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The Youth AI Safety Institute Has Margrethe Vestager’s Backing
Una Hajdari, reporting for Euronews: A new independent institute dedicated to making artificial intelligence safer for children will beformally [sic] presented at the Danish Parliament on Tuesday, with former European Commission executive vice-president Margrethe Vestager among t…
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Striking New Views of the First Atomic Bomb Test
Editor’s note: If you’d like to pinpoint the instant when the world entered the nuclear age, 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain War Time on 16 July 1945, is an excellent choice. That was the moment when human beings first unleashed the power of the nucleus in an immense, blinding ball of fire…
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No Pill Currently Prevents Covid-19. This One Just Might
Ensitrelvir has already been approved as a prophylactic in Japan, with an FDA decision in the U.S. expected soon.
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Cerebras stock nearly doubles on day one as AI chipmaker hits $100 billion — what it means for AI infrastructure
Cerebras Systems, the Silicon Valley chipmaker that built the world's largest commercial AI processor, erupted onto the Nasdaq on Wednesday, opening at $350 per share — nearly double its $185 IPO price — and rocketing past a $100 billion market capitalization in its first hours o…
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Aluminium OS: Google’s ‘Android for PC’ OS for Googlebooks
The high level pitch from Google’s official Aluminium OS website (note the British spelling): Aluminium OS — internally codenamed ALOS — is Google’s entirely new Android-based operating system built specifically for laptops and desktop computers. I like the name and wish they’d s…
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A hotel check-in system left a million passports and driver’s licenses open for anyone to see
The tech company that maintains the hotel check-in system set its cloud storage to public, allowing anyone to access customers' data without a password.
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International tech
Tencent Q1 2026: Revenue Up 9% as AI Investment Surges
Tencent Q1 2026 earnings show 9% revenue growth to RMB 196.46 billion, with management signaling significant AI capex expansion through 2026.
pandaily.com
IPO-bound Anthropic reportedly agrees on terms for $30Bn funding at massive $900Bn valuation
Anthropic has reportedly agreed terms for a massive $30 billion funding round… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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MediaTek Dimensity: The Chip Platform Powering Smartphone AI Agents
MediaTek's latest Dimensity (天玑) developer conference positions the chip platform as key to enabling smartphone AI agents, as daily autonomous AI task volume surged 7x year-over-year to 870 million in 2026.
pandaily.com
BYD in talks with automakers over European factory takeovers
BYD, which has expanded its new energy vehicle exports over the past two years, is considering acquiring factories in Europe from other automakers and has been in talks with several companies, according to sources. An executive in charge of overseas market expansion at BYD reveal…
technode.com
XbotGo Raises ~RMB 100M Led by Ninebot Capital for AI Sports Cameras
XbotGo (深眸远智), an AI sports imaging startup founded by a Chinese team, raises ~RMB 100M led by Ninebot Capital (Segway-Ninebot) to expand its AI camera business for youth sports markets.
pandaily.com
Mobavenue AI Q4: PAT Zooms 60% To ₹8.4 Cr, Revenue Increases 42%
Listed adtech company Mobavenue AI Tech’s net profit for the March 2026 quarter (Q4 FY26) jumped 60% to ₹8.4 Cr…
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High Performance Rate Limiting at Databricks
In this article, we look at how Databricks implemented rate limiting at scale, how they shrank the critical path, and the accuracy tradeoff that shrinking usually requires.
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A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10
Article URL: https://projectzero.google/2026/05/pixel-10-exploit.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148460 Points: 243 # Comments: 100
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A Guide To Event-Driven Architectural Patterns
Distributed systems are built out of services that need to communicate, and the simplest way to do that is for one service to call another directly and wait for a response.
bytebytego.com
LAST CALL FOR ENROLLMENT: Become an AI Engineer - Cohort 6
Our 6th cohort of Becoming an AI Engineer starts tomorrow, Saturday, May 16. This is a live, cohort-based course created in collaboration with best-selling author Ali Aminian and published by ByteByteGo.
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Hacking Hard Drive Firmware
You probably flash new firmware on a variety of devices regularly, even though that’s rare for non-technical types. But what about your hard drive firmware? Most of us don’t want …read more
hackaday.com
Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
Article URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150431 Points: 381 # Comments: 118
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Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks
Article URL: https://www.fastcompany.com/91541586/amazon-workers-pressured-to-up-ai-use-extraneous-tasks Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148337 Points: 249 # Comments: 242
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O(x)Caml in Space
Article URL: https://gazagnaire.org/blog/2026-05-14-borealis.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147058 Points: 201 # Comments: 49
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Mod this IKEA Lamp into Smart Lighting For Not A Lot
The IKEA SKAFTSÄRV is an economical LED accent lamp, but while highly affordable it has only fixed lighting options. [simoneluconi] shows how it can easily be turned into a fully-configurable, …read more
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