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‘You Can’t Miss What Our Values Are’: Before Its Pivot to AI, Allbirds Sounded Very Different
An interview from 2019 is a depressing reminder of what the big corporate trend was back then.
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So Close to Getting It
David Pierce, last week in his Installer column/newsletter for The Verge, singing the praises of the version 5.0 update to Sofa (the praises of which I just sung): Sofa 5. A huge update to an Installerverse favorite, this app is now a great way to manage everything you want to wa…
The Verge
Ford EV and tech chief leaving automaker
Doug Field had stints at Apple and Tesla before joining Ford in 2021.
techcrunch.com
Lisa Melton: ‘Memories of Steve’ (and Memories of Safari’s Unique Page-Loading Indicator in Particular)
Lisa Melton, who ran the team that created Safari, regarding her interactions with Steve Jobs: When Steve asked you a question? You didn’t ramble and, whatever you did, you didn’t make up an answer. If you didn’t know, you just said that you didn’t know. But then you told him whe…
lisamelton.net
Cyberscammers are bypassing banks’ security with illicit tools sold on Telegram
From inside a money-laundering center in Cambodia, an employee opens a popular Vietnamese banking app on his phone. The app asks him to upload a photo associated with the account, so he clicks on a picture of a 30-something Asian man. Next, the app requests to open the camera for…
MIT Technology Review
The quest to measure our relationship with nature
As a movement, environmentalism has been pretty misanthropic. Understandably so—we humans have done some destructive things to the ecosystems around us. In the 21st century, though, mainstream conservation is learning that humans can be a force for good. Foresters are turning to …
MIT Technology Review
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Aliste Technologies Bags ₹30 Cr To Scale Energy Management Solutions
Smart home automation startup Aliste Technologies has raised ₹30 Cr (about $3.2 Mn) in a Pre-Series A round comprising equity…
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EU rejects Meta’s pay-to-access model proposal in WhatsApp AI antitrust probe
The European Union has rejected Meta’s proposed fix in an ongoing antitrust… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Snap cuts 16% of workforce in major AI-focused restructuring amid investor pressure
Snap is undergoing one of its most significant restructuring efforts in recent… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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IndiQube Soars 20% Amid A Rally In Coworking Stocks
Shares of IndiQube Spaces surged as much as 20% during intraday trading today, hitting a high of ₹186.60 on the…
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Claude puts up a wall as ID checks complicate access for Chinese users
AI tool Claude, developed by Anthropic, suddenly announced the rollout of a new identity verification system requiring users to complete a real-time selfie check while holding a government-issued ID. The move has drawn global attention, but for Chinese users in particular, it fee…
technode.com
There are two types of tired. There’s the kind where sleep fixes it. And there’s the kind where you’ve been agreeable for so long that you don’t know what your own opinions sound like unedited and the fatigue is existential and no amount of rest touches it because rest isn’t the deficit
When you've spent so long being the "easy-going" one that you can't remember the last time you expressed an opinion without adding "but I could be wrong," you're not just tired—you're experiencing the soul-deep exhaustion that comes from constantly translating your authentic thou…
siliconcanals.com
That Movie with AI Val Kilmer as a Priest Has a Trailer Now
It features Kilmer-type images of various apparent ages.
gizmodo.com
Crypto Faces Increased Threat from Quantum Attacks
The race to transition online security protocols to ones that can’t be cracked by a quantum computer is already on. The algorithms that are commonly used today to protect data online—RSA and elliptic curve cryptography—are uncrackable by supercomputers, but a large enough quantum…
spectrum.ieee.org
The Crunchbase Tech Layoffs Tracker
Over 127,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies were laid off in mass job cuts in 2025, per a Crunchbase News tally, and the layoffs have continued into 2026. See the latest companies to cut roles.
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Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs
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How LinkedIn Feed Uses LLMs to Serve 1.3 Billion Users
In this article, we will look at how the LinkedIn engineering team rebuilt the Feed and the challenges they faced.
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Robot Bird Decoys Work for Good
Usually, you think of bird decoys as being a tool to lure birds to an untimely encounter with a hunter. However, [Interesting Engineering] has a story about robotic bird decoys …read more
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YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes
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ChatGPT for Excel
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The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew
Article URL: https://www.mcdonalds.co.jp/en/menu/burger/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47785738 Points: 452 # Comments: 223
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Haiku Isn’t Just for X86 Anymore, Boots on ARM in QEMU
Ever since it was called OpenBeOS, Haiku has targeted the x86 platform. That makes good sense: it’s hard enough maintaining a niche system on ubiquitous hardware. But x86 isn’t the …read more
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Hacking Fermentation for Infinite Pickles from Pass-thru Bioreactor
Home-fermented foods are great– they’re healthier, more flavourful, and cheaper than store-bought alternatives. What they aren’t is convenient: you need to prep a big batch of veggies, let it sit, …read more
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Python Comes to the Arduino Uno Q
MicroPython is a well-known and easy-to-use way to program microcontrollers in Python. If you’re using an Arduino Uno Q, though, you’re stuck without it. [Natasha] saves the day by bringing …read more
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