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Samsung’s Next Pair of Galaxy Buds Look Like a Huge Departure

Is Samsung opening up to open earbuds?

Cathie Woods’ ARK makes its first lead investment in startup Lucra — and it isn’t AI

Lucra offers corporate loyalty programs reimagined as interactive eSports. But winning ARK as a lead wasn't easy.

The AI governance mirage: Why 72% of enterprises don’t have the control and security they think they do

Decision makers at 72% of organizations claim to have two or more AI platforms that they identify as their "primary" layer, according to a survey of 40 enterprise companies conducted by VentureBeat last month, revealing real gaps in security and control. For enterprise managemen…

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NASA’s Next Spacesuit Won’t Be Ready for Artemis 4 Moon Landing, Watchdog Warns

A new report calls out the agency for failing to complete the lunar spacesuits despite two decades of effort.

Google’s new Deep Research and Deep Research Max agents can search the web and your private data

Google on Monday unveiled the most significant upgrade to its autonomous research agent capabilities since the product's debut, launching two new agents — Deep Research and Deep Research Max — that for the first time allow developers to fuse open web data with proprietary enterpr…

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What to Consider Before You Accept a Management Role

This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox for free! The Individual Contributor–Mana…

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Manufacturing Startups To Watch: 5 Startups That Caught Our Eye In April

India’s manufacturing story is entering a complex, but defining phase. In recent times, the sector has seen both momentum and…

Gramophone Cofounder Navneet Singh Batra Quits, Joins Superplum

Navneet Singh Batra, cofounder of Info Edge-backed agritech platform Gramophone, has quit the startup to join fruit supply chain startup…

Daalchini Claims 2X YoY Jump In FY26 Revenue To ₹140 Cr

Retail tech startup Daalchini’s operating revenue for the fiscal year FY26 doubled to ₹140 Cr from ₹70 Cr in FY25,…

Alibaba Introduces “Qwen XiaoJiuWo” Avatar to Unify AI Assistant Ecosystem

Alibaba launched “Qwen XiaoJiuWo,” a unified AI assistant avatar integrated across its ecosystem, as the Qwen app reached 166 million monthly active users in China.

India proposes ‘Always-Visible’ labelling for AI content, extends IT rules feedback deadline to May 7

India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has proposed new changes… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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SpaceX secures deal with AI coding startup Cursor, with option for $60Bn acquisition

SpaceX has secured a deal with Cursor under which it can either… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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UK government says 100 countries have spyware that can hack people’s phones

The U.K.'s cybersecurity chief warned that U.K. businesses and critical infrastructure are underestimating the threat from spyware attacks and other cyberthreats, with more governments having access to the powerful surveillance technology than ever.

Google’s Gemini can now run on a single air-gapped server — and vanish when you pull the plug

Cirrascale Cloud Services today announced it has expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to deliver the Gemini model on-premises through Google Distributed Cloud, making it the first neocloud provider to offer Google's most advanced AI model as a fully private, disconnected ap…

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Cosmetics giant Rituals confirms data breach of customer membership records

The cosmetics retailer, which counts 41 million customers in its membership data, declined to provide an accurate total number of customers affected.

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ESP32 Hosts a Public Website

If you wanted to host a website, you could use any one of a number of online services, or spin up a server on a spare computer at home. If …read more

Irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/meta_employee_surveillance_software/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47860742 Points: 202 # Comments: 152

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The Security Architecture of GitHub Agentic Workflow

In this article, we will look at how GitHub built a security architecture that assumes the agent is already compromised.

How DoorDash Launches a New Country in One Week

In this article, we will look at how this architecture was designed and the challenges they faced.

DIY Smart Button Gets Surprisingly Complicated

There’s a reason that the standards specifications for various wireless communications protocols are extremely long and detailed. [Made by Dennis] found this out first hand when he decided to build …read more

Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

Article URL: https://social.hails.org/@hailey/116446826733136456 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47861270 Points: 590 # Comments: 147

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FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/04/21/scientists-disappear-die-nasa-space-blue-origin-spacex/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858246 Points: 203 # Comments: 118

Repairing a Mercedes EQC 300 BEV Battery

When [OGS Mechanics] got a Mercedes EQC 300 battery-electric car in for repair, it was found to have a bit of a weird issue: after sitting in a garage for …read more

Wearable MIDI Controller Built With Raspberry Pi

Most synths happily get by with keyboard or pad inputs and make lovely sounds in response. [Becky Clarke] and her fellow collaborators are building a synth that works rather differently. …read more