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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’

"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”

MAPPA’s 15th Birthday Was Full of New Anime Teases

The hit studio wanted to remind everyone why it's still around with new looks at 'Chainsaw Man,' 'Jujutsu Kaisen,' and more.

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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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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This Fake Cancer ‘Cure’ Has People Go Naked Into a Big Plastic Bag, Then Gasses Them With Industrial Bleach

The bunk treatment is currently relegated to a London clinic, but the American "bleacher" community is hoping to bring it stateside.

Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish

Shinkei makes a refrigerator-sized robot called Poseidon to kill fish quickly and humanely.

International tech

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.

HDC 2026: HarmonyOS 7 Developer Beta Officially Released, Ecosystem Surpasses 66 Million Devices

At HDC 2026, Huawei released HarmonyOS 7 Developer Beta with deep AI integration, surpassing 66 million devices and unveiling on-device AI anti-fraud and performance models.

I let my phone die for one entire weekend without telling anyone — and the strange thing wasn’t who didn’t notice, it was realizing how many of my closest relationships had been running on something closer to maintenance than to actual presence

I let my phone die one Friday evening and, on a whim, decided not to charge it again until Monday. No grand digital-detox announcement, no warning anyone I was going off-grid. I simply let it run flat and left it face down on a shelf for two days, to see what would happen. The ob…

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Flipkart Creator Event Goes Viral After Influencers Clash Over Goodies

Flipkart found itself at the centre of a controversy after videos of influencers scrambling for gift hampers at its creator…

New-Age Tech Stocks: Aequs, Nykaa Lead Weekly Gains; Ola Electric, Ather Slip

New-age tech stocks gained in line with the bull run in the broader market this week. Forty three out of…

WhatsApp adds ‘Animated Message Bubbles’ in latest iPhone Beta version

WhatsApp is reportedly testing a new animated message bubble experience for iPhone… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search

So ... what's your In the Weights score?

Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic

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

Netflix May Invite The Daniels to Its ‘Sesame Street’ Movie

Sounds like Netflix may have its sights set on a 'Sesame Street' movie, and already has two directors in mind for it.

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SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible

Article URL: https://www.smpte.org/blog/smpte-makes-its-standards-freely-accessible-openingstandards-library-to-the-global-media-technology-community Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610827 Points: 219 # Comments: 58

The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows

Article URL: https://waxy.org/2026/06/the-wholesale-plagiarism-of-obscure-sorrows/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48611411 Points: 309 # Comments: 133

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Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs

Article URL: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/windows-11s-new-media-player-uses-35x-more-ram-charges-for-popular-video Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48609343 Points: 248 # Comments: 132

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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

Observability for Beginners: Logs, Metrics, Traces, and Everything Around Them

In this article, we will look at the basics of observability in detail with concepts like logs, metrics, and traces explained in detail.

Seeing the World in Radio Waves with the QuadRF

Although the basic principle of radio direction finding is easy to understand (measure the phase difference between different antennas, then calculate the angle of arrival from this difference), the radio …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

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