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Anthropic warns investors against secondary platforms offering access to its shares
"Any sale or transfer of Anthropic stock, or any interest in Anthropic stock, offered by these firms is void and will not be recognized on our books and records," the company's support page reads.
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Kevin Hartz’s A* just closed its third fund with $450M
The firm takes a generalist approach, backing companies across categories such as AI applications, fintech, healthcare, and security. The average check size for this fund will be between $3 million and $5 million, with the aim to back at least 30 startups.
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IEEE Program Aims to Connect the Billions Who Are Still Offline
Given how integral the Internet has become to everyday tasks such as shopping, paying bills, and holding virtual meetings, it’s interesting that nearly 30 percent of the global population still has no access to it. More than 2 billion people are still offline, according to a repo…
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‘Ahsoka’ Season 2 Won’t Arrive Until 2027
Rosario Dawson returns in the 'Star Wars' show along with Lars Mikkelsen, Hayden Christensen, and others.
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Medicare’s new payment model is built for AI, and most of the tech world has no idea
There is no governmental mechanism to pay for an AI agent that monitors a patient between visits, calls to check in, coordinates a housing referral, or makes sure someone picks up their medication. ACCESS creates that mechanism for the first time.
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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.
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International tech
Dajin Heavy Industries Aims to Capture Half the European Offshore Wind Market
Dajin Heavy Industries, whose stock has tripled in the past year, is aggressively scaling into European offshore wind installations that now account for 75% of its revenue — targeting 50% of the European market.
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Google introduces AI-powered ‘Googlebook’ laptops, ‘Gemini Intelligence’ and more at Android Show I/O Edition 2026
Ahead of its annual developer conference, Google I/O 2026, Google held a… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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SMIC secures approval for $5.9 billion acquisition in China’s largest domestic wafer foundry M&A
On Monday, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) announced that its share issuance and asset acquisition plan had been reviewed and approved by the M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions) Review Committee of the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The committee determined that…
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Kuaishou's Kling AI Pursues Independent Listing at $20B Valuation
Kuaishou is preparing to spin off its Kling AI video generation business for an independent listing at a $20 billion valuation, with a Pre-IPO funding round already underway.
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The psychology of the spotlight effect and how it has helped me care less about small social mistakes nobody else even noticed
In a 2000 study by Gilovich, Medvec, and Savitsky, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, participants were asked to put on a T-shirt featuring a potentially embarrassing image and walk into a room full of other people. Afterward, they estimated how many p…
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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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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
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Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model
Hey HN, Henry here from Cactus. We open-sourced Needle, a 26M parameter function-calling (tool use) model. It runs at 6000 tok/s prefill and 1200 tok/s decode on consumer devices. We were always frustrated by the little effort made towards building agentic models that run on budg…
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Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare
Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/canadas-bill-c-22-repackaged-version-last-years-surveillance-nightmare Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111531 Points: 236 # Comments: 77
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How Figma Upgraded Data Pipeline from Multi-Day Latency to Real-Time
In this article, we will learn what happened as Figma grew and how its engineering team handled the growth in terms of the data pipeline issues.
bytebytego.com
2026 Hackaday Europe: Pre-party, More Workshops, and Everything Else
With Hackaday Europe no more than two days away, we want to help you wrap up all of the last loose ends. And that means last-minute changes in the workshop …read more
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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: 215 # Comments: 103
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Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/amazon-employees-are-tokenmaxxing-due-to-pressure-to-use-ai-tools/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48110529 Points: 205 # Comments: 214
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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
hackaday.com
The History of Altec Lansing
If you bought computer audio hardware a few decades ago, you may remember coming across products from Altec Lansing. That you probably haven’t thought of that name in some time …read more
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