Technology

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) 8/10 ?

EFF Welcomes Alexander Macgillivray to its Board of Directors

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is honored to announce today thatAlexander "amac" Macgillivray— a former White House official who also served in top legal capacities at Twitter and Google — h...

2026-09-16

TechCrunch 7/10 ?

Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork in one interface

Anthropic is merging its front end for Claude chat and Cowork, making it less confusing for people to decide which tab to use for different tasks. The unified interface lets users access chat, Cowork,...

2026-09-16

Simon Willison 8/10 ?

Quoting Mustafa Suleyman

We should not treat models as though they have feelings, preferences, rights, or any entitlement to our welfare. Consciousness is the foundation of our ethical, legal, and political systems. To invite...

2026-09-16

The Verge 7/10 ?

Claude comes for Gemini with its own take on Docs and Slides

Claude is getting a pair of new tools today: Docs and Slides. They'll let you create documents and presentations through Claude chats, which you can export, edit, and share with other users. As part o...

2026-09-16

Engadget 7/10 ?

Anthropic's Claude can now create editable documents for you

Anthropic is adding the ability to create docs, slideshow and access Cowork capabilities inside chat. It will roll out to Pro and Max subscribers first.

2026-09-16

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

Article URL:https://claude.com/blog/cowork-is-now-claudeComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49729412Points: 30# Comments: 17

2026-09-16

The Register 7/10 ?

Enterprises are sweating legacy IT assets as AI investment grows

Hardware such as mainframes found to hold the data and business logic needed to build those AI services

2026-09-16

Wired 7/10 ?

Chipotle Is Working With Palantir to Track Food Safety Risks

The burrito chain has enlisted Palantir for a platform that monitors pest incidents, employee illnesses, and other factors. The partnership comes after a nightmare summer for food safety across the US...

2026-09-16

Hackaday 7/10 ?

A Cheap and Easy Control Screen For Home Assistant

Home Assistant is a great way to rig up and manage your smart home and its many and varied devices. You can of course control the system from your smartphone…read more

2026-09-16

Ars Technica 7/10 ?

What happens when neutrinos swap identities inside a supernova?

Identity-fluid particles may carry some energy out, leading to direct collapse.

2026-09-16

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) 8/10 ?

👮 Flock Searches for the LOLs | EFFector 38.16

Mass surveillance isn't a joke. But police are treating it like one when using automated license plate reader (ALPR) networks.Inour latest EFFector newsletter, we're coveringa new EFF reporton howoffi...

2026-09-16

TechCrunch 7/10 ?

How Fortell is using AI (and $163M) to crack a hearing aid monopoly

“Why do I have to beg my grandparents to put on their hearing aids, but no one has ever needed to ask me to put on my glasses?”  That’s the question that drove Matthew de Jonge to spend six years buil...

2026-09-16

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Code Is Crap

Article URL:https://testing.googleblog.com/2011/02/this-code-is-crap.htmlComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49729228Points: 35# Comments: 25

2026-09-16

The Register 7/10 ?

Nine-year-old runs up $118,000 bill on dad's corporate credit card advertising his Roblox YouTube channel

He'll need to earn around $13K a year to pay pops back between now and when he turns 18, so at least there's that free labor to look forward to

2026-09-16

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) 8/10 ?

How the Meta Settlement Silences Youth Activism

Since its integration into our digital world, social media has played a pivotal role in youth organizing and social mobilization. Yet, people’s access to these platforms is increasingly coming under t...

2026-09-16

TechCrunch 7/10 ?

Hear why Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak says the screen era is ending at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

At this year's Disrupt, Neuralink's co-founder Max Hodak will present a vision for screen-free interfaces that can even offer medical help. Register before September 25 to save up to $200 on your pass...

2026-09-16

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Small Programming Tricks

Article URL:https://will-keleher.com/posts/small-programming-tricks-matter/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49729000Points: 3# Comments: 0

2026-09-16

The Register 7/10 ?

Fedora 45 beta drags the Linux console into the 21st century

Kmscon brings smooth scaling, richer colors, and better Unicode support beneath GNOME 51

2026-09-16

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Can We Stop with the Uptime Percentages?

Article URL:https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/stop-with-the-uptime-percentage/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49728733Points: 10# Comments: 0

2026-09-16

TechCrunch 7/10 ?

May Mobility is going public in a $1.4B SPAC deal

Autonomous vehicle company May Mobility is merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) and will become a publicly traded company. It’s a deal that could raise more than $300 million for ...

2026-09-16