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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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DeepSeek-V4 arrives with near state-of-the-art intelligence at 1/6th the cost of Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5
The whale has resurfaced. DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup offshoot of High-Flyer Capital Management quantitative analysis firm, became a near-overnight sensation globally in January 2025 with the release of its open source R1 model that matched proprietary U.S. giants. It's bee…
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‘Marvel’s Spider-Man 2’ Almost Led to an Insomniac Venom Game
Insomniac reportedly had more in store for Venom after 'Marvel's Spider-Man 2,' but is that still part of its Spider-plans?
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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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Apple under Ternus: what comes next for the tech giant’s hardware strategy
John Ternus, Apple's incoming CEO, is a hardware guy, signaling Apple may be putting devices back at the center of its strategy.
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Three reasons why DeepSeek’s new model matters
On Friday, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released a preview of V4, its long-awaited new flagship model. Notably, the model can process much longer prompts than its last generation, thanks to a new design that helps it handle large amounts of text more efficiently. Like DeepSeek’s prev…
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The people who immediately tidy a room when they enter someone else’s house aren’t being helpful. They learned somewhere along the way that earning their place was the price of being allowed to stay in it
The compulsion to tidy a friend's living room within minutes of arriving isn't politeness. It's an old strategy from a childhood where belonging had to be earned, and the bill never closed.
siliconcanals.com
RBI cancels Paytm Payments Bank licence over compliance failures
India’s central bank, RBI, has cancelled the licence of Paytm Payments Bank… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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X launches standalone ‘XChat’ messaging app on iOS with encryption, calls and group chats
X has introduced XChat, its dedicated messaging app for iOS, after a… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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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.
siliconcanals.com
Google could invest up to $40Bn in Anthropic in a phased deal
Google is reportedly planning to invest up to $40 billion in AI… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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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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Muon Magnetic Moment Matches Model, Making Major Malaise
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3D Print This Retro Desktop Case
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Time Frog Color is a Game Boy Color on Your Wrist
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Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom
Article URL: https://github.com/yuvadm/quantumslop/blob/25ad2e76ae58baa96f6219742459407db9dd17f5/URANDOM_DEMO.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897647 Points: 236 # Comments: 34
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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: 209 # Comments: 7
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