 Tahoe on a new Mac

Most new Macs can still be downgraded with few downsides. Here's what to know. ...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Block lays off 40% of workforce as it goes all-in on AI tools

CEO says "most companies are late" to realize how much technology will affect employment. ...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

OpenAI raises $110B in one of the largest private funding rounds in history

The new funding consists of a $50 billion investment from Amazon as well as $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, a...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Netflix isn’t buying Warner Bros: all of the latest updates

Just months after Netflix struck a deal to acquire the Warner Bros. studio, HBO, HBO Max, and Warner Games, the streamin...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

We deserve a better streams API for JavaScript

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-better-web-streams-api/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

TCL’s $7,000+ flagship TV is ready to fight

Since I saw the TCL X11L SQD-Mini LED TV at a pre-CES event in December, I've been eager to get a close look at it in my...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Pokémon Presents 2026: all the news and trailers

It’s that time of year: a whole bunch of Pokémon news is incoming. February 27th is the date the franchise first ...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Apple says it has "a big week ahead." Here's what we expect to see.

Apple is taking an "ain't broke/don't fix" approach to most of its gadgets. ...