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Search Ads as a Vector for Travel Scams
Dawn Gilbertson, writing for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Calder says that he tried to rebook at the given link a few times but that it wouldn’t work. He became worried new flight options were dwindling, so he googled the airline’s customer-service number. (There was a li…
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Surprise! ‘VisionQuest’ Arrives on Disney+ in October
Paul Bettany returns as the onetime Avenger in Marvel's second 'WandaVision' spin-off.
gizmodo.com
★ Nextpad++
Windows Notepad is, more or less, the Windows peer to MacOS’s TextEdit — the built-in system text editor. For years, it was really basic — so much more basic than TextEdit that it engendered no affection. You don’t see paeans to Notepad in The New Yorker. Recently though, Microso…
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Seriously, Give Kagi a Try
Quoting from a post I wrote a year ago: Like, even if I use the magic &udm=14 parameter with Google search, to get “disenshittified” results from Google, I find I get better results from Kagi. When I know there’s one right answer (say, a specific article I remember reading and wa…
daringfireball.net
Imminent Samsung Strike Could Be an Earthquake for AI
A planned strike at Samsung's manufacturing complex would not make supply chains happy.
gizmodo.com
Kagi Snaps
Kagi’s documentation: Typing @r headphones will search for “headphones” but limit the results to reddit.com (r is the short code for Reddit). This allows you to quickly find relevant content on a specific site using Kagi’s powerful index. It is effectively the same as doing headp…
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International tech
eBay rejects GameStop’s $56Bn takeover bid over financing doubts and strategic risks
eBay has formally rejected a massive takeover attempt from GameStop, calling the… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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WhatsApp rolls out ‘Plus’ subscription with new customization and productivity tools on Android and iOS
WhatsApp has officially rolled out a new optional subscription tier called ‘WhatsApp… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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MiniCPM-V 4.6: Tsinghua Spinoff Open-Sources a 1.3B Multimodal Model That Runs on a Single RTX 4090
OpenBMB and Tsinghua University open-source MiniCPM-V 4.6, a 1.3B-parameter multimodal model that runs on a single RTX 4090 while matching larger competitors on key benchmarks.
pandaily.com
India’s smartphone shipments fall 4.1% to 31Mn units in Q1’26, Vivo retains top spot: IDC
India’s smartphone market declined 4.1% year-on-year in Q1 2026, with shipments dropping… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Alibaba Health Unveils Medical AI "Hydrogen Ion" and Forges Exclusive Partnership with UK's BMJ Group
Alibaba Health launches "Hydrogen Ion" medical AI in partnership with the UK's BMJ Group, granting Chinese doctors exclusive access to 70+ leading medical journals and multimedia resources.
pandaily.com
JD.com Rolls Out AI Virtual Try-On Feature Ahead of 618 Shopping Festival
JD.com launches AI virtual try-on feature that generates personalized clothing fit images from user photos, rolling out ahead of the 618 shopping festival as e-commerce giants compete on AI-powered shopping experiences.
pandaily.com

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CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq
Article URL: https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2026q2/018471.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112042 Points: 302 # Comments: 144
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CRTs Are Too Mainstream, So Game on a Mechanical TV Instead
Aside from nostalgia, people claim to like CRTs because they’re apprehendable– the technology just makes more sense than the arcane wibbly-wobbly solid-state madness going on inside the driver chip of …read more
hackaday.com
How Pinterest Built a Production MCP Ecosystem
In this article, we look at how Pinterest designed that ecosystem and what they had to get right beyond the protocol itself.
bytebytego.com
Starship V3
Article URL: https://www.spacex.com/updates#starship-v3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116781 Points: 202 # Comments: 266
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The Dark Side of Unitree Robot Dogs
Continuing on his quest to expose the dark underbelly of modern technology, [Benn Jordan] recently did a deep-dive into the rise of so-called robot dogs. Although their most striking resemblance …read more
hackaday.com
Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine
Article URL: https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115807 Points: 307 # Comments: 87
savethearchive.com
Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers
Article URL: https://github.com/FULU-Foundation/OrcaSlicer-bambulab Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115127 Points: 384 # Comments: 167
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Build The CPU, Then Build The Calculator
It’s possible that among Hackaday readers are the largest community of people who have designed their own CPU in the world. We have featured many here, but it’s possible that …read more
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Trying to Fix a GoPro Hero 10 With No Camera Input Issue
In the search for more exciting broken electronics to repair, [Hugh Jeffreys] bought a GoPro Hero 10 for US$100 with an apparently rather common issue of no camera input, along …read more
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