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The Download: cyberscammers’ banking bypasses, and carbon removal troubles

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. Cyberscammers are bypassing banks’ security with illicit tools sold on Telegram Inside a money-laundering center in Cambodia, an employee ope…

MIT Technology Review

App Store Reviews Are Busted

Terry Godier: For example, if you have a 4.1 star rating in the App Store, any 4 star review is going to decrease that average. In other words, leaving a 4 star review is essentially leaving a negative review. [...] You will see a lot of 4 star reviews that say things like, “This…

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The New ‘Mandalorian and Grogu’ Trailer Amps Up the Nostalgia

Disney would *really* like to remind you that 'Star Wars' is back in theaters in a month now.

New leaders, new fund: Sequoia has raised $7B to expand its AI bets

The fundraise is the first major capital raise under Sequoia's new leadership, with Alfred Lin and Pat Grady now serving as co-stewards of the 54-year-old firm.

Freecash Was More Like Scamcash

Sarah Perez, writing for TechCrunch: If you’ve been on TikTok this year, you’ve more than likely encountered ads for Freecash. The app has been marketed as a way to make money just by scrolling TikTok — and jumped to the top of the app stores in recent months, peaking at the No. …

White House Is Reportedly Ready to Drop Its Anthropic Beef and Embrace the Spooky New Model

Anthropic's Mythos might soon be deployed across the federal government.

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Psychology says people who check on everyone else during a crisis before acknowledging their own fear aren’t selfless — they learned that being needed is the only form of safety their childhood ever reliably delivered

The man running toward everyone else's fear while ignoring his own isn't brave — he's rehearsing a survival strategy he learned before he could tie his shoes.

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Tesla considers humanoid robot production at Shanghai Gigafactory

Tesla is considering producing humanoid robots at its Shanghai Gigafactory. The plant has been manufacturing electric vehicles since 2019 and began producing large-scale energy storage batteries in 2025. The new plan would expand its manufacturing scope to include humanoid robots…

TSMC targets over 30% revenue surge in 2026, ramps up capex amid booming AI demand

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) expects a revenue surge of more than 30 per cent in 2026 as the world’s largest contract chipmaker “pulls in all equipment” to ramp up supply, as management downplayed the impact of memory price hikes and Middle East tensions. During i…

The U.S.–China Divide in One-Person Companies: Institutions, Markets, and the AI-Driven Rewiring of Entrepreneurship

AI is redefining entrepreneurship by enabling individuals to operate as full-fledged companies, while institutional, market, and ecosystem differences between China and the U.S. continue to shape the limits of the one-person company model.

Psychology says the quietest person in a group conversation often isn’t the least engaged — they’re often the one processing at a depth the loudest voices in the room have stopped bothering to reach

While extroverts dominate conversations with quick wit and endless anecdotes, the quiet observer in the corner is often conducting a masterclass in human behavior that would make most psychologists jealous.

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OpenAI upgrades ‘Codex’ with multi-agent workflows and desktop app control to challenge Anthropic’s Claude Code

OpenAI has released a major update to Codex, expanding it from a… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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We’ve Seen Doctor Doom in Action for ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

Marvel Studios came to CinemaCon, and brought Victor von Doom with it.

Treating enterprise AI as an operating layer

There’s a fault line running through enterprise AI, and it’s not the one getting the most attention. The public conversation still tracks foundation models and benchmarks—GPT versus Gemini, reasoning scores, and marginal capability gains. But in practice, the more durable advanta…

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Upscale AI in talks to raise at $2B valuation, says report

AI infrastructure company Upscale AI is reportedly in talks to raise its third funding round since launching just seven months ago.

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Comparing 12 VDC Air Fryers with Regular 240 VAC Ones

That boiling water is a contentious topic of discussion is clear, but what about hot air? When you take a 12 VDC, 280 Watt-rated air fryer and pit it against …read more

Claude Opus 4.7

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47793411 Points: 1518 # Comments: 1084

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all

Article URL: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-35b-a3b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792764 Points: 934 # Comments: 420

The Kentucky Cave Wars, and Going Viral in 1925

Information, it seems, flows at the speed of media. In the old days, information traveled with people on ships or horses, so if, say, a battle was won or lost, …read more

A Guide to Relational Database Design

In this article, we cover the core concepts that inform those decisions. We’ll look at tables, keys, relationships, normalization, and joins, with each concept building on the last.

Do We Really Need Another Development Board?

It’s fair to say that there are a lot of development board form factors for MCUs, with [Tech Dregs] over on yonder YouTube on the verge of adding another one …read more

FPGA Powers DIY USB Scope and Signal Generator

Oscilloscopes and to lesser extent signals generators are useful tools for analyzing, testing and diagnosing circuits but we often take for granted how they work. Luckily, [FromConceptToCircuit] is here to …read more

The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?

Article URL: https://aphyr.com/posts/420-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-where-do-we-go-from-here Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792718 Points: 519 # Comments: 567

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/16/qwen-beats-opus/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47796830 Points: 319 # Comments: 73

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