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This Memory Chip Survives Temperatures Hotter Than Lava

“You may call it a revolution. It is the best high-temperature memory ever demonstrated.”

Microsoft is officially killing its Outlook Lite app next month

Launched in 2022, Outlook Lite is a lightweight version of the regular Outlook app, designed for Android phones with limited storage and regions with slower internet connections. The app had already been scheduled for retirement.

An Amazon warehouse worker died on the job at Oregon facility

Though Amazon has faced issues with warehouse safety, the company said that the death was not work related.

Peter Capaldi’s Biggest ‘Doctor Who’ Regret Was That He Couldn’t Be a Little Bit Miserable

The Twelfth Doctor recalls one quirky lesson he learned during his four-year run on the iconic BBC show.

Is Anthropic 'nerfing' Claude? Users increasingly report performance degradation as leaders push back

A growing number of developers and AI power users are taking to social media to accuse Anthropic of degrading the performance of Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Code — intentionally or as an outcome of compute limits — arguing that the company’s flagship coding model feels less capabl…

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OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro

The acquisition indicates a capability that OpenAI is building into ChatGPT: financial planning.

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BharatPe Cofounder Shashvat Nakrani Steps Down To Launch New Venture

In another leadership change for BharatPe, cofounder and COO Shashvat Nakrani has stepped away from his executive role at the…

i-Space Raises RMB 7 Billion in Pre-IPO Series E Round

i-Space is raising $970 million to accelerate reusable rocket development ahead of its planned 2027 IPO.

Xiaohongshu to Launch Cross-Border E-commerce Platform “Redshop” in June

Xiaohongshu will launch Redshop in June, expanding into cross-border e-commerce with a focus on handmade and niche products.

Apple experiments with four smart glasses prototypes to challenge Meta’s Ray-Bans: Report

Apple is reportedly moving ahead with its smart glasses project by testing… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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Nvidia reportedly in talks to buy a major PC maker, HP and Dell stocks jump amid speculation

Nvidia is reportedly in talks to acquire a major PC maker. A… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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Flipkart Elevates Sharon Pais To The Role Of Myntra Head

Ecommerce major Flipkart has elevated Sharon Pais to the role of the head of its fashion marketplace arm Myntra. She…

Federico Viticci: Today, I’m very happy to introduce Apple Frames 4, a major update to my shortcut for framing screenshots taken on Apple devices with official Apple product bezels. Apple Frames 4 is a complete rethinking of the shortcut that is noticeably faster, updated to supp…

Thousands of rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive — listen now

Chicago-based music superfan Aadam Jacobs has been recording the concerts he goes to since the 1980s, amassing an archive of over 10,000 tapes.

You have no choice in reading this article—maybe

Uri Maoz loved doing his human research, back when he was getting his PhD. He was studying a very specific topic in computational neuroscience: how the brain instructs our arms to move and how our gray matter in turn perceives that motion. Then his professor asked him to deliver…

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Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare

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Your Own Tool Changer

All the cool new 3D printers have tool-changing heads. Instead of multiplexing filament through one hot end, you simply park one hot end and pick up another. Or pick up …read more

ESP32 Weather Display Runs Macintosh System 3

It seems like everybody takes their turn doing an ESP32-based weather display, and why not? They’re cheap, they’re easy, and you need to start somewhere. With the Cheap Yellow Display …read more

EP210: Monolithic vs Microservices vs Serverless

A monolith is usually one codebase, one database, and one deployment.

They Weren’t Joking: Gentoo WAS ported to GNU Hurd

Long ago, in the aftermath of the UNIX wars, three kernels emerged from the rubble: BSD, Linux, and Hurd. BSD, being UNIX, was held back by legal wrangling in the …read more

Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them

Article URL: https://anchor.host/someone-bought-30-wordpress-plugins-and-planted-a-backdoor-in-all-of-them/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755629 Points: 732 # Comments: 206

Reverse-Engineering Human Cognition and Decision Making in a Modern Age

Cognitive processes are not something that we generally pay much attention to until something goes wrong, but they cover the entire scope of us ingesting sensory information, the processing and …read more

The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety

Article URL: https://aphyr.com/posts/417-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-safety Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754379 Points: 282 # Comments: 156

Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/13/stanford-report-highlights-growing-disconnect-between-ai-insiders-and-everyone-else/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47758028 Points: 217 # Comments: 297