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These ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Figures Bring Doom and Steve Upon You

For the collectible crowd, Hot Toys said the 'Avengers: Doomsday' love doesn't have to end once you leave the theater.

Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat disappears from app stores in India after government order

Bitchat has become largely unavailable in India as a result of the restrictions.

Vessev built an electric ferry that almost flies

Vessev hopes its electric hydrofoil ferry will change the way people and cities think about boats.

Amazon responds to data center backlash, says it no longer uses NDAs

The CEO of Amazon Web Services tried to push back against widespread suspicion of data centers.

Federal judge calls Flock ‘indiscriminate mass surveillance’

A federal judge ruled that a sheriff’s deputy violated a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights when using Flock to search for her license plate without a warrant.

Spider-Man Needs a TV Show. But Does He Need *This*?

If Spider-Man does whatever a spider can, what could his clones do for his TV life?

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New-Age Tech Stocks Extend Slide, Turtlemint Slumps Another 20% This Week

New-age tech stocks remained under pressure this week, with 47 stocks declining as benchmark indices recorded their eighth consecutive weekly…

Skin In The Game: Why Banks Are Taking Stakes In AI Labs

Rogo, a US-based financial-services AI startup, raised $30 Mn this month. What made this unique was that some of the…

IPO-Bound Kuku Technologies Turns Profitable In FY26, Revenue Surges 6X To ₹1,484 Cr

Kuku Technologies Limited, parent company of audio OTT platform Kuku FM and microdrama app Kuku TV, swung into the black…

FY26 Financial Tracker: Tracking The Financial Performance Of Indian Startups

The Indian startup ecosystem continued to mature in FY26, with 22 new-age tech companies making their public market debut as…

Indian Listed New-Age Tech Company Tracker: Market Cap, Revenue & More

For years, we at Inc42 have tracked the Indian tech startup ecosystem and seen it grow from a kid to…

★ Apple Is Going to Further Tighten the Screws on Full Disk Access on MacOS, in Response to Agentic AI Apps Running Amok

Apple Developer News, in a post titled “Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS”: We give developers powerful APIs to build incredible capabilities into their apps for Apple products, backed by a set of controls designed to protect users’ private data. Full Disk Access largely sides…

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‘Barbie 2’ May Happen After All

Skydance is barely even a company yet, and it's already got its sights on spinning up a 'Barbie' sequel.

Apple Confirms iPhone 18 Pro Max AT&T Cellular Issues, Affected Devices Require Hardware Replacement

In a statement to 9to5Mac, Apple said: We have identified an issue affecting a small number of iPhone 18 Pro Max users on the AT&T network that may cause a device to lose service and be unable to make calls. We released iOS 27.0.1 earlier this week and strongly encourage all iPho…

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That’s No Moon… That’s an Exoplanet!

It wasn’t that long ago that a science teacher would have told students that there was no evidence of planets around other star systems. Even more recently, they might have …read more

Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model

https://tej.as/blog/aleph-alpha-kolibri Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49942706 Points: 343 # Comments: 240

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Aleph Alpha Kolibri: How the sovereign German LLM works

https://aleph-alpha.com/en/blog/kolibri-has-landed-a-soverei... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49943034 Points: 406 # Comments: 11

The ESP32, An SDR In Itself

Perhaps the most famous of all the software-defined radio (SDR) receivers is the RTL-SDR, a digital TV receiver on which an undocumented feature was found. Perhaps other radio-enabled chips also …read more

Fixing a Power Grid That Loses Over Half Its Power to Inefficiency and Theft

[Mini Shaji Thomas] has a deeply interesting article on IEEE Spectrum detailing how the power distribution system for a city of over twenty million people went from failing to first-class. …read more

Is This The Smallest Internet Radio?

Internet radios have been a thing in some form for the last quarter century, and the advent of cheap networked microcontrollers has made them easier than ever to build. But …read more

Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art

Article URL: https://www.newgrounds.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49940394 Points: 406 # Comments: 119

Why State is the Hardest Thing in Software Design

In this article, we will look at why state is the hardest thing in software development and the multiple strategies that developers can use to manage it.

Extra Big Ass Intelligence

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