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Google engineer charged with insider trading after making $1.2M on Polymarket
According to the complaint, a Google engineer risked over $2.7 million on wagers related to Google’s 2025 Year in Search campaign.
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Why Google’s AI can’t spell Google (or anything else)
Google is embarrassing itself, again.
I analysed 20 years of my chats
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A Google employee allegedly used inside information to win $1.2 million on Polymarket
Federal prosecutors charged a Google employee with fraud after he allegedly made $1.2 million on Polymarket bets related to Search-related trends in 2025, as reported earlier by ABC News. In their now-unsealed complaint, prosecutors allege that Michele Spagnuolo “knew the outcome of these wagers before the trading public did because he had accessed Google’s confidential, … Read more
Internet traffic in Iran increasing
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Why We Stopped Using JSON.parse in React Native
:::tip JSON.parse hit a limit we needed to go past, so we abandoned it and used a simdjson wrapper. ::: This article provides a practical guide to react-native-fast-json, when to use it, how to install it, and patterns that keep memory under control. The problem we hit. Our app needed to read a ~250 MBJSON … Read more
Nobody Told Me Securing APIs Was My Problem in OutSystems
I have been developing enterprise applications with OutSystems for several years already. Long enough to be critical. Long enough to be sure that some mistakes will not be repeated again. And long enough to know that the most dangerous belief you can take into a project is that OutSystems takes care of your application’s security. … Read more
Rivian will deliver the first R2 SUVs on June 9
The company has finally set a date for the first customer deliveries of what CEO RJ Scaringe has said is “maybe the most important thing we’ve launched to date.”
Triomics nabs $22M to bring oncology-specific AI to cancer centers
The Series B round was led by Battery Ventures.
Apple’s newest iPad Air is up to $100 off for the first time
If you want an iPad that’s more powerful than the entry-level model but less expensive than the iPad Pro, the latest iPad Air is the one to buy, and it’s down to one its best prices to date. The 11-inch Air with 128GB of storage and Wi-Fi connectivity is available at Amazon starting at $519.99 … Read more
Stop Calling Your LLM Once – Split the Call
Most LLM apps fire one giant prompt and pray. The ones that feel fast in production split the work into a planning call plus parallel per-item expansion. You get three wins for free: a much faster time-to-first-byte, real parallelism, and bug isolation when something breaks. The cost is one extra request. The math almost always … Read more
All the news about Ferrari’s polarizing Luce EV
Ferrari fans don’t like the design of the new Luce EV, an electric four-door sedan that just doesn’t look like the Ferraris of old. It was designed with help from Jony Ive’s LoveFrom, but what worked for Ive at Apple isn’t working for Ferrari. The Luce’s launch immediately preceded a stock drop that even an … Read more
In more good news for Amazon, Snowflake signs $6B deal with AWS for AI CPU chips
Snowflake has signed a new, enormous five-year deal with Amazon to secure chips for AI usage. Nvidia is once again being put on notice.
The new Halide camera app launches with film looks and an upgraded photo editor
Halide Mark III isn’t free, but you can try it out for a week before buying. | Image: Lux Optics After first being announced in December 2024, Lux Optics has finally released the latest version of its Halide camera app for the iPhone and iPad. The Halide Mark III app’s most compelling feature is a … Read more
Facebook launches a ‘Plus’ subscription that gives you extra features
After announcing tests of premium subscriptions for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp earlier this year, TechCrunch and Bloomberg report that Meta is launching a global rollout over the next few weeks and is also starting to test subscriptions for Meta AI. With the new offerings, Meta joins many other tech companies in changing up its subscription plans … Read more
500 Blog Posts To Learn About Finance
Let’s learn about Finance via these 500 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. “Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.” ― Yuval Noah Harari 1. A Quick … Read more
Payroll startup Remote says it grew revenue 50% per employee without adding headcount
Payroll service provider Remote recently surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and became cash-flow positive, thanks to a 50% increase in revenue per employee resulting from AI adoption.
Roids were all the rage at the Enhanced Games
Cody Miller just after winning $250,000 at the Enhanced Games. In Las Vegas, the blazing sun beats down on a makeshift Olympic-length pool. Cody Miller stands on the starting block of lane one. His arms are raised in victory. MC Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This” thumps over the loudspeakers as he rips off his swimming … Read more
Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with more to come, including AI plans
Meta is rolling out paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp worldwide, while also testing new AI, creator, and business-focused offerings under its broader “Meta One” subscription brand.
With a new $100M raise, Princeton’s Thea Energy is now a top-funded fusion startup
Thea Energy’s pixel-inspired magnets could give its power plant plans a boost. The fusion startup hopes to get a commercial reactor working by 2034.
SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)
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Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200
Valve has significantly increased the price of the Steam Deck – but now, it’s also in stock. The 512GB Steam Deck OLED now costs $789, up from $549, while the 1TB model costs $949, up from $649. As I write this, both models are available to buy on Steam with an estimated delivery date of … Read more
Why macOS Is Underrepresented in Public AI Research Datasets
By Mariya Hirna, AI Research Manager at MacPaw Last month the MacPaw Research team was at the DATA-FM Workshop within ICLR 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, where we presented our paper GUIrilla: A Scalable Framework for Automated Desktop UI Exploration. ICLR is one of the leading machine learning conferences in the world, and this was … Read more