Today so far 2026-09-24 · 18:00 UTC

The most significant development today involves AI's expanding role across consumer and enterprise applications, with Google testing Gemini's ability to call businesses for you and ElevenLabs reaching a $22B valuation, while concerns about data privacy and security persist as LinkedIn secured a court order blocking mass scraping and users filed suit claiming humans read their ChatGPT conversations. Meanwhile, practical applications of AI continue to multiply—from Google Photos' new virtual closet feature to a tutoring company recommending AI over paid services—alongside emerging concerns about AI-generated content quality and the persistent challenge of malicious software lingering on GitHub unremoved.

Robinhood sees ‘record-breaking’ traffic after SpaceX stock debuts

The trading platform says some customers experienced intermittent disruptions, but that those issues have resolved.

2026-06-12 · 17:05 UTC
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Gauntlet AI will fly you to Austin, train you in AI, give $200k+ job

2026-06-12 · 17:00

Gauntlet AI is a ten-week, all-expenses-paid immersive program that trains software engineers in AI development and…

Launch HN: BitBoard (YC P25) – Analytics Workspace for Agents

2026-06-12 · 16:58

We’re Connor and Ambar from BitBoard (https://bitboard.work). BitBoard is an agentic analytics workspace.

When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket

2026-06-12 · 16:51

Even moderately sized data centers can have an outsized local impact.

Looking Forward to Postgres 19: It's About Time

2026-06-12 · 16:44

Postgres 19 is introducing native temporal table support, finally implementing a feature formalized in the SQL:2011…

New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses

2026-06-12 · 16:41

Google sues Chinese cybercrime network that used Gemini to automate scams

2026-06-12 · 16:34

The fraudsters allegedly targeted hundreds of thousands of people with Gemini-coded scams sites.

A PDF that changes based on who is reading

2026-06-12 · 16:32

The article describes a technique for creating PDFs that render identically to human readers but provide clean,…

SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI’s hot IPO summer

2026-06-12 · 16:23

The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge.

Elon Musk becomes the world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX’s historic IPO

2026-06-12 · 15:55

The SpaceX IPO has boosted Musk's paper wealth to more than $1,000,000,000,000 at a time when he is more hated -- and…

SpaceX opens at $150, an 11% pop for the most anticipated debut in history

2026-06-12 · 15:54

The company made its heavily-anticipated debut on Friday, trading higher than its initial $135 IPO price.

Euro-Office, open standards, and native ODF

2026-06-12 · 15:51

The Document Foundation welcomes Euro-Office's commitment to open standards but clarifies that it is not the first…

Keygen.music

2026-06-12 · 15:42

Keygen.music is a platform dedicated to preserving and sharing tracker music formats (MOD, XM, S3M) from the demoscene…

You can power on a Mac remotely

2026-06-12 · 15:31

Apple has finally enabled remote power-on for certain Mac models (Mac mini 2024+, Mac Studio 2025+, and iMac 2024+)…

Wasi: WebGPU – A Proposed WebAssembly System Interface API

2026-06-12 · 15:26

The wasi:webgpu proposal seeks to bring GPU access to WebAssembly through a new WebAssembly System Interface API,…

Show HN: StackScope – I crawled over 40k indie launches to see what they ship

2026-06-12 · 15:26

Hey all, I built StackScope, a crawler/catalogue that looks at new product launches and shows what they were built…

Show HN: Script to bulk delete Claude chats from the web UI

2026-06-12 · 15:08

I haven't found a way to delete all chats in bulk like you can on Chatgpt.

Lawsuit: ChatGPT validated suicidal woman's distrust of crisis lines

2026-06-12 · 15:03

Did chatbot abandon mental health guardrails when a vulnerable user pushed back?

Introduction to UEFI HTTP(s) Boot with QEMU/OVMF

2026-06-12 · 14:50

Modern UEFI-based systems can boot over HTTP(S), which offers significant security and availability advantages over the…

Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end

2026-06-12 · 14:48

A developer discovered that requesting AI-generated frontend interfaces to mimic Qt (a desktop application framework)…

My Struggles Talking to an Old Piece of Junk (Fanuc 0M)

2026-06-12 · 14:41

A machinist documents their months-long struggle to get an old Fanuc 0M CNC mill operational, including rewiring the…

WhatsApp Business API pricing 2026: what's free and where markup hides

2026-06-12 · 14:37

# Summary WhatsApp Business API is never strictly free—Meta charges $0.004 to $0.13 per message depending on country…

How to automate Instagram engagements with computer vision (and get banned)

2026-06-12 · 14:21

# Summary The author experimented with using computer vision and cursor automation to automate Instagram engagement by…

What the Fuck Happened to Nerds

2026-06-12 · 14:11

Over the past decade, technology industry leaders have shifted from the modest, work-focused "nerd" archetype…

SpaceX IPO: Everything you need to know

2026-06-12 · 14:08

TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days.

WASI 0.3.0 Released

2026-06-12 · 13:51

The WASI Subgroup has officially ratified WASI 0.3.0, rebasing WebAssembly System Interface onto the WebAssembly…

Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring a Full Stack Engineer

2026-06-12 · 13:14

Morning Minute: SpaceX Prices Largest IPO Ever at $135

2026-06-12 · 12:31

Hyperliquid has SpaceX trading at $177 a share. Will we see a 30% pop on open this morning?

Who Will Win the 2026 FIFA World Cup According to ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Claude, and Perplexity?

2026-06-12 · 12:24

With the 2026 FIFA World Cup underway across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, discussions about the eventual…

Encrypted Spaces An architecture for collaborative applications

2026-06-12 · 12:22

Encrypted Spaces is a research architecture that enables collaborative cloud applications while keeping data encrypted…

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