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The ‘Sekiro’ Anime Will Hit Theaters…in Japan

Japanese residents will get nearly a month to see the beginning of the 'Sekiro' anime and determine whether FromSoftware's game was done justice.

GM agrees to pay $12.75M in California driver privacy settlement

General Motors has reached a privacy-related settlement with a group of law enforcement agencies led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta.

‘Rogue One’ Becomes a True ‘Andor’ Finale With This Fan Project

If you're still riding the high of 'Andor,' you'll soon be able to watch a version of 'Rogue One' edited and modeled after the show.

‘The Boys’ Got Even More Meta With Its ‘Supernatural’ Reunion

Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins got to be on 'The Boys' for a spell, and the show knew it had an opportunity to do something funny.

Fintech startup Parker files for bankruptcy

Parker, a well-funded startup offering corporate credit cards and banking services, has filed for bankruptcy and is widely reported to have shut down.

The Instax Wide 400 builds on instant photography’s simplicity and stretches it, literally

In an AI and digital world, analog instant film and retro-style cameras continue to remain popular, fueled by a mix of both nostalgia and novelty.

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Xiaoyubot Raises New Round, Backed by Xiaomi, Didi, BAIC

Xiaoyubot, China's leading industrial embodied AI company, has secured a new multi-hundred-million yuan funding round. Five major industrial capitals — Xiaomi, Didi, BAIC, Fosun, and CCDC — participated, with Lei Wanqiang investing for the fourth consecutive round.

Rongxin Zhiyuan Raises Tens of Millions: GPU-Centric AGC Architecture Redefines AI Infrastructure

Beijing Rongxin Zhiyuan has raised a tens-of-millions-yuan angel round to build its GPU-centric AGC computing architecture. The architecture boosts GPU density from 2:1 to 32:1 versus CPU, and enables hot-swappable GPU fault tolerance with 1-minute recovery.

Cloudflare cuts 20% workforce despite record $639Mn revenue amid rapid AI adoption

Cloudflare is cutting more than 1,100 jobs, about 20% of its total… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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Fashinza Cofounder Pawan Gupta Steps Down, Eyes New Venture In AI Space

Accel-backed B2B fashion supply chain startup Fashinza’s cofounder and CEO Pawan Gupta has quit to pursue opportunities in the AI…

People who say it’s fine when it isn’t fine aren’t always lying — they may be running an old calculation that says the cost of the truth is higher than the cost of carrying it alone

When someone says it's fine and it clearly isn't, they're not lying. They're running an old cost-benefit calculation about honesty that was accurate in a different relationship, in a different decade, and has never been updated.

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Swiggy Q4: Food Delivery Beats ‘LPG Crisis’ Fears But Instamart Cools Off

“The industry did take a hit, but we were able to hold on to growth,” Swiggy Food CEO Rohit Kapoor…

Europe May Soon Get a Non-U.S. Alternative to Unreal Engine

But it sounds like it will be built with AI.

OpenAI brings GPT-5-class reasoning to real-time voice — and it changes what voice agents can actually orchestrate

Voice agents have been expensive to run and painful to orchestrate, not because the models can't handle conversation, but because context ceilings forced enterprises to build session resets, state compression, and reconstruction layers into every deployment. OpenAI's three new vo…

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Anthropic says it hit a $30 billion revenue run rate after 'crazy' 80x growth

Dario Amodei is not the kind of CEO who talks loosely about numbers. The Anthropic co-founder and chief executive, a former VP of research at OpenAI with a PhD in computational neuroscience from Princeton, has built a reputation for measured public statements — particularly aroun…

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The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism

Article URL: https://matduggan.com/the-intolerable-hypocrisy-of-cyberlibertarianism/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074952 Points: 202 # Comments: 157

Remembering the BBC Computer Literacy Project

There comes a point in everybody’s life when things that they were a part of are presented as history, and for the 8-bit generation, that time is now. It’s interesting …read more

Become an AI Engineer | Enrollment Ends Soon

Our 6th cohort of Becoming an AI Engineer starts in about a week.

Copy or Redesign?

We got asked a great question in the mailbag segment on the Podcast this week: are there hacks that we have read about on Hackaday that we use in our …read more

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

Machining a Two-Stroke Engine out of Aluminium

Recently [Camden Bowen] took a swing at machining a two-stroke engine out of billet aluminium, following adventures in 3D printing such an engine, as well as building one out of …read more

GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch

Article URL: https://cyberinsider.com/grapheneos-fixes-android-vpn-leak-google-refused-to-patch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48075144 Points: 204 # Comments: 57

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EP214: Claude Code vs. OpenClaw: 5 Design Dimensions

Both are highly capable, but they have key architectural differences.

It’s an Apple Lisa, on a FPGA

Most of us will know that Apple’s precursor to the Macintosh series of computers was a machine called the Lisa. Something of a behemoth compared to those early Macs, it …read more