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404 Media: Vulnerability in iCloud’s ‘Hide My Email’ Reveals Peoples’ Real Email Addresses

Joseph Cox, reporting for 404 Media: 404 Media is not revealing the exact details of the vulnerability because it can still be exploited as of Monday, when 404 Media verified the issue with one of our own hidden email addresses. “Apple Hide My Email is leaking email addresses tha…

Meta Goes the Way of xAI, Considers Renting Computing Power as Own Model Flails

Gotta do something with all those data centers.

Why Public Speaking Skills Are Worth Investing In

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PlayStation Plus and Xbox Game Pass Subscriptions

Following up on my earlier post on Valve’s righteous objection to selling game console hardware at a loss, I should have noted that PlayStation Plus starts at $11/month (and goes up to $20/month) and Xbox Game Pass starts at $10/month (and goes up to $23/month). One draw of these…

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The Control Gap: Enterprise AI organizations have an ownership problem, not a technology problem — and most are governing it by hand

AI portfolios are expanding far faster than the ability to govern them across enterprises. Most organizations run a contested field of platforms, each claiming to be the “primary” AI layer; few could confidently detect a model drifting or failing in production; and the single mos…

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What Went on at This Meeting of Powerful Central Bankers Won’t Ease Your Mind About an AI Bubble

I have troubling news about what central bankers are saying and hearing.

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Sparrow Capital Closes Third Fund At ₹475 Cr To Back Seed Stage Startups

VC firm Sparrow Capital has closed its third fund with a corpus of ₹475 Cr (about ₹50 Mn), surpassing its…

China’s EV makers are taking over the European factories Ford and Nissan can’t fill

What seems like a rescue could prove to be a retreat, as Chery leads its rivals into the heart of Europe’s car industry.

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PDD embraces China’s ‘city of the future’ after bruising regulatory clash and record fine

The operator of budget online marketplaces Temu and Pinduoduo is ramping up its commitment in a state-backed development zone – dubbed a “city of the future” in official discourse – months after the e-commerce group was hit by the heaviest penalty in a record food-safety crackdow…

SmartCore Secures Millions in Funding for Silicon Photonics AI Chip Interconnect Breakthrough

Tsinghua-founded silicon photonics startup SmartCore raises angel++ round to advance optical I/O chiplet technology for AI computing clusters.

Meta appoints Alex Schultz as its first-ever Chief Data Officer to strengthen AI strategy

Meta has created the new role of Chief Data Officer (CDO) for… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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Tencent launches Ubisoft-licensed Just Dance: Party on mobile platforms with AI body tracking

Tencent today launched Just Dance: Party, a mobile rhythm game based on Ubisoft’s Just Dance franchise, across iOS, Android and HarmonyOS devices. The game uses a proprietary AI-powered skeletal tracking algorithm that enables full-body motion capture through a smartphone’s front…

After $18B IPO, Bending Spoons founder says success comes from minimizing luck

The co-founders of Bending Spoons, the Italian company quietly buying beloved, ailing Internet brands, learned big lessons from their own startup's failure.

The Download: Anthropic launches Claude Science, and California’s carbon manure math

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. Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product At an event for pharmaceutical executives, biotech founders, and researchers yesterday, …

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LLMs are stuck in a groupthink groove. This startup is trying to get them out.

Let’s start with a game. Open up your chatbot of choice—Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini—and type “Give me a random number between 1 and 10.” You’re going to get 7. Almost always. Now type “Another” and you’ll get 3 or 4. Type “Another” again and you’ll get 8 or 9. That won’t work every t…

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How AI Agents Manage Memory and Avoid Forgetfulness

In this article, we will try to understand how that architecture gets built, from the constraint that forces it to exist all the way to the tradeoffs that follow.

Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise

Article URL: https://news.ubc.ca/2026/06/mrna-vaccines-are-safe-effective-and-full-of-promise/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48754963 Points: 291 # Comments: 293

ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2

Article URL: https://zcode.z.ai/en Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48753715 Points: 379 # Comments: 286

Oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself

Article URL: https://makerspet.com/blog/building-an-open-source-robot-vacuum-meet-oomwoo/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48755005 Points: 266 # Comments: 48

How OpenAI Delivers Low-Latency Voice AI for 900M Users

In this article, we will look at the entire journey in detail and challenges the OpenAI engineering team faced.

Trying Out Viewer Suggestions for Levitation on an Induction Cooker

Doing something once is fun, but if you get interesting feedback from viewers on how to make things even more fun, you can only follow all of these instructions and …read more

A new Android malware from Google

Article URL: https://f-droid.org/2026/07/01/adv-malware.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48755965 Points: 288 # Comments: 131

GPU-Accelerated Autorouter Handles Monstrous PCB Designs

[Brian] had an absolute monster of a PCB with thousands of nets to be routed, the kind of design that stopped traditional routers in their tracks. It would take months …read more

A Rare Drone Common Sense Outbreak, In Denmark

Last September, Denmark was gripped by a spate of drone sightings near airports. It’s familiar territory for Hackaday, as we reported on a similar drone panic saga at British airports …read more