Iran's IRGC struck a US military base in Kuwait overnight and Tehran suspended peace negotiations until Israel halts operations in Lebanon, bringing the fragile April ceasefire to its sharpest edge yet — and stateside, Anthropic quietly filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC, signaling the near-trillion-dollar AI company may soon go public.
Senate Democrats are forcing Republicans onto the record over a $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund" created through settlement of Trump's IRS lawsuit — a pool with no disclosure requirements that could pay pardoned January 6 rioters. Minority Leader Schumer called it "the most brazen act of self-dealing yet," and even some Republicans have expressed alarm at its opacity.
California's Tuesday primary features a wide-open governor's race where former Fox News host Steve Hilton is rallying Republicans against billionaire Tom Steyer and Xavier Becerra for two November spots — while in LA, reality TV personality Spencer Pratt is attempting a surprise upset of Mayor Karen Bass, with progressive Nithya Raman close behind.
Serena Williams is returning to professional tennis after nearly four years away, confirming a slot in next week's Queen's Club tournament at age 44.
Multiple federal judges have begun calling out Justice Department lawyers directly in court for misrepresentations and shifting positions, a sign of deteriorating credibility for the department under the Trump administration.
House fiscal hawks are balking at the debt trajectory in Trump's sweeping budget bill, threatening to derail his signature domestic legislation as the White House struggles to hold the caucus together.
Nvidia announced a new chip designed to bring high-performance AI inference to consumer home devices, part of CEO Jensen Huang's push to expand beyond data centers into the edge.
Iran's Foreign Minister Araghchi declared the April 8 ceasefire covers all fronts including Lebanon, and Tehran's IRGC launched strikes on a US military base in Kuwait it says was used in overnight US attacks on Iranian radar and drone sites. A proposed 60-day ceasefire extension MOU is stalled as Iran accuses Washington of "constantly changing its views" — and Strait of Hormuz closure threats are back on the table.
Over 1,500 pages of government documents released Monday show Peter Mandelson privately described PM Starmer's operation as "beleaguered and bereft" while publicly pledging the government would "never regret" his appointment as US ambassador. The Epstein-linked envoy was fired after nine months, and the fallout from the files leaves Starmer fighting for his political survival.
A Trump-admiring political outsider won Colombia's first-round presidential vote, delivering a blow to the country's traditional conservative establishment and heading toward a runoff.
Ethiopia holds elections today with PM Abiy Ahmed widely expected to win, as the country navigates post-civil war recovery, renewed northern tensions, and scrutiny over democratic backsliding.
South Africa's energy regulator approved a five-year preferential tariff slashing electricity prices by over 50% for Glencore and Samancor Chrome's ferrochrome operations — an emergency measure after Morocco overtook South Africa as Africa's top manufacturing economy for the first time.
The Democratic Republic of Congo added lithium, niobium, tantalum, tungsten, and uranium to its 10% royalty tax bracket for strategic minerals, accelerating its push to extract more revenue from the world's largest hard-rock lithium deposits as African nations move to capture battery supply chain value.
Cloudflare's captcha-replacement quietly mandates WebGL fingerprinting, trading user privacy for bot detection.
The VideoLAN team announces dav2d, a next-generation open video decoder from the creators of dav1d.
Red Hat's javascript-clients NPM packages were backdoored in a supply chain attack discovered today.
Google's Gemma 4 runs surprisingly well on 2016-era Xeon hardware, making the case that LLM inference doesn't require new silicon.
A 4B-parameter image gen model using 1-bit quantization designed to run entirely on consumer devices with no cloud dependency.
Security researchers found the popular GPT-for-Sheets plugin leaks entire spreadsheet contents via prompt injection attacks.
A cult-favorite review of the $300 ultra-compact Chuwi laptop that's become a sleeper hit for portable Linux hacking.
Thirty years of dam removal and habitat restoration finally reopened California's Alameda Creek to steelhead and salmon migration.
Two decades after the Swedish police raid, The Pirate Bay is still online — a retrospective on its improbable survival.
NYU study finds a quarter of office workers have seen no pay raise or promotion in years, with HN attributing it to remote work making career visibility harder.
A practical guide to Go's underused httptrace package for deep visibility into the lifecycle of HTTP client requests.
A surprising number theory observation: the vast majority of 64-bit integers cannot be produced by multiplying any two 32-bit integers.
Nvidia's Cosmos 3 world model brings improved physical reasoning for robotics and autonomous systems training.
Stanford's new course teaches LLM internals end-to-end from first principles — no pretrained model black boxes.
KDE marks 30 years of open-source desktop software with a look back at how a German university student's weekend project became a global project.