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EU Calls VPNs a ‘Loophole’ that ‘Needs Closing’ in Age Verification Laws
There's a growing a growing chorus that doesn't want to stop at basic age verification.
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Cloudflare says AI made 1,100 jobs obsolete, even as revenue hit a record high
Cloudflare announced its first large-scale layoff. CEO Matthew Prince says because of AI efficiency gains, the company doesn't need as many support roles.
techcrunch.com
The Best You Can Do in the Strait of Hormuz Simulation Game Is Mess Up as Little as Possible
Are the Straits OK? Not really, to be honest.
gizmodo.com
Step Aside Popcorn Buckets, ‘Masters of the Universe’ Will Let You Drink Out of the Power Sword
But, also, there are some pretty sweet He-Man popcorn buckets too.
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Laid-off Oracle workers tried to negotiate better severance. Oracle said no. 
Some found out they didn't qualify for WARN Act protections like two-months notice because the company had classified them as remote workers.
techcrunch.com
Art the Clown Will Haunt a New Holiday
'Terrifier' creator Damien Leone has revealed a tiny but exciting nugget about the much-anticipated fourth film.
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International tech
Swiggy posts 45% revenue growth in Q4 FY26 to ₹6,383 crore, net loss narrows 26%
Swiggy delivered a stronger-than-expected March quarter performance for Q4 FY26, with revenue… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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China summons eight EV makers over OTA battery locking practices
Complaints on China’s national 12315 consumer platform surged to 12,000 cases, up 273% year-on-year. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the State Administration for Market Regulation issued four major bans: no silent OTA (Over-the-Air) updates, no battery…
technode.com
Apple enters preliminary chipmaking agreement with Intel to reduce reliance on TSMC: Report
Apple and Intel have reportedly reached a preliminary deal under which Intel… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Neolix, TELD Launch 'Power Island' to Build AV Charging Infrastructure
Neolix and TELD unveil the world's first autonomous vehicle charging hub, marking Neolix's strategic shift from vehicle manufacturer to mobility service provider. The partnership targets 100 cities globally within three years.
pandaily.com
People who keep every birthday card, every handwritten note, and every photograph in a labeled box often aren’t just sentimental, many grew up in households where evidence of being loved had to be stored somewhere it couldn’t be taken back
The labeled box of cards and photographs in the closet rarely tells the story people assume. It's not sentimentality — it's evidence-keeping, built by someone who learned early that affection could be revised, and the only way to be sure it had happened was to keep it somewhere i…
siliconcanals.com
SynapX Launches SYNData: Multimodal Data Collection System for Embodied AI Era
SynapX has released SYNData, a multimodal data collection system for dexterous manipulation. The system covers ego vision, EMG signals, and exoskeleton data gloves, enabling scalable collection of human manipulation data for robot learning.
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Could Your Next House be Built from Giant Lego By an Inchworm Robot?
Well, it depends when you’re going to be househunting– if it’s anytime soon, Betteridge’s law applies, but if your time horizon is a ways further out, [Miana Smith] at MIT …read more
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A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
https://twitter.com/wtgowers/status/2052830948685676605 https://xcancel.com/wtgowers/status/2052830948685676605 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48071262 Points: 380 # Comments: 217
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EU calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" in age verification push
Article URL: https://cyberinsider.com/eu-calls-vpns-a-loophole-that-needs-closing-in-age-verification-push/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48072190 Points: 271 # Comments: 204
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Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
Related: Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039362 also: Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063199 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067119…
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Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server
In any MMORPG, the average user will generally only encounter the client side of the system. This makes building a compatible open source version of the proprietary server into a …read more
hackaday.com
Win95-Tracker-CYD is a Cheap Yellow Mod Tracker with I2S
The Cheap Yellow Display is a great little module to start a project with, but it wouldn’t necessarily be our first choice for an audio device. That’s because the PWM …read more
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Become an AI Engineer | Enrollment Ends Soon
Our 6th cohort of Becoming an AI Engineer starts in about a week.
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Getting a Proprietary-Bus GPU onto PCIe Enables Cheaper Local LLMs, For Now
If you’ve been thinking of getting into self-hosting generative AI, but don’t have a big budget for hardware, you might want to check out [Hardware Haven]’s latest video on an …read more
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Container Design Patterns for Distributed Systems
In this article, we’ll walk through the patterns that have crystallized over the past decade, organized by the scope of their coordination.
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