Apple acquires all rights to Severance, will produce future seasons in-house
The show is expected to run for four seasons, with the possibility of spin-offs, a prequel, and foreign versions....
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ByteDance’s next-gen AI model can generate clips based on text, images, audio, and video
ByteDance says its new AI video model can more accurately follow prompts. | Image: ByteDance Big Tech's race to leapfrog the latest AI models continues with the launch of ByteDance's next-gen video ...
A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks
Article URL: https://loriemerson.net/2024/08/31/a-brief-history-of-barbed-wire-fence-telephone-networks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46989605 Points: 9 # Comments: 1...
US FTC airs concerns over allegations that Apple News suppresses right-wing content
In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, FTC chair Andrew Ferguson cited reports from Media Research Center, a right-leaning think tank, which accused Apple of excluding right-leaning outlets from the top 2...
Kim Jong Un chooses teen daughter as heir
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0e1g7kwglo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46989379 Points: 31 # Comments: 16...
Elon Musk's X Appears to Be Violating US Sanctions by Selling Premium Accounts to Iranian Leaders
While publicly supporting protesters in Iran, Elon Musk's X appears to have been selling premium accounts to regime officials. Checkmarks were removed from certain accounts after a WIRED inquiry....
Email is tough: Major European Payment Processor's Emails rejected by GWorkspace
Article URL: https://atha.io/blog/2026-02-12-viva Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46989217 Points: 103 # Comments: 50...
Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings
Article URL: https://aethermug.com/posts/culture-is-the-mass-synchronization-of-framings Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46989124 Points: 17 # Comments: 1...
The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware
Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1055590/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46989117 Points: 35 # Comments: 8...
Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/12/apple_ios_263/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46989107 Points: 55 # Comments: 22...
Amazon’s Send to Alexa Plus makes the Kindle Scribe feel more like a productivity device
Amazon's rolling out a new "Send to Alexa Plus" feature to the latest Kindle Scribe and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft owners starting February 12. The feature lets you send your notes or documents to Amazon...
Eclipse backs all-EV marketplace Ever in $31M funding round
The San Francisco-based startup says its AI-first approach has allowed it to scale faster....
How to Choose the Right TV in 2026 (and a Few We Like)
How many ports do you need? What does 4K UHD even mean? What's RGB LED? Here’s everything you need to know....
Here’s What It’s Like to Use TurboTax’s Mobile App to File Taxes on Your Own (2026)
Sigh. Another tax season is upon us. I filed my taxes with TurboTax, exploring its newest features and free or low-cost filing options....
The Best Kindle Accessories (2026): Cases, Page Turners, Stickers
Looking to better protect your Kindle or add a little personality to your favorite e-reader? From cases and covers to page turners and even charms, this is the guide for you....
Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed
Article URL: http://blog.can.ac/2026/02/12/the-harness-problem/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46988596 Points: 137 # Comments: 56...
Apache Arrow is 10 years old
Article URL: https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2026/02/12/arrow-anniversary/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46988438 Points: 29 # Comments: 2...
The Download: AI-enhanced cybercrime, and secure AI assistants
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI is already making online crimes easier. It could get much w...
Crypto-Funded Human Trafficking Is Exploding
The use of cryptocurrency in sales of human beings for prostitution and scam compounds nearly doubled in 2025, according to a conservative estimate. Many of the deals are happening in plain sight....
This $7,999 robot will fold (some of) your laundry
Isaac 0 is a stationary robot with one job: folding laundry. | Image: Weave Robotics If you have a spare $7,999 (plus a $250 deposit), hate folding laundry, and happen to live in the Bay Area, one-a...
13 Best MagSafe Power Banks for iPhones (2026), Tested and Reviewed
Keep your iPhone or Qi2 Android phone topped up with one of these WIRED-tested Qi2 or MagSafe portable chargers....
The "Crown of Nobles" Noble Gas Tube Display (2024)
Article URL: https://theshamblog.com/the-crown-of-nobles-noble-gas-tube-display/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46987919 Points: 85 # Comments: 8...
We let Chrome's Auto Browse agent surf the web for us—here's what happened
Auto Browse is capable of some impressive things, but it can also crash and burn spectacularly....
HP ZBook Ultra G1a review: a business-class workstation that’s got game
Sleeper laptop. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Business laptops are typically dull computers foisted on employees en masse. But higher-end enterprise workstation notebooks sometimes ge...
Therabody JetBoots Pro Plus Review: 3-in-1 Recovery Tech
The JetBoots Pro Plus promise faster, more effective recovery by combining multiple therapies in one device. I tested whether it’s worth the $1,150 splurge....
AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it
Article URL: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46987559 Points: 545 # Comments: 452...
KYY X90G Quad Portable Monitor Extender Review: 3 More Screens
This accessory gives your laptop three extra displays—as long as you’re prepared to lug them around....
Alexa+ and Kindle Scribe Now Work Together With ‘Send to Alexa’
The new “Send to Alexa” feature lets you send Kindle Scribe notebooks to your Echo device with just a couple of taps....
ICE is pushing Minneapolis underground
Minneapolis was not the war zone I expected to find. Depending on who you are and where you live, things can seem, for a few fleeting moments, almost normal, like a few blocks or neighborhoods over pe...
I Tried RentAHuman, Where AI Agents Hired Me to Hype Their AI Startups
Rather than offering a revolutionary new approach to gig work, RentAHuman is filled with bots that just want me to be another cog in the AI hype machine....
AI is already making online crimes easier. It could get much worse.
Anton Cherepanov is always on the lookout for something interesting. And in late August last year, he spotted just that. It was a file uploaded to VirusTotal, a site cybersecurity researchers like him...
Why EVs are gaining ground in Africa
EVs are getting cheaper and more common all over the world. But the technology still faces major challenges in some markets, including many countries in Africa. Some regions across the continent still...
What’s next for Chinese open-source AI
MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. The past year has marked a turn...
SpaceX takes down Dragon crew arm, giving Starship a leg up in Florida
SpaceX's crew missions will now launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station....
Highguard’s developer reportedly lays off ‘most’ of its staff just over two weeks after launch
Highguard, a new multiplayer shooter from developers who worked on games like Apex Legends and Call of Duty, launched just over two weeks ago, but developer Wildlight Entertainment is already cutting ...
Trump orders the military to make agreements with coal power plants
The administration's "reasoning" for doing so has little connection to reality....
El Paso airport closed after military used new anti-drone laser to zap party balloon
"I want to be very, very clear that this should’ve never happened."...
xAI lays out interplanetary ambitions in public all-hands
On Wednesday, xAI took the rare step of publishing its full 45-minute all-hands presentation to the X platform, making it widely available....
Two more xAI co-founders are among those leaving after the SpaceX merger
Since the xAI-SpaceX merger announced last week, which combined the two companies (as well as social media platform X) for a reported $1.25 trillion valuation - the biggest merger of all time - a hand...
iOS 26.3 makes it easier to switch to Android
iPhone users have a new option for switching to Android on iOS 26.3. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge On Wednesday, Apple released its latest iOS 26 update, which includes a new process...
The Verge’s 2026 Valentine’s Day gift guide (for him)
Valentine's Day is often thought of as the quintessential Hallmark holiday - and why wouldn't it be? Most of the time, it's marketed to us with massive floral arrangements and heart-shaped chocolates,...
AI inference startup Modal Labs in talks to raise at $2.5B valuation, sources say
General Catalyst is in talks to lead the round for the four-year-old startup, according to our sources....
Anthropic says it’ll try to keep its data centers from raising electricity costs
Anthropic is the latest AI company promising to limit the impact its data centers have on nearby residents' electricity bills. The company said it would pay higher monthly electricity charges in orde...
Once-hobbled Lumma Stealer is back with lures that are hard to resist
ClickFix bait, combined with advanced Castleloader malware, is installing Lumma "at scale."...
OpenAI disbands mission alignment team
The team's leader has been given a new role as OpenAI's chief futurist, while the other team members have been reassigned throughout the company....
Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78
He became one of the first to visualize personal computing by painting vivid cover art....
Apple’s Siri revamp reportedly delayed… again
While the new Siri was expected to launch with the upcoming iOS 26.4 update in March, now, the changes are expected to roll out more slowly over time, reportedly postponing some features until the May...
Uber Eats launches AI assistant to help with grocery cart creation
Uber Eats launched a new AI feature, “Cart Assistant,” that can automatically add items to your cart based on text or image prompts....
Yes, Rocket Lab is blowing up engines. No, it's not a big deal, CEO says.
"We are in the part of the program where we are doing very nasty things to the engine."...
Did seabird poop fuel rise of Chincha in Peru?
Guano dramatically boosted the production of maize, and the surplus helped fuel the Chincha Kingdom’s economy....
Who will own your company’s AI layer? Glean’s CEO explains
Enterprise AI is shifting fast from chatbots that answer questions to systems that actually do the work across an organization. But who will own the AI layer that powers all of it? Glean, which start...
Elon Musk suggests spate of xAI exits have been push, not pull
At least nine engineers, including two co-founders, have announced their exits from xAI in the past week, fueling online speculation and raising questions about stability at Musk’s AI company amid mou...
OpenAI researcher quits over ChatGPT ads, warns of "Facebook" path
Zoë Hitzig resigned on the same day OpenAI began testing ads in its chatbot....
"Windows 11 26H1" is a special version of Windows exclusively for new Arm PCs
Arm PCs have enjoyed special treatment from Microsoft for the past two years....
Is a secure AI assistant possible?
AI agents are a risky business. Even when stuck inside the chatbox window, LLMs will make mistakes and behave badly. Once they have tools that they can use to interact with the outside world, such as ...
The Download: inside the QuitGPT movement, and EVs in Africa
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT ...
EVs could be cheaper to own than gas cars in Africa by 2040
Electric vehicles could be economically competitive in Africa sooner than expected. Just 1% of new cars sold across the continent in 2025 were electric, but a new analysis finds that with solar off-gr...
A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions
In September, Alfred Stephen, a freelance software developer in Singapore, purchased a ChatGPT Plus subscription, which costs $20 a month and offers more access to advanced models, to speed up his wor...
The Download: Making AI Work, and why the Moltbook hype is similar to Pokémon
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A first look at Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s new AI...
Why the Moltbook frenzy was like Pokémon
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Lots of influential people in tech last week were describing M...