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Amazon Stops Selling Fast E-Bikes To Californians
If you want to go faster than 28 mph on two wheels in California, get a motorcycle license.
gizmodo.com
iPhone Models Ranked 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 6th in Counterpoint’s List of 10 Bestselling Phones Worldwide in Q1 2026
Samsung phones took spots 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9. The one phone not from Apple or Samsung in the top 10 was the Xiaomi Redmi A5 at #10. As I always say, take these numbers with a grain of salt, but according to Counterpoint, the bestselling phones, in order, are: iPhone 17 iPhone 17 P…
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Implementing advanced AI technologies in finance
In finance departments that have long been defined by precision and control, AI has arrived less as a neatly managed upgrade than as a quiet insurgency. Employees are already using it while leadership races to impose structure, governance, and strategy after the fact. The result …
MIT Technology Review
Tahoe’s UI Issues Have Nothing to Do With Display Technology, and Maybe, Just Maybe, We Should Stop Assuming Gurman Knows Anything About Apple’s Vision Hardware Roadmap
Mark Gurman, in his Power On newsletter for Bloomberg over the weekend: Though the Mac software introduced the same Liquid Glass interface seen in iOS 26, the design language hasn’t translated as smoothly to the larger displays and different input methods of desktops and laptops.…
bloomberg.com
Fostering breakthrough AI innovation through customer-back engineering
Despite years of digitization, organizations capture less than one-third of the value expected from digital investments, according to McKinsey research. That’s because most big companies begin with technological capabilities and bolt applications onto them, rather than starting w…
MIT Technology Review
Remember Digg? It’s Back, in AI News Outlet Form
Digg once reshaped the internet. It's been reshaping itself over and over ever since.
gizmodo.com
International tech
ONGC Mulls New ₹200 Cr Fund To Back Energy & AI Startups
State-run oil and gas company Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is planning to launch a new 200 Cr ($20…
inc42.com
3one4 Capital’s Fund V In The Works, Eyes $225 Mn Corpus
Venture capital (VC) firm 3one4 Capital is gearing up to launch its fifth fund, with a likely target corpus of…
inc42.com
MiniMax Affiliated Company Increases Registered Capital 300% to 4B RMB
Shanghai Xiyu Jizhi, the entity behind AI startup MiniMax, has increased its registered capital from 1B to 4B RMB, a 300% surge signaling major AI infrastructure scaling.
pandaily.com
India’s space-tech startup Agnikul Cosmos could raise up to $75Mn at $500Mn valuation
India’s private space sector is seeing fresh investor interest as Chennai-based startup… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
thetechportal.com
The psychology of attention residue and how I have started minimizing it
Imagine this. You’re forty minutes into a piece of work. The thinking is finally clicking, the sentences are starting to land in roughly the right order, and you can feel the shape of what you’re trying to say. Your laptop pings. A Slack message. You glance at it. It can wait. Yo…
siliconcanals.com
Alibaba to merge Qwen AI with Taobao in push for new AI-powered shopping
Alibaba Group is preparing to roll out a major integration between its AI platform Qwen and e-commerce marketplaces Taobao and Tmall, as the Chinese tech giant pushes to transform online shopping through AI. The move is designed to replace traditional keyword-based searches with …
technode.com

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Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical?
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How Pinterest Built a Production MCP Ecosystem
In this article, we look at how Pinterest designed that ecosystem and what they had to get right beyond the protocol itself.
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CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler
Article URL: https://nvlabs.github.io/cuda-oxide/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096692 Points: 359 # Comments: 106
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The Vacuum Tube’s Last Stand(s)
When most people think about vacuum tubes, they picture big glass bottles glowing inside antique radios or early computers. History often treats tubes as a dead-end technology that was suddenly …read more
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EP214: Claude Code vs. OpenClaw: 5 Design Dimensions
Both are highly capable, but they have key architectural differences.
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Want Driving Simulator Feedback? Make The Robot Do It
Humanoid robots are a thing now, and here’s an interesting research project that explores using one as a form of haptic media. Specifically, using a humanoid robot to move a …read more
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UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025)
Article URL: https://stemcell.ucla.edu/news/ucla-discovers-first-stroke-rehabilitation-drug-repair-brain-damage Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48098261 Points: 219 # Comments: 41
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Postmortem: TanStack npm supply-chain compromise
https://github.com/TanStack/router/issues/7383 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100706 Points: 507 # Comments: 176
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Honda Wants to Complicate Your E-Motorcycle
If you ride a motorcycle, you know it is a bit of an art to manage the transmission on a typical bike. Electric motorcycles lose some of that. You usually …read more
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