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The iPhone Camera App Is Being Revamped for ‘Professional’ Photographers, Report Says
New customizability is reportedly coming in the form of "widgets."
gizmodo.com
European AI Funding Is Growing. Will That Boost The Region’s Startup Scene?
A growing percentage of European venture funding in 2026 was AI-driven. That includes investments in three new frontier model companies as well as startups in a wide variety of AI-centric sectors.
news.crunchbase.com
Kagi Snaps
Kagi’s documentation: Typing @r headphones will search for “headphones” but limit the results to reddit.com (r is the short code for Reddit). This allows you to quickly find relevant content on a specific site using Kagi’s powerful index. It is effectively the same as doing headp…
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Former Tesla exec and Heron Power CEO Drew Baglino has founded a heat pump startup
Sadi Thermal Machines is Drew Baglino's second startup since leaving Tesla in 2024.
techcrunch.com
Musk mulled handing OpenAI to his children, Altman testifies
Altman said that Musk's focus on controlling the initial for-profit gave him pause because OpenAI was dedicated to keeping advanced AI out of the hands of a single person, and Altman, with his experience running the prominent startup accelerator Y Combinator, knew "founders who h…
techcrunch.com
★ Nextpad++
Windows Notepad is, more or less, the Windows peer to MacOS’s TextEdit — the built-in system text editor. For years, it was really basic — so much more basic than TextEdit that it engendered no affection. You don’t see paeans to Notepad in The New Yorker. Recently though, Microso…
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International tech
eBay rejects GameStop’s $56Bn takeover bid over financing doubts and strategic risks
eBay has formally rejected a massive takeover attempt from GameStop, calling the… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
thetechportal.com
GEESPACE Satellite Network Enters Commercial Inflection Point: From Constellation to Monetization
GEESPACE's low-orbit satellite network reaches commercial monetization stage, marking a new inflection point for China's commercial aerospace as satellite internet enters the 15th Five-Year Plan.
pandaily.com
Tencent Music reports Q1 2026 revenue up 7.3% as non-membership music services rise 28%
Tencent Music Entertainment Group reported unaudited first-quarter 2026 revenue of RMB7.90 billion ($1.15 billion), up 7.3% year-over-year. Non-IFRS net profit attributable to equity holders rose 7.0% to RMB2.27 billion ($330 million). Music-related services revenue increased 12.…
technode.com
WhatsApp rolls out ‘Plus’ subscription with new customization and productivity tools on Android and iOS
WhatsApp has officially rolled out a new optional subscription tier called ‘WhatsApp… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
thetechportal.com
Antibody discovery platform Immunocan closes RMB250 million Series A
Shanghai-based Immunocan has closed a RMB250 million Series A round led by Vivo Capital, with participation from Gold Mine Multi Family Office and follow-on backing from existing investors including Kingray Capital and TigerYeah Capital. The company said the funds will be used to…
technode.com
India’s smartphone shipments fall 4.1% to 31Mn units in Q1’26, Vivo retains top spot: IDC
India’s smartphone market declined 4.1% year-on-year in Q1 2026, with shipments dropping… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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The Dark Side of Unitree Robot Dogs
Continuing on his quest to expose the dark underbelly of modern technology, [Benn Jordan] recently did a deep-dive into the rise of so-called robot dogs. Although their most striking resemblance …read more
hackaday.com
How Pinterest Built a Production MCP Ecosystem
In this article, we look at how Pinterest designed that ecosystem and what they had to get right beyond the protocol itself.
bytebytego.com
Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers
Article URL: https://github.com/FULU-Foundation/OrcaSlicer-bambulab Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115127 Points: 291 # Comments: 121
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Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine
Article URL: https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115807 Points: 253 # Comments: 61
savethearchive.com
A Cyberdeck That Runs Linux…in an Altoids Tin
In the time Hackaday has been in existence we must have brought you plenty of projects housed in Altoids tins, as well as a sizeable number of cyberdecks. But until …read more
hackaday.com
Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model
Hey HN, Henry here from Cactus. We open-sourced Needle, a 26M parameter function-calling (tool use) model. It runs at 6000 tok/s prefill and 1200 tok/s decode on consumer devices. We were always frustrated by the little effort made towards building agentic models that run on budg…
github.com
CRTs Are Too Mainstream, So Game on a Mechanical TV Instead
Aside from nostalgia, people claim to like CRTs because they’re apprehendable– the technology just makes more sense than the arcane wibbly-wobbly solid-state madness going on inside the driver chip of …read more
hackaday.com
How to make your text look futuristic (2016)
Article URL: https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/02/18/futuristic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113895 Points: 271 # Comments: 33
typesetinthefuture.com
CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq
Article URL: https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2026q2/018471.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112042 Points: 273 # Comments: 125
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