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Sunday, 16 August 2026
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Global Edition
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Updated 21:25 CST
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Waymo bought Apple’s self-driving car proving ground for $220M
Waymo has acquired a massive 5,500-acre proving ground in Arizona owned by Route 14 Investment Partners LLC, a Delaware shell company associated with Apple, according to documents filed with Maricopa County.
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Pentagon says Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, and Unitree support China’s military
The Trump administration released the updated version of the list four months ago and then quickly pulled it without explaining why
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macOS 27 requires Apple Silicon, as Apple draws down the Intel Mac era
You'll need an M1 or better to run the next release of macOS.
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iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 don't drop support for any iPhones—and just a few iPads
This promises to be a solid release for aging iPhones.
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Meta alleges NSO violated spyware injunction with new WhatsApp attacks
WhatsApp disrupted spear phishing attempts, asks court to hold NSO in contempt.
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The fastest humans in the galaxy just got a spiffy patch to prove it
"It is actually challenging how you measure [Mach] from space."
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OpenAI Submits S-1 Draft to SEC
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/openai-submits-confidential-s-1/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452317 Points: 59 # Comments: 16
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FrontierCode
Article URL: https://cognition.ai/blog/frontier-code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451723 Points: 28 # Comments: 7
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Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48449187 Points: 77 # Comments: 114
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Apple WWDC 2026
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/apple-events/event-stream/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448106 Points: 218 # Comments: 413
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Show HN: Gitdot – a better GitHub. Open-source, anti-AI, and written in Rust
What works now: user signups, org creations, private/public repos, and importing GitHub repositories (both as read-only mirrors and full migrations). So basically, you can create, push and pull to a repo, but we don't have many features quite yet (is
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AI is slowing down
Article URL: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-slowing-down/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446893 Points: 293 # Comments: 328
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Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes
hope you enjoy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48445554 Points: 675 # Comments: 135
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Microsoft’s open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers
Microsoft shut down dozens of GitHub code repositories for Azure and AI coding tools after a reported hack.
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Pentagon says Alibaba, Baidu, BYD and Unitree support China’s military
The Trump administration released the updated version of the list four months ago and then quickly pulled it without explaining why