SpaceX agreed to purchase up to 14 megahertz of nationwide low-band spectrum in the 800 MHz range from Grain Management, which had acquired the licenses from T-Mobile as part of a Sprint merger condition. The deal adds to SpaceX's earlier $17 billion purchase of 65 MHz of mid-band spectrum from EchoStar, approved by the FCC in May 2026. SpaceX also recently won approval to launch 15,000 satellites for an upgraded Starlink Mobile service.
Onvis has released an outdoor smart plug built on Matter over Thread, rated IP65 for weather resistance and capable of handling up to 1800 watts. It offers real-time energy monitoring that appears directly in Apple Home's energy view, and works natively with Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and SmartThings without a proprietary hub.
A researcher pushes back on the popular claim—voiced by commentators like Scott Alexander and Holden Karnofsky and researcher Dean Keith Simonton—that scientific low-hanging fruit has been exhausted and discovery is inevitably slowing. The author, prompted by a discouraged research assistant, argues this view is mistaken and discourages people from pursuing original research.
Apple has classified the original 2017 Apple TV 4K as a 'vintage' product on its support site, a status it applies once five years have passed since a device stopped being sold. Under this designation, Apple can still offer repairs, but only if replacement parts remain available.
A Show HN post introduces version 2.0 of carrier-explode, a tool that extracts and decodes carrier configuration settings from iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy firmware. Users can look up APNs, VoLTE, Wi-Fi Calling and 5G settings per carrier, compare two versions or carriers side by side, and see differences between firmware builds. The project offers data via an API in JSON format or as a daily CC0-licensed dataset, with documentation in its wiki.
Federal prosecutors have indicted Zohar Pinhasi, CEO of cybersecurity firm MonsterCloud, alleging his company charged ransomware victims millions of dollars for proprietary decryption technology that did not actually exist. According to the indictment, MonsterCloud instead secretly paid hackers a much smaller sum to obtain decryption keys, while telling clients it had cracked the encryption itself.
IEEE Educational Activities, backed by the IEEE Computer Society, has released a new training program called AI Processor Architecture, Design Principles, and Performance. The five-course curriculum covers core chip design fundamentals, advanced architectures, neural processing units, emerging trends, and deployment across edge, cloud, quantum and IoT systems.
Engadget's review of Bose's Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar found it easy to set up via the Bose app's CustomTune calibration and praised its bass output, up-firing drivers and PhaseGuide technology for immersive sound on both movies and music. The soundbar can be expanded with a $899 Lifestyle Ultra Subwoofer or $349 Lifestyle Ultra Speakers, or purchased as part of discounted bundles.
Jeff Bezos told Fox News anchor Bret Baier that AI-driven productivity gains could eventually let single incomes support a household and allow some workers to earn enough in three days a week. He argued this would create hiring shortages rather than mass unemployment, as some workers choose to work less or leave jobs.
At Open Source Summit Europe, Linux creator Linus Torvalds told Dirk Hohndel that he enjoys using AI as a programming tool, particularly for tasks he is less skilled at himself. He cautioned that AI should be used carefully for serious kernel work, noting he mainly acts as a maintainer rather than writing core code. Torvalds also said AI can help new developers rediscover the enjoyment of programming and has become useful for finding and fixing bugs in the Linux kernel.
National Design Studio released Rampart, an open-source system that detects and strips personal information from text before it leaves a user's device. It runs entirely in the browser, combining regex-based rules for structured data like Social Security numbers with the MiniLM machine learning model for names and addresses, aiming to complete the process in milliseconds.
Gigabyte says Intel will revive LGA 1700 socket support for new processors arriving in early 2027, bringing back compatibility with older DDR4 memory alongside DDR5. AMD is taking a similar approach, with Gigabyte also announcing new AM4 motherboards tied to a 10th-anniversary relaunch of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D chip.
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