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Cartoonist Paul Pope is more worried about killer robots than AI plagiarism

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2026-04-04 00:08:49

Paul Pope has written and drawn some of the most gorgeous comics of the twenty-first century — from “Batman: Year 100,” in which Batman challenges a dystopian surveillance state, to “Battling Boy,” with its adolescent god proving his mettle by fighting giant monsters. But it’s been more than a decade since Pope’s last major comics work, and in a Zoom interview with TechCrunch, he admitted that the intervening years have had their frustrations. At one point, he held up a large stack of drawings

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OpenAI May Have Screwed Up So Badly That Its Entire Future Is Under Threat

futurism.com Unknown 2026-04-04 02:00:08

OpenAI May Have Screwed Up So Badly That Its Entire Future Is Under Threat Battle of the titans. Forgiveness or Permission In its quest to become a for-profit entity, OpenAI may have catastrophically fumbled the bag with its patron Microsoft. As the Financial Times reports based on insider interviews, Microsoft is ready to walk away from the frustrating negotiations with OpenAI as both parties seek to renew their partnership amid the latter's for-profit push. Earlier in the week, the Wall St

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Apple is reportedly considering the acquisition of Perplexity AI

engadget.com Unknown 2026-04-04 01:00:12

Apple's executives are thinking of acquiring Perplexity AI both to get more talent and to be able to offer an AI-based search engine in the future, according to Bloomberg. Adrian Perica, Apple's head of mergers and acquisitions, has reportedly already talked about the idea with services SVP Eddy Cue and the company's top decision-makers with it comes to its AI efforts. It's early stages, however: Apple has yet to talk to Perplexity about a bid, and the internal talks may not even lead to a forma

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Why You Should Care About OpenAI's New $200 Million Defense Department Deal

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-04-03 22:00:06

The US Department of Defense has awarded ChatGPT maker OpenAI a $200 million contract to develop "prototype frontier AI capabilities," the government and company announced on Monday. The deal is through the Defense Department's chief digital and artificial intelligence office and is expected to be completed in one year. OpenAI said in its statement that its AI could help the department perform tasks ranging from "transform[ing] its administrative operations ... to streamlining how they look at

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Best Mattress Toppers for 2025, Tested by Our Sleep Experts

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-04-04 00:00:00

If you need more time before making your next big mattress decision or you're waiting on that next big sale event -- a mattress topper is a good temporary sleep solution. The right mattress topper can add comfort and enhance your sleep quality -- and for far less than the $1,000 a year many US adults said they'd spend on better rest, per a CNET’s sleep survey. CNET’s sleep experts have been testing mattresses and their toppers for years. We carefully evaluate firmness, feel, construction and wa

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How a data center company uses stranded renewable energy

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-04-03 21:18:54

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. John Belizaire says he has a secret hiding in plain sight. But before revealing it, the CEO of Soluna, a green data center development firm headquartered in Albany, New York, asks people to picture the last time they drove through a gusty stretch of countryside and saw wind turbines in the distance. But when the

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Ford Ranger Plug-In Hybrid Review: Prices, Availability, Specs

wired.com Jason Barlow 2026-04-03 22:30:00

Fitness for purpose. Take a deftly aimed power tool to all the marketing flim-flam, and you can’t go far wrong with that mantra. There’s no messing around when it comes to a pick-up truck, a vehicle that has a clear job to do, and in most cases does it admirably. Except that even this segment isn’t immune to mission creep, and these hardy vehicles are now expected to double as workhorse and acceptable all-round family transport. The Ford F-150 may typify the breed, but outside of the US the Ran

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Show HN: We moved from AWS to Hetzner, saved 90%, kept ISO 27001 with Ansible

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-04-04 00:02:29

European Cloud can makes ISO 27001 easier Goodbye AWS: How We Kept ISO 27001, Slashed Costs by 90% The European CTO’s Dilemma: Keeping Compliance outside AWS Datapult Follow 4 min read · 2 hours ago 2 hours ago -- Listen Share Earlier this year, I faced a dilemma many tech leaders know well. Our entire infrastructure was built on AWS. We loved their powerful, ISO 27001-certified services. Yet, two critical issues kept me up at night: The Compliance Black Hole: It was clear that American clou

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On memes, mimetic desire, and why it's always that deep

news.ycombinator.com Caitlyn Clark 2026-04-02 13:23:52

When filmmaker and scholar Hito Steyerl wrote her manifesto “In Defense of the Poor Image” in 2009, internet memes were only in their infancy. But in the years since, the meme has become the dominant form of the poor image — “an illicit fifth-generation bastard of an original image.” Of the poor image, Steyerl wrote: Altogether, poor images present a snapshot of the affective condition of the crowd, its neurosis, paranoia, and fear, as well as its craving for intensity, fun, and distraction. T

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Sega mistakenly reveals sales numbers of popular games

news.ycombinator.com Sal Romano 2026-04-03 21:23:01

Total sales numbers for various SEGA and ATLUS titles including Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Persona 3 Reload, Sonic Frontiers, Shin Megami Tensei V, and Persona 5 Royal were mistakenly revealed in a SEGA SAMMY Management Meeting 2025 presentation published on June 18. The sales numbers, which appear on page 25 of the presentation, are hidden behind a grey block. However, due to the way the PDF file is formatted, simply highlighting the page reveals the presence of text, which can be copied

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Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu

news.ycombinator.com Joey Sneddon 2026-03-31 21:25:36

If you spend a lot time in a terminal on Linux you’ll have preferred command-line text editor, but Microsoft’s recently announced open-source offering, simply called Edit, might be worth checking out — if only so you know you’re not missing out. Edit is a remake/reboot of the old MS-DOS Editor, updated to suit current sensibilities. Built using Rust, it aims to deliver a user experience that, per its GitHub page, provides “modern interface and input controls similar to VS Code.” Microsoft says

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How to Become a Backyard Naturalist With Just Your Smartphone

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2026-04-04 01:00:41

In the early days of summer, backyards come to life. Warmer temperatures transform spring buds into lush greenery, coax insects from their winter slumber, and invite newborn animals to explore their surroundings on wobbling legs or wings. With smartphones, documenting this emerging wildlife has never been easier. These days, all the tools you need to become a backyard naturalist fit right in the palm of your hand. And while June is an especially good time to start, you can use your phone to obs

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Saturday, June 21

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-04-04 03:13:18

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Finding Peter Putnam

news.ycombinator.com Amanda Gefter 2026-04-01 02:01:14

The neighborhood was quiet. There was a chill in the air. The scent of Spanish moss hung from the cypress trees. Plumes of white smoke rose from the burning cane fields and stretched across the skies of Terrebonne Parish. The man swung a long leg over a bicycle frame and pedaled off down the street. It was 1987 in Houma, Louisiana, and he was headed to the Department of Transportation, where he was working the night shift, sweeping floors and cleaning toilets. He was just picking up speed when

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Verified dynamic programming with Σ-types in Lean

news.ycombinator.com Tanner Duve 2026-04-01 02:28:30

1. Introduction If you’ve taken an algorithms class, you have likely seen dynamic programming, specifically a technique called memoization. Memoization works to optimize recursive algorithms by caching the solutions to subproblems in a table, and when a subproblem is encountered, it queries the table instead of recomputing the solution. This gives us an exponential performance boost. This blog post will show how to solve a dynamic programming problem using memoization in Lean, and verify its c

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Meta held talks to buy Thinking Machines, Perplexity, and Safe Superintelligence

theverge.com Alex Heath 2026-04-04 10:53:47

is a deputy editor and author of thenewsletter. He has been reporting on the tech industry for more than a decade. At this point, it’s becoming easier to say which AI startups Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t looked at acquiring. In addition to Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence (SSI), sources tell me the Meta CEO recently discussed buying ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab and Perplexity, the AI-native Google rival. None of these talks progressed to the formal offer stage for variou

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Report: Apple held internal talks about acquiring AI search startup Perplexity

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-04-04 13:46:32

As Apple scrambles to play catch-up in the generative AI race, a new report says the company has considered making its biggest acquisition ever. According to Bloomberg, Apple executives have held internal discussions about a potential bid for Perplexity AI, the fast-growing AI startup known for its conversational web search platform. This would mark Apple’s biggest acquisition ever As reported by Mark Gurman, the talks are still at an early stage and may not result in an actual offer, but the

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for June 21, #1463

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-04-04 12:00:06

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab closes on $2B at $10B valuation

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2026-04-04 13:59:33

In Brief Thinking Machines Lab, the secretive AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former chief technology officer Mira Murati, has closed a $2 billion seed round, according to The Financial Times. The deal values the six-month-old startup at $10 billion. The company’s work remains unclear. The startup has leveraged Murati’s reputation and other high-profile AI researchers who have joined the team to attract investors in what could be the largest seed round in history. According to sources familiar

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Verified Dynamic Programming with Σ-types in Lean

news.ycombinator.com Tanner Duve 2026-04-01 12:28:30

1. Introduction If you’ve taken an algorithms class, you have likely seen dynamic programming, specifically a technique called memoization. Memoization works to optimize recursive algorithms by caching the solutions to subproblems in a table, and when a subproblem is encountered, it queries the table instead of recomputing the solution. This gives us an exponential performance boost. This blog post will show how to solve a dynamic programming problem using memoization in Lean, and verify its c

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Best Internet Providers in Bakersfield, California

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-04-04 15:38:00

Those who live in Bakersfield, California, have a mixed bag when it comes to the internet. The good? It appears that 100% of residents have access to a plan with at least 100Mbps download and 20Mbps upload speeds -- the Federal Communications Commission’s proposed minimum for broadband -- and it’s one of the top 50 cities in the country by median speed. Then what's the bad? The options for high-speed internet in Bakersfield are still very limited. While AT&T Fiber is now available to around one

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Meta approached Perplexity before massive Scale AI deal

cnbc.com Deirdre Bosa Ashley Capoot 2026-04-04 21:33:26

Meta approached artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI about a potential takeover bid before ultimately investing $14.3 billion into Scale AI, CNBC confirmed on Friday. The two companies did not finalize a deal, according to two people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named because of the confidential nature of the negotiations. One person familiar with the talks said it was "mutually dissolved," while another person familiar with the matter said Perplexity walked away from

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HomeKit Weekly: Aqara’s W100 Climate Sensor brings precision monitoring and smart control to your HomeKit setup

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2026-04-04 21:45:00

Last night, I had forgotten to take my upstairs Nest off Eco mode, and I was shocked to see the difference in one of my son’s rooms based on my Nest Temperature Sensor. In my dream world, I’d have a variable system that could heat and cool rooms independently, but nevertheless, I didn’t buy bitcoin when it was $1, so I cannot afford that. With that being said, I do like having the knowledge of what’s happening in individual rooms and having that data in HomeKit. The new Aqara W100 Climate Sensor

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Career advice, or something like it

news.ycombinator.com Marc Brooker 2026-04-04 20:37:53

My name is Marc Brooker. I've been writing code, reading code, and living vicariously through computers for as long as I can remember. I like to build things that work. I also dabble in machining, welding, cooking and skiing.I'm currently an engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Seattle, where I work on databases, serverless, and serverless databases. Before that, I worked on EC2 and EBS.All opinions are my own. Career advice, or something like it If I could offer you a single piece of care

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BBC Threatens to Sue Perplexity, Alleging 'Verbatim' Reproduction of Its Content

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-04-04 20:32:00

The BBC is threatening to sue AI search engine Perplexity for unauthorized use of its content, alleging the artificial intelligence company generates BBC's material "verbatim." In a letter to Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas, as published by The Financial Times on Friday, the BBC alleges that Perplexity's default AI model was "trained using BBC content." The BBC said it would seek an injunction unless Perplexity stopped scraping BBC content, deleted all BBC material and submitted a "a proposal f

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James Gunn Says ‘Get Off Matt’s Nuts,’ ‘The Batman’ Sequel Will Happen When It Happens

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-04-04 23:45:02

Cool your jets Batman fans, James Gunn has heard you loud and clear over the highly anticipated sequel to Matt Reeves’ The Batman. So much so that he recently expressed his frustration with the demand in defense of the time DC Studios was taking. “Listen, we’re supposed to get a script in June. I hope that happens. We feel really good about it,” Gunn told Entertainment Weekly, and colorfully added, “People should get off Matt’s nuts because it’s like, let the guy write the screenplay in the amo

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Rolling the ladder up behind us

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-04-05 03:51:02

Rolling the ladder up behind us Published on 2025-06-20 , 5674 words, 21 minutes to read Who will take over for us if we don't train the next generation to replace us? A critique of craft, AI, and the legacy of human expertise. A picture of two patches of wild grass bifurcated by a retaining pond. - Photo by Xe Iaso, Canon EOS R6 Mark 2, unknown lens Cloth is one of the most important goods a society can produce. Clothing is instrumental for culture, expression, and for protecting one's modes

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YouTube is hiding an excellent, official high-speed Pac-Man mod in plain sight

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-04-05 06:01:24

The original Pac-Man is unquestionably a video game classic, well deserving of its position in the inaugural class of the Strong Museum of Play's World Video Game Hall of Fame. But playing the unmodified 1980 release these days can feel a little slow-paced and repetitive, given advancements in game design and taste in the intervening decades. So when I noticed a game called Pac-Man Superfast sitting under a "YouTube Playables" heading on Google's popular video site the other day, my first thoug

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Applebee’s and IHOP have plans for AI

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-04-05 06:21:52

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Applebee’s and IHOP plan to launch an AI-powered “personalization engine” that could help its restaurants provide recommendations and customized deals, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The personalization engine would use a customer’s past purchases — or the orders of customers similar to them — to make recommendations. Justin Sk

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

techcrunch.com Kyle Wiggers 2026-04-05 06:27:58

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users. 2024 was a big year for OpenAI, from its partnership with Apple for its generative AI offering, Apple Intelligence, the release of GPT-4o with voice capabilities, and the highly-anticipated launch of its text-to-vide

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