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▓▓ TECH NEWS ▓▓ 16 items

[01]

[TEC] 30m

Best Electric Mountain Bikes (2026): Specialized, Cannondale, Salsa

└─ Wired

A glorious swooping downhill glide on one of these electric mountain bikes will make you feel like a kid again.

[02]

[TEC] 30m

The Fight to Hold AI Companies Accountable for Children’s Deaths

└─ Wired

After a series of suicides allegedly linked to AI chatbots, one lawyer is trying to hold companies like OpenAI accountable.

[03]

[TEC] 58m

HigherDose Red Light Shower Filter Review (2026): Filter Needed

└─ Wired

A new sophisticated shower filter from HigherDose offers red light therapy for your morning shower. But some of the company’s claims about the therapy’s effectiveness seem half-baked.

[04]

[TEC] 1h

Get Ready for a Year of Chaotic Weather in the US

└─ Wired

A massive Western heat wave and a potential El Niño event raise concerns about a long stretch of unpredictable and extreme weather.

[05]

[TEC] 2h

Multiverse Computing pushes its compressed AI models into the mainstream

└─ TechCrunch

After compressing models from major AI labs including OpenAI, Meta, DeepSeek and Mistral AI, Multiverse Computing has launched both an app that showcases the capabilities of its compressed models and ...

[06]

[TEC] 4h

Two Palantir veterans just came out of stealth with $30 million and a Sequoia stamp of approval

└─ TechCrunch

The founders are worth paying attention to.

[07]

[TEC] 8h

A sufficiently detailed spec is code

└─ Hacker News

Article URL: https://haskellforall.com/2026/03/a-sufficiently-detailed-spec-is-code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47434047 Points: 345 # Comments: 184 ...

[08]

[TEC] 10h

Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents

└─ Hacker News

Article URL: https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2026/03/18/austins-surge-of-new-housing-construction-drove-down-rents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47433058 Po...

[09]

[TEC] 10h

Meta is having trouble with rogue AI agents

└─ TechCrunch

A rogue AI agent inadvertently exposed Meta company and user data to engineers who didn't have permission to see it.

[10]

[TEC] 11h

Sam Altman’s thank-you to coders draws the memes

└─ TechCrunch

Altman expresses gratitude for people who knew how to write their code from scratch. The internet replies with salty jokes.

[11]

[TEC] 12h

Kagi Translate's AI answers the question "What would horny Margaret Thatcher say?"

└─ Ars Technica

Remember when it was fun to play around with LLMs?

[12]

[TEC] 12h

Musk’s tactic of blaming users for Grok sex images may be foiled by EU law

└─ Ars Technica

Planned EU ban on nudify apps would likely force Musk to make Grok less "spicy."

[13]

[TEC] 13h

Coal plant forced to stay open due to emergency order isn't even running

└─ Ars Technica

Department of Energy's attempts to prop up coal can look pretty pointless.

[14]

[TEC] 13h

Never mind Band-Aids, Neanderthals had antiseptic birch tar

└─ Ars Technica

Our view of Neanderthal life keeps getting more complex and vibrant.

[15]

[TEC] 13h

Warranty Void If Regenerated

└─ Hacker News

As an experiment I started asking Claude to explain things to me with a fiction story and it ended up being really good, so I started seeing how far I could take it and what it would take to polish i...

[16]

[TEC] 14h

FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms

└─ Hacker News

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/18/fbi-is-buying-location-data-to-track-us-citizens-kash-patel-wyden/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47430797 Points: 452 # Comments: 1...