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Fox to Buy Roku Streaming Service in $25 Billion Deal
The Wall Street Journal on Monday: Fox Corp. said it is acquiring Roku in a deal valued at around $25 billion, making a major bet on the future of ad-supported streaming. The deal — Fox’s largest to date — brings together a media company known for its live news and sports program…
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From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn’t stop anyone
For the last 30 years, stopping the flow of cybersecurity-related software has proven to be ineffective. It's unclear why it would work now with Anthropic’s cybersecurity model Mythos.
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Snap Launches Ad Campaign for Specs Starring Michael Caine
“They’re about power, aren’t they, and the bloody powerful blokes who wear them.” Maybe I’m all wet and these things are stylish, no matter what they do to your ears.  ★
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IEEE Rolls Out Large Language Models Virtual Training Course
Large language models have moved out of the research lab and into engineers’ daily workflow. LLMs serve as reasoning engines that can orchestrate complex tasks including identifying vulnerabilities in source code and transforming fragmented project discussions into rigorous techn…
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Go eyes robotaxis and acquisitions after Japan’s biggest IPO of 2026. Here’s why it matters
Go’s IPO — Japan’s biggest so far this year — has done more than provide a much-needed boost to the country’s languishing listing season. It has also supplied the taxi-hailing app with the capital required to address an existential issue: Japan’s shortage of drivers. Go, which we…
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He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he’s doing that for robots.
French serial entrepreneur and open-source legend Jean-Baptiste Kempf has been building Kyber, an infrastructure layer to control remote devices in real time.
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Meta could invest in Indian fintech firm ‘Cred’ at a $4Bn valuation
Meta is said to be in talks to invest in Kunal Shah-led… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Reliance AGM’26: From ‘Reliance Intelligence’ to ‘Jio AI Call Agent’, Mukesh Ambani reveals an AI roadmap for India
At Reliance Industries’ 49th AGM, AI was the biggest strategic theme, even… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Vridhi Home Finance FY26: Profit Jumps 5X YoY To ₹22.3 Cr
Bengaluru-based NBFC Vridhi Home Finance’s net profit rose nearly five-fold to ₹22.3 Cr in FY26 from ₹4.6 Cr a year…
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Juggling several tasks at once feels efficient, but researchers have found that each switch quietly costs time and accuracy — via hidden mental stages of shifting goals and reloading rules that compound
Here’s how many of my mornings go. I sit down to write, open the research tab, and start reading for the angle I need. The angle does not come. So I check Slack, just for a second. Then a message pulls me into a thread, and the thread reminds me of a video, and the ... Read more
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HDC 2026: HarmonyOS 7 Developer Beta Officially Released, Ecosystem Surpasses 66 Million Devices
At HDC 2026, Huawei released HarmonyOS 7 Developer Beta with deep AI integration, surpassing 66 million devices and unveiling on-device AI anti-fraud and performance models.
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‘We’re all in’: Alibaba’s Joe Tsai makes biggest AI push yet at VivaTech
Alibaba Group delivered its strongest defence yet of an “all in” artificial intelligence strategy on Thursday, with chairman Joe Tsai arguing that AI could ultimately represent a US$50 trillion market and vowing to invest across the industry’s entire value chain rather than bet o…
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A General Purpose Pi Zero Device for IoT
By now we’re all used to single board computers such as the Raspberry Pi Zero, but it’s likely we’ve all been frustrated at times by the number of support components …read more
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Think of the children: How to force real ID for all internet traffic (2023)
Article URL: https://nochan.net/b/Internet-Crap/20230829-Think-Of-The-Children/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602817 Points: 201 # Comments: 118
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A new bill takes aim at government pressure to silence lawful online speech
Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/new-bill-takes-aim-government-pressure-silence-lawful-online-speech Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600950 Points: 275 # Comments: 122
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Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died
Article URL: https://www.legacy.com/legacy/robert-bobby-prince-lll Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602352 Points: 360 # Comments: 39
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Observability for Beginners: Logs, Metrics, Traces, and Everything Around Them
In this article, we will look at the basics of observability in detail with concepts like logs, metrics, and traces explained in detail.
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Epson HX-20 Gets A Drive Upgrade
The Epson HX-20 is sometimes referred to as an early laptop computer. It’s a little odd in its form factor, and in its storage, relying on a microcassette drive to …read more
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Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good
Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01947-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48601286 Points: 222 # Comments: 284
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LAST CALL FOR ENROLLMENT: Build with Claude Code - Cohort 2
We’re launching Cohort 2 of our 2-day intensive, cohort-based course, Build with Claude Code, taught by John Kim, who has trained hundreds of engineers at Meta to use Claude Code in real production workflows.
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PCBs Straight from the Magazine
It’s never been easier to get a printed circuit board made. In fact, almost every electronics video out on the internet will incessantly remind you of this fact now. But …read more
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