Seattle City Council votes 9-0 to enact a one-year moratorium on new large data centers and study their impact; Mayor Katie Wilson is expected to sign the bill (Greg Kim/The Seattle Times) Greg Kim / The Seattle Times: Seattle City Council votes 9-0 to enact a one-year moratorium on new large data...

macOS Container Machines Article URL: https://github.com/apple/container/blob/main/docs/container-machine.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469658 Points: 226 # Comments: 86

Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars Google just made it significantly cheaper to enjoy its budget AI subscription tier.

It's death Article URL: https://jesseduffield.com/ITS-DEATH/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469347 Points: 120 # Comments: 25

Siri, are you there? Parents want one thing, and one thing only, out of AI: to add a list of soccer games or "spirit week" theme days from an email or a poorly formatted flyer onto their calendar in one shot. And I have good news for parents with iPhones - the new Siri can finally do this.

CoreWeave founders have sold $2.3B in stock since the company's lockup period expired in August after a March 2025 IPO, reducing their combined holdings by ~25% (Ella Feldman/Bloomberg) Ella Feldman / Bloomberg: CoreWeave founders have sold $2.

How Justin Ernest invested nearly $500M into hot startups without a traditional VC fund Instead of spending a year raising a formal venture fund, the Sabertooth VC founder used a captive network of LPs to invest in startups like Anthropic, Anduril, and SpaceX.

Hi HN, I've been building Nucleus, a lightweight Linux container runtime focused on two workloads: ephemeral AI-agent sandboxes and declarative NixOS services. It's a single Rust binary, no daemon.It is not a Docker replacement and not a strict subset of Docker either.

ServiceNow says attackers exploited a flaw, patched on June 5, that let unauthenticated users query data from customer instances, but gives few other details (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer) Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: ServiceNow says attackers exploited a flaw, patched on June 5, that...

Conan O'Brien is hosting educational videos for an AI cybersecurity company At long last, a corporate training you might actually enjoy.

Congress narrowly voted to fund President Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda, giving the Department of Homeland Security $70 billion over the next three years. The house voted 214 to 212 in favor of the reconciliation bill Tuesday, following the Senate's 52-47 vote last Friday morning.

Later this year, you will be able to get bundled subscriptions for iPhone apps, as Apple announced it's expanding App Store bundles so they can include offers from different companies. It's similar to streaming video bundles that have combined offers for Apple TV and Peacock, but it also could put...

Kalshi will require employment info for some bets as an insider trading precaution The rules may pose a minor hurdle for people who just have to cheat.

Starlink has started charging a $10 monthly rental fee for hardware in a shift away from its longtime practice of selling hardware to customers for a one-time charge. Starlink residential ordering pages now show an upfront hardware cost of $0 and a monthly kit fee of $10, similar to the hardware...

GM joins race to build batteries for AI data centers and the grid GM is developing an entirely new sodium-ion battery chemistry for use in everything from data centers to its own factories.

GM's EVs will soon support more kinds of public chargers EVs from GM will soon be able to top up at more kinds of public chargers.

At an event in San Francisco today, General Motors made a series of announcements around EV batteries, energy storage, and grid resiliency in the face of growing electricity demand from AI data centers. The automaker announced that it would be activating new vehicle-to-grid capabilities for its...

Microsoft on Tuesday released fixes for two high-severity zero-days that were disclosed by a researcher who has been locked in a testy beef with the software giant. Nightmare Eclipse, the pseudonym the researcher goes by, released a handful of high-severity vulnerabilities in recent months, making...

Hey, Siri, here’s what I actually want from AI I'm desperate for a personal AI assistant, but do I really want to become the kind of person who can't function without the friendly robot voice in my phone?

Anthropic’s Fable 5 can make weirdly fun video games with the click of a button Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 is going to be a big hit with the web's vibe coders.

People often speak metaphorically of the heartbeat or pulse of a city, but according to the authors of a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, cities do indeed have an "urban pulse"—an indication of urban "metabolic activity" that can be measured to suss out...

The scientific community has a plan for achieving fusion power. It involves getting a better understanding of how to control fusion in a tokamak-style reactor using the currently under construction ITER reactor, and then using that knowledge to build DEMO-style plants.

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says it's "really, really dangerous" for Anthropic to speculate about Claude's consciousness inside its "constitution," or the instructions that tell the model how to behave. During an episode of Decoder, Suleyman argues that this kind of speculation may have set...

Anthropic's Fable AI brings the capabilities of its unreleased Mythos model to regular users Claude subscribers can try the model until June 22 without spending usage credits.