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Steve Ballmer blasts founder he backed who pleaded guilty to fraud: ‘I was duped and feel silly’
Steve Ballmer wrote a fiery letter in the sentencing of disgraced founder Joseph Sanberg documenting all the harm that's befalling him as an investor.
techcrunch.com
Three reasons why DeepSeek’s new model matters
On Friday, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released a preview of V4, its long-awaited new flagship model. Notably, the model can process much longer prompts than its last generation, thanks to a new design that helps it handle large amounts of text more efficiently. Like DeepSeek’s prev…
MIT Technology Review
Two college kids raise a $5.1 million pre-seed to build an AI social network in iMessage
Series, a social networking app that's grown popular on college campuses, announced a $5.1 million pre-seed round from some big names in tech.
techcrunch.com
Should We Finally Ditch Artificial Sweeteners for Good?
Recent studies have suggested that sugar substitutes might not be the free lunch they're advertised as. We asked experts what they thought.
gizmodo.com
Brendan Fraser’s Return to ‘The Mummy’ Is Arriving Earlier Than Expected
Radio Silence's creature feature co-starring Rachel Weisz will now arrive in October 2027 rather than May 2028.
gizmodo.com
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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International tech
Pine Labs Acquires Tiger Global-Backed Shopflo For ₹88 Cr
Fintech major Pine Labs is acquiring ecommerce-focused SaaS startup Shopflo in an all-cash deal worth ₹88 Cr (about $9.3 Mn).…
inc42.com
AI optimism surges in Asia, unlike in the U.S.
New research shows Americans are far less excited about AI — and far less trusting of regulators — than their counterparts across Asia.
restofworld.org
The people who never ask for help aren’t independent. They learned somewhere along the way that needing something from someone always came with an invoice they couldn’t afford to pay
The refusal to ask for help gets read as strength, but the psychology tells a different story. What looks like independence is often a childhood lesson about the cost of needing people, calcified into an adult identity.
siliconcanals.com
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…
scmp.com
From LightFury Games To STCH — Indian Startups Raised $39 Mn This Week
Funding trends continued to remain subdued for the world’s third largest startup ecosystem this week. Between April 20 and 24,…
inc42.com
The friends who remember every detail about your life while sharing almost nothing about their own aren’t private. They figured out early that the person asking the questions controls the conversation, and being known felt more dangerous than being interesting.
The friend who remembers every detail about your life while sharing nothing about their own isn't private — they're running a strategy. A look at why some people learned early that asking questions was safer than answering them, and what it costs.
siliconcanals.com
Astrobotic’s Detonation Engine Fires 4,000 Pounds of Thrust in Wild Test
The cutting-edge propulsion system could be used to power rockets to the Moon and beyond.
gizmodo.com
New Zealand Passed a Generational Smoking Ban in 2022, But Repealed It Before It Went Into Effect
Eva Corlett, reporting for The Guardian in 2023: New Zealand’s new government will scrap the country’s world-leading law to ban smoking for future generations to help pay for tax cuts — a move that public health officials believe will cost thousands of lives and be “catastrophic”…
The Guardian
The ‘Anti-Grammarly’ Helps People Hide Their Participation in the AI Slop Era
Is this satire? Does it even matter?
gizmodo.com

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Audio-Forward Case Mod of Classic 90s Portable TV
The humble cathode ray tube (CRT) was once the technology behind almost all of our televisions and computer displays. Its replacements, from LCD screens to OLED and others, are generally …read more
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Rescuing the Data on a 1960s LGP-21 Computer’s Disk Memory
One of the nice things about magnetic storage is that as long as the magnetic layer remains intact, the data it contains should stay readable pretty much indefinitely. That raises …read more
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Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic in cash and compute
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/24/google-to-invest-up-to-40b-in-anthropic-in-cash-and-compute/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895080 Points: 209 # Comments: 7
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The Classic American Diner
Article URL: https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2026/04/the-classic-american-diner/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894435 Points: 229 # Comments: 137
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My audio interface has SSH enabled by default
Article URL: https://hhh.hn/rodecaster-duo-fw/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894747 Points: 263 # Comments: 81
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How to Install Haiku on a UEFI-Only Modern System
Recently Haiku has become a bit of a popular subject of articles and videos, owing perhaps to how close it currently is to be a daily-driver OS and fulfilling the …read more
hackaday.com
3D Print This Retro Desktop Case
Once upon a time, not every computer lived in a vertical “tower” case. Many decades back a horizontal arrangement was a popular choice, sometimes just referred to as the “desktop” …read more
hackaday.com
New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper
Article URL: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/new-10-gbe-usb-adapters-cooler-smaller-cheaper/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47899053 Points: 254 # Comments: 115
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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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