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Scientists Finally Solve Mystery of ‘Golden Orb’ Found on Alaskan Seafloor
It took more than two years, but we can finally rest easy that it's not the contorted remains of an alien creature.
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Health-care AI is here. We don’t know if it actually helps patients.
I don’t need to tell you that AI is everywhere. Or that it is being used, increasingly, in hospitals. Doctors are using AI to help them with notetaking. AI-based tools are trawling through patient records, flagging people who may require certain support or treatments. They are al…
MIT Technology Review
85% of enterprises are running AI agents. Only 5% trust them enough to ship.
Eighty-five percent of enterprises are running AI agent pilots, but only 5% have moved those agents into production. In an exclusive interview at RSA Conference 2026, Cisco President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel said that the gap comes down to one thing: trust — and that…
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Another spyware maker caught distributing fake Android snooping apps
Researchers have found a new case where government authorities used a fake Android app to plant spyware on a target’s phone. The company that allegedly developed the spyware was not previously known to sell this type of software.
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Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga joins stacked StrictlyVC SF lineup for April 30 event
Surprise! StrictlyVC San Francisco, which will kick off this year’s events lineup for TechCrunch on April 30 at the Sentro Filipino Cultural Center, is getting a new addition to its increasingly stacked lineup of speakers. Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga will join the rest of the …
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Marked-up Mac minis flood eBay amid shortages driven by AI
Apple’s sold-out Mac mini is spawning marked-up eBay listings as demand surges for the compact desktop, now favored for running local AI models and tools.
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International tech
DeepSeek Launches V4 API with 1 Million Token Context
DeepSeek has launched its V4 API with a 1 million-token context window, aiming to lower the cost of long-text AI processing and expand developer access.
pandaily.com
Behavioral scientists found that major life transitions in people over 60 — retirement, children leaving, the loss of a parent — produce a measurable increase in dream vividness and emotional intensity that most people dismiss as strange and that psychology says is actually the mind doing in sleep what it hasn’t been given space to do while awake
As researchers tracked thousands of people through retirement, empty nests, and loss, they discovered these life-altering moments trigger such intense dreams that participants often wake up feeling like they've lived entire second lives—yet most dismiss these nocturnal experience…
siliconcanals.com
XTEINK Raises Over RMB 100 Million to Expand AI E-Paper Devices
XTEINK, a Chinese AI e-paper startup, has raised over $14 million to expand its ultra-portable secondary screen devices and accelerate overseas growth.
pandaily.com
Huawei doubles down on autonomous driving, earmarking US$11.7b for autopilot training
Adamant about retaining its runaway lead in supplying smart driving systems in China, Huawei Technologies plans to invest as much as 80 billion yuan (US$11.7 billion) over the next five years to boost computing power essential for training and testing semi-autonomous cars. The ma…
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Huawei, DeepSeek strengthen China’s AI self-reliance with collaboration on V4 model
Huawei Technologies’ newest Ascend 950PR and 950DT chips enjoyed “day zero” adaptation to DeepSeek’s latest V4 model, the Shenzhen-based tech giant said in a livestream on Friday, just hours after the model’s release. The hardware-software collaboration between the two Chinese fi…
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OpenAI releases ‘GPT-5.5’ with major improvement in coding and autonomous task performance
OpenAI has introduced a new frontier model, GPT-5.5, which is being described… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Norway Set to Become Latest Country to Ban Social Media for Under 16s
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/norway-wants-kids-to-be-kids-with-social-media-ban-for-under-16s Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47891019 Points: 272 # Comments: 231
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B-Trees vs LSM Trees: Comparison and Trade-Offs
In this article, we will look at B-Trees and LSM trees in detail, along with the trade-offs associated with each of them.
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How Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol Allows for Easy Remote Execution
As part of the effort to push Large Language Model (LLM) ‘AI’ into more and more places, Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) has been adopted as the standard to connect …read more
hackaday.com
Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler
Article URL: https://github.com/matz/spinel Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47887334 Points: 248 # Comments: 69
github.com
Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing
Article URL: https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2026_04_overthinking/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890799 Points: 212 # Comments: 56
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I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support
Article URL: https://nickyreinert.de/en/2026/2026-04-24-claude-critics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892019 Points: 343 # Comments: 184
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Reviving Nintendo’s Early Arcade Game, Wild Gunman
There’s retrogaming, and then there’s retro gaming. This next project falls into the second category, as [Callan] of 74XX Arcade Repair digs into the original Wild Gunman, first released by Nintendo …read more
hackaday.com
This Week in Security: Annoyed Researchers, Dangling DNS, and Hacks that Could Have Been Worse
The author of the BlueHammer exploit, which was released earlier this month and addressed in the last Patch Tuesday, continues to be annoyed with the responses from the Microsoft security …read more
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Hackaday Podcast Episode 367: Radioactive Weather, Continuous Pickles, and Moon Junk
When Elliot Williams and Al Williams compare their notes on the week in Hackaday, you know you’ll get at least one or two bad puns. How bad? Tune in and …read more
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