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Polymarket reportedly paid creators to post deceptive videos about fake bets

Many of those videos were reportedly filmed on “near-perfect copies” of the Polymarket website, while featuring trades and winnings that were not real.

‘Toy Story 5’ Almost Made Its Emotional Moment More Real

You're *shocked*, surely, but Pixar had an idea for how to make you cry even harder during 'Toy Story 5.'

Marvel’s New Comics Universe Is Starting All at Once

Marvel wants its new 'Midnight' books to feel like a big deal, so they're getting a full week all to themselves.

The John Ternus Era Will Reportedly Revive Apple’s Focus on Bold Design

Apple products used to be huggable toys. Are those days coming back?

TechCrunch Mobility: A new robotaxi scorecard shows China’s dominance

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in plane crash

Claude Guillemot, who founded Ubisoft with his four brothers, has died at the age of 69.

International tech

Robot Revolution Brewing: Cainiao's ZeeBot Climbing Robots Transform Global Warehousing

Cainiao deploys 100+ ZeeBot climbing robots in European fulfillment center, claiming 3x floor efficiency and 2x labor productivity.

Green Power Direct-Connect Clusters Reach GW Scale as Data Center Divergence Intensifies Under Trillion-Yuan Computing Network Cycle

China's data center market diverges as GW-scale green power clusters emerge and AI infrastructure demand reshapes competitive dynamics.

Semiconductor Equipment 'Iron Law' Is Being Broken as AI Demand Reshapes Pricing Power

AI-driven demand is upending the semiconductor equipment market, shifting pricing power from buyers to sellers for the first time in decades.

Recykal Bags $23 Mn To Take Its Waste Management Solutions Global

Waste management startup Recykal has raised $23 Mn (nearly ₹217 Cr) as part of a bridge funding round, in a…

Unitree Robotics: Cost Dominance Meets AI Challenge in Humanoid Robot Race

Unitree has achieved profitability through aggressive cost engineering, but faces critical gaps in AI capabilities as competition intensifies.

Is the AI Token Subsidy War Ending? Structural Dynamics Reshape Pricing

Token subsidies are collapsing as Google threatens an 80% price cut, revealing the structural asymmetry between AI startups and tech giants.

Federal Regulators Want Stablecoins to Keep Working Without ID Checks

The banks aren't going to like this.

Beyond Siri: Here are the practical AI features coming to your iPhone in iOS 27

Siri’s AI overhaul may have grabbed the headlines at WWDC, but some of Apple’s most useful AI features are arriving elsewhere in iOS 27.

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Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction (2016)

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RICE and other confidence-based frameworks are mostly noise. Here's how to make decisions without pretending to know the unknowable.

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SmallRun.net Enters the Marketplace Market

So you have a project that you love, and everyone else loves too. People start saying “you should sell this” but where? Well, there’s a new marketplace you might want …read more

Identity verification on Claude

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EP219: 12 Open-source LLMs

Twelve models worth knowing in 2026, each with one standout strength.

Blender 5.2: Coming Soon With Improved Simulations

Traditionally, one of the weak points in Blender has been simulations, with even professional users of the free and open source computer graphics suite off-loading such tasks to programs like …read more

Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)

Article URL: https://www.beyondallreason.info Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48617990 Points: 382 # Comments: 223

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When a Favicon Becomes the Entire Website

Putting hidden data in places where few expect it can be a fun hobby or even a professional career. In the case of [Tim Wehrle] it’s just the former. His …read more

How to Bias a CRT After Installation

For most of us the abbreviation “CRT” brings to mind a monitor or TV. But at its core it’s about the special vacuum tube that makes the images appear. Regardless …read more