- 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)·7h 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)·7h 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 - 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 - 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 - The New Yorker·12h ago
The Art of the Fictional Pop Song
The chart-topping hits you hear in movies can stretch the limits of belief. On the “Mother Mary” soundtrack, Charli XCX and Jack Antonoff capture the real thing. Mitch Therieau writes.
CryptoClimatePoliticsHealth - The New Yorker·12h ago
El retorno de la detención familiar
Durante el gobierno de Trump, miles de niños han sido detenidos y muchos han sufrido de negligencia médica. Sarah Stillman investiga la difícil situación de las familias migrantes retenidas en el Centro de Procesamiento de Inmigrantes de Dilley, en el sur de Texas.
AIMarketsCryptoAppleSpaceClimatePoliticsHealth - The New Yorker·13h ago
The South Texas Democrat Who Will Sing at Your Quinceañera
On a recent Friday night in Edinburg, Texas, in a ballroom adorned with hundreds of blue and white flowers, the d.j. at Jimena Sáenz’s quinceañera took the mike and implored guests not to leave just yet. It...
CryptoAppleClimatePoliticsHealth - The Atlantic·13h ago
Iran Had a Doomsday Weapon All Along
President Trump has said that he went to war to stop Iran from ever having a nuclear bomb. Unfortunately, the war he launched led Iran to discover that it already had an extremely effective doomsday...
MarketsCryptoClimatePoliticsHealth - The New Yorker·14h ago
A Genocide Scholar Asks “What Went Wrong” in Israel
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You ListenSign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox.Download a Transcript.Omer Bartov is an Israeli professor of...
CryptoAppleHealth - The Atlantic·14h ago
One of These Trump Threats Is Not Like the Others
Twelve hours after Donald Trump warned that a “whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again”—after he’d previously threatened to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages”—the president agreed...
CryptoClimatePoliticsHealth - The Atlantic·15h ago
Breaking Free From Alex Jones
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel speaks with Josh Owens, a videographer and the author of a memoir about his years working for Infowars, the...
CryptoAppleClimatePoliticsHealth - TechCrunch·16h ago
Chef Robotics escaped the robot cooking graveyard and says it’s thriving — here’s why
Chef Robotics CEO Rajat Bhageria likes to tell people — correctly — that his industry is a veritable startup graveyard. Whether you’re talking about Chowbotics, a salad-making startup that was acquired and...
AIMarketsCrypto - The Atlantic·16h ago
The First Draft of Cultural History
This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.Newspapers publish the rough draft of history, as the saying goes. And what’s the rough draft of...
CryptoPolitics - The Verge·16h ago
Dairy Queen is putting an AI chatbot in its drive-thrus
Skip to main contentThe fast food chain hopes it will speed up orders and upsell customers.The fast food chain hopes it will speed up orders and upsell customers.by Emma RothApr 17, 2026, 3:46 PM UTCPhoto by...
CryptoHealth - Hacker News (Front Page)·16h ago
Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 migration guide says the new tokenizer uses "roughly 1.0 to 1.35x as many tokens" as 4.6. I measured 1.47x on technical docs. 1.45x on a real CLAUDE.md file. The top of Anthropic's...
AICrypto - Hacker News (Front Page)·17h ago
NIST gives up enriching most CVEs
Risky Bulletin Newsletter April 17, 2026 Written...
AICryptoAppleClimatePoliticsHealth - The Guardian·17h ago
US Live Nation and Ticketmaster verdict triggers calls for Australian investigation into ticketing rules
Australia is being urged to improve ticketing transparency after a US federal court found Live Nation Entertainment had a harmful monopoly over big concert venues.This week, a New York jury found the global...
Crypto - Hacker News (Front Page)·17h ago
Ban the sale of precise geolocation
It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise GeolocationA recent deep dive into the American adtech surveillance system Webloc highlights the national security and privacy risks of pervasive and easily obtainable...
AIMarketsCryptoApplePoliticsHealth - Quanta Magazine·17h ago
Quantum ‘Jamming’ Explores the Truly Fundamental Principles of Nature
Some quantum cryptographers want to find ways to keep messages secret even if the rules of quantum mechanics don’t hold. The recently rediscovered idea of quantum jamming complicates things.
CryptoHealth - The Verge·18h ago
Ghost orchid in the machine
Vacuum cleaners, personal massagers, electronic baby rockers, and walking pads: These are the secondhand machines Rachel Youn sources to create their kinetic sculptures. Made with artificial flowers, metal...
CryptoHealth - 9to5Mac·18h ago
iOS 27 rumored to bring new design changes in two key areas
The next major iPhone software update, iOS 27, will be unveiled on June 8, and rumors indicate it will bring at least two changes for the Liquid Glass design. #1: New systemwide Liquid Glass slider Currently...
CryptoApple - The Atlantic·18h ago
The Real Crisis of <em>The Pitt</em>
This article contains spoilers through the Season 2 finale of The Pitt. The first season of The Pitt presented an emergency room brought to the absolute limits of its capabilities, unfolding as 15 hours of...
CryptoSpaceClimateHealth - Ars Technica·19h ago
Rocket Report: Starship V3 test-fired; ESA's tentative step toward crew launch
Back to Earth Blue Origin will soon launch the third flight of its New Glenn rocket, this time with a reused booster. SpaceX's Super Heavy booster...
CryptoAppleSpacePolitics - NPR News·19h ago
The Strait of Hormuz opens for commercial ships but the U.S. blockade continues on Iran
Iran's foreign minister declared the Strait of Hormuz is open, following the start of an Israel-Lebanon ceasefire. President Trump swiftly responded that the U.S. naval blockade on Iran will continue.
MarketsCryptoPoliticsHealth - NPR News·21h ago
Israel starts a tense ceasefire in Lebanon. And, Trump nominates a new CDC director.
Lebanon-Israel Ceasefire, Hegseth On Blockade, Trump Nominates New CDC Director Transcript ...
CryptoPoliticsHealth - Ars Technica·21h ago
Recent advances push Big Tech closer to the Q-Day danger zone
Those who don’t remember the past… Here’s which players are winning the race to transition to post-quantum crypto. ...
CryptoApplePoliticsHealth - CNBC Top News·21h ago
If a violent downturn strikes the market, new ETF strategies may be vulnerable. Here's why
watch nowNew innovation in the exchange-traded fund industry could come at a cost to investors during extreme conditions.According to MFS Investment Management's Jamie Harrison, ETFs involved in increasingly...
CryptoPolitics - The Atlantic·21h ago
The Scapegoat Scam
Sign up for our newsletter about national security here.The Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán, who lost his election in a landslide on Sunday after 16 years in power, presented himself as a defender of Western...
MarketsCryptoPoliticsHealth - The New Yorker·22h ago
The Calculated Uplift of “I Swear”
Like many upbeat biographical dramas, “I Swear” begins at the end. A culminating moment of triumph is neatly reverse engineered into a prologue: it’s 2019, and the Scottish activist John Davidson (Robert...
AICryptoClimateHealth - The New Yorker·22h ago
Saving a Lost Generation of Young Men—with Chop Saws
The College of St. Joseph the Worker, which combines the trades with a Catholic liberal-arts education, is trying to restore its students’ sense of their own competence, and revive the city of Steubenville, Ohio, along the way. Emma Green reports.
AIMarketsCryptoAppleSpaceClimatePoliticsHealth - The New Yorker·22h ago
David Armstrong’s Probing Gaze
Also: Jennifer Tilly in the surreal world of “The Adding Machine,” New York City Ballet’s spring season, Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel in “Mother Mary,” and more.April 17, 2026The photographer David...
CryptoClimatePoliticsHealth - The New Yorker·22h ago
Queen Elizabeth II and the Lost Art of Fashion Diplomacy
“The Queen’s Style,” a new exhibition at Buckingham Palace, features Queen Elizabeth II’s wedding dress and coronation gown, and fashion by designers such as Norman Hartnell, Hardy Amies, and Ian Thomas. Rebecca Mead reports.
CryptoPoliticsHealth - The Guardian·1d ago
‘How do I end a call?’: the elderly Japanese people determined to master smartphones
It’s not only young people whose gaze is fixed on tiny screens. But for these users in Tokyo, clicking and scrolling is anything but second nature.“I can’t deal with all of the apps that jump out at me,” says...
MarketsCryptoApplePoliticsHealth - Yahoo Finance·1d ago
BAI: Inside the iShares A.I. Innovation and Tech Active ETF
ETF.com Staff Thu, April 16, 2026 at 8:07 PM EDT 3 min read ETF Investing Tools Launched in October 2024 by BlackRock, BAI is an actively managed ETF designed to capture opportunities across...
AICryptoPolitics - Yahoo Finance·1d ago
Public Bitcoin Miners Sold Record BTC in Q1
Public Bitcoin Miners Sold Record BTC in Q1 Public bitcoin miners sold more than 32,000 BTC in the first quarter of 2026, already topping the total net sales recorded across all four quarters of 2025 and...
MarketsCrypto - Nature News·1d ago
New year, old me
The worst thing about having a human boss was definitely the year-end parties. Not that work retreats were any better. And don’t get me started on the retirement parties.But year-end parties were always a...
CryptoHealth - The New Yorker·1d ago
America’s Orange Jesus
In her 2023 memoir, “Oath and Honor,” published the year before Donald Trump’s remarkable return from political oblivion, the Republican apostate Liz Cheney describes watching in amazement on January 6, 2021,...
CryptoClimatePoliticsHealth - Yahoo Finance·1d ago
Oil Markets Reprice War Risk After Congress Rejects Iran Pullback
Alex Kimani Thu, April 16, 2026 at 7:00 PM EDT 5 min read Oil markets clawed back their recent losses, with oil prices rallying after Congress voted in favor of keeping the U.S. military in Iran. The...
CryptoPolitics - The Atlantic·1d ago
The Allbirds Pivot Is a Terrible Idea … Right?
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Walk into...
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