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Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

The Echo Show 21 is a great smart home hub that’s $80 off

Split between buying a smart calendar, a kitchen TV, a smart home hub, and a smart display? Amazon’s Echo Show 21 is all of those things in one, with a huge 21-inch screen. You can use it to control your smart lights, glance at recipes, watch TV shows, and more. Currently, Best Buy and Home […]

Society · NPR Top Stories

Egyptian warrior princesses, ancient avocados, and more science news

Hannah Chin and Nate Rott of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the building blocks of birdsong, the evolutionary history of avocados and Egyptian warrior princesses.

Society · NPR Top Stories

Trump cuts target federal advisory boards. What does it mean for agencies like NASA?

The Trump administration has terminated or suspended more than 100 federal advisory committees. Former members say agencies like NASA now have less accountability to stakeholders and the public.

AI · TechCrunch AI

AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack-scale system

AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.

World · Deutsche Welle

Indian activist Sonam Wangchuk ends hunger strike

Sonam Wangchuk has ended his hunger strike after 26 days, saying the decision follows a "long negotiation" on various conditions and "in view of possible violence in the country."

Developers & Open Source · langchain-ai/langchain Releases

langchain-openai==1.4.1

Changes since langchain-openai==1.4.0 release(openai): 1.4.1 ( #39045 ) feat(anthropic,fireworks,openai): support langsmith gateway through env var ( #38742 ) fix(openai): correct gpt-5.3-chat-latest profile ( #39009 )

Developers & Open Source · Chrome Releases

Chrome for Android Update

   Hi, everyone! We've just released Chrome 150 (150.0.7871.186) for Android. It'll become available on Google Play over the next few days.  This release includes stability and performance improvements. You can see a full list of the changes in the Git log . If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug . Android releases contain the same security fixes as their corresponding Desktop releases (Windows & Mac: 150.0.7871.181/182, Linux: 150.0.7871.181) unless otherwise noted. Krishna Govind Google Chrome

Developers & Open Source · Chrome Releases

Stable Channel Update for Desktop

The Stable channel has been updated to 150.0.7871.186/.187 for Windows and Mac and 150.0.7871.186 for Linux, which will roll out over the coming days/weeks. A full list of changes in this build is available in the Log Security Fixes and Rewards Note: Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix. We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed. This update includes 4 security fixes. Please see the Chrome Security Page for more information. [N/A][ 518237034 ] High CVE-2026-16807: Out of bounds write in Codecs. Reported by Google on 2026-05-30 [N/A][ 522064153 ] High CVE-2026-16806: Use after free in WebMCP. Reported by Google on 2026-06-10 [N/A][ 523292588 ] High CVE-2026-16805: Use after free in Blink. Reported by Google on 2026-06-12 [N/A][ 524721670 ] High CVE-2026-16804: Use after free in Input. Reported by Google on 2026-06-16 We would also like to thank all security researchers that worked with us during the development cycle to prevent security bugs from ever reaching the stable channel. Many of our security bugs are detected using AddressSanitizer , MemorySanitizer , UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer , Control Flow Integrity , libFuzzer , or AFL . Interested in switching release channels? Find out how here . If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug . The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues. Daniel Yip Google Chrome

Developers & Open Source · langchain-ai/langchain Releases

langchain-core==1.5.1

Changes since langchain-core==1.5.0 release(core): 1.5.1 ( #39042 ) feat(anthropic,fireworks,openai): support langsmith gateway through env var ( #38742 ) fix(core): use tool_call_schema cache for BaseTool token counting in count_tokens_approximately ( #39020 )

Startups & Funding · TechCrunch Startups

Insurance startup Corgi reportedly raised more money at $4B — its third round in 8 weeks

In the AI-funding frenzy, many startups are raising back-to-back rounds at ever-increasing valuations — but even by those standards, Corgi stands out.

World · Deutsche Welle

Trump administration drops New York Times subpoenas over plane reporting

The White House targeted journalists from The New York Times for their reporting on a Qatari-donated Air Force One plane.

World · Deutsche Welle

Indian activist Sonam Wangchuk ends his hunger strike after 26 days 'in view of possible violence in the country'

Sonam Wangchuk has broken his hunger strike after 26 days, saying the decision follows a "long negotiation on various conditions and in view of possible violence in the country

World · Al Jazeera

Indian activist Wangchuk ends 26-day hunger strike over exam paper leaks

⁠Sonam ⁠Wangchuk says he ended his fast to demand education minister's resignation 'in view of possible violence'.

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

OpenAI and Anthropic both speak at once with dueling voice updates

OpenAI and Anthropic both rolled out major voice updates on Thursday afternoon, but the frontier AI labs seem to be The post OpenAI and Anthropic both speak at once with dueling voice updates appeared first on The New Stack .

World · Al Jazeera

Minnesota man who killed Democratic lawmaker sentenced to life in US prison

Judge says that long sentence is merited for slaying of state Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark.

Developers & Open Source · GitHub Changelog

GitHub Mobile: Fix failing Actions checks with Copilot cloud agent

Now when a GitHub Actions check fails on your pull request, you can ask Copilot coding agent to investigate and directly fix the problem from GitHub Mobile. From the failed… The post GitHub Mobile: Fix failing Actions checks with Copilot cloud agent appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s war on the First Amendment

As the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr has authority over the nation’s TV, radio, and internet. But since Donald Trump was elected to his second term, Carr has wielded that power to threaten broadcasters that have exercised their free speech rights to make jokes about the president. He was even able to […]

World · Al Jazeera

Journalist killed in Mexico after years of exposing corruption

Mexican journalist Alejandro Leyva Aguilar was shot dead while eating at a street food stall in Oaxaca.

AI · The Decoder

ChatGPT will give you worse health advice if you don't pay

OpenAI is rolling out "Health in ChatGPT" to U.S. users, connecting Apple Health, medical records, and wellness apps. More than 300 million people already ask ChatGPT health questions every week, but paying users get better answers. The more powerful GPT-5.6 Sol model is reserved for premium subscribers, while free users are stuck with the weaker GPT-5.5 Instant. The article ChatGPT will give you worse health advice if you don't pay appeared first on The Decoder .

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

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World · Al Jazeera

Resumption of oil exports: Will Yemen recover its economic lifeline?

Yemen has proven oil reserves estimated at three billion barrels, but the security environment hinders its export.

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models

I’ve been building Echo ( https://echo.tracerml.ai/ ), an experiment in making one AI system out of a pool of open-weight models rather than choosing a single model and using it for every task. It started with a simple experiment. I took a group of models, including GLM-5.2, Kimi K2.7 and others, and ran them on the same evaluations. Then I measured what would happen if, for each problem, you somehow knew in advance which models would be useful and how their outputs should be combined. That hypothetical system performed substantially better than any individual model in the pool. Of course, it is not something you can actually deploy because it relies on knowing which decisions were good after seeing the result. Echo is my attempt to recover some of that advantage without having that information in advance. For each request, Echo decides how much computation to allocate, which models should participate, and how their work should be combined. Some prompts may only need a relatively small amount of inference, while others benefit from multiple models working on different parts of the problem. One thing that surprised me while building it was how complementary the models are. A model that is clearly weaker overall can still be extremely useful on particular problems or as part of a combination. On my first evaluation mix, Echo consistently performed better than the best individual model in its pool. It also reached roughly the same aggregate result as Fable, which I used as one of the stronger comparison systems, at around one third of the inference cost. There are still some cases where Echo makes the wrong allocation or combination decision. I’m currently spending a lot of time understanding those failures, as well as testing whether the same approach holds up on coding and agentic tasks where measuring the quality of each decision becomes much harder. I built a chat interface (echo.tracerml.ai) and an OpenAI-compatible API ( https://echo.tracerml.ai/docs/api ) so the system can be tested outside the evaluation setup. Here is a short/high level video on how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJFJSvOdXhg I wrote up the evaluation methodology, individual model results, costs and current limitations here: https://echo.tracerml.ai/eval I would love for you to try it! Especially if you hit any weird failure cases or places where the allocation looks unintuitive. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49026810 Points: 296 # Comments: 147

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

FDA reports new outbreak of explosive diarrhea with 72 cases identified

The FDA hasn't said where the cases are or how they're linked.

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

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Google's selfie videos can be used for account access, AI Avatars, and age verification.