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Google adds Nano Banana-powered image generation to Gemini’s Personal Intelligence

The feature will be initially available to paid users in the U.S.

So Close to Getting It

David Pierce, last week in his Installer column/newsletter for The Verge, singing the praises of the version 5.0 update to Sofa (the praises of which I just sang): Sofa 5. A huge update to an Installerverse favorite, this app is now a great way to manage everything you want to wa…

Microsoft patched a Copilot Studio prompt injection. The data exfiltrated anyway.

Microsoft assigned CVE-2026-21520, a CVSS 7.5 indirect prompt injection vulnerability, to Copilot Studio. Capsule Security discovered the flaw, coordinated disclosure with Microsoft, and the patch was deployed on January 15. Public disclosure went live on Wednesday. That CVE matt…

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Rory Goss’s Accessibility Story

Feature story and short film, well worth watching, from Apple: One winter day in January 2024, 16‑year‑old Rory Goss experienced something jarring while in construction class at Abbey Christian Brothers’ Grammar School in Newry, Northern Ireland. He could no longer see the whiteb…

Could This AI-Simulated Brain Lead to Human Mind-Uploading?

We’re not holding our breath.

Google Makes Image Generation a Little Creepier With Personal Intelligence

Solving a problem no one had.

International tech

Decoding Agnikul’s Cosmos Race With SpaceX On 3D-Printed Rocket Engine

Fourth country to achieve a soft-landing on the Moon. First to reach the lunar south pole. First to reach Mars…

The Mexican security company with a $1.27 billion surveillance empire

Founded as a home alarm business in 1995, Grupo Seguritech now operates 188 command centers across Mexico and has at least 31 subsidiaries. Now it's coming to the U.S.

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TSMC targets over 30% revenue surge in 2026, ramps up capex amid booming AI demand

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) expects a revenue surge of more than 30 per cent in 2026 as the world’s largest contract chipmaker “pulls in all equipment” to ramp up supply, as management downplayed the impact of memory price hikes and Middle East tensions. During i…

The reason I’m still mentally sharp has nothing to do with puzzles or brain games — it’s that I refused to stop being curious

I discovered that while my retired friends are shrinking into their routines and doing crossword puzzles, I'm crawling through attics, restoring vintage radios, and staying up until 2 AM watching documentaries—not because I have to, but because genuine curiosity about how the wor…

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Alibaba Unveils Happy Oyster Model for 3D Interactive Video Generation

AlibabaGroup launched Happy Oyster, an AI model that generates interactive 3D video environments, expanding from 2D video into immersive content creation.

MOVA Launches V70 Ultra Robot Vacuum Featuring Extendable Robotic Arm Design

MOVA launched the V70 Ultra robot vacuum featuring a 16 cm extendable robotic arm to improve cleaning in tight and hard-to-reach spaces.

AI lowered the cost of building software. Enterprise governance hasn’t caught up

Presented by Retool The logic used to be: buying software is cheaper, faster, and safer for most use cases. Building was reserved for companies with large engineering teams, deep pockets, and problems so specific that no vendor could address them. But now, the cost to code a pi…

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AI traffic to US retailers rose 393% in Q1, and it’s boosting their revenue too

Adobe says AI traffic to U.S. retail sites also jumped 269% in March, with visitors converting better and generating more revenue than non-AI shoppers.

The Download: cyberscammers’ banking bypasses, and carbon removal troubles

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. Cyberscammers are bypassing banks’ security with illicit tools sold on Telegram Inside a money-laundering center in Cambodia, an employee ope…

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Cooking a Raspberry Pi FireWire HAT With Backfeeding

Recently [Jeff Geerling] has been tinkering with FireWire in order to use some older gear, which includes the use of a Raspberry Pi HAT called the Firehat. This provides a …read more

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All

Article URL: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-35b-a3b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792764 Points: 407 # Comments: 208

Optocam Zero’s Pictures Look One Hundred

Yeah, we know, there’s a camera on your phone that does this and that. But these days its become trendy to turn towards older digital cameras in place of smartphones, …read more

Claude Opus 4.7

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47793411 Points: 550 # Comments: 440

Figma Design to Code, Code to Design: Clearly Explained

This article covers how Figma’s design-to-code and code-to-design workflows actually work, starting with why the obvious approaches fail, how MCP solves them, and the engineering challenges that remain.

A Guide to Relational Database Design

In this article, we cover the core concepts that inform those decisions. We’ll look at tables, keys, relationships, normalization, and joins, with each concept building on the last.

Robot Bird Decoys Work for Good

Usually, you think of bird decoys as being a tool to lure birds to an untimely encounter with a hunter. However, [Interesting Engineering] has a story about robotic bird decoys …read more

The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?

Article URL: https://aphyr.com/posts/420-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-where-do-we-go-from-here Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792718 Points: 205 # Comments: 194

Emergency Bolt-Action Launcher for EpiPens

Imagine you and your friend are enjoying a nice sunny day, and BAM — they start to have a severe allergic reaction to who knows what. You have an EpiPen, …read more