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Utah’s New Age Verification Law Targeting VPNs Takes Effect This Week

Privacy advocates warn Utah’s new law targeting VPN loopholes in age verification systems could set an unworkable precedent.

Tailoring AI solutions for health care needs

The AI market is full of big promises of grand transformation. Health care is a prime target for those promises, beset as it is by financial pressures, labor shortages, and the growing burden of caring for an aging population. AI developers are targeting functions that vary widel…

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Fake Urine Bottles Planted In Museum Before Met Gala to Protest Jeff Bezos

As of early Monday evening Bezos was reportedly a no-show. Maybe the protest worked.

Chess Peace — a new iOS game by Sam Shepherd — is my kind of logic puzzle. Each puzzle is a board with a few unplaced chess pieces. To solve you need to place all the pieces so that none of them attack each other. There’s a timer if you care, but I don’t. Clever name too: the pie…

OpenAI’s cozy partner Cerebras is on track for a blockbuster IPO

AI chip maker Cerebras is heading for a blockbuster IPO that could value it at $26.6 billion or more. Its relationship with OpenAI is deep and rich.

US government warns of severe CopyFail bug affecting major versions of Linux

U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA says the CopyFail bug is being actively used in hacking campaigns, and poses a major risk to servers and data centers that rely on Linux.

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Aurm Bags ₹42 Cr To Build An Alternative To Bank Lockers

Fintech startup Aurm has raised ₹42 Cr ($4.4 Mn) in its Series A funding round led by Earth Fund and…

[Update] Kissht IPO: Issue Subscribed 60% On Day 2

Update | May 4, 18:30 IST The IPO of Kissht was subscribed 60% at the end of the second day…

Motorola’s India lawsuit could make platforms police speech faster

The American phonemaker's Indian arm has named X, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Google, and Meta in a lawsuit asking to take down existing and future “defamatory” content.

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The most painful thing about having parents who love you but don’t quite know you is that they will spend the rest of their lives describing a son they invented to people who will never meet the one you actually became.

The cousin called on a Tuesday. She had been at a dinner party my mother also attended, and she wanted me to know how proud my mother had sounded when my name came up. The phrase she used was “absolutely glowing.” I sat down on the floor of my apartment somewhere around the secon…

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D2C’s Toughest Test Yet, Kissht IPO Day 2 & More

D2C’s Manufacturing Dilemma Indian D2C brands are facing a new brutal reality. Manufacturers are rewriting contracts and moving to the…

Apple could introduce ‘Create a Pass’ feature to Wallet in iOS 27, allowing users to generate custom passes

Apple is reportedly planning a new ‘Create a Pass’ feature for the… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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Geothermal startup Fervo Energy to raise up to $1.3B in IPO

Enhanced geothermal startup Fervo Energy’s IPO could value the company at up to $6.5 billion.

Katie Haun raises $1B for new venture funds

Katie Haun announced on Monday that $1 billion has been raised across new funds to continue the firm’s thesis of backing crypto and blockchain startups.

★ Y Combinator’s Stake in OpenAI

Speaking of companies with valuable minority stakes in AI companies, there’s one thing that stuck in my craw about the blockbuster Ronan Farrow / Andrew Marantz investigative piece on Sam Altman and OpenAI last month for The New Yorker. It didn’t come up during Nilay Patel’s exce…

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Connecting LLMs to the Real World: Tool Use, Function Calling, and MCP

In this article, we will look at this progression that has happened from basic tool use to function calling to the Model Context Protocol, allowing the LLMs to go from isolated text generation tools to assistants that can do interesting stuff for the end users.

The Math You Need to Start Understanding LLMs

Once you peel back the hype and mysticism, large language models (LLMs) are a fascinating application of statistical models, effectively what you get when you dial a basic auto-complete model …read more

Heat pump sales rise across Europe

Article URL: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/04/heat-pump-sales-rise-17-across-europe-in-q1-as-energy-prices-surge/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012003 Points: 218 # Comments: 129

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Strange Ways to Make Cold

Making stuff cool and keeping it that way has been a pretty essential part of human civilization for thousands of years, with only in the past few hundred years man-made …read more

How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/delivering-low-latency-voice-ai-at-scale/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013919 Points: 309 # Comments: 106

Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused

Article URL: https://twitter.com/L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N/status/2051308329880719730 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012735 Points: 438 # Comments: 156

A Shortwave Sensor to Monitor the Ionosphere

The ionosphere is of great importance to shortwave radio transmissions, since it allows radio waves to be refracted and reflected over the horizon, and it’s therefore unfortunate that the height …read more

Teardown of a Shahed-136 Gimbaled Camera

The Iranian Shahed-136’s basic design has seen many changes and additions since Russia began using them, with some featuring interesting payloads such as cameras in a gimbal, making these drones …read more

Days without GitHub incidents

Article URL: https://www.dayswithoutgithubincident.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012022 Points: 358 # Comments: 150

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