Hardware·
A $5,000 open-source radar that sees 20 km, built by one engineer in Morocco
Nawfal Motii's Aeris-10 phased-array radar beats $250,000 commercial systems at 3% of the cost. Hardware, firmware, and FPGA bitstream are all on GitHub.
April 2026
Apple·
Apple's smart glasses are up to four frame styles in testing, Gurman reports
Mark Gurman's Sunday newsletter says Apple is testing at least four acetate frame styles for its N50 smart glasses, plus three colors and a vertical camera array.
Policy·
Virginia turned on data centers. Here's the chart the AI industry should be watching
Virginia voter support for new data centers crashed from 69% to 35% in three years. The Post/Schar School poll and the Digital Gateway cancellation show why it matters.
Apple·
Foldable iPhone: final renders leak as Nikkei warns of 2027 delay
Jon Prosser posted what he calls the final foldable iPhone design. Hours later, Nikkei reported Apple's hitting hinge and display snags that could push launch into 2027.
Open Source·
Rust 1.95 lands with if-let guards and a macro that kills cfg-if
Rust 1.95.0 stabilized cfg_select!, if-let guards in match arms, and a pile of new Vec and atomic APIs. Here's what's actually worth upgrading for.
AI·
OpenAI's Codex now drives your Mac, not just your code
OpenAI shipped a Codex update that can pilot desktop apps with a cursor, generate images in-line, and run parallel agents. It's the opening move in a real Claude Code fight.
AI·
Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B: the open MoE beating Opus 4.7 on Simon Willison's laptop
Alibaba's Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B is a 35B-param mixture-of-experts with only 3B active. Apache 2.0, runs on consumer GPUs, and it's already winning real tasks.
AI·
Claude Opus 4.7 is here, and the long-context benchmarks got worse
Anthropic's Opus 4.7 is state-of-the-art on SWE-bench and CursorBench, but independent tests show regressions on long-context retrieval and thematic reasoning.
Apple·
Apple is sending 200 Siri engineers to an AI coding bootcamp. That tells you everything.
A report from The Information reveals Apple is retraining Siri staff on AI tools like Claude Code. With WWDC two months away, Apple's AI gap has never been more visible.
Policy·
The US government is about to make data centers show their power bills for the first time
The EIA confirmed it will develop a mandatory energy disclosure survey for data centers, two years behind Europe. Here's what it covers and why it matters.
AI·
Google Gemini finally has a Mac app, and it's gunning for ChatGPT's desktop lead
Google shipped a native Swift Gemini app for macOS with screen sharing, voice, and Deep Research. Here's what it does, what it doesn't, and how it stacks up.
Hardware·
Meta just committed 1 gigawatt of custom AI chips with Broadcom through 2029
Meta and Broadcom expanded their partnership to co-develop four generations of MTIA chips on a 2nm process. Here's what the deal includes and why Nvidia should care.
AI·
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4-Cyber for defensive security, opens access to thousands
OpenAI's new cybersecurity-tuned model can reverse-engineer binaries and analyze malware. It's restricted to verified defenders through the Trusted Access program.
AI·
Adobe's Firefly AI Assistant can now drive Photoshop, Premiere, and Lightroom for you
Adobe renamed Project Moonlight to Firefly AI Assistant and opened a public beta. It runs multi-step workflows across Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, and more.
Web·
Google just moved 'Q-Day' to 2029. Here's what that changes for your crypto stack
Google's security team says cryptographically-relevant quantum computers could arrive by 2029, six years before the NSA's 2031 deadline. What to migrate, and in what order.
Open Source·
This week on Hacker News: a WhatsApp CLI, a 20-year-old bug, and Gemma 4 on iPhone
Five dev-relevant projects and posts that took the HN frontpage this week: from a Go-powered WhatsApp CLI with offline search to on-device Gemma 4 inference.
AI·
Claude Code Routines: what they actually do, and when to use them over GitHub Actions
Anthropic just shipped Routines: Claude Code sessions as cron jobs, webhooks, and GitHub-event reactors. Here's what they replace, what they don't, and one rule to follow.
Apple·
Amazon is buying Globalstar for $11.57B, and Apple just re-signed the satellite deal
Amazon's Leo constellation just swallowed the satellite provider behind iPhone Emergency SOS. Apple signed a new deal on the same day keeping every satellite feature running.