Technology

Trump EPA moves to wipe out climate rules for power plants

EPA says power plant emissions have no material impact on climate change.

Ars Technica • 2w ago • Liza Gross, Inside Climate News
Technology 2w ago

AI is breaking our proxies for expertise

Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/ai-is-breaking-our-proxies-for-expertise/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

Technology 2w ago

This doorbell camera lets a human security guard watch your front door

DIY home security company SimpliSafe is bringing its AI-powered proactive security feature to the front door. The new Si...

Technology 2w ago

Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite

Hey HN,I always had the problem that building HTML pages is really simple now, but trying to save data required hosting...

Technology 2w ago

Show HN: Ordewell – turn one goal into an ordered plan of coding-agent tasks

Article URL: https://github.com/ordewell/ordewell Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49712276 Points: 8...

Technology 2w ago

GM gives its most important trucks a new UI—and includes CarPlay

The new look debuts in the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado and 2027 GMC Sierra pickup trucks. ...

Technology 2w ago

How big are factorials?

Article URL: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/how-big-are-factorials/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

Technology 2w ago

Australia 'on the same page' as Canada as it seeks deeper EU alliance

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1wgqken/australia_on_the_same_page_as_canada_as_it_seeks/ Comm...

Technology 2w ago

Show HN: Hacking a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a texting device

Article URL: https://bkovac.github.io/modem-thing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49712102 Points: ...

Technology 2w ago

Java 27 Released

Article URL: https://mail.openjdk.org/archives/list/announce@openjdk.org/thread/ORGGLMN75HFEWP7YL3ZLGHLYHVIBJDYT/ Comme...

Technology 2w ago

Early Anthropic hire, former METR COO have found a way to rein in rogue AI agents

Their startup, Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) has raised $40 million in a Series A lound led by Rib...

Technology 2w ago

Spotify finally lets parents exclude kids’ music from Wrapped and recommendations

Parents can finally get the kids' music out of Spotify Wrapped and other personalized playlists.

Technology 2w ago

The premium AirPods 5 are the best open-ear earbuds Apple has made

It's almost a guarantee that the new version of a product will be, at best, the same price as the old one, and often (es...

Technology 2w ago

Voicemod’s new pocket-friendly device brings real-time voice changing to your phone

Voicemod announced a new mobile device that expands the capabilities of the Voicemod Key dongle it launched in late 2024...

Technology 2w ago

This Atlantic hurricane season is about to do something that hasn't happened in 175 years

But there may be a price to pay for a quiet Atlantic hurricane season.

Technology 2w ago

Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

Article URL: https://github.com/arnegiacomo/fugleramme Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49711544 Poin...

Technology 2w ago

New Italian unicorn Exein rides the physical AI wave

Italian startup Exein has raised a $270 million round of funding led by Headline at a $1.7 billion valuation.

Technology 2w ago

25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough [Auth: Cindy Cohn; Bruce Schneier]

Article URL: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/25-years-of-mass-surveillance-is-enough Comments URL: https://news.yc...

Technology 2w ago

OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300M

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/14/openai-buys-smartphone-camera-maker-glass-imaging-for-300-million-report...

Technology 2w ago

Exclusive: Paying for frontier AI models buys 4-month head start at 5x the cost

Ars previewed Mozilla’s report on how cheap open models caught up on capability. ...

Technology 2w ago

Suchir Balaji's Homepage

Article URL: https://suchir.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49711225 Points: 11 # Comments: 1

Technology 2w ago

Salesforce and Nvidia’s new reasoning model is everything the AI labs should fear

Salesforce Koa is built on Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron model and is trained to do sales, marketing and customer-suppor...

Technology 2w ago

25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough

Article URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/25-years-of-mass-surveillance-is-enough.html Comments URL: ...

Technology 2w ago

When Google Cuts Off Access: Poland and the World

Article URL: https://dossier.reasoner.pl/artykul/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49710819 Points: 4...

Technology 2w ago

Why the Postpandemic Tech Bust Sent Billionaires to Trump

Following mass layoffs in 2022 and 2023, many tech workers turned against their employers. When liberal politicians also...

Technology 2w ago

GM updates its trucks’ native software to coexist with CarPlay

General Motors is polishing up the software experience in its bestselling trucks in an effort to reduce the amount of da...

Technology 2w ago

‘I Felt Super Violated’: Men Wearing Meta Glasses on Dates Is an Instant Red Flag

As anxieties over surveillance tech grow, unsuspecting singles are sharing stories of being covertly filmed on dates by ...

Technology 2w ago

Those Viral Bodega Peptides Aren’t Actually Peptides

WIRED tested samples of four types of peptides. The results show how lightly regulated the industry is, even as populari...

Technology 2w ago

Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8ly49w9g1edo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4971025...

Technology 2w ago

The Census Bureau Is Overrun With Staffers From a MAGA Think Tank

The US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for a...