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Dairy Queen is putting an AI chatbot in its drive-thrus

Dairy Queen is becoming the latest fast food chain to get in on AI, as it's bringing a chatbot to dozens of its drive-thrus across the US and Canada. It aims to help speed up drive-thru service and "e...

The Verge • Apr 17, 2026 • Emma Roth
Technology Apr 17, 2026

AI Drafting My Stories? Over My Dead Body

AI-assisted writing is creeping into newsrooms under the guise of efficiency. But the tradeoff may be more profound than...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session

Article URL: https://www.claudecodecamp.com/p/i-measured-claude-4-7-s-new-tokenizer-here-s-what-it-costs-you Comments U...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

The Gregorio project – GPL tools for typesetting Gregorian chant

Article URL: https://gregorio-project.github.io/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806899 ...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Slop Cop

Article URL: https://awnist.com/slop-cop Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806845 Points: 40 # Comme...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

NIST gives up enriching most CVEs

Article URL: https://risky.biz/risky-bulletin-nist-gives-up-enriching-most-cves/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

The AirPods Pro 3 are $50 off right now, nearly matching their best-ever price

From OLED TVs to smartphones, Best Buy’s Upgrade Sale has slashed prices on all kinds of tech, including a wide range ...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Claude Design

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-design-anthropic-labs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Uber will now pick up your returns from your doorstep

The new returns feature is the company's latest effort to become an everything app.

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new product for creating quick visuals

The company says Claude Design is intended to help people like founders and product managers without a design background...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin

Article URL: https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/75848 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806484 ...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Iceye Open Data

Article URL: https://www.iceye.com/open-data-initiative Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806440 Poi...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

IETF draft-meow-mrrp-00

Article URL: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-meow-mrrp-00.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Healthchecks.io Now Uses Self-Hosted Object Storage

Article URL: https://blog.healthchecks.io/2026/04/healthchecks-io-now-uses-self-hosted-object-storage/ Comments URL: ht...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation

Article URL: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/it-is-time-to-ban-the-sale-of-precise-geolocation Comments URL: https...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

We Reproduced Anthropic's Mythos Findings with Public Models

Article URL: https://blog.vidocsecurity.com/blog/we-reproduced-anthropics-mythos-findings-with-public-models Comments U...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Republican Mutiny Sinks Trump's Push to Extend Warrantless Surveillance

A post-midnight revolt in the House sank the White House's efforts to extend Section 702—a spy program the FBI has use...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Google’s AI Mode can now help you find products in stock nearby

Although you can already track hotel prices at the city level, the new update lets you do so for a specific hotel that y...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

With US spy laws set to expire, lawmakers are split over protecting Americans from warrantless surveillance

Some lawmakers are calling for widespread reforms following years of surveillance scandals and abuses across successive ...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Peloton, stay in your lane

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

Technology Apr 17, 2026

The South Korean president is doing quote-post diplomacy

"This is no different from Comfort Women or the Holocaust," wrote South Korean President Lee Jae-myung on X last week, q...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Ghost orchid in the machine

Vacuum cleaners, personal massagers, electronic baby rockers, and walking pads: These are the secondhand machines Rachel...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

What Are Skiplists Good For?

Article URL: https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/skiptrees/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806021 Po...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Is Your Site Agent-Ready? (By Cloudflare)

Article URL: https://isitagentready.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47805998 Points: 12 # Commen...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

The ‘AI is inevitable’ trap

In the latest sign of AI silly season, Allbirds, the shoe company, told the world it was now an AI company and briefly m...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged

Conspiracy theories about the Butler, Pennsylvania, shooting have ramped up in recent weeks as once steadfast Trump supp...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Netflix plans to add a vertical video feed, use AI for recommendations

Netflix is going to launch a TikTok-like vertical video feed within its apps this month, and plans to use AI broadly for...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Rocket Report: Starship V3 test-fired; ESA's tentative step toward crew launch

Blue Origin will soon launch the third flight of its New Glenn rocket, this time with a reused ...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Are we tokenmaxxing our way to nowhere?

The gap between AI insiders and everyone else is widening, and the spending, suspicion, and even new vocabulary are...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Loop raises $95M to build supply chain AI that predicts disruptions

The San Francisco startup closed a Series C funding round led by Antonio Gracias' firm Valor, which is a major backer of...