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★ Claude’s Criminally Bad Electron Mac App Is an Inside Job

Anthropic released the first version of the Claude “desktop” app for MacOS in October 2024 — an Electron clunker that did not impress UI designers. When it came out, I wrote: ChatGPT’s native Mac app, on the other hand, is a truly native Mac app. It looks like a Mac app and feels…

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Politician who investigated spyware abuses had his phone hacked with Pegasus spyware

A government customer of NSO Group used the company's Pegasus spyware to hack into the phone of a European politician, who at the time was serving on an EU committee tasked with investigating the spyware industry.

Everything Announced at the Crunchyroll Anime Expo 2026 Panel

Crunchyroll has tons of anime coming this year and next, including a 'Solo Leveling' film that picks up after season two.

Things Aren’t Looking Good for Coco in the ‘Witch Hat Atelier’ Season 2 Trailer

The new trailer has a decidedly darker tone than the first season of the hit anime.

A device that revives eyeballs from dead donors could make eye transplants possible

It’s not easy to transplant a whole human eye. The surgery is difficult. And the eyes themselves start to degenerate as soon as they’ve left the body. When surgeons attempted it a few years ago, the newly-transplanted eye wasn’t able to see. But researchers believe they might hav…

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‘Kagurabachi’ Is Ready To Be the New Must-Watch Shonen Anime On the Block

Chihiro Japanese voice actor Taihi Kimura and anime producer Koichi Yasuda share how Cypic's 'Kagurabachi' adaptation is shaping up ahead of the anime's hotly anticipated premiere on Crunchyroll in April 2027.

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Alibaba bans staff from using Claude Code over Anthropic spyware concerns

Alibaba Group Holding has banned its employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code for work, citing security risks related to the US artificial intelligence firm’s previous use of hidden code to track Chinese users – a move that has sparked widespread backlash in recent days. “As …

Alibaba’s Elements Claw AI agent unearths 4 new superconductors

Alibaba Group Holding’s Damo Academy has unveiled what it calls the industry’s first artificial intelligence agent for discovering superconducting materials, saying that the tool has already found four previously unknown compounds that were later verified in laboratory experiment…

Skyroot sets July 12-August 4 launch window for India’s first private orbital rocket

India’s private space industry is preparing for a historic milestone as Hyderabad-based… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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Tencent joins reported $3 billion funding round for Kuaishou’s Kling AI

Kuaishou’s AI video generation platform, Kling AI, is reportedly close to completing a $3 billion funding round, with Tencent participating in the investment. Upon completion, Kling AI is expected to be valued at $18 billion. In May, foreign media reported that Kuaishou was plann…

GoDaddy Challenges HC Order Targeting Fake Domain Names: Report

Internet domain name registrar GoDaddy, along with domain registrars Namecheap and Hosting Concepts, has reportedly challenged a Delhi High Court…

China’s ByteDance discovers new scaling law that could sustain AI boom

Researchers at TikTok parent ByteDance have discovered a new scaling law governing how fast artificial intelligence agents can improve by performing real-world tasks, a finding that could help prolong the AI boom just as traditional development methods hit a wall. In a research p…

The UK’s generational tobacco ban might not work. I’m supporting it anyway.

As the parent of two little girls, I often think about how their childhood is different from mine. The seven-year-old is learning about AI at school. The five-year-old is given internet-based homework every week. And they are both absolutely repulsed by the idea of smoking. That …

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AI’s Volatile Power Use Quietly Tests Grid Limits

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure is typically framed as an energy problem. Data centers are projected to consume a growing share of global electricity demand: The International Energy Agency estimates they could account for 3 to 4 percent of total glo…

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Trunk Tools' stack cut document review from 60 days to 10 by ditching general-purpose models

Most verticals aren’t clean, well-oiled SaaS databases; the reality is ugly documents, proprietary schemas, implicit workflows, and long‑running tasks that most general-purpose models struggle with. This prompted construction project management company Trunk Tools to build a spe…

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A New Twist on the To Do List

Humans are odd creatures, and no two are exactly alike, which is likely why so many different methods exist for tracking the progress of tasks that must be accomplished. [Simone …read more

Hackaday Podcast Episode 376: Modern Retro Projects, Retro Modern Projects, and the Teen Years for 3D Printing

Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Al Williams were in a retro mood this week. There was a new ‘486 computer, a new mechanical TV, and a USB stick with a magnetic …read more

How OpenAI Delivers Low-Latency Voice AI for 900M Users

In this article, we will look at the entire journey in detail and challenges the OpenAI engineering team faced.

Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally

Article URL: https://github.com/jamesob/local-llm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48775921 Points: 277 # Comments: 126

This KVM runs a P4 instead of a Pi.

If you asked us to build you a KVM last week, we’d likely have reached for a Raspberry Pi. Now, thanks to [JonathanRowny], we’d seriously consider an ESP32-P4, because his …read more

Microdistillery for Microchemistry

Much like radio operators being encouraged to use the least possible amount of power to make a contact, chemists have a similar rule encouraging using the least amount of materials …read more

Multi-Region Architecture: Going Global Without Going Broke

When an application grows geographically, it is logical to start serving it from a second region to improve latency and availability.

Espionage Against the European Parliament

Article URL: https://citizenlab.ca/research/member-of-committee-investigating-spyware-hacked-with-pegasus/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48779683 Points: 276 # Comments: 67

Markets are competitive if and only if P != NP

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20415 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776345 Points: 218 # Comments: 143