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Bravo is creating unscripted microdramas for the Peacock app

As microdrama apps like ReelShort and DramaBox quietly rake in billions, Peacock announced on Monday that is launching two unscripted Bravo microdramas, which will stream in the Peacock app.

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Technology May 11, 2026

Update Your iPhone Now for Better Encrypted Messaging With Android

As part of the iOS 26.5 update, Apple’s Messages app can now encrypt texts between some iPhone and Android smartphones...

Technology May 11, 2026

Texas sues Netflix for advertising ‘bait and switch’ and spying

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Netflix, accusing the company of turning its back on its p...

Technology May 11, 2026

Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator

Digg returns (again) as another place to read AI news.

Technology May 11, 2026

Canvas got hacked, provost banned exams, professor responded by assigning Hayek

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/UIUC/comments/1ta8b3o/i_opened_my_email_expecting_exam_postponed_hang/ Comments U...

Technology May 11, 2026

Interfaze: A new model architecture built for high accuracy at scale

Article URL: https://interfaze.ai/blog/interfaze-a-new-model-architecture-built-for-high-accuracy-at-scale Comments URL...

Technology May 11, 2026

Google stopped a zero-day hack that it says was developed with AI

For the first time, Google says it has spotted and stopped a zero-day exploit developed with AI. According to a report f...

Technology May 11, 2026

Why we lose our friends as we age

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/02/friendship-aging/673026/ Comments URL: https://new...

Technology May 11, 2026

Show HN: TikTok but for Scientific Papers

Article URL: https://andreaturchet.github.io/website/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4809...

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Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book

Article URL: https://ardoedo.it/kempelen/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096760 Points: 60 # Comm...

Technology May 11, 2026

‘Too early’ to talk IPO, Redwood Materials’ incoming CFO says

The battery-recycling and energy-storage company has hired former Tesla finance chief Deepak Ahuja, reuniting him with f...

Technology May 11, 2026

A million baby monitors and security cameras were easily viewable by hackers

A baby's eyes peer directly into the camera lens. A kid with a striped shirt looks up, then away. A boy in a policeman's...

Technology May 11, 2026

CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler

Article URL: https://nvlabs.github.io/cuda-oxide/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096692...

Technology May 11, 2026

Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI Next Industrial Revolution

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/ucf-ai-commencement-speaker-booed/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

Technology May 11, 2026

How are we going to get out of Meta? (Or social media in general)

Article URL: https://hugoib.beehiiv.com/p/how-are-we-going-to-get-out-of-meta-or-social-media-in-general Comments URL: ...

Technology May 11, 2026

7 of our favorite deals from Amazon’s Pet Days sale

A big part of my job here at The Verge is to find deals on tech that readers will like. But in my personal life, I’m n...

Technology May 11, 2026

Should you leave red herrings about yourself online?

Article URL: https://blog.alcazarsec.com/posts/should-you-leave-red-herrings-about-yourself-online Comments URL: https:...

Technology May 11, 2026

Pirates are already playing Forza Horizon 6 days before its launch

Crackers take advantage of unencrypted files that briefly appeared on Steam. ...

Technology May 11, 2026

F1 set for another engine tweak in 2027, and what's this about V8s?

Rather than dig in, the sport is being proactive about fixing the problem.

Technology May 11, 2026

GM settles California lawsuit claiming it sold driving habit data to insurance companies

General Motors has agreed to pay $12.75 million to settle a California data privacy lawsuit that accused the automaker o...

Technology May 11, 2026

Show HN: Free tool to see how much AI bots are costing your site

Article URL: https://botcost.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096045 Points: 7 # Comments: 6

Technology May 11, 2026

Matter and OpenADR team up to connect smart homes to the grid

Smart energy management just took a step closer to becoming simpler. This week, the organizations behind Matter, the sma...

Technology May 11, 2026

Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career

Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/software-engineering-may-no-longer-be-a-lifetime-career/ Comments URL: https:...

Technology May 11, 2026

Killed by Apple

Article URL: https://killedbyapple.theden.sh/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48095468 Points: 56 # ...

Technology May 11, 2026

NYT’s Wordle to become a TV game show

The popular mobile puzzle game will become a TV game show next year.

Technology May 11, 2026

Out with the JavaScript, in with the HTML

Article URL: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/out-with-js-in-with-html/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology May 11, 2026

What's Wrong with AI?

Article URL: https://kurtis.weblog.lol/2026/05/whats-wrong-with-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Technology May 11, 2026

ICE to Develop Own Smart Glasses to 'Supplement' Its Facial Recognition App

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/ice-plans-to-develop-own-smart-glasses-to-supplement-its-facial-recognition-app/ C...

Technology May 11, 2026

TikTok launches an ad-free subscription plan in the UK

Users who sign up for the plan won’t see ads on TikTok, and their data won’t be used for advertising purposes.

Technology May 11, 2026

Joanna Stern is not a robot, but she lived with them

My guest today is longtime friend of the show Joanna Stern. You all know Joanna: she is the former senior personal techn...