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Google Will Finally Begin Punishing Sites for Back-Button Hijacking in June
Google, on their Search Central Blog: Today, we are expanding our spam policies to address a deceptive practice known as “back button hijacking”, which will become an explicit violation of the “malicious practices” of spam policies, leading to potential spam actions. What is back…
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London gets closer to its first robotaxi service as Waymo begins testing
Waymo's commercial service will eventually follow testing if the U.K. government approves.
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NASA is building the first nuclear reactor-powered interplanetary spacecraft. How will it work?
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Just before Artemis II began its historic slingshot around the moon, Jared Isaacman, the recently con…
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Anthropic’s rise is giving some OpenAI investors second thoughts
One investor who has backed both companies told the FT that justifying OpenAI's recent round required assuming an IPO valuation of $1.2 trillion or more — making Anthropic's current $380 billion valuation look like the relative bargain.
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Anthropic’s Claude Managed Agents gives enterprises a new one-stop shop but raises vendor 'lock-in' risk
Anthropic announced a new platform last week, Claude Managed Agents, aiming to cut out the more complex parts of AI agent deployment for enterprises and competes with existing orchestration frameworks. Claude Managed Agents is also an architectural shift: enterprises, already bur…
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The Download: the state of AI, and protecting bears with drones
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. Want to understand the current state of AI? Check out these charts.  If you’re following AI news, you’re probably getting whiplash. AI is a go…
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Centre Mulls Mandating Separate Warehouses For Ecommerce Exports FDI
In a bid to protect small retailers, the Centre is mulling putting up safeguards, such as mandating separate warehouses for…
inc42.com
There’s a version of strength that only develops in people who had to figure out the rules of a place nobody explained to them. They don’t talk about it because the people who had the rules handed to them wouldn’t understand what was hard about it, and the people who also had to figure it out don’t need the explanation.
People who had to decode the unwritten rules of unfamiliar environments develop a specific perceptual strength that's nearly impossible to explain to those who never needed it, and the silence around it is part of the cost.
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Psychology says the happiest people over 70 don’t actually ‘stay young’ – they’ve learned to stop measuring their worth against a version of themselves that no longer exists
There’s a version of you that doesn’t exist anymore. The one who could run faster, stay up later, remember names without effort, and bounce back from a bad night’s sleep like nothing happened. That version felt permanent at the time. Now it lives in old photographs and muscle mem…
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Anthropic could soon release ‘Opus 4.7’ model and AI design tool
Anthropic is reportedly preparing its next flagship AI model, likely called Claude… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Groww Shares Jump 9% To Hit 52-Week High After BoFA Gives ‘Buy’ Call
Shares of Groww surged as much as 9.37% during the intraday trading today, hitting a fresh 52-week high of ₹212.95…
inc42.com
When AI Bites Back
Recently, Anthropic introduced Claude Mythos Preview, a general-purpose model with advanced coding and agentic capabilities, to select organisations as part…
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New Display for Old Multimeter
As a company, Fluke has been making electronic test equipment longer than the bipolar junction transistor has been around for. In that time they’ve developed a fairly stellar reputation for …read more
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By Our Calculations, You’ll Love the Flapulator
Oh sure, you’ve got calculators. There’s that phone program of course, and the one that comes with your OS, and the TI-86 and possibly RPN numbers you’ve had since high …read more
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OpenSSL 4.0.0
Article URL: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/releases/tag/openssl-4.0.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768788 Points: 252 # Comments: 83
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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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Stop Flock
Article URL: https://stopflock.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772012 Points: 649 # Comments: 168
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Figma Design to Code, Code to Design: Clearly Explained
This article covers how Figma’s design-to-code and code-to-design workflows actually work, starting with why the obvious approaches fail, how MCP solves them, and the engineering challenges that remain.
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Original PlayStation Brought Up To Date
In a satisfying blend of classic console restoration and modern modding, [Elliot] from the Retro Future channel has transformed a broken, dirty PlayStation into what they call the “ultimate PS1.” …read more
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I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program
Article URL: https://honeypot.net/2026/04/14/i-wrote-to-flocks-privacy.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768813 Points: 609 # Comments: 239
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DOOM on a Fancy Smart Toaster
Although toasters should be among the most boring appliances in a household – with perhaps just a focus on making their toasting more deterministic rather than somewhere between ‘still frozen’ …read more
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