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Uber and WeRide ramp up robotaxi operations in Dubai
Uber and WeRide have launched robotaxi operations without a human safety operator in Dubai as part of a broader expansion in the Middle East.
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North Korean hackers blamed for hijacking popular Axios open source project to spread malware
A hacker inserted malware in Axios, an open source web tool downloaded tens of millions of times weekly, in a widespread hack.
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New quantum-computing advances heighten threat to elliptic curve cryptosystems
No, the sky isn't falling, but Q Day is coming, and it won't be as expensive as thought.
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You can finally change the goofy Gmail address you chose years ago
All your data remains intact, and you can go back to your original address at any time.
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OkCupid gave 3 million dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says
OkCupid and Match settle with Trump FTC, don't have to pay any financial penalty.
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This is my third Orion launch, but it feels totally different
The first two launches of Orion felt hollow, but NASA is finally on a better course.
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Show HN: Cerno – CAPTCHA that targets LLM reasoning, not human biology
Article URL: https://cerno.sh Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47592183 Points: 6 # Comments: 3
GitHub's Historic Uptime
Article URL: https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591928 Points: 152 # Comments: 39
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OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/okcupid-match-pay-no-fine-for-sharing-user-photos-with-facial-recognition-firm/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591104 Points: 114 # Comments: 28
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Show HN: How This Graybeard Built the Fastest and Freest Postgres BM25 Search
Last summer we faced a conundrum at my company, Tiger Data, a Postgres cloud vendor whose main business is in timeseries data. We were trying to grow our business towards emerging AI-centric workloads and wanted to provide a state-of-the-art hybrid
Show HN: PhAIL – Real-robot benchmark for AI models
I built this because I couldn't find honest numbers on how well VLA models [1] actually work on commercial tasks. I come from search ranking at Google where you measure everything, and in robotics nobody seemed to know. PhAIL runs four models (OpenPI
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Slop is not necessarily the future
Article URL: https://www.greptile.com/blog/ai-slopware-future Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587953 Points: 90 # Comments: 156
Ask HN: Distributed data centers in our basements
This is likely a bit unrealistic, but why can't we make a half rack server to go in someones basement that can also heat up their hot water and use the basement floor as a heat sink as well? It seems like a lot of the blight of data centers is the en
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Social gaming platform Rec Room, once valued at $3.5B, is shutting down
Rec Room, the social platform for user-generated games and virtual experiences, will shutter on June 1.
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Alexa+ gets new food ordering experiences with Uber Eats and Grubhub
You can now order from Uber Eats and Grubhub using Alexa+, an experience Amazon says will be similar to chatting with a waiter at a restaurant or placing an order at a drive-thru.