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These 3 Charts Show How Venture Capital Has Concentrated At The Top In 2026
In the first quarter of 2026, a handful of large, well-funded AI companies, almost all based in the U.S., captured the vast majority of venture dollars, even as global startup deal count fell, Crunchbase data shows.
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★ David Pierce Tried a Bunch of Android Phones and Then Bought an iPhone Again
David Pierce, writing at The Verge (gift link): The Pixel 10 Pro solidified a feeling I’d been having through all of my tests: Android is a better operating system than iOS. [...] If all you got from your phone was the out-of-the-box experience, I’d have picked the Pixel. But unf…
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Microsoft patched a Copilot Studio prompt injection. The data exfiltrated anyway.
Microsoft assigned CVE-2026-21520, a CVSS 7.5 indirect prompt injection vulnerability, to Copilot Studio. Capsule Security discovered the flaw, coordinated disclosure with Microsoft, and the patch was deployed on January 15. Public disclosure went live on Wednesday. That CVE matt…
venturebeat.com
Screen Zooming on iOS and iPadOS
Steven Troughton-Smith: If you want to pixel-peep on iOS or iPadOS, it also has the Zoom accessibility setting, and can be controlled via touch, keyboard, or trackpad. It works for display mirroring too, and has other options like a minimap and HUD (‘Zoom Controller’). These sett…
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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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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
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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
Tencent Open-Sources Hunyuan 3D World Model 2.0 for Interactive Content Creation
Tencent released and open-sourced HY-World 2.0, enabling users to generate interactive 3D environments from text or images, compatible with major game engines.
pandaily.com
I’ve spent my entire life being described as “the strong one” — and last month I sat in my car in a parking lot and cried for 45 minutes, and the thing that made me cry hardest was that there was no one to call
The man everyone turned to for help discovered the devastating price of never asking for any when he found himself sobbing alone in a parking lot with no one to call.
siliconcanals.com
IndiQube Soars 20% Amid Rally In Coworking Stocks
Update | April 16, 2026, 16:51 IST Shares of IndiQube Spaces ended Thursday’s trading session up 3.44 % at ₹160.85…
inc42.com
Tesla completes AI5 chip tape-out, to be manufactured by TSMC and Samsung
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company has completed the tape-out of its next-generation AI chip, AI5. He also thanked TSMC and Samsung, which will be responsible for producing the chip. On Wednesday, Musk said, “Congratulations to Tesla’s AI chip design team on completing the tape…
technode.com
Mutual Funds Dump EaseMyTrip In March Quarter, Holdings Crash Over 99%
Online travel aggregator EaseMyTrip’s shares have been on a freefall for over a year, with the stock plummeting to an…
inc42.com

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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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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
hackaday.com
Cooking a Raspberry Pi FireWire HAT With Backfeeding
Recently [Jeff Geerling] has been tinkering with FireWire in order to use some older gear, which includes the use of a Raspberry Pi HAT called the Firehat. This provides a …read more
hackaday.com
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.
bytebytego.com
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
hackaday.com
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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Optocam Zero’s Pictures Look One Hundred
Yeah, we know, there’s a camera on your phone that does this and that. But these days its become trendy to turn towards older digital cameras in place of smartphones, …read more
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