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Spotify billionaire’s body scan startup has come to America

Farooq Abbasi, an investor in Neko Health, talked to Equity about the hot health tech company and what's next for it.

OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’

By his own admission, David Robinson is “something of a cliché”: an employee at a leading AI company who issues a dire warning while resigning from their job.

Spider-Man Needs a TV Show. But Does He Need *This*?

If Spider-Man does whatever a spider can, what could his clones do for his TV life?

All the AI agents that can live in your text messages

We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.

Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat disappears from app stores in India after government order

Bitchat has become largely unavailable in India as a result of the restrictions.

★ Apple Is Going to Further Tighten the Screws on Full Disk Access on MacOS, in Response to Agentic AI Apps Running Amok

Apple Developer News, in a post titled “Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS”: We give developers powerful APIs to build incredible capabilities into their apps for Apple products, backed by a set of controls designed to protect users’ private data. Full Disk Access largely sides…

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New-Age Tech Stocks Extend Slide, Turtlemint Slumps Another 20% This Week

New-age tech stocks remained under pressure this week, with 47 stocks declining as benchmark indices recorded their eighth consecutive weekly…

Indian Listed New-Age Tech Company Tracker: Market Cap, Revenue & More

For years, we at Inc42 have tracked the Indian tech startup ecosystem and seen it grow from a kid to…

Skin In The Game: Why Banks Are Taking Stakes In AI Labs

Rogo, a US-based financial-services AI startup, raised $30 Mn this month. What made this unique was that some of the…

FY26 Financial Tracker: Tracking The Financial Performance Of Indian Startups

The Indian startup ecosystem continued to mature in FY26, with 22 new-age tech companies making their public market debut as…

IPO-Bound Kuku Technologies Turns Profitable In FY26, Revenue Surges 6X To ₹1,484 Cr

Kuku Technologies Limited, parent company of audio OTT platform Kuku FM and microdrama app Kuku TV, swung into the black…

ICE Is Reportedly Putting ICE Observers, Protesters in a Palantir Database

A new lawsuit alleges DHS agents drove by observers' and protestors' homes to intimidate them and added their names to Homeland Security's investigations system, according to Wired.

Vessev built an electric ferry that almost flies

Vessev hopes its electric hydrofoil ferry will change the way people and cities think about boats.

‘Barbie 2’ May Happen After All

Skydance is barely even a company yet, and it's already got its sights on spinning up a 'Barbie' sequel.

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Kolibri Has Landed: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model

Article URL: https://aleph-alpha.com/en/blog/kolibri-has-landed-a-sovereign-open-weight-model/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49942706 Points: 215 # Comments: 35

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That’s No Moon… That’s an Exoplanet!

It wasn’t that long ago that a science teacher would have told students that there was no evidence of planets around other star systems. Even more recently, they might have …read more

Extra Big Ass Intelligence

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Why State is the Hardest Thing in Software Design

In this article, we will look at why state is the hardest thing in software development and the multiple strategies that developers can use to manage it.

Article URL: https://ziglang.org/download/0.17.0/release-notes.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49938521 Points: 257 # Comments: 188

Is This The Smallest Internet Radio?

Internet radios have been a thing in some form for the last quarter century, and the advent of cheap networked microcontrollers has made them easier than ever to build. But …read more

2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Lunar Lander on the PDP-1

A lot of the retrocomputing world is focused on the 1980s, and for good reason– the home computer revolution was in full swing in that decade, and there is a …read more

EP228: How SSH Works

Secure shell is a method to access a remote machine securely over an unsecured network. It starts with a TCP connection from the SSH client to the remote machine (SSH server).

Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art

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