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The Next Jordan Peele Movie Is a Little Closer to Reality

Jordan Peele has been MIA since 'Nope,' but thankfully, that may soon change.

From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn’t stop anyone

For the last 30 years, stopping the flow of cybersecurity-related software has proven to be ineffective. It's unclear why it would work now with Anthropic’s cybersecurity model Mythos.

Fox to Buy Roku Streaming Service in $25 Billion Deal

The Wall Street Journal on Monday: Fox Corp. said it is acquiring Roku in a deal valued at around $25 billion, making a major bet on the future of ad-supported streaming. The deal — Fox’s largest to date — brings together a media company known for its live news and sports program…

Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic

Jumper isn't the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.

7,000 Langflow servers are under attack. LangGraph and LangChain have the same holes

Your AI agent did exactly what it was designed to do. The framework underneath it just handed an attacker a shell on the box that holds your OpenAI key, your database credentials, and your CRM tokens. That is not a hypothetical. In a few months, three of the most widely deployed …

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Everyday Robovac Champions—Roborock Qrevo S Pro & QV 35A Head to Head

Two robovacs worthy of your consideration this Prime Day.

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Surpassing Claude Fable 5: Zhipu AI's GLM 5.2 Tops Design Arena Benchmark

Zhipu AI's GLM 5.2 surpassed Claude Fable 5 to claim first place on Design Arena's HTML web design benchmark, with superior third-party library utilization and cost advantage.

SGLang × MUSA Meetup Concludes, Marking a New Era of Native GPU Support in China's Open-Source Ecosystem

Moore Threads and the SGLang community hosted the first offline meetup following the MUSA backend merge into SGLang mainline, marking native GPU support for China's open-source AI ecosystem.

From Sarvam To INFLUISH — Indian Startups Raised $426 Mn This Week

Indian startups cumulatively raised $426 Mn across 19 deals between June 15 and June 19, marking a significant jump from…

Meta could invest in Indian fintech firm ‘Cred’ at a $4Bn valuation

Meta is said to be in talks to invest in Kunal Shah-led… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius: “For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul.””

Somewhere on campaign, probably in a tent on the Danube frontier, Marcus Aurelius wrote a note to himself about wanting to be elsewhere. He was the emperor of Rome and he was tired. The Meditations, Book IV, passage 3, opens with a craving anyone would recognise: the wish to get …

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Humanoid Robot Climbs 6,000-Meter Peak for the First Time, Next Stop: Everest

A modified Unitree G1 humanoid robot named Pemba summited Ecuador's Chimborazo volcano at 6,310 meters, demonstrating the potential of legged robots for environmental monitoring.

Another One for the ‘Sorry, We Used to Be Crap’ Truth-in-Advertising File: Carlsberg Beer

Ben Chapman, reporting for The Independent in 2019: After 40 years of advertising its lager as “Probably the best beer in the world”, Danish brewer Carlsberg has confessed that the famous slogan may not be true. Reacting to falling sales and increasingly harsh comments from drink…

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‘What’s the Deal With Old Guys and Giant Glasses?’

Early adoption of new technology is generally considered a young-person thing, but maybe Snap Specs will turn that notion on its head. Direct sales in retirement homes? ★

War Taught this Ukrainian Entrepreneur the Value of Resilience

Salome Mikadze-Struk is no stranger to adversity. The daughter of refugees, she built a software-development business as an undergraduate at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and kept it running despite the outbreak of war in her native Ukraine. Now, she’s drawing on her experi…

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A General Purpose Pi Zero Device for IoT

By now we’re all used to single board computers such as the Raspberry Pi Zero, but it’s likely we’ve all been frustrated at times by the number of support components …read more

Home Automation: Simple vs Easy

We’ve been talking a bunch of home automation on the Podcast lately, and this week, in the Mailbag segment, a reader asked us about our setups. Neither Kristina nor I …read more

The Repair Nightmare that are Smart Rings

In the quest to make every wearable device ‘smart’, a lot of electronics along have to be crammed in very small spaces, along with ways to make them resistant to …read more

Making Old Computers Count To A Million

How fast can you count to a million? It would probably take you a while. A computer could certainly do it faster. Indeed, the The National Museum of Computing figured …read more

Americans express unease over SpaceX's influence on retirement savings

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/19/spacex-retirement-savings-elon-musk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48604186 Points: 232 # Comments: 131

Tricking a Bike Counter

Some municipalities implement bike counters on cycling routes in order to monitor traffic. [nullpxl] recently investigated how these counters work, and explored methods that can be used to trick the …read more

Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You

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EP219: 12 Open-source LLMs

Twelve models worth knowing in 2026, each with one standout strength.