Innovation, AI & Digital Frontier
Social engineering: 'low-cost, hard to patch, and scales well'North Korean criminals set on stealing Apple users' credentials and cryptocurrency are using a combination of social engineering and a fak...
Chinese fantasy novels reimagine the past with modern tech and ideology. A new book argues they also help reinforce authoritarian politics.
Playdate is getting a third season of curated, surprise games, Panic announced today. We don't know much beyond the fact that Season Three is officially happening, but Panic's Head of Playdate Greg Ma...
In Musk v. Altman, a jury will soon determine whether OpenAI has strayed from its founding mission to ensure AGI benefits humanity. Here’s what to know.
Worse: Anthropic is using Persona, a privacy checker that rings alarm bells for the paranoids on RedditAnthropic may check your ID before letting you access certain Claude features, and the verificati...
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Hey HN! We're Charles and Dean, and we're building Stage: a code review tool that guides you through reading a PR step by step, instead of piecing together a giant diff.Here's a demo video:https://www...
In a bid to minimize dependence on technology from other countries, the UK government is plowing resources into homegrown AI startups.
If the real world isn’t grim enough for you, Ukranian developer 4A Games has your back:Metro 2039has been announced and is scheduled to arrive this winter. And based on the developer’s first look at t...
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In Brief Posted: 10:11 AM PDT · April 16, 2026 Sarah Perez It’s not just you — Bluesky is (sorta) down Bluesky’s website and app are still struggling on Thursday after experiencing service interruptio...
The MacBook Neo is poised to be a top-selling laptop in 2026, thanks in large part to its affordable $599 entry price. Despite launching at a more accessible price point than Apple’s $1,099 (though of...
Now, when you're using AI Mode on Chrome desktop, clicking a link will open the webpage side-by-side with AI Mode.
OpenAI is beefing up its agentic coding and development system Codex with a suite of updates that let it use your computer, generate images, and remember from past experiences. Codex will now be able ...
Google is upgrading AI Mode in Chrome with a new feature that will allow you to open links to sources alongside your chat. Now, instead of automatically opening a new tab, clicking a source will open ...
Last month, following reporting fromThe Wall Street Journal, OpenAIconfirmedit was working on a desktop super app that would combine ChatGPT, itsCodex coding agentandAtlas web browserinto one cohesive...
Love 'em or hate 'em, no modern browser is complete without robust tab support, and so too would it seemGoogle's AI Mode. Starting today, the company is rolling out an update to users in the US that m...
Google latest update to AI Mode in its Chrome browser is designed to keep the chatbot-style search tool always around once you start an online search journey.
Intel hasunveiledits new Core Series 3 chips, the official title for its Wildcat Lake-codenamed series intended for mainstream and value-oriented laptops. Built using the same Intel 18A process as its...
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that two Americans were sentenced to years in prison for helping the North Korean government place fake IT workers in U.S. companies.