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‘Final Fantasy XIV’ Wants You to Chill

The critically acclaimed MMO's next expansion, 'Evercold,' is bringing big gameplay changes to let you keep up at your own pace.

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.

Hyundai’s New IONIQ V Looks Kind of Like a Cybertruck for Normal People

The new IONIQ V is key to Hyundai's plans in China.

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.

CVSS scored these two Palo Alto CVEs as manageable. Chained, they gave attackers root access to 13,000 devices.

During Operation Lunar Peek in November 2024, attackers gained unauthenticated remote admin access — and eventual root — across more than 13,000 exposed Palo Alto Networks management interfaces. Palo Alto Networks scored CVE-2024-0012 at 9.3 and CVE-2024-9474 at 6.9 under CVSS v4…

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★ ‘We Don’t Serve Their Kind Here’

George Lucas got so many nuances right in Star Wars. Little touches that said so much. One of the most overlooked is a moment that I vividly remember from first seeing it, on the big screen, as a kindergartener or thereabouts. It’s during the scene where Luke enters the Mos Eisle…

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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.

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I’m 34 and I just noticed that I’ve been describing my own life to friends in the same tone I’d use to describe someone else’s, and that distance turned out to be the actual problem, not the events I was describing

Self-distancing is a genuinely useful emotional tool — until it quietly becomes the room you live in. What the research on narration, intimacy and emotional regulation reveals about the gap between describing your life and living it.

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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,…

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.

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RBI Cancels Paytm Payments Bank Licence

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cancelled the banking licence of Paytm Payments Bank with effect from the close…

SpaceX, Anduril and others secure $3.2Bn US Space Force contracts for Golden Dome project

SpaceX has been selected as one of the contractors for the US… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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★ Time to Serve Some Delicious Claim Chowder Regarding the Cook-Ternus CEO Transition

In May 2024, Bloomberg ran a feature story by Mark Gurman under the headline, “Tim Cook Can’t Run Apple Forever. Who’s Next?” The subhead: “John Ternus, the head of hardware engineering, is emerging as a potential successor to the CEO.” The nut grafs from that piece: There’s no r…

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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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Palantir is reportedly helping the IRS investigate financial crimes

The IRS has used Palantir's software since at least 2018, The Intercept reports.

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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: 208 # Comments: 7

Muon Magnetic Moment Matches Model, Making Major Malaise

Sometimes, a major discovery is exactly what you were hoping not to find. That’s the case with a team at Penn State who seem to have recently closed the door …read more

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: 219 # Comments: 133

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

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

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.

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

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

GPT-5.5 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879092 - April 2026 (1010 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894000 Points: 234 # Comments: 129

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A Smart Thermostat For 120V Fan Coil Systems

Many HVAC systems in North America operate off 24V systems, which can be readily upgraded with off-the-shelf smart thermostats quite easily. However, there are many people living in buildings with …read more