‘Knicks in four,’ hear them roar: $100,000 tickets as New York goes NBA crazy
The team in the biggest market in the NBA is playing finals for the first time since 1999 and has the chance to sweep the series, infecting New York with a joie de vivre beyond even its usual energy. ⌘ Read more

QuiznessDesk, Monday, June 08
How many kilograms does the average cloud weigh? 250,000, 500,000 or 1 million kilograms?
True or false: Earlobes have no biological purpose.
What has lived longer on Earth, sharks or trees?
True or false: 99.999% of the deep ocean floor has not been explored.
Which European country is considered the happiest place on Earth?
True or false: Most ginger cats are female
What is a rainbow on Venus called? A methane bow, a glory, or a punch dust arc?
What did the Ancient … ⌘ Read more

Marche en hommage à Lyhanna: «Si la justice avait fait son travail, elle serait encore là»
La marche blanche en hommage à Lyhanna a rassemblé près de 5 000 personnes, dimanche 7 juin, à Fleurance, où vivait la collégienne. Face à ce drame, mais aussi à «la palabre ministérielle», l’émotion et la colère sont à vif. ⌘ Read more

Cheaper EVs Sales are Increasing
Sales have increased for Hyundai’s under-$35,000 IONIQ 5, totalling 18,395 for the first five months of 2026, reports Electrek, “up 16% from the same period last year.”

But meanwhile BYD’s overseas sales surpassed 160,000 for the first time last month, “up 80% from May 2025 and 19% from the previous record of 135,098 set in April.”

Through the first five months of 2026, BYD sold 616,263 vehicles overseas. I … ⌘ Read more

Utah Residents Sue Officials Over Kevin O’Leary Data Center Plan
Utah residents and a progressive nonprofit are suing officials over Kevin O’Leary’s planned Stratos Project AI data center, arguing that the special authority overseeing it gives unelected officials too much control over land use, taxation, public health, and local governance. The lawsuit comes as O’Leary has agreed to shrink the proposed 40,000-ac … ⌘ Read more

Le rachat de SFR par ses concurrents dans sa dernière ligne droite
Le groupe de télécom, très lourdement endetté, a prolongé jusqu’à dimanche les discussions avec Bouygues, Free et Orange. L’issue ne devrait pas changer: l’opérateur disparaîtra, contre 20,35 milliards d’euros. Patrick Drahi peut se réjouir, ses 8 000 salariés beaucoup moins. ⌘ Read more

Google Will Pay SpaceX $920 Million Per Month For Compute
Ahead of its upcoming IPO, SpaceX announced that Google will pay the company $920 million per month for access to roughly 110,000 Nvidia GPUs and related compute infrastructure. Google says the agreement is short-term “bridge capacity” to meet stronger-than-expected demand for Gemini Enterprise, while SpaceX is using deals like this and its Anthropic contra … ⌘ Read more

Bitcoin Falls To $60,000 As Zcash Bug Rocks Crypto
Bitcoin briefly fell below $60,000 on Friday, “extending its weekly loss to nearly 20% and threatening to fall below $59,000,” reports CoinDesk. Crypto was also hit by a 40%-plus plunge in Zcash after Shielded Labs disclosed a years-old bug that could have allowed undetected counterfeit ZEC creation. From the report: Now, with stocks in plunge mode – the Nasdaq down nearly 4% o … ⌘ Read more

GOV.UK Goes Dutch On Payments As It Dumps Stripe
The UK’s Government Digital Service is replacing Stripe with Dutch payments provider Adyen for many GOV.UK Pay transactions, including local authorities, police forces, and armed forces units. The three-year deal covers about 1,000 services and is meant to make payments more flexible while keeping the user experience largely unchanged. The Register reports: According to the tend … ⌘ Read more

Erstmals seit 2024: Bitcoin wieder unter 60.000 Dollar ⌘ Read more

Australien: 100.000 Kakerlaken beschlagnahmt ⌘ Read more

LG Promo Codes and Coupons for June 2026
Save 20% with an LG promo code today, plus up to $1,000 off appliances, 40% off bestselling TVs and monitors. ⌘ Read more

Julia Hoare leads NZ’s highest-paid directors amid rising board pressures
Some of New Zealand’s highest-paid company directors are collecting more than $700,000 a year across multiple board roles, highlighting both the concentration of governance experience within the NZX50 and the growing demands placed on a relatively small pool of directors.

A BusinessDe … ⌘ Read more

Samsung Ditches New Jersey For Texas, Costing Garden State 1,000 Jobs
schwit1 shares a report from NJ.com: Samsung is pulling up stakes in New Jersey and heading to Texas, a move that could leave roughly 1,000 Garden State workers facing a stark choice: relocate or risk losing their jobs. The South Korean tech giant confirmed this week that it will move its US headquarters from Englewood Cliffs, NJ, to its exist … ⌘ Read more

200.000 Millionäre in Österreich
Boomende Aktienmärkte haben den Club der Dollar-Millionäre weltweit und auch in Österreich kräftig wachsen lassen. Weltweit 25,3 Millionen Menschen verfügten laut einer Analyse des Beratungsunternehmens Capgemini 2025 über ein anlagefähiges Vermögen von mindestens einer Million Dollar (860.000 Euro). In Österreich waren es 200.000. ⌘ Read more

Présidentielle en Colombie: l’extrême droite agite la «peur rouge», la gauche dénonce le «péril brun»
Devancé au premier tour de près de 700 000 voix, le représentant du camp progressiste, Iván Cepeda, devra mener une campagne beaucoup plus dynamique et s’adresser aux électeurs et électrices centristes pour l’emporter dimanche 21 juin face à Abelardo de la Espriella. ⌘ Read more

Alpha School’s Ritzy New York City Campus Costs $65,000 a Year—but Isn’t Actually a School
A homeschooling center in Manhattan is part of the company’s nationwide expansion. Internal documents reveal its strategy: “Opening date > safety.” ⌘ Read more

Sponsored: How the University of Auckland is helping shape NZ aviation’s future
Anyone who buys a ticket to fly nationally or overseas has a stake in ensuring Airways New Zealand have strong senior leadership – and they are certainly ensuring they do.

That’s because Airways NZ manages the airspace above New Zealand, playing a critical role in guiding more than 400,000 flights a year across 30 million sq km of sky. Their air traffic management and navigational ser … ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Claims New Quantum Chip 1,000 Times Better Than Before
Microsoft says its new Majorana 2 quantum chip is 1,000 times more reliable than its predecessor, with qubits lasting about 20 seconds instead of milliseconds, and claims it could have a commercially useful quantum machine by 2029. The BBC reports: “We will have a quantum machine in 2029 that can solve commercially viable, reasonable problems,” … ⌘ Read more

Über 1.000 Everest-Besteigungen in laufender Saison ⌘ Read more

Israel plant über 2.000 neue Wohnungen im Westjordanland ⌘ Read more

Paul Rudd Sold Avengers: Doomsday Tickets for $100K Without Telling Marvel
Paul Rudd recently revealed that he sold tickets to the premiere of Avengers: Doomsday for $100,000 without telling Marvel beforehand. The actor made the confession during a recent conversation with Jimmy Fallon on his talk show. A video of the actor auctioning off the tickets also went viral on social media. Paul Rudd says he […]

The post [Paul Rudd Sold Avengers: Doomsday Tickets for $100K With … ⌘ Read more

Mexikos Nationalstadion und die 14.000 „Freikarten“ ⌘ Read more

30% Off Samsung Promo Code | June 2026
Save 30% or 10% with Samsung coupon codes, up to $1,000 on appliances, plus limited-time deals on the Galaxy Z Fold7, Flip7, and S25. ⌘ Read more

Booba condamné pour cyberharcèlement: la justice lui reproche d’avoir voulu «faire taire» une journaliste
Le tribunal correctionnel de Paris a condamné le rappeur à trois mois de prison avec sursis et 50 000 euros d’amende pour des publications visant la journaliste Linh-Lan Dao et l’essayiste Tristan Mendès France. Son avocate, Marie Roumiantseva, indique faire appel des deux décisions. ⌘ Read more

Aroa’s winning formula: From sheep guts to US growth
At a site near Auckland International Airport, about 30,000 litres of water a day are used to purify and remove cells from sheep stomachs.

The sheep forestomachs are sourced from a local processing plant and, through a series of processes, transformed into a human-safe scaffolding that helps to repair wounds. ⌘ Read more

A Viral YouTube Show About an Unhinged AI Is Hitting Theaters. It’s a Big Test for Hollywood
The Amazing Digital Circus finale will hit more than 4,000 theaters around the world Thursday. Two weeks later it’ll be on YouTube, bucking Hollywood trends and testing the power of online fandom. ⌘ Read more

Texas Adds Another Huge Solar Farm As ERCOT Grid Demand Soars
Texas is adding another large solar project as ERCOT electricity demand rises. According to Electrek, Vesper Energy has secured $236 million in financing for its 201 MW Nazareth Solar farm in Swisher County, which will be capable of generating enough electricity for about 53,000 homes. The project is expected to begin construction in June 2026 and … ⌘ Read more

Nobelpreisträger auf autokratischen Pfaden
Am Montag wählt Äthiopien ein neues Parlament, doch der Sieger steht eigentlich schon fest: die Wohlstandspartei von Premier Abiy Ahmed. Er ist seit 2018 Ministerpräsident, schon ein Jahr darauf wurde ihm für die Aussöhnung mit dem Nachbarstaat Eritrea der Friedensnobelpreis verliehen. Seitdem hat sich aber viel geändert: Der Tigray-Konflikt kostete 600.000 Menschenleben, und Ahmed agiert zunehmend autoritär. ⌘ Read more

UK-Based Rockstar Games North Workers Formally Announce Union
Rockstar Games has a 2,000-employee studio in Scotland called Rockstar North. And Thursday its workers announced they’d formed a union, reports the gaming news site Aftermath:

The union [part of the wider Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB) union] includes workers from Rockstar Games offices in Leeds, London, Edinburgh, Dundee, and Lincoln, … ⌘ Read more

Company accidentally blows $500M on Claude AI in one month
Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/company-accidentally-blows-500-000-000-on-claude-ai-in-one-month/ar-AA24nahv

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48333177

Points: 5

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Wix Is the Latest To Cut 20% of Jobs While Citing AI
Wix is laying off roughly 20% of its workforce, about 1,000 employees, as CEO Avishai Abrahami cites both the rapid evolution of AI and currency pressure from a stronger Israeli shekel against the dollar. The web developer joins a growing list of tech companies making similar cuts, including Amazon, Block, Cisco, Cloudflare, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle and Intuit. Fast Company re … ⌘ Read more

Real-time LLM Inference on Standard GPUs: 3k tokens/s per request
Article URL: https://blog.kog.ai/real-time-llm-inference-on-standard-gpus-3-000-tokens-s-per-request/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48321076

Points: 13

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MIT Researchers Develop a Low-Cost Technique To Get Lithium Out of Rocks
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT News: Currently, lithium hard rock extraction involves baking the rock at over 1,000 Celsius and chemically leaching it to extract lithium. The rest of the rock is discarded. Now, a team of researchers from MIT and elsewhere has developed a low-temperature process for extracting batt … ⌘ Read more

Govt backs study into grower bid for Hastings McCain plant
The Government has announced its support for Hawke’s Bay growers in their efforts to explore the possibility of a farmer-led purchase of the McCain Foods vegetable processing site in Hastings.

Agriculture Minister Todd McClay said the Government would provide $50,000 for the first stage of a feasibility study. ⌘ Read more

NZ’s early AI adopters are already reaping the benefits
When Air New Zealand updated its uniforms last year, it faced a large and potentially expensive job: updating its library of 18,000 brand images.

“So, what are we going to do?” the airline’s data and AI lead, Mike Parsons, asked rhetorically at one of the last formal Techweek26 sessions in Auckland last week. ⌘ Read more

Sparpläne bringen Tausende auf die Straße
Die Universitäten haben am Mittwoch mit einer Demo in Wien gegen ab 2028 geplante Kürzungen in ihrem Budget protestiert. Die Österreichische Hochschülerinnen- und Hochschülerschaft (ÖH) sprach von 21.000 Teilnehmenden noch vor Beginn des Protestzugs von der Uni Wien durch die Innenstadt zum Wissenschaftsministerium und vor das Bundeskanzleramt. Am Donnerstag gibt es Kundgebungen in Graz, Linz, Salzburg und Klagenfurt. ⌘ Read more

LG Promo Codes and Coupons for June 2026
Save 20% with an LG promo code today, plus up to $1,000 off appliances, 40% off bestselling TVs and monitors. ⌘ Read more

Mythos Detected 23,000 Vulnerabilities Across 1,000 OSS Projects
wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Anthropic says its Claude Mythos model discovered thousands of severe vulnerabilities across more than 1,000 open source software (OSS) projects. According to the AI giant, Mythos Preview has identified more than 23,000 potential vulnerabilities. Of these, 1,900 have been reviewed by external security f … ⌘ Read more

Ferraris E-Auto irritiert Anleger und Fans
Der italienische Luxussportwagenhersteller Ferrari steigt spät, aber doch in den E-Automarkt ein. Am Montag und Dienstag präsentierte der Konzern das Modell Luce mit vier Elektromotoren und einer Gesamtleistung von mehr als 1.000 PS. Doch an den Börsen löste Luce nicht gerade Begeisterung aus. Auch Fans reagierten enttäuscht, vor allem wegen des für Ferrari untypischen Designs. Der Luce könne den Mythos Ferrari zerstören, hieß es. ⌘ Read more

Les étudiants étrangers contre les frais différenciés: «C’est une façon de nous dire: “Rentrez chez vous!”»
Dès la rentrée, la grande majorité des étudiants non européens vont devoir s’acquitter de 3 000 euros par an pour une licence, et de 4 000 euros pour un master. La plupart d’entre eux pourraient aussi se voir privés d’aide au logement. Un coup de grâce pour les budgets les plus serrés. ⌘ Read more

Sponsored: Limited Time Offers available at One Greys Ave
The final release of apartments at One Greys Ave are gaining traction, underpinned by a suite of limited-time incentives designed to reduce the cost of entry and deliver immediate value. Remaining one, two and three-bedroom apartments are priced from $605,000, with purchasers able to choose from three compelling offers:

• An 8% gross rental return for two years
  
• A complimentary second car park valued at $120,000 with any carp … ⌘ Read more

SpaceX Launches 29 Starlink Satellites on Memorial Day
“The expansion of SpaceX’s Starlink network of internet relay satellites continued Monday with a Memorial Day launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station,” reports Spaceflight Now.

The mission added another 29 Starlink satellites to more than 10,000 already in low Earth orbit:

This was SpaceX’s 60th orbital flight of the year, consisting of 59 Falcon 9 rocket … ⌘ Read more

Sponsored: Limited Time Offers available at One Greys Ave
The final release of apartments at One Greys Ave are gaining traction, underpinned by a suite of limited-time incentives designed to reduce the cost of entry and deliver immediate value. Remaining one, two and three-bedroom apartments are priced from $605,000, with purchasers able to choose from three compelling offers:

• An 8% gross rental return for two years
  
• A complimentary second car park valued at $120,000 with any carp … ⌘ Read more

Zehntausende warten auf Rückkehr
50.000 Menschen im südkalifornischen Garden Grove dürfen weiter nicht in ihre Häuser zurück. Grund ist ein Chemietank, der zu explodieren droht. In der Nacht näherten sich Einsatzkräfte dem Behälter mit der hochgiftigen und leicht entzündlichen Chemikalie und entdeckten einen Riss. Das gibt ihnen nun Hoffnung. ⌘ Read more

Public service squeeze: Fat to trim or muscle to cut
Can we really shave 8,000 from the core government sector, taking it from in excess of 63,000 to around 55,000?

The sentiment is fine, but one suspects this will be a bit like the commitment for New Zealand to invest US$20 billion (NZ$34b) in India over the coming 15 years; an aspirational target. ⌘ Read more

Hürden bei Eindämmung von Ebola-Ausbruch
Gewalt durch bewaffnete Milizgruppen, eine große Zahl an Binnenflüchtlingen und eine schlechte Infrastruktur stellen die Helfer und Helferinnen vor große Hürden bei der Eindämmung des Ebola-Ausbruchs in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo (DR Kongo). Allein in der besonders betroffenen Provinz Ituri an der Grenze zu Uganda und dem Südsudan leben laut UNO mehr als 920.000 Binnenflüchtlinge. Zudem ist die Sorge vor einer Ausbreitung der tödlichen Viruserkrankung in andere Länder groß. ⌘ Read more

Vorerst rund 48.000 Anmeldungen für Sommerschule ⌘ Read more

This Cannes Film Cost $500,000 to Make. $400,000 Was AI Compute Costs.
Higgsfield AI is debuting a 95-minute fully AI-generated film at Cannes called “Hell Grind” that reportedly cost $500,000 to make, $400,000 of which was spent on compute alone. The project took just two weeks to produce and is intended to showcase the startup’s AI production tools. But it also underscores the current limits of AI f … ⌘ Read more

On the Money: Grant Baker’s book launch, Ray Smith, Nikhil Ravishankar, a great AI speech, and more
On the Money (OTM) is our column of general frippery we observed within the worlds of business and government this week.

It was not the easiest week to be a departmental chief executive. Minister for the Public Service Nicola Willis signalled 9,000 public-sector jobs might go, and several agencies might be folded into on … ⌘ Read more