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Renewables dominate 2025's newly installed generating capacity

And solar power accounted for about three quarters of the renewables.

Ars Technica • Apr 2, 2026 • John Timmer
Technology Apr 2, 2026

Cursor Launches a New AI Agent Experience to Take On Claude Code and Codex

As Cursor launches the next generation of its product, the AI coding startup has to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic mo...

Technology Apr 2, 2026

Microsoft takes on AI rivals with three new foundational models

MAI released models that can transcribe voice into text as well as generate audio and images after the group's formation...

Technology Apr 2, 2026

Modern SQLite: Features You Didn't Know It Had

Article URL: https://slicker.me/sqlite/features.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616704 Points:...

Technology Apr 2, 2026

Hisense’s art-inspired CanvasTV has hit a new low price

Samsung’s releasing a new version of The Frame sometime this year, though the exact date is still unknown and, based o...

Technology Apr 2, 2026

Money transfer app Duc exposed thousands of driver’s licenses and passports to the open web

An exposed Amazon-hosted server allowed anyone to access reams of customer data without needing a password.

Technology Apr 2, 2026

EmDash: A Fresh Take on CMS

Article URL: https://maciekpalmowski.dev/blog/emdash-a-fresh-take-on-cms/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it...

Technology Apr 2, 2026

Google releases Gemma 4 open models

Article URL: https://deepmind.google/models/gemma/gemma-4/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616361 ...

Technology Apr 2, 2026

Flipboard just launched Surf, its new social app and feed reader

Surf is a slightly hard app to explain. It's sort of three things: a client for fediverse apps like Bluesky and Mastodon...

Technology Apr 2, 2026

Google announces Gemma 4 open AI models, switches to Apache 2.0 license

Gemma 4 brings the first major update to Google's open models in a year.

Technology Apr 2, 2026

Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer

Article URL: https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion Comments URL: https://news.ycombi...

Technology Apr 2, 2026

This Ford is the quickest production car at the Nürburgring, ever

Only three race cars have ever gone quicker around this famous track.

Technology Apr 2, 2026

Anthropic Says That Claude Contains Its Own Kind of Emotions

Researchers at the company found representations inside of Claude that perform functions similar to human feelings.

Technology Apr 2, 2026

Google now lets you direct avatars through prompts in its Vids app

Google is adding a way to customize and instruct avatars for video creation in the Vids app.

Technology Apr 2, 2026

Even Artemis II Astronauts Have Microsoft Outlook Problems

The mission commander’s email inbox failed during the journey to the moon. Have they tried turning the computer off an...

Technology Apr 2, 2026

Snow melt-off in American west stuns scientists

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/01/snowmelt-american-west Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

Technology Apr 2, 2026

New York lawmakers want 3D-printer companies to block the creation of ‘ghost guns’

Governor Kathy Hochul and other New York state lawmakers want 3D-printer companies to block the printing of components u...

Technology Apr 2, 2026

Anthropic says its leak-focused DMCA effort unintentionally hit legit GitHub forks

But the effort to stop the spread of leaked Claude Code client code is an uphill battle. ...

Technology Apr 2, 2026

Razer gaming accessories include a $25 Taco Bell gift card at Best Buy

Razer is summoning hungry gamers to Best Buy, where shoppers can get a free $25 Taco Bell gift card with the purchase of...

Technology Apr 2, 2026

ICE says it bought Paragon’s spyware to use in drug trafficking cases

The acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told lawmakers that the use of Paragon spyware is necess...

Technology Apr 2, 2026

Even GPT-5.2 Can't Count to Five: Zero-Error Horizons in Trustworthy LLMs

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15714 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615876 Points: 7 # C...

Technology Apr 2, 2026

It’s not easy to get depression-detecting AI through the FDA

For the past seven years, the California-based startup Kintsugi has been developing AI designed to detect signs of depre...

Technology Apr 2, 2026

Show HN: A P2P messenger with dual network modes (Fast and Tor)

Hello HN,I have been working on a desktop P2P messenger called Kiyeovo for the last ~8 months, and I just published its...

Technology Apr 2, 2026

Despite EV headwinds, Rivian’s sales are up

It's rough out there for the pure EV companies, but despite all the challenges, Rivian says its on target for a historic...

Technology Apr 2, 2026

YouTube’s TV takeover continues with 24/7 streaming ‘Stations’

When Coachella returns to YouTube next week, the music festival will be offering more than just live performances. Viewe...

Technology Apr 2, 2026

Inference Engine for Apple Silicon

Article URL: https://github.com/ondeinference/onde Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615809 Points: ...

Technology Apr 2, 2026

Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/01/renewables_generated_nearly_half_global_power/ Comments URL: https:...

Technology Apr 2, 2026

Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why

Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/nikigrayson.com/post/3miik2wzosk25 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology Apr 2, 2026

Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/artemis-ii-will-use-laser-beams-to-live-stream-4k-moon-footage-one...

Technology Apr 2, 2026

Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/01/the-reputation-of-troubled-yc-startup-delve-has-gotten-even-worse/ Comme...