The Brutalist Report - tech
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- After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites [1d]
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- The back story behind the first "$1.8B" dollar "AI Company" [1d]
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- US reputation hits 'depths not seen this century' – and 'may never recover' [1d]
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- Anthropic expands partnership w Google and Broadcom for multiple GW of compute [1d]
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- Show HN: Hippo, biologically inspired memory for AI agents [1d]
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- Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder? [1d]
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- NYC Families Need over $125,000 in Income to Live in Any Borough [1d]
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- Derek Lowe on "Peptides" [1d]
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- HackerRank (YC S11) Is Hiring [1d]
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- Root Persistence via macOS Recovery Mode Safari [1d]
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- A macOS kernel bug can cause OpenClaw to stop working after 49.7 days [1d]
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- AI agents over SSH from your phone. Starting to think this is where dev is going [1d]
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- Show HN: Ghost Pepper – 100% local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS [1d]
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- Wikipedia's AI agent row likely just the beginning of the bot-ocalypse [1d]
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- Show HN: TTF-DOOM – A raycaster running inside TrueType font hinting [1d]
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- Was the U.S. Pilot Rescue in Iran a Cover for a Failed Nuclear Retrieval? [1d]
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- Agent Reading Test [1d]
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- SOM: A minimal Smalltalk for teaching of and research on Virtual Machines [1d]
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- Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different [1d]
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- Londoners are sick of viral videos telling lies about their city [1d]
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- The Cult of Vibe Coding Is Insane [1d]
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- AI helps add 10k more photos to OldNYC [1d]
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- Got kicked out of uni and had the cops called for a social media website I made [1d]
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- Smart people recognize each other – science proves it [1d]
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- Intelligent people are better judges of the intelligence of others [1d]
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- Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed [1d]
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- Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game [1d]
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- Artemis II Lunar Flyby (Official Broadcast) [1d]
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- Why do Macs ask you to press random keys when connecting a new keyboard? [1d]
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- Show HN: I Built Paul Graham's Intellectual Captcha Idea [1d]
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- Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents [1d]
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- Launch HN: Freestyle: Sandboxes for AI Coding Agents [1d]
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- Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once [1d]
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- 81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone [1d]
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- Reducto releases Deep Extract [1d]
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- AI Singer Now Occupies Eleven Spots on iTunes Singles Chart [1d]
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- More Americans Are Breaking into the Upper Middle Class [1d]
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- Anthropic is burning more and more dev goodwill [1d]
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- A Cryptography Engineer's Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines [1d]
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- Sky – an Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go [1d]
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- Claude Code Down [1d]
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- I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK [1d]
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- When Virality Is the Message: The New Age of AI Propaganda [1d]
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- The Team Behind a Pro-Iran, Lego-Themed Viral-Video Campaign [2d]
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- Germany Doxes "UNKN," Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab [2d]
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- Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with the Feb updates [2d]
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- Book Review: There Is No Antimemetics Division [2d]
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- NY Times publishes headline claiming the "A" in "NATO" stands for "American" [2d]
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- PostHog (YC W20) Is Hiring [2d]
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- What Being Ripped Off Taught Me [2d]
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- Show HN: I built a 2-min quiz that shows you how bad you are at estimating [2d]
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- Ask HN: How do systems (or people) detect when a text is written by an LLM [2d]
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- Tiny Corp's Exabox [2d]
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- The Intelligence Failure in Iran [2d]
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- Is Germany's gold safe in New York ? [2d]
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- Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted? [2d]
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- Age Verification as Mass Surveillance Infrastructure [2d]
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- Number in man page titles e.g. sleep(3) [2d]
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- NIMBY Rails [2d]
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- Euro-Office – Your sovereign office [2d]
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- France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain [2d]
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- The Image Boards of Hayao Miyazaki [2d]
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- SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code [2d]
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- A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC [2d]
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- Show HN: We built a camera only robot vacuum for less than 300$ (Well almost) [2d]
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- Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair [2d]
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- The Reason VO₂ Max Declines with Age [2d]
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- Make your own ColecoVision at home, part 5 [2d]
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- Winners of the 2026 Kokuyo Design Awards [2d]
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- Media scraper Gallery-dl is moving to Codeberg after receiving a DMCA notice [2d]
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- An open-source 240-antenna array to bounce signals off the Moon [2d]
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- Your File System Is Already A Graph Database [2d]
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- The 1987 game "The Last Ninja" was 40 kilobytes [2d]
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- Does coding with LLMs mean more microservices? [2d]
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- Case study: recovery of a corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool [2d]
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- We replaced Node.js with Bun for 5x throughput [2d]
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- Stamp It All Programs Must Report Their Version – Michael Stapelberg [2d]
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- Usenet Archives [2d]
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- LLMs can't justify their answers–this CLI forces them to [2d]
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- Apex Protocol – An open MCP-based standard for AI agent trading [2d]
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- Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept [2d]
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- Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work [2d]
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- Show HN: YouTube search barely works, I made a search form with advanced filters [2d]
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- Show HN: Gemma Gem – AI model embedded in a browser – no API keys, no cloud [2d]
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- Peter Thiel's big bet on solar-powered cow collars [2d]
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- Recall – local multimodal semantic search for your files [2d]
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- Copilot is 'for entertainment purposes only', per Microsoft's terms of use [2d]
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- Samsung reports preliminary Q1 operating profit of ~$38B, up more than 8x YoY and above ~$27B est., a record, and revenue up 68% YoY to ~$88B (Hyunjoo Jin/Reuters) [1d]
- Amazon and USPS reach a new delivery deal; sources: Amazon will reduce the packages it ships through USPS by 20%, instead of the two-thirds cut proposed earlier (Esther Fung/Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- OpenAI sends a letter to the California and Delaware AGs, urging them to investigate "anti-competitive behavior" by Elon Musk, ahead of a trial in April (CNBC) [1d]
- Filing: Broadcom agrees to produce future versions of Google's TPUs and expands its Anthropic deal to give the startup access to ~3.5 GW of computing capacity (Jordan Novet/CNBC) [1d]
- Anthropic signs an agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple GWs of TPU capacity, and says run-rate revenue has crossed $30B, up from ~$9B at 2025's end (Anthropic) [1d]
- The rapid adoption of AI coding tools has let workers generate massive volumes of code, leaving companies scrambling to review and secure the AI-generated code (New York Times) [1d]
- Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are sharing information via the Frontier Model Forum to detect adversarial distillation attempts that violate their ToS (Bloomberg) [1d]
- Australian AI infrastructure startup Firmus raised $505M led by Coatue at a $5.5B valuation, bringing its funding raised in the last six months to $1.35B (Ian King/Bloomberg) [1d]
- A look at Eko, whose Arkansas "capture factory" creates digital product catalogs intended to serve as training data for retail-focused AI models (Sarah Nassauer/Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- How social media became a freak show: X punishes external links and most top accounts, such as Catturd, are very low-quality but get more engagement than NYT (Nate Silver/Silver Bulletin) [1d]
- A federal appeals court rules New Jersey cannot block Kalshi users in the state from sports-related event contracts, finding CFTC has exclusive jurisdiction (Nate Raymond/Reuters) [1d]
- Sources: Meta is preparing to release the first AI models developed under Alexandr Wang, with plans to offer versions of those models via an open source license (Ina Fried/Axios) [1d]
- Netflix launches Netflix Playground, a games app for kids aged eight and under, in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, and New Zealand (Andrew Webster/The Verge) [1d]
- Source: Binance Chief Compliance Officer Noah Perlman is looking to leave sometime in 2026 or 2027; other senior compliance staff left over the past few months (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg) [1d]
- OpenAI buying TBPN makes little sense, par for the course for a company that, like Twitter, stumbled into a big market and may never build a functional business (Ben Thompson/Stratechery) [1d]
- How advanced chip packaging became one of Intel's fast-growing businesses; sources: Intel is in talks with Google and Amazon for its advanced packaging services (Lauren Goode/Wired) [2d]
- Xoople, which is developing a satellite constellation to collect earth data for training AI models, raised a $130M Series B, bringing its total funding to $225M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid western sanctions after its Ukraine invasion (Financial Times) [2d]
- Interviews with Sam Altman and 100+ people on if he can be trusted amid allegations of persistent lying and more: some defend him, others call him a sociopath (New Yorker) [2d]
- Jack Dorsey says Apple removed his Bluetooth P2P messaging app Bitchat, used during protests in Iran and Uganda, from China's App Store following CAC's demands (Stephen Katte/Cointelegraph) [2d]
- OpenAI unveils policy proposals for a world with superintelligence: higher capital gains taxes, a public AI investment fund, strengthened safety nets, and more (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Japan, driven by labor shortages, is increasingly adopting robotics and physical AI, with a hybrid model where startups innovate and corporations provide scale (Kate Park/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Sources: companies like Palo Alto Networks and Sophos see increased demand for their ransom negotiators, as businesses seek help in talks with cybercriminals (Kieran Smith/Financial Times) [2d]
- Netflix - yes Netflix - jumps on the AI bandwagon with video editor (Thomas Claburn/The Register) [2d]
- Indian IT giant Wipro agrees to buy Mindsprint, the IT services arm of Singapore-based Olam, for $375M, and strikes an eight-year, $1B contract with Olam (Reuters) [2d]
- Documents: OpenAI and Anthropic have projected profitability to investors with and without training costs, and report inference costs exceeding half of revenue (Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Microsoft is updating devices from Windows 11 24H2 to version 25H2 with no way to fully opt out, and says an "intelligent" ML-based system handles the rollout (Kunal Khullar/Tom's Hardware) [2d]
- Sources: Sam Altman has excluded OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar from some key financial meetings; Friar began reporting to Fidji Simo instead of the CEO in August 2025 (The Information) [2d]
- China, which dominates the global drone industry, has sharply tightened its drone use rules, as some users say they are hindering routine and lawful flights (Joy Dong/New York Times) [2d]
- ‘Find a way to work together’ — Sam Altman’s message to the Department of Defense and Anthropic [1d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, April 7 (game #765) [1d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Tuesday, April 7 (game #1534) [1d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, April 7 (game #1031) [1d]
- Artemis II got me thinking about space — then I found Lego's surprisingly interactive set [1d]
- 'We want to raise awareness on this issue': Google warns quantum computers could break Bitcoin encryption much sooner than expected [1d]
- 'Like many small fires': Surge in ultra-hot data centers is creating extreme heat islands that may dramatically alter global climate [1d]
- How to watch UConn vs Michigan: Free Streams, TV Channels for 2026 March Madness Final [1d]
- Visible’s Pro+ plan is 50% off right now — and it even worked during Verizon’s outage [1d]
- 'The inference inflection has arrived': Nvidia pumps $2 billion into chipmaker Marvell to boost its AI factories to the next level — so does this mean it'll be working with Amazon Trainium soon? [1d]
- 'Your login credentials may already be slipping into the hands of a cybercriminal': Hackers target LinkedIn accounts with devious new phishing attacks — here's how to stay safe [1d]
- 'Up to 75% higher': Experts say your next SSD or memory upgrade will get a lot more expensive — and I fear the Iran war will make it even worse [1d]
- The MacBook Air M5 is the 'best mix of winning design, near-pro-level performance, and battery life' — get the 15-inch model for a record-low price [1d]
- I compared Artemis II mission's historic dark side of the moon photo with my Sony Alpha A6000, and the differences just blew me away [1d]
- Stickers, live lobster, plush toys, and queues: No, it's not a rock concert, it's China's insatiable appetite for AI's new superstar, OpenClaw [1d]
- 28-hour battery life, waterproof, and 5G: Acer's rugged device ventures where other routers fear to tread [1d]
- Skip Target: Walmart's spring patio sale is better than I expected — here's everything I'm adding to my cart [1d]
- Claude is having some problems – here's everything we know as Anthropic confirms 'elevated errors' [1d]
- SparkCat malware returns to target Android and iOS users, hiding in innocent apps to try and steal your details [1d]
- Battlefield 6 audio team says they 'constantly polish what we think needs polishing' [1d]
- What is the release date for Invincible season 4 episode 6 on Prime Video? [1d]
- Can a MacBook Neo handle everyday work? I tested it — and it’s very good news [1d]
- One of the largest corporate espionage and data breach scandals in digital history': New "BrowserGate" report claims LinkedIn secretly scans user browsers for installed extensions and collects device data [1d]
- This devious VENOM phishing campaign targets business executives by name — so watch what you click on [1d]
- Backups won’t save you from this version of ransomware [2d]
- How to watch I'm A Celebrity 2026 online for free — stream the All-stars spin-off from South Africa [2d]
- Your marketing stack is an attack surface – is security watching? [2d]
- AI agents can only be trusted as Junior Engineers [2d]
- Bad news Claude users — Anthropic says you'll need to pay to use OpenClaw now [2d]
- 'Has Trump assisted audience fascination with Gilead? Perhaps': The Testaments' creators on why the real world hasn't changed since The Handmaid's Tale [2d]
- What is the release date for Daredevil: Born Again season 2 episode 4 on Disney+? [2d]
- Top museums hit by apparent cyberattack on Vivaticket — Louvre and other institutions affected [2d]
- I took Panasonic’s new 15x zoom travel compact camera on vacation, and it still has no rival — but flagship Chinese phones are getting close [2d]
- 'Silicon photonics is central to next-generation AI infrastructure': How light-based chips could solve AI’s growing bottlenecks [2d]
- NHS staff push back against using 'ethically bankrupt' Palantir software, say 'it doesn't do anything new for us' [2d]
- Iran is threatening to bomb the $30 billion Stargate AI data center backed by OpenAI, Nvidia, and other tech giants [2d]
- 8849 Tank X rugged phone review: A feature-rich design built around a 1080p DLP projector and a whole lot of weight [2d]
- Why AI adoption isn’t just a tech problem, but a retention risk [2d]
- Uffizi galleries confirms it was hit by cyberattack — but claims nothing was stolen [2d]
- Time for an upgrade? Report warns outdated operating systems could be the 'unnecessary risk' your business forgot about [2d]
- Building private AI: control, compliance and competitive edge [2d]
- Marshall is taking on JBL and other party speaker makers in a 'very homogenous' market — and explains why it wants to make models that 'trigger your senses' [2d]
- 'JBL-beating': our favorite 5-star cheap Bluetooth speaker just got a new model with double the battery life [2d]
- What is the release date for The Boys season 5 episodes 1 to 2 on Prime Video? [2d]
- Samsung Messages is officially shutting down for good — here's what you need to know [2d]
- 'Skipping a beat on resilience investment isn’t an option any more': IT incidents can cost firms huge amounts - here's how to stay on top of issues [2d]
- How to manage the employees that don’t clock in [2d]
- The Garmin Approach S50 is a mid-range golf watch that could give some premium devices a scare [2d]
- Geekom A5 Pro review: An impressive all-aluminium home and office mini PC that just about justifies its price [2d]
- Malwarebytes just proved its no-logs VPN policy is the real deal [2d]
- I spent 2 years testing cleaning appliances — these are my 3 favorite affordable floorcare gadgets [2d]
- Trump Administration Bans Chinese Routers. Phones and Cameras Could Follow [1d]
- Are Electric Bag Resealers the Key to Chip Freshness? I Tested 2 to Find Out [1d]
- Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for April 7, #561 [1d]
- iPhone Mirroring Is One of the Best Hidden Features on the Mac [1d]
- Twelve Tons of KitKats Were Stolen, and You Can Help Find Them [1d]
- 'Daredevil: Born Again' Season 2: Episode 4 Release Time [1d]
- In Honor of the Artemis II Mission, Explore the Moon in Fortnite Now [1d]
- Artemis II Is Slingshotting Around the Moon in Fortnite, and You Can Join In on the Fun [1d]
- Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for April 7, #1031 [1d]
- Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for April 7 #765 [1d]
- Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for April 7, #1753 [1d]
- Netflix Introduces New Ad-Free Gaming App for Kids [1d]
- iOS 26.5 Public Beta: Is End-to-End Encrypted RCS Messaging Finally Coming to iPhone? [1d]
- Samsung Will Shut Down Its Messages App Soon. What to Do Next [1d]
- How to Watch the Artemis II Moon Flyby on Netflix [1d]
- 'The Boys' Season 5: Episode Release Schedule and How to Watch [1d]
- Your Ears Know What's Good. Help Us Crown the Most Loved Headphones and Earbuds of 2026 [1d]
- I'm Stoked to Show Secrets of Strixhaven's Blue Paradigm Card in These Exclusive Previews [1d]
- Anthropic Reins In Subscribers' Unlimited AI Use for OpenClaw [1d]
- Keep These 11 Foods Out of the Freezer at All Cost [1d]
- My Running Tests Left Me Feeling Like the Moto Watch Is Low-Key Catfishing [2d]
- Your Phone is Disgusting: Let's Fix That video [2d]
- Scammers Want Our Data, Yet CNET Finds Many of Us Aren't Protecting Our Devices [2d]
- This iPhone Feature Will Scold You if Your Camera Lens Is Dirty [2d]
- How to Cut Down on False Alarms for Your Home Security System [2d]
- Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Monday, April 6 [2d]
- Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for April 6, #560 [2d]
- Bitcoin options market is quietly pricing a major downside move [1d]
- Aave loses key risk manager, Chaos Labs, amid contributor exodus and disputes [1d]
- Polymarket reveals a 'full exchange upgrade' to take control of its own trading and truth [1d]
- Bitcoin climbs above $70,000 as more contrarian bottoming signs emerge [1d]
- Appeals court blocks New Jersey from shutting down Kalshi's sports markets [1d]
- OpenAI CEO urges U.S. to prepare for AI ‘superintelligence’ risks and gains [1d]
- Jamie Dimon says JPMorgan must move faster as tokenization reshapes finance [1d]
- Binance.US plots comeback with derivatives, prediction markets push [1d]
- Solo bitcoin miner overcomes 1-in-28,000 odds to secure $210,000 block reward [2d]
- CoinDesk 20 performance update: NEAR Protocol (NEAR) jumps 8.1% over weekend [2d]
- Bitmine's ether treasury hits 4.8 million ETH as stock listing moves to NYSE [2d]
- Strategy added another 4,871 bitcoin for $330 million, with holdings nearing 767,000 BTC [2d]
- Bitcoin has room to rally, but there's a catch [2d]
- Bitcoin rallies on report of Iran ceasefire talks, Algorand extends gains [2d]
- IMF warns tokenization could bring crypto risks into global financial markets [2d]
- Inflation takes center stage: Crypto Week Ahead [2d]
- China orders Apple to pull Dorsey's Bitchat, the messaging app used during Iran protests [2d]
- Circle future-proofs Arc blockchain against quantum threats [2d]
- XRP drifts higher to $1.33, but range-bound trade still dominates [2d]
- Bitcoin reclaims $69,000 as ceasefire talks surface and crypto shorts get squeezed [2d]
- Bitcoin meltdown to $10,000 remains likely unless prices reclaim $75,000, analyst says [2d]
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