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Intercom, now called Fin, launches an AI agent whose only job is managing another AI agent
The company formerly known as Intercom just did something that no major customer service platform has attempted at scale: it built an AI agent whose sole job is to manage another AI agent. Fin Operator, announced Thursday at a live event in San Francisco, is a new AI-powered syst…
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RJ Scaringe has raised more than $12B across three startups and investors still want more
Investors can't seem to get enough of RJ Scaringe or his ideas. Storytelling and communication are one of his superpowers, according to Jiten Behl, who joined Rivian when the company had just a handful of employees.
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Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of Products at OpenAI, a Very Stable Well-Run Company
Maxwell Zeff, reporting for Wired (News+ link): OpenAI told staff on Friday that it would reorganize the company as part of an ongoing effort to unify its product offerings, Wired has learned. OpenAI cofounder and president Greg Brockman will now lead the company’s product strate…
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A hotel check-in system left a million passports and driver’s licenses open for anyone to see
The tech company that maintains the hotel check-in system set its cloud storage to public, allowing anyone to access customers' data without a password.
techcrunch.com
$60B AI chip darling Cerebras almost died early on, burning $8M a month
Cerebras Systems was 2026's biggest tech IPO so far. But years ago, it burned through hundreds of millions working on a chip many believed impossible.
techcrunch.com
The Talk Show: ‘A Sociopathic Father’
Adam Lisagor returns to the show to talk about Hovercraft, his new virtual presentation camera app for Mac, and how he’s developing it with AI coding tools. Also, delicious Japanese spite sandwich cookies. Sponsored by: Parcel: Track your packages in one place, with native apps …
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International tech
App-Based Gig Workers’ Union Calls For 5-Hour Nationwide Shutdown
The Gig & Platform Service Workers Union (GIPSWU) has called for a nationwide five-hour shutdown of app-based services, demanding higher…
inc42.com
How D2C Brands Can Grow Beyond India’s Top 2% Power Shoppers
India’s ecommerce market has grown into a $165 Bn industry in just over a decade, but its growth remains heavily…
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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…
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SpaceX set for 5-for-1 stock split before IPO launch, Musk confirms he will not sell shares
SpaceX shareholders have reportedly approved a 5-for-1 stock split ahead of the… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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SpaceX could make Nasdaq debut on June 11, targeting $1.75Tn valuation
SpaceX could be just weeks away from becoming a public company. The… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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New-Age Tech Stocks Slide Amid Q4 Earnings; Pine Labs, Zaggle Lead Losses
New-age tech stocks saw a bearish week as investors turned selective amid the ongoing Q4 earnings session. Forty six out…
inc42.com
Aluminium OS: Google’s ‘Android for PC’ OS for Googlebooks
Update: I originally posted this item thinking the aluminium-os.com website was official. It’s not. And the fact that it’s not is only mentioned in small print in the page footer. My bad, and my apologies for not noticing. No wonder I thought the descriptions were so un-Google-li…
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Behold, Your First Look at Metal Sonic for ‘Sonic 4’
Look forward to Metal Sonic causing endless trouble for Sonic, Amy, and everyone else when 'Sonic 4' arrives next March.
gizmodo.com
New ‘Gundam Wing’ ‘Visual Project’ in the Works
Bandai Namco announced the mysterious new project at the recent Gundam Conference.
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Mixapps: The Mixtape of The Internet Age
Mixtapes used to be a way that we cultivated a personal selection of music for our own enjoyment, or to give as gifts to those we wanted to impress with …read more
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A Guide To Event-Driven Architectural Patterns
Distributed systems are built out of services that need to communicate, and the simplest way to do that is for one service to call another directly and wait for a response.
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SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud
Article URL: https://analytics.fixelsmith.com/posts/sql-fraud-patterns/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155212 Points: 284 # Comments: 112
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A Precision Drill Press for Tiny Bits
Anyone who’s worked with even a 1 mm bit knows that while a drill press is all but essential, it isn’t proof against broken bits. Working with a 0.1 mm …read more
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Erlang/OTP 29.0
Article URL: https://www.erlang.org/news/188 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155297 Points: 233 # Comments: 48
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Restoring a 3DO Blaster Card from the Early 90s
Before the modern trifecta of video game giants came to dominate the market around two decades ago, the world was awash in video game consoles. Many of these retro platforms …read more
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High Performance Rate Limiting at Databricks
In this article, we look at how Databricks implemented rate limiting at scale, how they shrank the critical path, and the accuracy tradeoff that shrinking usually requires.
bytebytego.com
Fixing a Cotton Candy Vending Machine
Cotton candy is probably the best way to eat pure sugar, which makes having your very own cotton candy vending machine to automate making it a bit of a dream. …read more
hackaday.com
Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
Article URL: https://kabir.au/blog/the-ctf-scene-is-dead Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48157559 Points: 239 # Comments: 206
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