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Alex Karp’s ‘Supervillain’ Manifesto Is Putting Palantir’s Contracts at Risk
Lawmakers in the UK are raising concerns over the government’s contracts with the controversial, Peter Thiel-backed data company.
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‘The Omen’ Remains a Searing Reminder That No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Everyone remembers the creepy kid at the center of the 1976 horror classic—but he’s only part of the problem.
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The New Unicorn Count Reached A 4-Year High In March, Led By Robotics, Frontier Labs And AI Infrastructure 
A total of 37 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in March, the highest monthly count in close to four years, Crunchbase data shows. The robotics sector led unicorn creation last month, with six new billion-dollar startups.
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DF Paraphernalia: T-Shirts and Hoodies Are Back
Daring Fireball t-shirts and hoodies are back. Order now, and we’ll start printing shirts at the end of this week and shipping them out next week. Go ahead and place your order now, while I gather my thoughts about today’s Apple leadership news.  ★
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What to Consider Before You Accept a Management Role
This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox for free! The Individual Contributor–Mana…
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Japanese Man Sentenced For Posting ‘Godzilla’ Spoilers Online
39-year-old Wataru Takeuchi was charged for posting plot descriptions of movies and anime series so detailed that a Tokyo court declared them copyright infringement.
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Auto China 2026: BYD Fangchengbao FORMULA reveals first performance coupe
BYD’s premium performance sub-brand Fangchengbao today announced that its all-new FORMULA series will make its global debut on April 24 during the media day of the Beijing Auto Show, with a simultaneous live broadcast across online platforms. As the first sedan under the Fangchen…
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Domestic AIFs Halve Ownership In MobiKwik In March Quarter
Domestic alternative investment funds (AIFs) undertook heavy sell-offs in MobiKwik in Q4 FY26, following the fintech company’s maiden profitable quarter…
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Moonshot AI releases flagship model as open-source push continues
Chinese artificial intelligence start-up Moonshot AI has released its latest open-source flagship model, Kimi K2.6, as domestic tech giants including Alibaba, ByteDance and Tencent issued a consensus to promote open source, even as some continue to invest in closed systems. The m…
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FAA orders probe after Blue Origin’s New Glenn launch puts satellite in wrong orbit: Report
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has ordered an immediate halt to… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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OpenAI introduces cost-per-click ads in ChatGPT amid declining CPM rates: Report
OpenAI is reportedly rolling out a new cost-per-click (CPC) ad model inside… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Meta tests ‘WhatsApp Plus’ premium subscription with new customization features
Meta is testing a new optional premium subscription for WhatsApp, adding a… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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★ Another Day Has Come
It’s a profoundly different feeling today than the last time Apple’s CEO announced his transition to chairman of the board, and his chosen successor was promoted to replace him as CEO. In August 2011, Steve Jobs was sick. For years he’d managed to stay a step, sometimes two, ahea…
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What AI model should you use for revenue intelligence? Von says all the big ones, and it will automate mixing and matching for you
Looking at enterprise AI adoption, VentureBeat has anecdotally observed a fairly wide divergence when it comes to specific roles: For those who build—engineers and developers—the arrival of AI has been transformative, moving through the workflow with the speed of tools like Claud…
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Three AI coding agents leaked secrets through a single prompt injection. One vendor's system card predicted it
A security researcher, working with colleagues at Johns Hopkins University, opened a GitHub pull request, typed a malicious instruction into the PR title, and watched Anthropic’s Claude Code Security Review action post its own API key as a comment. The same prompt injection worke…
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