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Netflix delays Greta Gerwig’s ‘Narnia’ movie for big theatrical push in 2027

"The Magician's Nephew" looks like a big next step in Netflix's thawing relationship with movie theaters.

More on Apple’s Logically Elegant Tariff Refund Puzzle Solution

Regarding my earlier post about the cleverness of Tim Cook’s solution to Apple’s dilemma regarding how to apply for, and accept, a potential tariff refund check without drawing the ire of Donald “Tariff Is My Favorite Word” Trump, at least one reader asked why Tim Cook committin…

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OpenAI’s CFO Reportedly Wants to Delay the IPO from 2026 to 2027

OpenAI's revenue picture is reportedly not pretty, and a new report says its chief financial officer wants to calm spending down before going public.

Beyond Lovable and Mistral: 21 European startups to watch

It is not that European startups never get attention — Lovable and Mistral AI are proof of that. But there are many more that insiders are tracking.

The Next Big Original ‘Magic’ Set Is a ‘What If?’ Adventure

Wizards of the Coast has a busy 2026 planned for 'Magic: The Gathering,' from fracturing reality to taking a second journey to Middle-earth.

Uber wants to turn its millions of drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies

Praveen Neppalli Naga, Uber's chief technology officer, revealed the plan in an interview at TechCrunch's StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, describing it as a natural extension of a nascent program the company announced in late January called AV Labs.

International tech

Anthropic in early talks to secure custom AI chips from Fractile: Report

Anthropic is reportedly in early discussions with UK-based semiconductor startup Fractile to… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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Centre Notifies 100% FDI In Insurance Sector

The Centre has allowed up to 100% foreign direct investment (FDI) in insurance companies under the automatic route, weeks after…

I worked forty years as an electrician and the thing nobody warns you about retirement isn’t the boredom, it’s that the silence at 7am on a Tuesday immediately surfaces every feeling I out-worked for four decades

Tommy Baker on what actually happens when forty years of work suddenly stops — not boredom, but the surfacing of every feeling the job kept at bay.

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GameStop could acquire eBay to accelerate e-commerce ambitions

GameStop is reportedly planning to acquire eBay, signaling a bold shift in… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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The definitive sign of a settled adult isn’t certainty about what they want, it’s the absence of panic when they don’t yet know

The settled adult isn't the one with all the answers — it's the one whose nervous system doesn't sound an alarm when the answers aren't there yet. On the quiet skill of tolerating not-knowing.

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I’m 66 and I’ve spent years being someone people admire. Nobody tells you how lonely it is to be respected by everyone and truly known by almost no one

After decades of being the reliable electrician everyone turned to for solutions, I discovered that the armor of competence I'd worn so proudly had become a prison that kept everyone—including my own family—at arm's length.

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The best AI dictation apps, tested and ranked

AI-powered dictation apps are useful for replying to emails, taking notes, and even coding through your voice

Salesforce launches Agentforce Operations to fix the workflows breaking enterprise AI

Enterprise AI teams are hitting a wall — not because their models can't reason, but because the workflows underneath them were never built for agents. Tasks fail, handoffs break, and the problem compounds as organizations push agents deeper into back-office systems. A new archite…

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Farewell, Jeeves: Ask.com shuts down

Owner IAC says it's discontinuing its search business.

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Pushing as Many Pixels as Possible to a CRT: Interlaced 4K

Some people love CRTs to a degree that the uninitiated may find obsessive. We all have our thing, and for [Found Tech], it’s absolutely pointing particle accelerators at his face …read more

How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?

Article URL: https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/02/how-fast-is-a-macos-vm-and-how-small-could-it-be/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984852 Points: 205 # Comments: 77

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A Beginner’s Guide to Kubernetes

In this article, we will learn how Kubernetes is a system of promises, and that every piece of it is a small program keeping one of those promises.

This Handy Synth Packs An ESP32

Since the first electronic hobbyist wired up a multivibrator to a keyboard many decades ago, electonic synthesisers have been a staple of home-made projects. Now with the proliferation of significantly …read more

Debugging a Stopped Foucault Pendulum’s Electronics

After the Foucault pendulum at the Houston Museum of Natural Science stopped working a while back after maintenance on the building, workers set out to determine what was wrong with …read more

EP213: MCP vs Skills, Clearly Explained

Both MCP and Skills extend what an agent can do. But they solve different problems, and picking the wrong one adds cost or complexity you don't need.

Article URL: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav2d Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988504 Points: 215 # Comments: 83

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Russia Poisons Wikipedia

Article URL: https://www.bettedangerous.com/p/russia-poisons-wikipedia Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986083 Points: 233 # Comments: 177

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IR Device Control That Lives Off The Cloud

There are lots of smart home systems that will let you blast your older dumb appliances with infrared to control them. However, many are tied to ugly cloud systems that …read more