- TechCrunch·2h ago
Once close enough for an acquisition, Stripe and Airwallex are now going after each other
Jack Zhang was 34 years old, three and a half years into running a startup, and sitting across from one of the most powerful investors in Silicon Valley. Michael Moritz of Sequoia had invited him to his home...
MarketsCrypto - Hacker News (Front Page)·6h ago
Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals
What is this? This is a calculator that works over unions of intervals rather than just real numbers. It is an implementation of Interval Union Arithmetic. An...
Crypto - Hacker News (Front Page)·6h ago
Casus Belli Engineering
Few things in a professional environment are more important than a lasting impression; be it for building trust or conveying unappreciated quality, it is often what kills any system: people lose confidence in...
CryptoClimatePoliticsHealth - 9to5Mac·7h ago
Apple wins latest round in Masimo fight as ITC closes Apple Watch import ban case
Apple just scored an important win in its ongoing battle with Masimo over patents related to the Apple Watch’s blood oxygen feature. Here are the details. A bit of context Over the past few years, Apple and...
AppleClimate - 9to5Mac·9h ago
BNP Paribas hikes Apple stock target, cites memory shortage opportunity
Today, BNP Paribas raised Apple’s stock price target to $300, up from $260 set in its last investor note. Here are the details. Apple could turn memory crunch into an opportunity Over the past few weeks,...
MarketsApple - 9to5Mac·9h ago
Last chance: Win a MacBook Pro and BenQ 4K Nano Gloss Monitor [Giveaway]
Today is your last chance to enter our giveaway of Apple’s latest MacBook Pro courtesy of our friends at BenQ to celebrate the company’s MA series of monitors for Mac. The winner will also receive the new...
Apple - TechCrunch·9h ago
Sam Altman’s project World looks to scale its human verification empire. First stop: Tinder.
World, which has raised eyebrows (but also a lot of interest) with its Orb-centered anonymous verification project, is looking to expand its influence via a bevy of new partnerships.
CryptoSpaceHealth - Hacker News (Front Page)·9h ago
Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution
Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, behaviour and other traits. Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, behaviour and other traits.
PoliticsHealth - Hacker News (Front Page)·10h ago
A simplified model of Fil-C
I've seen lots of chatter about Fil-C recently, which pitches itself as a memory safe implementation of C/C++. You can read the gritty details of how this is achieved, but for people coming across it for the...
Climate - Ars Technica·10h ago
US-sanctioned currency exchange says $15 million heist done by "unfriendly states"
Grinex, a US-sanctioned cryptocurrency exchange registered in Kyrgyzstan, said it’s halting operations after experiencing a $13 million heist carried out by “western special services” hackers. Researchers...
MarketsCrypto - 9to5Mac·10h ago
India drops plan to force Apple to preinstall state owned app on iPhones
Reuters reports that the Indian government has given up on its plan to mandate that Apple and other smartphone makers pre-install a state-owned “security” app. Here are the details. India backs down on...
AppleHealth - The Verge·10h ago
OpenAI’s former Sora boss is leaving
Sora head Bill Peebles, as well as the company’s VP of AI for Science, are departing the company.Sora head Bill Peebles, as well as the company’s VP of AI for Science, are departing the company.by Jay...
AIHealth - 9to5Mac·11h ago
HomeKit Weekly: The Ulticam IQ brings PoE and Gemini AI to a Matter-certified smart camera
Xthings recently released the Ulticam IQ V2, touting it as the first Matter-certified AI security camera. It boasts an impressive list of features that includes Power over Ethernet, 4K resolution, and some...
AIApple - Hacker News (Front Page)·11h ago
Arc Prize Foundation (YC W26) Is Hiring a Platform Engineer for ARC-AGI-4
A senior engineer to own and evolve the platform behind ARC-AGI series of benchmarks. This person will act as the technical owner and architect of our benchmark infrastructure, from stabilizing the current system to laying the foundation for future versions. This is a remote, full-time role. What You'll Do: - Stabilize and extend the V3 backend and infrastructure - Own performance to keep the current benchmark platform reliable - Build the verification and testing layer - Automated model runs, scoring, reproducible eval pipelines, and systems for capturing and querying data exhaust so the team can do deeper model analysis - Support early ARC-AGI-4 implementation by building the backend and platform pieces needed for new environments, human data collection, scoring, and deployment - Set the early technical foundation for ARC-AGI-5 What We're Looking For: - Strong backend engineering with Python, plus distributed systems, SQL, cloud infrastructure, and production reliability experience - Experience building evaluation harnesses, testing pipelines, experiment/data logging, and analysis workflows - ideally for AI/ML systems or other high-volume technical platforms - Senior enough to act as a technical owner and architect of the benchmark platform (we have a high agency team)
- 9to5Mac·11h ago
Is Apple discontinuing the cosmic orange iPhone color this year?
Earlier today, we learned more details about the color lineup for this year’s iPhone 18 Pro. That report has naturally raised many questions about the fate of the popular cosmic orange iPhone 17 Pro color...
Apple - The Verge·11h ago
Should you stare into Sam Altman’s orb before your next date?
Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI.Tinder users who prove they’re a real person by...
AIHealth - TechCrunch·11h ago
Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed ‘side quests’
OpenAI is losing two of the architects of its most ambitious moonshots. Kevin Weil, who led the company’s science research initiative, and Bill Peebles, the researcher behind AI video tool Sora, both...
AIHealth - TechCrunch·11h ago
Man who hacked US Supreme Court filing system sentenced to probation
Nicholas Moore hacked into three U.S. government networks using stolen credentials, and then bragged about it and posted victims' personal data on Instagram under the handle @ihackedthegovernment.
PoliticsHealth - The Verge·11h ago
Anthropic’s new cybersecurity model could get it back in the government’s good graces
The Trump administration has spent nearly two months fighting with AI company Anthropic. It’s dubbed the company a “RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY” full of “Leftwing nut jobs” and a menace to national security....
AIMarketsApplePolitics - 9to5Mac·12h ago
Apple to showcase nearly 60 studies and demos at upcoming AI conference
Apple is one of the sponsors of this year’s International Conference on Learning Representations, running April 23 through 27 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where it will present dozens of studies. Here’s what to...
AIApple - 9to5Mac·12h ago
Apple Maps is quickly improving, and iOS 26.5 brings useful new addition
Apple Maps got several great new features in iOS 26, but another useful improvement is coming soon in iOS 26.5. Here are the details. iOS 26 made Apple Maps better in three key ways, with more coming I’ve...
Apple - Ars Technica·12h ago
Man with @ihackedthegovernment Instagram account tells judge, “I made a mistake"
“Moore intentionally accessed the Supreme Court’s electronic filing system without authorization using the stolen credentials of an authorized user (‘GS’) on 25 different days, sometimes returning to the site...
Politics - Ars Technica·12h ago
Trump picks qualified, normal health leader to head CDC; experts still cautious
“We saw what happened with Susan,” Debra Houry, CDC’s former chief medical officer who resigned in protest of Kennedy’s political interference, told Stat News. “She couldn’t make staffing or policy decisions....
PoliticsHealth - TechCrunch·12h ago
Sources: Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges
AI coding startup Cursor is nearing new funding in which the four-year-old company would raise at least $2 billion in fresh capital, according to four sources familiar with the matter. Returning investors...
AI - Hacker News (Front Page)·13h ago
"cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2
In a previous post about AI-discovered bugs in Vim and Emacs, we looked at how seemingly harmless workflows could cross a surprising line into code execution. This time we wanted to push that idea even...
AI - TechCrunch·13h ago
‘Tokenmaxxing’ is making developers less productive than they think
There’s an old saw in management: What you measure matters. And, typically, you get more of whatever you’re measuring. Software engineers have debated productivity metrics for decades, starting with lines of...
AIClimateHealth - Ars Technica·13h ago
$25,000 buys plenty of used EVs: Here are some options
Whether you’re considering an electric vehicle because of gas prices or climate change, there has probably never been a better time to buy a used EV, despite that the Trump administration abolished the used...
ClimatePolitics - 9to5Mac·13h ago
Apple TV just revealed two new movies coming soon
Apple TV already had a packed movie lineup laid out for this year, but the streamer recently revealed two more titles that are coming—one of which premieres next month. Here are the details. New film from...
Apple - Hacker News (Front Page)·13h ago
All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)
When the Apollo astronauts returned from the Moon, the dust that clung to their spacesuits made their throats sore and their eyes water. Lunar dust is made of sharp, abrasive and nasty particles, but how toxic is it for humans?
SpacePoliticsHealth - Ars Technica·14h ago
Satellite and drone images reveal big delays in US data center construction
Silicon Valley has been pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into building ever-larger AI data centers that require as much electricity as hundreds of thousands of US homes—but that massive buildout faces...
AISpace - The Verge·14h ago
Betting on the news raises ethical questions for journalists
Prediction market exchanges have created an environment where just about any piece of information is potentially monetizable: How well will BTS’s new song perform this week? How hot will Los Angeles get? Will...
MarketsClimatePoliticsHealth - TechCrunch·14h ago
Hackers are abusing unpatched Windows security flaws to hack into organizations
A security researcher published details of three security vulnerabilities in Windows Defender, and the code used to exploit them. Now, hackers are taking advantage of the vulnerabilities in real-life attacks, according to a cybersecurity firm.
AppleHealth - Ars Technica·14h ago
Amazon won’t release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore
In October, an Amazon representative said the company doesn’t have plans to update current Fire OS devices to Vega, German IT publication Heise Online reported. Fire OS blamed for pirating Before Vega,...
AI - Ars Technica·14h ago
Ridley Scott's post-apocalyptic The Dog Stars drops first trailer
Post-apocalyptic scenarios are a longtime staple of science fiction, and director Ridley Scott’s latest film, The Dog Stars, falls firmly into that subgenre. Based on Peter Heller’s critically acclaimed 2012...
AppleHealth - The Verge·14h ago
This charming gadget writes bad AI poetry
I’ve never been as charmed and frustrated by one gadget as I have with the Poetry Camera.It’s a delightful object. White and cherry red with a color-matched woven strap, it looks playful and adorably lo-fi....
AIApple - Hacker News (Front Page)·14h ago
Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines
Ship and run software with isolation by default. This is a CLI tool that lets you: Manage and run custom Linux virtual machines locally with: sub-second cold start, cross-platform (macOS, Linux), elastic...
AppleClimate - TechCrunch·14h ago
Zoom teams up with World to verify humans in meetings
Meeting platform Zoom has announced a partnership with World, Sam Altman's human ID verification company, to ensure that the people attending meetings are actually human and not AI-generated imposters. Zoom will show a badge on verified participants' tile.
- Hacker News (Front Page)·15h ago
Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Head of Engineering
At Kyber, we're building the next-generation document platform for enterprises. Today, our AI-native solution transforms regulatory document workflows, enabling insurance claims organizations to consolidate 80% of their templates, spend 65% less time drafting, and compress overall communication cycle times by 5x. Our vision is for every enterprise to seamlessly leverage AI templates to generate every document. Over the past 18 months, we’ve: - >40x’d revenue and are profitable. - Landed multiple six and seven figure, multi-year contracts with leading insurance enterprises. - Launched strategic partnerships with industry leading software partners like Guidewire, Majesco, and Twilio Sendgrid. Kyber is backed by top Silicon Valley VCs, including Y Combinator and Fellows Fund. We're seeking a hands-on Head of Engineering with a clear line of sight to CTO. This role is ideal for someone who is already operating as a 10x engineer, thrives in early stage environments, and is excited to design and scale mission-critical AI systems from first principles. Responsibilities: - Be the Technical Owner of the Product - Own end-to-end technical decisions across backend, frontend, data, infra. - Ship features personally while keeping the team unblocked. - Prioritize an Aggressive Product Roadmap - Lead sprint/weekly planning and keep priorities tight - Protect focus: decisively manage tradeoffs, push back when needed - Unlock Leverage to Boost Engineering Capacity - Scale adoption of Agentic AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Greptile) into large scale engineering and product workflows to accelerate time to market. - Establish reusable patterns and interfaces so engineers and agents aren’t reinventing everything. - Champion Reliability, Security, and Customer Trust - Own uptime, performance, and incident response. - Implement monitoring/alerts + fast debugging workflows. - Mentor & Raise the Engineering Bar - Set expectations for quality and ownership. - Help recruit and evaluate future hires. What We’re Looking For in You: - 10x Engineer with a love of building - Your raw coding ability should be unmatched and only deeply amplified by AI. - You love to build and relish seeing customers delighted by your work. - Ship first, optimize and harden later - You get something out as quickly as possible, prove it was the right thing to build, and then optimize and harden it. - System Design Mastery - You've architected large scale data-driven applications and have a full E2E understanding of what tradeoffs to make when. - Systems-first thinking - Not just in architecture, but also for how an AI-native engineering team will operate as we continue to grow. - Accountability - You're prepared and have been in roles before where you've had to hold other engineers accountable for their deliverables. - Security and Compliance - You've dealt with enterprise software compliance requirements (SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO, etc) and are comfortable incorporating those requirements in tandem with product build out. Our Values - Possible Until Proven Otherwise - Challenge assumptions with evidence. If it’s impossible, show us why. - LOVE Your Customer - Put customers at the heart of everything. Earn trust, deliver value, grow together. - Take Pride In Your Craft - Creating something from nothing is a privilege—embrace the process and perfect the details. - Live Up To Your Expectations - Set your standards high and let’s exceed them together—because no one should expect more of you than yourself. - Have Fun & Nurture Those Around You - The joy of building is amplified when shared. Remember to support, uplift, and celebrate each other as we grow. Benefits - Competitive salary - Generous stock package - 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision insurance Why Kyber? Join us in building and scaling a game-changing enterprise product powered by state-of-the-art AI. At Kyber, your contributions will directly impact how businesses handle some of their most critical workflows and customer interactions. If you’re obsessed with building, AI, and transforming enterprise workflows, we’d love to hear from you! How To Stand Out We want to hear from extraordinary individuals who are ready to shape the future of enterprise documents. To stand out, ask someone you’ve worked with to send your resume or LinkedIn profile, along with a brief 2-3 sentence endorsement, directly to arvind [at] askkyber.com. Referrals matter. They help us understand the impact you’ve already had and the kind of teammate you’ll be. A strong referee can elevate your application, so choose someone who knows your skills and character well. Apply today and help us bring enterprise documents into the AI-native age.
AIHealth - Ars Technica·15h ago
Artemis II pilot talks about what it was really like to fly and land in Orion
A view from the hot seat “I’ve been thinking about reentry for three straight years.” Artemis II Pilot Victor Glover pictured...
Space - TechCrunch·15h ago
Gigs turns your concert history into a personal live music archive
People always hold up their phones to record special moments at concerts, but they often never revisit those videos. Gigs, a new concert-tracking app launching this week, wants to change that. The iOS app...
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