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“Will I be OK?” Teen died after ChatGPT pushed deadly mix of drugs, lawsuit says
Teen trusted ChatGPT to help him “safely” experiment with drugs, logs show.
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May 12, 2026
Kevin Hartz’s A* just closed its third fund with $450 million
Early-stage venture firm A* Capital just took the wraps off its $450 million Fund III.
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May 12, 2026
Former Tesla exec and Heron Power CEO Drew Baglino has founded a heat pump startup
Sadi Thermal Machines is Drew Baglino's second startup since leaving Tesla in 2024.
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May 12, 2026
CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq
Article URL: https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2026q2/018471.html Comments URL: https://news.yc...
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May 12, 2026
Musk mulled handing OpenAI to his children, Altman testifies
OpenAI's CEO recalls a "particularly hair-raising" conversation with the SpaceX founder.
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May 12, 2026
Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model
Hey HN, Henry here from Cactus. We open-sourced Needle, a 26M parameter function-calling (tool use) model. It runs at 6...
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May 12, 2026
SQL: Incorrect by Construction
Article URL: https://chreke.com/posts/sql-incorrect-by-construction Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...
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May 12, 2026
Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol
Article URL: https://duckdb.org/2026/05/12/quack-remote-protocol Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=481...
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May 12, 2026
Dead.letter (CVE-2026-45185) Humans vs. LLM for Unauthenticated RCE Race on Exim
Article URL: https://xbow.com/blog/dead-letter-cve-2026-45185-xbow-found-rce-exim Comments URL: https://news.ycombinato...
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May 12, 2026
Microsoft will lean on your CPU to speed up Windows 11's apps and animations
"All modern operating systems do this, including macOS and Linux."
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May 12, 2026
The Deathbed Notes of Henry James (1968)
Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/flashbks/james/jnote.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...
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May 12, 2026
Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era
Article URL: https://deepmind.google/blog/ai-pointer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111581 Point...
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May 12, 2026
Googlebook
Article URL: https://googlebook.google/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111545 Points: 41 # Commen...
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May 12, 2026
Anthropic warns investors against secondary platforms offering access to its shares
The company named Open Doors Partners, Unicorns Exchange, Pachamama Capital, Lionheart Ventures, Hiive, Forge Global, Sy...
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May 12, 2026
Canada's Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year's Surveillance Nightmare
Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/canadas-bill-c-22-repackaged-version-last-years-surveillance-nightma...
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May 12, 2026
Sam Altman says Elon Musk’s mind games were damaging OpenAI
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Elon Musk did "huge damage" to the culture of the AI startup. During testimony as part of Mus...
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May 12, 2026
Report: Google and SpaceX in talks to put data centers into orbit
Google and SpaceX are in talks to build data centers in orbit, pitching space as the future home for AI compute, even as...
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May 12, 2026
eBay rejects GameStop's $56B offer: "Your proposal is neither credible nor attractive"
eBay board doubts GameStop's ability to buy and operate the much larger firm. ...
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May 12, 2026
Is this why science advances one funeral at a time?
Article URL: https://nautil.us/is-this-why-science-advances-one-funeral-at-a-time-1280650 Comments URL: https://news.yc...
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May 12, 2026
Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL
Hi HN, we’re Sai and Aayush, and we’re building Hypercubic (https://www.hypercubic.ai/), bringing AI tools to the m...
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May 12, 2026
Everything Google announced at its Android Show, from Googlebooks to vibe-coded widgets
Google unveiled its new AI-first Googlebooks laptops, more agentic Gemini features, vibe-coded Android widgets, Gemini i...
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May 12, 2026
Google's Android-powered laptops are called Googlebooks, and they're coming this year
Google has revealed its vision for the AI laptop of tomorrow.
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May 12, 2026
Android is getting a big AI overhaul in 2026
Google has big plans for Android in 2026, and most of it is AI.
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May 12, 2026
Google adds Gemini-powered Dictation to Gboard, which could be bad news for dictation startups
Google's transcription feature will initially launch with Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel phones
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May 12, 2026
Gemini’s biggest new features are all about controlling your phone
It is, once again, Gemini season. Google is announcing a host of new Gemini features during its pre-I/O Android showcase...
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May 12, 2026
The 9 biggest new features in Android 17
Would it shock you to hear that Android 17 is filled with new AI-enabled features, like improved dictation and vibe-code...
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May 12, 2026
Google announces its Chromebook successor: the Googlebook
Google is announcing a new line of laptops coming in the fall called Googlebooks. Details are sparse for now, as the tea...
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May 12, 2026
Android Auto is now one (screen) size fits all
This week at I/O, Google rolled out a series of major updates for Android Auto that include better sizing for unconventi...
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May 12, 2026
Googlebook Is Google's New AI-Powered Laptop Platform Built on Android
They won't replace Chromebooks, but Googlebooks have an Android-centered operating system, AI-first features like the Ma...
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May 12, 2026
The Top New Features in Google’s Android 17—and Gemini Intelligence—Coming This Summer
You’ll soon be able to generate your own widgets or ask Gemini to finish a booking in Chrome on Android.