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Daniel Ek-backed defense tech Helsing to raise $1.2B at $18B valuation
Five-year old European military drone startup Helsing is close to raising another monster round.
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The Download: the hantavirus outbreak and Musk v. Altman week 2
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Here’s what you need to know about the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak Last week, eight passengers aboard a Dutch-flagged cruise ship contract…
MIT Technology Review
Fostering breakthrough AI innovation through customer-back engineering
Despite years of digitization, organizations capture less than one-third of the value expected from digital investments, according to McKinsey research. That’s because most big companies begin with technological capabilities and bolt applications onto them, rather than starting w…
MIT Technology Review
GM just laid off hundreds of IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills
Some of the positions focus on AI-native development, data engineering and analytics, cloud-based engineering, and agent and model development as well as prompt engineering and new AI workflows.
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iPhone Models Ranked 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 6th in Counterpoint’s List of 10 Bestselling Phones Worldwide in Q1 2026
Samsung phones took spots 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9. The one phone not from Apple or Samsung in the top 10 was the Xiaomi Redmi A5 at #10. As I always say, take these numbers with a grain of salt, but according to Counterpoint, the bestselling phones, in order, are: iPhone 17 iPhone 17 P…
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Bravo is creating unscripted microdramas for the Peacock app
As microdrama apps like ReelShort and DramaBox quietly rake in billions, Peacock announced on Monday that it is launching two unscripted Bravo microdramas, which will stream in the Peacock app.
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International tech
Fractal Q4: Profit Doubles YoY To ₹116 Cr
AI and advanced analytics startup Fractal reported a nearly 109% jump in net profits to ₹115.8 Cr in the fourth…
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The psychology of attention residue and how I have started minimizing it
Imagine this. You’re forty minutes into a piece of work. The thinking is finally clicking, the sentences are starting to land in roughly the right order, and you can feel the shape of what you’re trying to say. Your laptop pings. A Slack message. You glance at it. It can wait. Yo…
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India’s space-tech startup Agnikul Cosmos could raise up to $75Mn at $500Mn valuation
India’s private space sector is seeing fresh investor interest as Chennai-based startup… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Uber Eats is now nearly the size of mobility, and the cross-sell hidden inside that number explains why hotels were the obvious next move — and why flights still aren’t
Uber’s latest product push makes more sense when viewed less as a travel announcement than as a defense of the app itself. At its annual GO-GET event, the company said U.S. users can now book hotels inside Uber through an Expedia Group partnership, with the selection expected to …
siliconcanals.com
MiniMax Affiliated Company Increases Registered Capital 300% to 4B RMB
Shanghai Xiyu Jizhi, the entity behind AI startup MiniMax, has increased its registered capital from 1B to 4B RMB, a 300% surge signaling major AI infrastructure scaling.
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The difference between people who keep moving forward in life and those who stall sometimes isn’t talent, luck, or hard work. It’s the habits they choose to say goodbye to.
A friend of mine, mid-thirties, used to answer every email within minutes. Weekends, holidays, dinner with his kids. Didn’t matter. Then one Sunday afternoon he put his phone in a drawer, told his wife he wasn’t checking it until Monday, and went for a walk. He told me later it f…
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It’s a Water Clock, Jim, But Not as We Know It — It Has Digits
Guess what time it is– that’s right, clock time! It’s always clock time, and when it’s clock time at Hackaday the weirder the better. So, how about a water clock …read more
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The Vacuum Tube’s Last Stand(s)
When most people think about vacuum tubes, they picture big glass bottles glowing inside antique radios or early computers. History often treats tubes as a dead-end technology that was suddenly …read more
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This Credit Card Computer Follows All Dimensions
A computer the size of a credit card is nothing new. There have been many single-board computers following the familiar dimensions. [Krauseler]’s credit card computer is different, though. It packs …read more
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Honda Wants to Complicate Your E-Motorcycle
If you ride a motorcycle, you know it is a bit of an art to manage the transmission on a typical bike. Electric motorcycles lose some of that. You usually …read more
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Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical?
Article URL: https://www.flyingpenguin.com/can-someone-please-explain-whether-cloudflare-blackmailed-canonical/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48098537 Points: 238 # Comments: 137
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GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values
Article URL: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100500 Points: 254 # Comments: 237
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CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler
Article URL: https://nvlabs.github.io/cuda-oxide/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096692 Points: 349 # Comments: 107
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Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career
Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/software-engineering-may-no-longer-be-a-lifetime-career/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48095550 Points: 340 # Comments: 584
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Want Driving Simulator Feedback? Make The Robot Do It
Humanoid robots are a thing now, and here’s an interesting research project that explores using one as a form of haptic media. Specifically, using a humanoid robot to move a …read more
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