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The Download: the hantavirus outbreak and Musk v. Altman week 2
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Here’s what you need to know about the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak Last week, eight passengers aboard a Dutch-flagged cruise ship contract…
MIT Technology Review
Korea’s biggest manufacturers back Config, the TSMC of robot data
Samsung, Hyundai and LG just bet on the startup that wants to be robotics' data backbone.
techcrunch.com
‘Mortal Kombat 2’ Fought Valiantly At the Box Office This Weekend
The bloody violence of 'Mortal Kombat 2' made money, but got overwhelmed by fashionable devils and musical icons.
gizmodo.com
Meta to Start Capturing Employee Mouse Movements, Keystrokes for AI Training Data
Katie Paul and Jeff Horwitz, reporting for Reuters in late April: Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and ​keystrokes for use in training its artificial intelligence models, part of a broad initiative to b…
reuters.com
WorkOS
My thanks for WorkOS for, once again, sponsoring Daring Fireball for the last week. If you’re ready to sell to enterprise customers, your product may be ready — but is your auth infrastructure? If you’re building B2B SaaS, especially AI, you quickly need enterprise features like …
workos.com
Get ready for the whisper-filled office of the future
How will work setups change if we spend more and more time talking to our computers?
techcrunch.com
International tech
The difference between people who keep moving forward in life and those who stall sometimes isn’t talent, luck, or hard work. It’s the habits they choose to say goodbye to.
A friend of mine, mid-thirties, used to answer every email within minutes. Weekends, holidays, dinner with his kids. Didn’t matter. Then one Sunday afternoon he put his phone in a drawer, told his wife he wasn’t checking it until Monday, and went for a walk. He told me later it f…
siliconcanals.com
Adda247 Lays Off 20% Workforce Ahead Of IPO
Google-backed edtech major Adda247 has laid off 20% of its workforce, or around 200 employees, in an internal restructuring ahead…
inc42.com
Philippine House impeaches VP Sara Duterte for second time over $110M in flagged bank transactions
The gavel fell on 255. Against 26, with 9 abstentions, the Philippine House of Representatives voted Monday to impeach Vice President Sara Duterte — a margin that cleared the one-third constitutional threshold with room to spare and sent her to a Senate trial that could end her p…
siliconcanals.com
ByteDance boosts AI infrastructure spending by 25% to $28 billion this year
TikTok parent company ByteDance has increased its planned spending on AI infrastructure by 25% this year, raising the total to RMB 200 billion ($28 billion), as rising memory chip costs continue to push up expenses, according to people familiar with the matter. The company had in…
technode.com
The Chinese whiz kids of Silicon Valley
Chinese-born tech workers have fueled Silicon Valley for decades. In the AI era, they're superstars.
restofworld.org
Alibaba to merge Qwen AI with Taobao in push for new AI-powered shopping
Alibaba Group is preparing to roll out a major integration between its AI platform Qwen and e-commerce marketplaces Taobao and Tmall, as the Chinese tech giant pushes to transform online shopping through AI. The move is designed to replace traditional keyword-based searches with …
technode.com

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The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)
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EP214: Claude Code vs. OpenClaw: 5 Design Dimensions
Both are highly capable, but they have key architectural differences.
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Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory
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Hackaday Links: May 10, 2026
While Artemis II was primarily a demonstration flight of the architecture NASA plans to use for future lunar missions, it was also an excellent excuse for the crew to snap …read more
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Mermaid Clutch-Purse Cyberdeck is Unappologetically Girly
We feature a lot of DIY portable computers — rehash the “is that a cyberdeck” in the comments to your heart’s content — but how many of them are explicitly …read more
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Become an AI Engineer | Enrollment Ends Soon
Our 6th cohort of Becoming an AI Engineer starts in about a week.
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Binaural Microphone on a Budget
For as many speakers as someone can cram into a surround sound system, humans still (generally) only have two ears to listen to those sounds with. This means that, for …read more
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Making Big Dry Ice Blocks With Low Pressure CO2
Although the term ‘dry ice’ is generally used for solid CO2, it’s much more accurate to call this ‘dry snow’, as, rather than being actual solid blocks, they are effectively …read more
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Hacked Video File Holds Multiple Films On YouTube
We notice there are a lot of hacks on YouTube lately, but we don’t share enough hacks about YouTube. That’s why [PortalRunner]’s latest oeuvre is interesting: it’s a video that …read more
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