Two arrested after four migrant farm workers killed in Italy minivan fire
CCTV images showed two people blocking the van's doors from the outside and throwing liquid inside to start a fire.
NY AG sues over Trump deal paying French firm to cancel offshore wind project
A 2017 photograph of an offshore wind farm operated by Equinor in England. Prosecutors say a federal judge should overturn a “blatantly unlawful” deal to cancel a $795 million offshore wind lease. [ more › ]
Soccer legend previews 2026 FIFA World Cup - Fox News
Soccer legend previews 2026 FIFA World Cup Fox News
KC restaurant will close for World Cup. Could it be for Argentina’s soccer team? - Kansas City Star
KC restaurant will close for World Cup. Could it be for Argentina’s soccer team? Kansas City Star
Launch HN: Rudus (YC P26) – AI for concrete contractors
Hi HN, we’re Rishi and Sahil. We’ve developed Rudus (https://www.rudus.ai/), an AI-powered takeoff and estimation platform built for concrete subcontractors.Takeoff is the process of measuring and quantifying materials from concrete plan sheets. Rudus identifies every concrete structure (footings...
MAI-Code-1-Flash
https://microsoft.ai/models/mai-code-1-flash/https://microsoft.ai/pdf/MAI-Code-1-Flash-Model-Card.PDFLaunching seven new MAI models: https://microsoft.ai/news/building-a-hillclimbing-machine-la... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48374466 Points: 306 # Comments: 143
World Cup 2026: Fifa adds new offside technology to help VAR - BBC
World Cup 2026: Fifa adds new offside technology to help VAR BBC
MAI-Thinking-1
https://microsoft.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/main_2026060...Launching seven new MAI models: https://microsoft.ai/news/building-a-hillclimbing-machine-la... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48374362 Points: 157 # Comments: 68
Trump signs executive order to review AI models before they’re released
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday creating a "voluntary framework" for AI companies to share their frontier models with the federal government before they're released "to promote secure innovation and strengthen the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure." The order says ...
'The Bronx is burning again': Major fires in the borough have doubled
FDNY firefighters responding to a fire. Top fire department officials pin the blame on electrical system failures. [ more › ]
A startup, Everand, is now bundling e-books, audiobooks, and book clubs in challenge to Amazon
A new reading subscription from Everand offers access to both e-books and audiobooks, and Fable's book club community.
4 reasons to start a business in your 50s
Everyone glorifies the 20-something founder. The mythology is seductive: sleep-deprived, reckless, nothing to lose. But after 30 years in the beauty industry and cofounding No Makeup Makeup (NMM) in my 50s, I’d push back hard on that narrative. Not because youth doesn’t have advantages. It ...
Mathematicians warn of AI threats to profession as industry encroaches
International Mathematical Union endorses warning about tech industry influence.
Martin Scorsese becomes the latest — and most unlikely — Hollywood voice for AI
The caveat is that one of the world's most famous living directors is using the tech solely for storyboarding.
Microsoft’s next-gen quantum chip cuts timeline to useful quantum computing
Microsoft claimed last year that it had made a key breakthrough in quantum computing with Majorana 1, the company's first quantum processor. While physicists were immediately skeptical of Microsoft's claims, the software giant is announcing Majorana 2 today, the next generation of its topological...
Microsoft’s first advanced reasoning AI is here
Microsoft announced a bunch of new in-house AI models at Build 2026, including a new "flagship" model: MAI-Thinking-1. It's an ambitious step into model development for Microsoft, which introduced its initial in-house models last year - before then, it had relied on OpenAI's models. The two compa...
The durable, floatable UE Wonderboom 4 speaker is cheaper than ever
I like the UE Wonderboom 4 Bluetooth speaker so much that I bought two of them, though I wish I could have paid less for them. Fortunately, you can stock up on the cheap, so long as you like the color blue. The Wonderboom 4 is available in blue at Amazon for $51.49, and at […]
Extra Extra: Reminder for dog owners that fireworks go off after the NY Phil's Central Park show
Because they're loud, here are your afternoon links: New disclaimer on website for e-scooter in deadly crash, Jersey Shore etiquette guide, the World Cup mood hasn't arrived yet and more. [ more › ]
Android phones will soon be able to detect spoofed calls and impersonation scams
Google's June Android feature drop includes more scam detection, more AirDrop, and yes, more AI.
Ex-Anduril engineer raises $42M to build the Amazon of composite parts
Layup Parts co-founder Zack Eakin has drawn on a motorsports background, and his experience working for Palmer Luckey and Elon Musk, to tackle making faster, cheaper, and better composites.
Google rolls out fake call detection to protect against AI deepfake impersonation scams
As people increasingly refuse to answer calls from unknown numbers, scammers are shifting their tactics by spoofing trusted phone numbers and using AI deepfake technology to sound like authority figures, family members, or employers.
Microsoft offers devs a better way to control AI agent behavior
The specification lets developer, compliance, and security teams define their own policies for agents to follow in portable policy files.
The truth lies in the past in Silo S3 trailer
"We do not know when it will be safe to go outside. We only know that day is not this day."
Bringing Up DeepSeek-V4-Flash on AMD MI300X
Article URL: https://fergusfinn.com/blog/deepseek-v4-flash-mi300x/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48373675 Points: 68 # Comments: 6
Hackers found a way to make Meta’s AI hand over Instagram accounts
The Instagram account of the Obama White House has not been active for more than nine years, but over the weekend, hackers gained access, defacing the page with pro-Iranian images and messages. And it was Meta AI that gave them the keys to do so. Instructions began circulating online over the ...
Amazon faces class action lawsuit over Ring facial-recognition feature
The class action lawsuit, filed in Seattle by Virginia resident Charles Sigwalt, claims that Ring's Familiar Faces feature stores images of passersby without consent.
Mysteriously missing New Jersey congressman receives Trump endorsement
Republican Congressman Tom Kean Jr has not been seen for months but is expected to win Tuesday's election.
Show HN: RePlaya – self-hosted browser session replay with live tailing
Hi HN, I'm one of the founders of s2.dev. RePlaya (https://github.com/s2-streamstore/replaya) is a self-hosted browser session replay tool using rrweb (https://github.com/rrweb-io/rrweb).It occurred to me that a durable stream per session would be a much neater architectural foundation for much o...
QBE – Compiler Backend – 1.3
Article URL: https://c9x.me/compile/release/qbe-1.3.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48373442 Points: 63 # Comments: 16