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Senators are pushing to find out how much electricity data centers actually use

On Thursday, senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) sent a letter to the Energy Information Administration (EIA) urging it to begin collecting "comprehensive, annual energy-use disclo...

The Verge • Mar 26, 2026 • Stevie Bonifield
Technology Mar 26, 2026

The Sony Afeela Was Doomed to Fail

A six-year EV rollout ends with a thud.

Technology Mar 26, 2026

A major hacking tool has leaked online, putting millions of iPhones at risk. Here’s what you need to know

Here’s what we know, and what you need to know, about Coruna and DarkSword, two advanced iPhone hacking tools discover...

Technology Mar 26, 2026

Why a two-seater robotaxi makes more sense than you think

When Tesla revealed the Cybercab in 2024, many people were baffled by the automaker's decision to make it a two-seater. ...

Technology Mar 26, 2026

2026's historic snow drought is bad news for the West

For much of the Western US, winter 2026 was the year snow never came.

Technology Mar 26, 2026

Show HN: Agent Skill Harbor – a GitHub-native skill platform for teams

There are already many services for discovering public skills, and many ways to manage your own personal skills.What st...

Technology Mar 26, 2026

Asbestos, talc, and The Lancet's 1977 publication

Article URL: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00558-1/fulltext Comments URL: https://...

Technology Mar 26, 2026

Conntour raises $7M from General Catalyst, YC to build an AI search engine for security video systems

Conntour uses AI models to let security teams query camera feeds using natural language to find any object, person, or s...

Technology Mar 26, 2026

Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people

Article URL: https://unterwaditzer.net/2025/codeberg.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47530330 P...

Technology Mar 26, 2026

Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying

US lawmakers are pressing Tulsi Gabbard to reveal whether using a VPN that connects to overseas servers can strip Americ...

Technology Mar 26, 2026

Marriage over, €100k down; AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/mar/26/ai-chatbot-users-lives-wrecked-by-delusion Comments U...

Technology Mar 26, 2026

Cohere launches an open-source voice model specifically for transcription

Relatively light at just 2 billion parameters, the model is meant for use with consumer-grade GPUs for those who want to...

Technology Mar 26, 2026

Some of our favorite Apple tech is cheaper than ever during Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

It feels like nearly everything is receiving some sort of discount as part of Amazon’s Big Spring Sale — that is, ex...

Technology Mar 26, 2026

Webtoon is adding AI localization tools to its comics platform

Canvas, Webtoon's platform for user-uploaded comics, is about to get a major overhaul that's designed to help creators m...

Technology Mar 26, 2026

The versatile Play speaker is a great way into the Sonos world

It's been nearly a year and a half since Sonos released a consumer product, and those last two releases - the Arc Ultra ...

Technology Mar 26, 2026

WhatsApp can now draft AI-generated responses based on your conversations

The Meta-owned messaging platform is also launching a way to free up space, the ability to touch up photos with Meta AI,...

Technology Mar 26, 2026

EU backs nude app ban and delays to landmark AI rules 

European lawmakers have voted to delay key parts of the EU AI Act, the bloc's flagship law for regulating artificial int...

Technology Mar 26, 2026

European Parliament decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop

Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/tuta.com/post/3mhxkfowv322c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47...

Technology Mar 26, 2026

End of "Chat Control": EU Parliament Stops Mass Surveillance in Voting Thriller

Article URL: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/end-of-chat-control-eu-parliament-stops-mass-surveillance-in-voting-thril...

Technology Mar 26, 2026

Landmark L.A. jury verdict finds Instagram, YouTube were designed to addict kids

Article URL: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-03-25/social-media-lawsuit-trial-meta-google-verdict Comment...

Technology Mar 26, 2026

Soundboks Mix Review: A Great Party Speaker

This large Bluetooth speaker is massively loud, nearly indestructible, and lasts for 40 hours.

Technology Mar 26, 2026

DJI’s Avata 360 is a more functional, flexible 360 drone

DJI's Avata 360 finds the company at an odd time. For one, it's been beaten to the punch - upstart Antigravity's A1 beca...

Technology Mar 26, 2026

A ‘pound of flesh’ from data centers: one senator’s answer to AI job losses

Fears of AI-driven job loss are growing fast, and they’re fueling backlash against data centers. Sen. Mark Warner sugg...

Technology Mar 26, 2026

Senators Demand to Know How Much Energy Data Centers Use

In a letter sent Thursday morning, Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley press the Energy Information Agency to mandate annua...

Technology Mar 26, 2026

OpenAI shelves erotic chatbot ‘indefinitely’

OpenAI ​has paused plans to release a sexualized "adult mode" for ChatGPT, in its latest move to refocus on the co...

Technology Mar 26, 2026

Show HN: Veil – Dark mode PDFs without destroying images, runs in the browser

Hi HN! here's a tool I just deployed that renders PDFs in dark mode without destroying the images. Internal and externa...

Technology Mar 26, 2026

Eufy Omni C28 Review: Affordable and Full-Featured

Eufy's latest robot vacuum proves you can still get a great vac-mop without dropping four figures.

Technology Mar 26, 2026

Mistral releases a new open-source model for speech generation

Mistral's new speech model can run on a smartwatch or a smartphone.

Technology Mar 26, 2026

How to Buy Ethical and Eco-Friendly Electronics (2026)

Electronic waste, conflict minerals, and poor labor conditions are just a few issues blighting the tech industry. Hereâ€...

Technology Mar 26, 2026

The widely reported "hole in the Universe" is a lie

Article URL: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/hole-in-universe/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...