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The Greatest Jump Cut in Cinematic History, Improved by Amazon Prime
I’m sure there’s a scene marker right at the cut, so that’s why an ad got inserted there. But, my god. Someone at Amazon should go to prison for this. (I think it’s a total coincidence that the Febreze ad seems roughly color-matched to the sky. But scroll down in the Bluesky thre…
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Police arrest SMS blaster crew that sent malicious messages to thousands across Toronto
Toronto police said this is the "first known instance" of an SMS blaster being used in Canada.
techcrunch.com
Why AI breaks without context — and how to fix it
Presented by Zeta Global The gap between what AI promises and what it delivers is not subtle. The same model can produce precise, useful output in one system and generic, irrelevant results in another. The issue is not the model. It's the context. Most enterprise systems were n…
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Google unveils Whoop-like screenless Fitbit Air
The device comes with health and fitness tracking like 24/7 heart rate, heart rhythm monitoring with Afib alerts, SpO2, resting heart rate, heart rate variability, sleep stages and duration, and more.
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Exclusive: Fazeshift Scores $17M As Investors Bet On AI-Powered Finance Ops, Starting With Accounts Receivable
Fazeshift, a startup that uses AI agents to automate accounts receivable, has raised $17 million in a Series A round of funding, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.
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How Anthropic’s Mythos has rewritten Firefox’s approach to cybersecurity
Security researchers at Mozilla say Anthropic's Mythos has unearthed a wealth of high-severity bugs in Firefox.
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Venmedtech Raises New Round to Accelerate Medical Device Commercialization
Venmedtech has secured new funding to accelerate the commercialization of its medical device products, as the company looks to scale its presence in China's growing medical equipment market.
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DeepSeek reportedly seeks first funding round at $45 billion valuation
China’s state-backed semiconductor investment vehicle, known as the Big Fund, is in talks to lead DeepSeek’s first external fundraising, which could value the AI company at about $45 billion, according to the Financial Times. Tencent is also among the investors still in discussio…
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Ola Consumer revenue falls 42% to ₹1,171 crore in FY25 as net loss doubles to ₹662 crore
Ola Consumer, the company behind Ola’s ride-hailing business, reported a sharp decline… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Samsung halts all home appliance sales in China as pivot to AI accelerates
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday it would end sales of all home appliance products in mainland China, retreating further from a consumer market increasingly dominated by domestic rivals as the group doubles down on its far more profitable semiconducto…
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TikTok wins approval for $25 billion Thailand data center expansion
TikTok has secured approval for a $25 billion data center expansion project in Thailand, as the Southeast Asian nation accelerates efforts to position itself as a regional digital infrastructure hub. Thailand’s Board of Investment (BOI) announced that it had approved six large-sc…
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Meesho stock surges as Q4 losses shrink, margins improve
Meesho, the recently listed Indian e-commerce challenger to Amazon and Flipkart, saw… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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The Next ‘Game of Thrones’ Book Is… Just ‘Game of Thrones’ Again
There will be a 'Game of Thrones' book release this year—just not the one you were hoping for.
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Learn What It Takes to Become a Cybersecurity Consultant
Cybersecurity consultants have never been more in demand. Information security analyst roles are projected to grow nearly 30 percent between now and 2034, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. More than 15 million cybercrime incidents occurred worldwide in 2024, Stati…
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Anthropic Skill scanners passed every check. The malicious code rode in on a test file.
Picture this scenario: An Anthropic Skill scanner runs a full analysis of a Skill pulled from ClawHub or skills.sh. Its markdown instructions are clean, and no prompt injection is detected. No shell commands are hiding in the SKILL.md. Green across the board. The scanner never lo…
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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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This Az-El Mount Is Worth Following
Communication with satellites often involves the use of high-gain directional antennas coupled with careful positioning to find and track the target. With a geostationary satellite the mount is either fixed …read more
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University of Utah’s TRIGA Research Reactor Set to Produce Electricity
Research reactors come in many forms and sizes, with the TRIGA class being commonly found at universities. The TRIGA reactor at the University of Utah was installed in 1975, and …read more
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SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format
Article URL: https://sqlite.org/locrsf.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042434 Points: 491 # Comments: 153
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RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google
Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/rss-feeds-send-me-more-traffic-than-google/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043964 Points: 216 # Comments: 48
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The map that keeps Burning Man honest
Article URL: https://www.not-ship.com/burning-man-moop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049653 Points: 244 # Comments: 80
not-ship.com
Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense
Article URL: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/grand-theft-oil-futures Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047981 Points: 377 # Comments: 235
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Container Design Patterns for Distributed Systems
In this article, we’ll walk through the patterns that have crystallized over the past decade, organized by the scope of their coordination.
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There’s More to Global Positioning than Just GPS
The Global Positioning System (GPS) was developed by the United States military in the 1970s, but it wasn’t long before civilians all over the planet started using it. By the …read more
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