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Apple Cuts More Mac Studio and Mac Mini RAM Options as Memory Shortage Worsens
Juli Clover, MacRumors: Apple has removed more desktop Macs from its online store as the global memory shortage continues. Mac mini models with 32GB and 64GB of RAM are no longer available for purchase, nor is the M3 Ultra Mac Studio with 256GB RAM. The M3 Ultra Mac Studio is now…
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‘Widow’s Bay’ Reveals the Perils of Dating on a Cursed Island
Mayor Tom meets a suspiciously attractive tourist in episode three, 'The Inaugural Swim,' of Apple TV's endearing new horror comedy.
gizmodo.com
This AI-Powered Carbon Emissions Database Has an Embarrassing Error, Study Claims
The pioneering Climate TRACE database may be drastically underestimating CO2 emissions from vehicles, according to a new study.
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Ten Technology Enablers Shaping the Future of 6G Wireless
A guide to ten technological components — from THz communications and AI/ML to reconfigurable intelligent surfaces — poised to define 6G wireless networks. What Attendees will Learn Which frequencies 6G will use — Understand why THz bands (above 100 GHz) and the7–24 GHz range ar…
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DOJ says ransomware gang tapped into Russian government databases
U.S. prosecutors said a ransomware gang fueled Russian government corruption, and allowed the gang's leaders to avoid paying taxes and dodge the country's military draft.
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Melissa Barrera Thinks the Cast of ‘Scream 7’ Are Scabs
The star of 'Scream 5' and 'Scream 6' doesn't hold back when discussing the latest installment, from which she was fired.
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Forget the dorm-room founder. The real winners are often twice that age.
The image is by now so familiar it feels like fact. A twenty-something in a hoodie, hunched over a laptop in a dorm room or a garage, types out the lines of code that will turn into a billion-dollar company by the time he’s thirty. Zuckerberg at Facebook. Jobs at Apple. Gates at …
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ByteDance tests paid subscriptions for AI app Doubao in push toward monetization
ByteDance has begun testing a paid subscription model for its AI app Doubao, according to an update quietly added to the app’s App Store listing, in a move that underscores the growing commercialization of AI tools in China. The company is introducing three premium subscription p…
technode.com
The Chinese EV standard winning globally is banned in the U.S.
By banning Chinese software, the U.S. risks isolating its automakers from the integrated systems, standards, and partnerships shaping the global electric vehicle market.
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Samsung crosses $1Tn valuation as shares rise over 120% in 2026 amid strong AI chip demand
Samsung has crossed the $1 trillion market valuation for the first time,… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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How Nia.one Is Fixing India’s Gig Economics By Giving Workers A Home Away From Home
If the COVID pandemic had left a deep scar in the lives of migrant labourers, then six years on, the…
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The generation that sacrificed the most for their families is now quietly grappling with a question nobody prepared them for: if I spent my whole life living for others, what do I actually believe about how I want to live now
Surveys of older adults consistently surface a quiet pattern: people who spent decades building lives around providing, caregiving, and obligation often report difficulty naming what they actually enjoy once those roles loosen. Researchers studying aging and identity describe it …
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Connecting LLMs to the Real World: Tool Use, Function Calling, and MCP
In this article, we will look at this progression that has happened from basic tool use to function calling to the Model Context Protocol, allowing the LLMs to go from isolated text generation tools to assistants that can do interesting stuff for the end users.
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You’ve Seen the Chip Shortage and the Memory Shortage, Now Prepare For The PCB Shortage
It’s nice to hide away in our little corner of the internet and talk tech, safely away from the turmoil of world events. Sometimes though, geopolitics intrude even into our …read more
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Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
Article URL: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/05/valve-releases-steam-controller-cad-files-under-creative-commons-license Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037555 Points: 440 # Comments: 141
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Knitting bullshit
Article URL: https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2026/04/29/knitting-bullshit/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032461 Points: 349 # Comments: 155
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Retrotechtacular: Julius Sumner Miller Breaks Lamps with Magnets
If you watched the Mickey Mouse Club way back when, you might remember Professor Wonderful, who was, in reality, physics professor [Julius Sumner Miller]. He also had his own show, …read more
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Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions
Article URL: https://red-squares.cian.lol/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48034587 Points: 717 # Comments: 162
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245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping
Article URL: https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/industry-leading-245tb-micron-6600-ion-data-center-ssd-now Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031867 Points: 201 # Comments: 152
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Taking Polyphony to a New Level
There are all manner of musical synthesis techniques, from the early electromechanical instruments through analogue tape systhesis, the all-electronic waveform synthesisers of the 1960s onwards, and Yamaha’s FM systhesis of …read more
hackaday.com
How Instacart Built a Search for Billions of Products
In this article, we will learn how Instacart’s search infrastructure evolved over the years and the challenges its engineering team faced.
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