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Apple teams up with Klarna to launch a lease-to-own program for iPhones, iPads, and Macs

The new leasing program is a big change for the hardware company, and comes as it looks to raise prices on many of its…

Measuring reward-seeking by instilling contrastive beliefs

Researchers at OpenAI developed a new test called Contrastive Synthetic Document Finetuning (Contrastive SDF) to measure…

Show HN: Edky, a CLI to convert Ed25519 public keys from one encoding to another

Edky is a CLI tool and polyglot library that converts Ed25519 public keys between multiple encoding formats including…

YouTube System Design for Robotics Data Infrastructure

Researchers built Pareto, an open-source data platform for robotics that applies YouTube-style infrastructure design…

Data centers expected to use 4x more electricity by 2035

New data centers built through 2033 could consume as much electricity as India uses today.

Tesla spins up robotaxi pilots in Orlando and Tampa ahead of Q2 earnings

The company didn't say how many are in each city, and has taken a far more cautious approach to scaling the network than…

Apple Private Cloud Compute SoC 3 audit reports

Apple has published SOC 3 audit reports examining the independent controls over its Private Cloud Compute (PCC)…

Show HN: DocCharm – The help center that keeps itself up to date

DocCharm is an AI-powered help center tool that automatically detects product changes and generates draft documentation…

Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out

Anthropic blocks authors from opting out of $1.5B settlement at last minute.

Show HN: Imagin Raw – A 9MB Open-Source Alternative to Adobe Bridge for Mac

Imagin Raw is a lightweight, open-source macOS application designed as an efficient alternative to Adobe Bridge for…

Firefox Containers Preview

Firefox 153 now includes native Containers as a built-in feature, allowing users to keep separate browsing contexts…

Google Is Building an AI Chip Just for Gemini—And Investors Already Moved On It

Codenamed Frozen v2, Google's new server chip would bake part of Gemini's architecture directly into hardware for a…

Laguna S 2.1

Laguna S 2.1, a 118-billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model developed in under nine weeks, delivers strong…

Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting

Jack Dorsey's Block has launched Buzz, an open-source workspace that combines team chat, AI agents, and Git hosting…

Steam Deck sales are losing steam since May's price hike

Analysis of bestseller charts shows an 80 percent dip from 2025's sales rate.

Show HN: CodeAlmanac – Karpathy-style codebase wiki from your conversations

CodeAlmanac is an AI-powered tool that automatically generates and maintains a markdown-based wiki for codebases by…

Google releases three new Gemini models — but no 3.5 Pro

Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Flash Cyber, but the continued absence of Gemini 3.5 Pro raises…

Uhubctl – control USB power per-port on smart USB hubs

Uhubctl is a utility that controls USB power on a per-port basis for smart USB hubs that support this feature.

Meta's AI Models Are Powering the First Wave of Genesis Mission Projects

Meta's AI models are being deployed through the Genesis Mission, a White House initiative launched in late 2025 to…

Bloomy (YC S26) is hiring a founding engineer

Bloomy, a YC S26-backed AI tutoring startup, is hiring a founding engineer to join its solo technical founder.

Google announces Gemini 3.6 Flash and cybersecurity AI, teases 3.5 Pro and Gemini 4

There are new 3.6 and 3.5 models today, but Google is already training Gemini 4.

Show HN: OSS Cross-Harness self hosted registry and analytics for AI Agents

Observal is an open-source, self-hosted registry and analytics platform designed to serve as a control plane for…

Google Unveils Three Gemini AI Models to Expand AI and Cybersecurity Push

Google has introduced three new Gemini artificial intelligence models, strengthening its push to compete in the rapidly…

Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS

The ancient Silk Road city that has a lesson for Silicon Valley

On a trip along the Silk Road, columnist Annalee Newitz discovers that ancient technology can offer us a framework for…

Instagram now lets you swap out the music in your old posts

With the new "Replace Audio," tool, users can update the music on their post at any time while keeping the post's…

Show HN: An MCP server that turns async-work practices into tools

An MCP server called "Open and Async" provides AI tools to implement async-first working practices directly within your…

France's Anssi Will Block PQC-Free Products from Certification Starting 2027

France's cybersecurity agency ANSSI will stop certifying security products lacking quantum-resistant encryption starting…

Threads rolls out parental supervision tools

With the new tools, parents and guardians will be able to view their teen's time spent on Threads, set daily time…