Technology

The Bargain-Basement MacBook Neo Exposes the Insane Price of Another Key Apple Product

Can it really be the case that the company can now make a laptop $200 cheaper than a watch?

Wired • Mar 5, 2026 • Jeremy White
Technology Mar 5, 2026

Cursor is rolling out a new kind of agentic coding tool

Called Automations, the new system gives users a way to automatically launch agents within their coding environment, tri...

Technology Mar 5, 2026

A Number with a Shadow

Article URL: https://campedersen.com/tang Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47264097 Points: 3 # Comme...

Technology Mar 5, 2026

Roblox is censoring chats with AI

Roblox is using AI to alter the content of chat messages on its platform in real time using a new feature rolling out to...

Technology Mar 5, 2026

Meta sued over AI smart glasses’ privacy concerns, after workers reviewed nudity, sex, and other footage

Lawyers say Meta's marketing materials promised privacy and user control over sharing footage. But an investigation foun...

Technology Mar 5, 2026

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei could still be trying to make a deal with Pentagon

Anthropic's $200 million contract with the Department of Defense broke down due to disagreements over giving the militar...

Technology Mar 5, 2026

Oura acquires Doublepoint, a startup that specializes in gesture recognition technology

The company believes its next phase of wearable AI will be powered by a combination of voice and gesture.

Technology Mar 5, 2026

Meta’s AI glasses reportedly send sensitive footage to human reviewers in Kenya

Meta's AI-powered smart glasses could be sending sensitive footage to human reviewers in Nairobi, Kenya, according to an...

Technology Mar 5, 2026

Osmo is trying to crack AR edutainment (again)

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated...

Technology Mar 5, 2026

Datasets for Reconstructing Visual Perception from Brain Data

Article URL: https://github.com/seelikat/neuro-visual-reconstruction-dataset-index Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat...

Technology Mar 5, 2026

A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines

Article URL: https://grith.ai/blog/clinejection-when-your-ai-tool-installs-another Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat...

Technology Mar 5, 2026

Netflix buys Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking company InterPositive

Affleck says he wanted to "preserve what makes human storytelling human, which is judgement."

Technology Mar 5, 2026

Analytic Fog Rendering with Volumetric Primitives

Article URL: https://matejlou.blog/2025/02/11/analytic-fog-rendering-with-volumetric-primitives/ Comments URL: https://...

Technology Mar 5, 2026

Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise

Article URL: https://www.wikimediastatus.net Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263323 Points: 48 # C...

Technology Mar 5, 2026

Apple: Enough Is Enough

Article URL: https://bastibe.de/2026-03-05-apple-woes.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263069 ...

Technology Mar 5, 2026

AI and the Ship of Theseus

Article URL: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/3/5/theseus/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263048 Poi...

Technology Mar 5, 2026

Show HN: Jido 2.0, Elixir Agent Framework

Hi HN!I'm the author of an Elixir Agent Framework called Jido. We reached our 2.0 release this week, shipping a product...

Technology Mar 5, 2026

You can now fill your home with Ikea’s cheap and tiny new Bluetooth speaker

Alongside smart Lego bricks and lots of robots, one of the most anticipated gadgets announced at CES 2026 was a cheap Bl...

Technology Mar 5, 2026

Match Group COO out, as dating apps struggle to connect with Gen Z

Match Group eliminates the COO role as CEO Spencer Rascoff has been managing operations.

Technology Mar 5, 2026

Preorders for Apple’s colorful MacBook Neo come with a $25 gift card

The forthcoming MacBook Neo is certainly compelling — at least for the right person. One could argue that buying a las...

Technology Mar 5, 2026

BBC says 'irreversible' trends mean it will not survive without major overhaul

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/05/bbc-charter-renewal-tv-licence-major-overhaul Comments URL: ...

Technology Mar 5, 2026

Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with tobacco products

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/03/04/palantir-tech-companies-offices-vending-machines-tobacco-worker-productivit...

Technology Mar 5, 2026

The IRIX 6.5.7M (sgi) source code

Article URL: https://github.com/calmsacibis995/irix-657m-src Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4726240...

Technology Mar 5, 2026

Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of phishing sites we found in February

Article URL: https://www.norn-labs.com/blog/huginn-report-feb-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Technology Mar 5, 2026

Zeno raises $25M to speed up production of its battery-swap motorbikes

The startup, co-founded by Tesla and Apple alumni, has sold nearly 1,000 of its motorbikes so far.

Technology Mar 5, 2026

Prediction markets in the news are a dangerous gamble

Today on Decoder, let’s talk about prediction markets, which continue to insert themselves into the news cycle and the...

Technology Mar 5, 2026

Musk testifies tweet that led to $44 billion lawsuit "may not have been my wisest"

Elon Musk takes the stand in a San Francisco courtroom.

Technology Mar 5, 2026

Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-02-carbon-dioxide-human-blood.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Technology Mar 5, 2026

Meta will allow rival AI chatbots on WhatsApp in Europe, but for a fee

Meta will allow rival AI chatbot providers to offer their services on WhatsApp for a fee, which ranges from €0.0490 to...

Technology Mar 5, 2026

Ikea’s Matter-compatible smart bulbs are now available in the US

After being announced last November, Ikea's Matter-compatible smart home collection has been slowly trickling into its s...