Clinicians at Kaiser Permanente report that staffing cuts paired with growing use of algorithmic and AI-driven triage systems have made it harder for psychiatric patients to reach the right care quickly. Workers in California and Wisconsin describe rising patient frustration, missed diagnoses, and treatment delays tied to automation replacing human judgment in intake decisions. Unions are now pushing for limits on AI in triage as part of contract negotiations, while California lawmakers consider legislation to regulate the technology's use in medical settings.
A 7-Eleven store on a stroad in Williamsburg, Virginia, sits on land owned not by the chain or an individual but by Agree Realty Corporation, a real estate investment trust with nearly 3,000 retail properties nationwide. Agree Realty is roughly one-eighth owned by Vanguard, whose index funds are held by tens of millions of everyday investors through 401(k)s and similar accounts. That means many ordinary savers, without realizing it, hold a small stake in this unremarkable convenience store.
President Trump argued that communities blocking data center construction risk falling into economic decline, framing local resistance as a threat to competitiveness. His remarks come as polling shows most Americans are wary of having such facilities built near their homes.
Smartwatches from Apple, Google and Samsung all include a basic flashlight feature that simply maxes out the display's brightness and turns it white. Despite mockery of the feature compared to a phone's dedicated camera flash, it proves genuinely useful for quick tasks like finding a dropped pill, precisely because the watch is already on your wrist rather than buried in a pocket or bag.
European regulators have designated ChatGPT as a search engine under EU digital regulations, placing it under stricter oversight requirements. Reddit and Roblox have also received similar classifications, bringing them under the same heightened regulatory scrutiny.
Developers are building ravynOS, a pre-alpha open-source operating system combining FreeBSD, Darwin, and Apple's open-source components. The project aims to replicate the look, feel, and app compatibility of macOS while running on general-purpose hardware without Apple's restrictions.
A donor grant received in summer 2025 has enabled organizers to begin indexing the long-stored collection of the former Computer Museum of America and San Diego Computer Museum, which has sat in the basement of SDSU's Love Library for over two decades. The archive includes not just vintage computers and hardware but magazines, newsletters, software, books and manuals documenting the rise of the Information Age. Organizers are also launching fundraising and marketing efforts to raise awareness of the collection's existence and value.
Prediction market Kalshi has permanently banned former congressman George Santos and fined him $71,356, marking the platform's first-ever lifetime ban. Santos had allegedly profited over $17,500 by betting he'd skip the State of the Union due to travel issues, then selling those contracts after claiming publicly he would attend. Kalshi says it flagged the scheme to regulators and imposed the harsher penalty because Santos failed to cooperate fully with its internal investigation.
A developer released a free browser-based logic puzzle called 'Plan The Roadmap' on Show HN, part of a series called Corporate Mind Games. Players drag 16 tickets into four quarterly columns, each with a point target, while satisfying constraints set by simulated meeting participants, winning when all indicator faces turn from frowning to smiling.
VideoLAN's free, open-source VLC media player has now been downloaded more than 7 billion times across all platforms, according to an update from president and lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf. The milestone comes roughly 18 months after VLC passed 6 billion downloads in January 2025. VideoLAN also confirmed it has ported VLC to Amazon's new Vega OS for TVs and continues developing broader platform and codec support.
Amazon has cut the price of Sony's WH-1000XM5 noise-canceling headphones by half, marking the steepest discount seen for the model to date. The deal covers the flagship over-ear headphones known for their active noise cancellation and long battery life.
Amazon is selling SanDisk's 256GB microSD Express Card for $58.99, down 16% from its $69.99 list price. The card uses a PCIe/NVMe interface rather than standard UHS-I, enabling faster load times and support for high-bitrate video capture, while still remaining backward-compatible with older UHS-I devices.
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