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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.
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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Anduril Leads Varied Lineup Of Large Deals
Defense tech unicorn Anduril Industries led the fundraising lineup in a week heavy with rounds for companies focused on applications in the physical world. Anduril’s $5 billion financing was by far the biggest. Other large rounds went to companies focused on supplying data power,…
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Google’s Spam Policies Now Apply to Attempts to Manipulate AI
It's a GEO world now, we're just living in it.
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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: A Law Firm Operating System, Building Defense Tech Near The Battlefield, And Cell-Based Milk
Most of the interesting companies that caught our eye in the past month were working on problems in the physical world, often far from the glow of a laptop screen. They include a supplier of cell-based milk, a startup that bills itself as the operating system for modern law firms…
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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…
aluminium-os.com
How RecursiveMAS speeds up multi-agent inference by 2.4x and reduces token usage by 75%
One of the key challenges of current multi-agent AI systems is that they communicate by generating and sharing text sequences, which introduces latency, drives up token costs, and makes it difficult to train the entire system as a cohesive unit.  To overcome this challenge, resea…
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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
California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/05/bill-to-keep-online-games-playable-clears-key-hurdle-in-california/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152994 Points: 306 # Comments: 187
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Mod this IKEA Lamp into Smart Lighting For Not A Lot
The IKEA SKAFTSÄRV is an economical LED accent lamp, but while highly affordable it has only fixed lighting options. [simoneluconi] shows how it can easily be turned into a fully-configurable, …read more
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LAST CALL FOR ENROLLMENT: Become an AI Engineer - Cohort 6
Our 6th cohort of Becoming an AI Engineer starts tomorrow, Saturday, May 16. This is a live, cohort-based course created in collaboration with best-selling author Ali Aminian and published by ByteByteGo.
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I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
https://xcancel.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578 https://hachyderm.io/@mitchellh/116580433508108130 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153379 Points: 765 # Comments: 335
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Adding Capabilities to Inexpensive Solar Modules
Solar power has gotten cheap enough that putting up panels is among the cheapest ways of providing energy. This isn’t just the case for bulk electricity on a power grid, …read more
hackaday.com
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.
bytebytego.com
Building A Die Filer From Scratch
A die filer is a useful tool to have if you find yourself filing parts on the regular. It’s basically a machine that reciprocates a file up and down for …read more
hackaday.com
Hacking Hard Drive Firmware
You probably flash new firmware on a variety of devices regularly, even though that’s rare for non-technical types. But what about your hard drive firmware? Most of us don’t want …read more
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