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Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Xbox prices spike another $100 or more

Microsoft is increasing the prices of Xbox consoles again. Starting August 1st, 512GB models will be $100 more expensive, while 1TB models will be $150 more expensive. This means that the Xbox Series S will start at $499.99, the Xbox Series X without a disc drive will start at $749.99, and the Series X with […]

AI · TechCrunch AI

Databricks’ former AI chief thinks he can cut AI’s power bill by 1,000x

Un-0 is an image-generation system tool that shows for the first time how the company's technology can replicate conventional AI systems.

Developers & Open Source · GitHub Changelog

Actions steps can now be run in parallel

GitHub Actions now supports running steps concurrently using background. Previously, all steps in a workflow ran in sequence, with each step starting only after the previous step completed. Previously, you… The post Actions steps can now be run in parallel appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Trust in Rust: Foundation debuts official training to tackle steep learning curve

The Rust Foundation on Thursday announced the launch of the Rust Foundation Trusted Training (RFTT) program, a new formal accreditation The post Trust in Rust: Foundation debuts official training to tackle steep learning curve appeared first on The New Stack .

Cybersecurity · BleepingComputer

New macOS malware embeds fake errors to confuse AI analysis tools

A newly discovered macOS malware dubbed "Gaslight" is designed to confuse AI-assisted malware analysis tools by hiding prompt injection strings and fake debugging data within the executable. [...]

Developers & Open Source · Hugging Face Blog

Which tokens does a hybrid model predict better?

Hugging Face Blog published: Which tokens does a hybrid model predict better?

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion

Hi HN, Nick here. We’re launching OpenKnowledge ( https://openknowledge.ai/ ), a “what you see is what you get” markdown editor that has direct integrations with Claude, Codex, and other agents. Available as MacOS app or Web UI+CLI. Fully free/local and OSS. We built this because we wanted a Notion-like experience for writing and sharing markdown files across our team. Obsidian is the best alternative we tried, but found it doesn’t have a true WYSWIG UI and it didn’t integrate well with Claude/Codex outside of community plugins. So we built OpenKnowledge. It takes shape as: 1. A MacOS app with a file navigator, the WYSIWYG editor, and link explorer. 2. Integrations with the Claude, Codex, and Cursor desktop apps. The agents can open an OpenKnowledge editor within their embedded web browsers for a side-by-side experience. 3. Built-in mcps, skills, and RAG for LLM-wiki and “AI Second Brain” scenarios + spec writing 4. An embedded terminal and CLI for TUI-first users OSS stack includes: Tiptap/prosemirror, CodeMirror, yjs (CRDT), Electron (MacOS app), Orama, remark/rehype/micromark/mdast, @pierre/trees On the architecture side, the interesting eng. challenges included: 1. A pipeline to convert ProseMirror to markdown in a bidirectional lossless way. ProseMirror uses ASTs, which are not designed to have byte-fidelity. 2. A dual-observer CRDT to keep the ProseMirror and markdown state in-sync. The CRDT + git also power a collaborative experience that shows what Agents are doing in the markdown, have undo/redo, and version history. The “Share” and cloud-sync functionality are geared for team collaboration. They feel “no-code” but leverage git/GitHub under the hood, which also means data stays fully private. In that spirit, we made OpenKnowledge open source for anybody who’s curious or who’d like to contribute. We’re actively thinking about plugins/extensibility and what’s next. If you have suggestions or feedback, would love to hear it. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675435 Points: 305 # Comments: 151

World · The Guardian World

‘Constitutional coup’ claims as Zimbabwe senate approves extending presidential term

Opposition figures fear changes will further tighten 83-year-old president Emmerson Mnangagwa’s hold on power Zimbabwe is on the brink of amending its constitution to give the president more time in office, a change that the government says will bring stability but that opponents have labelled a “constitutional coup”. The upper house of Zimbabwe’s parliament voted on Wednesday 75-4 in favour of the constitutional amendments, which will allow President Emmerson Mnangagwa to stay in office until 2030 by extending presidential terms from five to seven years. Continue reading...

AI · The Decoder

Most major AI chatbots still lean left on political questions, even "anti-woke" models are no exception

A Washington Post investigation shows that most major AI chatbots still skew left on political questions. OpenAI's GPT-5.5 gave exclusively left-leaning arguments 80 percent of the time, and even Musk's Grok, marketed as anti-"woke," leaned left more often than not. The one outlier: Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro presented both sides 93 percent of the time. The article Most major AI chatbots still lean left on political questions, even "anti-woke" models are no exception appeared first on The Decoder .

Developers & Open Source · GitHub Changelog

npm adds preventive account protection for high-impact accounts

npm now adds a temporary, preventive safeguard for high-impact accounts—those responsible for the registry’s most widely used packages—whenever it detects a sensitive account change, strengthening protection against account-takeover attacks. When… The post npm adds preventive account protection for high-impact accounts appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Template-based data extraction is dead. Here’s what comes next.

Modern businesses are in a constant, uphill battle against what to do with unstructured data: PDFs, contracts, scanned images, customer The post Template-based data extraction is dead. Here’s what comes next. appeared first on The New Stack .

AI · TechCrunch AI

General Intuition raises $2.3B on bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world

General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay, betting action data can help AI develop something closer to human intuition.

AI · Google AI Blog

Our latest Google Finance upgrades, including a new app

The new Google Finance is coming out of beta and launching a new Android app.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Slate’s electric truck: all the news about the ultra-minimal EV

Slate Auto is a new startup that emerged out of a secretive project called “Re:Car” within Re:Build Manufacturing, a domestic manufacturing project backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. The company’s first electric vehicle is a barebones electric pickup that’s roughly a third of the size of your typical gas-powered truck. And the proposal is pretty […]

Developers & Open Source · Chrome Releases

Chrome Dev for Android Update

Hi everyone! We've just released Chrome Dev 151 (151.0.7910.0) for Android. It's now available on Google Play . You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log . For details on new features, check out the Chromium blog , and for details on web platform updates, check here . If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug . Chrome Release Team Google Chrome

Business · CNBC Technology

Here's our plan for FedEx Freight's stock heading into its first earnings call

The Investing Club holds its "Morning Meeting" every weekday at 10:20 a.m. ET.

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time

Preprint: https://scrollprize.org/pdf/main.pdf https://github.com/ScrollPrize/villa Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675179 Points: 1326 # Comments: 280

Developers & Open Source · GitHub Changelog

Red Hat Enterprise Linux runner images are now in public preview

GitHub-hosted larger runners now support Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 and RHEL 10 images in public preview, introduced in partnership with Red Hat. Organizations can use these RHEL images… The post Red Hat Enterprise Linux runner images are now in public preview appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

Cybersecurity · BleepingComputer

PirloTV sports piracy network disrupted as 44 domains seized

A major sports piracy ring linked to the illegal PirloTV streaming platform has been disrupted in an action that targeted 44 domains. [...]

Developers & Open Source · Docker Blog

EU Cyber Resilience Act: Overview, Requirements, and Timelines

Learn what the EU Cyber Resilience Act requires, including SBOM mandates, vulnerability reporting, and compliance deadlines for container teams.

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology

Article URL: https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-06-25-ibm-debuts-worlds-first-sub-1-nanometer-chip-technology Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674967 Points: 309 # Comments: 167

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

How the World Cup became a US streaming success story

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. The 2026 World Cup is breaking streaming records around the world: Brazil's CazéTV YouTube livestream of that country's opening game against Morocco surpassed 12 million concurrent viewers, a new milestone […]

Developers & Open Source · JetBrains Blog

The Dev Containers Story: Introducing EelApi for Plugin Authors

Modern development has shifted one old IDE paradigm significantly: Now, not only is it possible that a project is not hosted on the same physical or remote machine as your IDE instance, it could even be that both share the same host but are separated from one another inside isolated environments. If you are a […]

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

These are the best deals you can still get on MacBooks before Apple’s price hike kicks in

Apple just raised the prices on Macs and iPads in response to the rising costs of memory chips, right in the middle of Amazon Prime Day. That means existing discounts (even small ones) on Apple laptops like the MacBook Neo, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro just became significantly better deals. As an example, the 13-inch […]