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Google’s Spam Policies Now Apply to Attempts to Manipulate AI
It's a GEO world now, we're just living in it.
gizmodo.com
A hotel check-in system left a million passports and driver’s licenses open for anyone to see
The tech company that maintains the hotel check-in system set its cloud storage to public, allowing anyone to access customers' data without a password.
techcrunch.com
The world is on track to miss its health targets
Every year the World Health Organization publishes a global health statistics report. It features the numbers behind world health trends and, importantly, assesses whether we’re on track to reach ambitious goals set in 2015. It’s a bit like a health grade. The 2026 report was pub…
MIT Technology Review
Intercom, now called Fin, launches an AI agent whose only job is managing another AI agent
The company formerly known as Intercom just did something that no major customer service platform has attempted at scale: it built an AI agent whose sole job is to manage another AI agent. Fin Operator, announced Thursday at a live event in San Francisco, is a new AI-powered syst…
venturebeat.com
The Talk Show: ‘A Sociopathic Father’
Adam Lisagor returns to the show to talk about Hovercraft, his new virtual presentation camera app for Mac, and how he’s developing it with AI coding tools. Also, delicious Japanese spite sandwich cookies. Sponsored by: Parcel: Track your packages in one place, with native apps …
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Claude’s next enterprise battle is not models: it’s the agent control plane
New VB Pulse data shows Microsoft and OpenAI leading enterprise agent orchestration, but Anthropic’s first measurable foothold points to a larger fight over who controls the infrastructure where AI agents run. For the last two years, the enterprise AI race has mostly been framed …
venturebeat.com
International tech
Tencent Q1 2026: Revenue Up 9% as AI Investment Surges
Tencent Q1 2026 earnings show 9% revenue growth to RMB 196.46 billion, with management signaling significant AI capex expansion through 2026.
pandaily.com
India’s VCs are beating Silicon Valley at home
A decade after U.S. venture capital firms fueled India’s startup boom, local investors are now dominating deals.
restofworld.org
Oppo and Vivo gear up for year-end gimbal camera launches to take on DJI’s Pocket series
Oppo and Vivo are also reportedly developing their own Pocket-style handheld gimbal cameras, with launches expected before the end of this year, according to China Star Market. The report said both companies aim to leverage their strengths in imaging algorithms, AI features, and …
technode.com
SpaceX could make Nasdaq debut on June 11, targeting $1.75Tn valuation
SpaceX could be just weeks away from becoming a public company. The… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Rapido secures $240Mn in fresh funding led by Prosus at $3Bn valuation
Indian ride-hailing startup Rapido has raised $240 million in a fresh funding… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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XbotGo Raises ~RMB 100M Led by Ninebot Capital for AI Sports Cameras
XbotGo (深眸远智), an AI sports imaging startup founded by a Chinese team, raises ~RMB 100M led by Ninebot Capital (Segway-Ninebot) to expand its AI camera business for youth sports markets.
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High Performance Rate Limiting at Databricks
In this article, we look at how Databricks implemented rate limiting at scale, how they shrank the critical path, and the accuracy tradeoff that shrinking usually requires.
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ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline
Article URL: https://twitter.com/baseballot/status/2055309076209492208 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152553 Points: 287 # Comments: 135
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Adding Capabilities to Inexpensive Solar Modules
Solar power has gotten cheap enough that putting up panels is among the cheapest ways of providing energy. This isn’t just the case for bulk electricity on a power grid, …read more
hackaday.com
'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens
Article URL: https://kevinpatel.xyz/posts/no-way-to-prevent-this/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155690 Points: 262 # Comments: 113
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LAST CALL FOR ENROLLMENT: Become an AI Engineer - Cohort 6
Our 6th cohort of Becoming an AI Engineer starts tomorrow, Saturday, May 16. This is a live, cohort-based course created in collaboration with best-selling author Ali Aminian and published by ByteByteGo.
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California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/05/bill-to-keep-online-games-playable-clears-key-hurdle-in-california/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152994 Points: 398 # Comments: 243
arstechnica.com
A Guide To Event-Driven Architectural Patterns
Distributed systems are built out of services that need to communicate, and the simplest way to do that is for one service to call another directly and wait for a response.
bytebytego.com
Mod this IKEA Lamp into Smart Lighting For Not A Lot
The IKEA SKAFTSÄRV is an economical LED accent lamp, but while highly affordable it has only fixed lighting options. [simoneluconi] shows how it can easily be turned into a fully-configurable, …read more
hackaday.com
I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
https://xcancel.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578 https://hachyderm.io/@mitchellh/116580433508108130 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153379 Points: 1029 # Comments: 447
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