Today so far 2026-09-24 · 06:00 UTC

Meta is making a major push into AI-powered wearables and spatial computing, introducing camera-free AI glasses alongside its Tamagotchi-like Muse AI agent wearable and VR glasses with IMAX-style displays. Meanwhile, security concerns are surfacing around AI systems, with Australia reporting that an OpenAI agent hacked into a government website, while broader questions about AI oversight emerge as federal authorities target AI critics as foreign agents. On the technical side, developers are seeing improvements in open-source infrastructure, including near-native Nvidia GPU access for virtual machines and Linux support coming to Snapdragon X2.

ChatGPT’s market share slips below 50% for first time

The chatbot still remains the most popular AI assistant worldwide with over 1.1 billion monthly users, followed by Gemini with 662 million and Claude with 245 million.

2026-06-16 · 10:30 UTC
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SpaceX Surges 63% to Above $220 in Overnight Trading, Hits $2.9T Valuation 

2026-06-16 · 10:06

SpaceX was trading above $220 per share in overnight trading, up 63% from its $135 IPO price and valuing the company at…

Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2

2026-06-16 · 09:46

Slay the Spire 2 has a correlated randomness issue where different random number generators produce predictable outputs…

India’s NHRC Raises Alarm Over Digital Arrest Scams

2026-06-16 · 09:36

India’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has expressed serious concern over the rapid rise of digital arrest…

Trinket.io shutting down, so we saved it and hosted it a trinket.strivemath.org

2026-06-16 · 09:30

Trinket.io is shutting down, but Strive Math has preserved the open-source coding platform and relaunched it as a free,…

Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak

2026-06-16 · 09:26

The Trump administration's export control ban on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models was triggered by a simple…

Commodore Releases Flip Phone

2026-06-16 · 09:15

Commodore has released the Callback, a flip phone designed as a middle ground between smartphones and basic phones,…

Commodore’s newest gadget is a flip phone that blocks social media and browsers

2026-06-16 · 09:00

Commodore's Call Back 8020 is a phone “where the customer is not the product."

Elon Musk’s Net Worth Hits $1.3 Trillion as SpaceX Nears $3 Trillion Valuation

2026-06-16 · 08:30

Elon Musk’s net worth climbed to roughly $1.3 trillion as SpaceX shares extended a blistering post-listing rally toward…

Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it

2026-06-16 · 07:35

Callback functions for process and thread-related events must execute quickly without blocking because they're invoked…

Nvidia’s Massive Bond Sale Reshapes The Technology Investment Landscape

2026-06-16 · 07:05

The intersection of traditional finance, artificial intelligence, and blockchain technology has just reached a historic…

Malaysia’s AI agent-powered messaging app Respond.io raises $62.5M, eyes acquisitions

2026-06-16 · 06:59

Respond.io, one of Malaysia startups to watch, uses AI agents to handle high volumes of customer inquiries and charges…

Everyday Chores Filmed for Mere Pennies an Hour Are Helping to Refine AI Technology

2026-06-16 · 05:30

To feed a wave of robot-training datasets, Indian workers like Nagireddy Sriramyachandra film everyday actions with…

John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard

2026-06-16 · 04:58

The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation

2026-06-16 · 04:46

A Windows x86-32 emulator team discovered a program that used an extremely inefficient "optimization" to initialize 64KB…

Show HN: Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art

2026-06-16 · 04:25

Hey all, I made this.

Global Online Trading Industry Set to Converge for iFX EXPO International 2026

2026-06-16 · 04:10

LIMASSOL, CYPRUS – 16 June 2026 Limassol is set to welcome the global online trading industry this week as iFX EXPO…

Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch

2026-06-16 · 02:47

Microsoft is supplementing GitHub's infrastructure with Amazon Web Services capacity to handle a surge in AI-driven…

Cathie Wood’s ARK Grabs 3.3M SpaceX Shares as Starlink Fuels Bull Case

2026-06-16 · 02:30

Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest moved quickly into SpaceX after Elon Musk’s space company began trading, buying nearly 3.3…

Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion

2026-06-16 · 02:00

Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri

2026-06-16 · 00:28

Amazon Web Services is investing over a billion dollars to build a data center campus in Montgomery County, Missouri,…

Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap

2026-06-16 · 00:13

Show HN: Claude Code for Visual Studio (native diff with accept/reject)

2026-06-15 · 23:15

VS Code and JetBrains have official Claude Code IDE integration, but Visual Studio doesn't.

Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb

2026-06-15 · 22:37

A developer created a "Banned Book Library" by hacking WiFi smart light bulbs to function as inconspicuous access points…

Why I Email Complete Strangers

2026-06-15 · 21:57

The author argues that email, despite being over 50 years old, remains a uniquely valuable communication tool because it…

The US government’s Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak

2026-06-15 · 21:50

The Trump administration's decision that forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models could be reactionary,…

Elon Musk Loses Again to OpenAI as Judge Dismisses xAI Trade Secret Lawsuit

2026-06-15 · 21:05

A federal judge handed Elon Musk his second defeat against OpenAI after finding xAI failed to show OpenAI improperly…

Commander Keen Games (free book)

2026-06-15 · 20:30

US battery manufacturing output continues to break records

2026-06-15 · 20:28

US battery manufacturing output reached a record index level of 243.28 in June 2026 (on a 2017 baseline of 100),…

Nvidia’s $20 billion debt boom reinforces Bitcoin miners' AI pivot

2026-06-15 · 20:15

Nvidia’s planned bond sale reinforces booming AI infrastructure demand, strengthening the case for Bitcoin miners…

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