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Farewell, Jeeves: Ask.com shuts down
Owner IAC says it's discontinuing its search business.
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AI-generated actors and scripts are now ineligible for Oscars
Bad news for Tilly Norwood.
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The Next Big Original ‘Magic’ Set Is a ‘What If?’ Adventure
Wizards of the Coast has a busy 2026 planned for 'Magic: The Gathering,' from fracturing reality to taking a second journey to Middle-earth.
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The best AI dictation apps, tested and ranked
AI-powered dictation apps are useful for replying to emails, taking notes, and even coding through your voice
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I Hope ‘Mortal Kombat II’ Knows What It’s Doing
With an iffy first movie and the games now MIA, can 'Mortal Kombat II' keep the franchise going another round?
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OpenAI’s CFO Reportedly Wants to Delay the IPO from 2026 to 2027
OpenAI's revenue picture is reportedly not pretty, and a new report says its chief financial officer wants to calm spending down before going public.
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International tech
How Coratia Technologies Is Protecting Undersea Data Highways With Marine Robots
Can machines come to the rescue when mankind faces a threat to its digital lifeline?   Odisha-based Coratia Technologies is working…
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What 40 years of showing up to hard, physical work taught me about the mental habits no productivity app will ever replicate
After four decades of crawling through attics and wrestling with live wires, I discovered that the mental toughness built from physical labor creates habits that no Silicon Valley app can replicate—and they're still waking me up at 5:30 AM in retirement.
siliconcanals.com
Centre Notifies 100% FDI In Insurance Sector
The Centre has allowed up to 100% foreign direct investment (FDI) in insurance companies under the automatic route, weeks after…
inc42.com
GameStop could acquire eBay to accelerate e-commerce ambitions
GameStop is reportedly planning to acquire eBay, signaling a bold shift in… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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I worked forty years as an electrician and the thing nobody warns you about retirement isn’t the boredom, it’s that the silence at 7am on a Tuesday immediately surfaces every feeling I out-worked for four decades
Tommy Baker on what actually happens when forty years of work suddenly stops — not boredom, but the surfacing of every feeling the job kept at bay.
siliconcanals.com
Anthropic in early talks to secure custom AI chips from Fractile: Report
Anthropic is reportedly in early discussions with UK-based semiconductor startup Fractile to… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge
Article URL: https://thinkpol.ca/2026/04/30/an-open-weights-chinese-model-just-beat-claude-gpt-5-5-and-gemini-in-a-programming-challenge/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993235 Points: 252 # Comments: 110
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A Beginner’s Guide to Kubernetes
In this article, we will learn how Kubernetes is a system of promises, and that every piece of it is a small program keeping one of those promises.
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Let Twitch Chat Control Your LED Strings
Once upon a time, someone set up a livestream wherein the messages from Twitch chat could control a game of Pokemon. Since then, we’ve seen Twitch control all sorts of …read more
hackaday.com
Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him
Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/05/02/this-tesla-owner-won-10k-in-court-for-teslas-fsd-lies-tesla-is-still-fighting-him/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991350 Points: 226 # Comments: 103
electrek.co
EP213: MCP vs Skills, Clearly Explained
Both MCP and Skills extend what an agent can do. But they solve different problems, and picking the wrong one adds cost or complexity you don't need.
bytebytego.com
Pushing as Many Pixels as Possible to a CRT: Interlaced 4K
Some people love CRTs to a degree that the uninitiated may find obsessive. We all have our thing, and for [Found Tech], it’s absolutely pointing particle accelerators at his face …read more
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Building a C-3PO You Can Really Talk To
C-3PO is one of the more famous movie robots out there. However, we don’t see a lot of replicas built, perhaps because in speech and mannerisms, he’s quite hard to …read more
hackaday.com
This Month in Ladybird - April 2026
Article URL: https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2026-04-30/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990318 Points: 302 # Comments: 56
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VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989883 Points: 1127 # Comments: 563
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