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Riding an AI rally, Robinhood preps second retail venture IPO

Robinhood files confidentially for its second venture fund, this time targeting growth as well as early-stage startups.

TechCrunch • May 12, 2026 • Marina Temkin
Technology May 11, 2026

Can we code our way out of gentrification?

Article URL: https://www.freerange.city/p/can-we-code-our-way-out-of-gentrification Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

Technology May 11, 2026

Ilya Sutskever Stands by His Role in Sam Altman’s OpenAI Ouster: ‘I Didn’t Want It to Be Destroyed’

The former OpenAI chief scientist may be estranged from the company, but he still came to its defense as he testified on...

Technology May 11, 2026

GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/11/gm-just-laid-off-hundreds-of-it-workers-to-hire-those-with-stronger-ai-s...

Technology May 11, 2026

OpenAI just released its answer to Claude Mythos

OpenAI is launching Daybreak, an AI initiative focused on detecting and patching vulnerabilities before attackers find t...

Technology May 11, 2026

GM just laid off hundreds of IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills

Some of the positions focus on AI-native development, data engineering and analytics, cloud-based engineering, and agent...

Technology May 11, 2026

Yarbo says it will remove the intentional backdoor from its robot lawn mower

The company behind the robot lawn mower that ran me over has changed its tune. Yarbo now plans to completely remove the ...

Technology May 11, 2026

Linux bitten by second severe vulnerability in as many weeks

Production-version patches are coming online and should be installed pronto. ...

Technology May 11, 2026

Here’s what Mira Murati’s AI company is up to

Thinking Machines, the AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, announced Monday that it's working on someth...

Technology May 11, 2026

Audi has a new Q9 flagship coming soon: Here's its interior

Audi made sure to consult American tastes for its first full-size SUV.

Technology May 11, 2026

Finally, texts between Android and iPhone users can be end-to-end encrypted

Google had urged Apple for years to support RCS texting to make communication between each company's devices more seamle...

Technology May 11, 2026

Griffin PowerMate driver for modern macOS

Article URL: https://github.com/jameslockman/Griffin-PowerMate-Driver Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology May 11, 2026

Through the looking glass of benchmark hacking

Article URL: https://poolside.ai/blog/through-the-looking-glass Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4810...

Technology May 11, 2026

TanStack NPM Packages Compromised

Article URL: https://github.com/TanStack/router/issues/7383 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100706...

Technology May 11, 2026

I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night

Article URL: https://martin.sh/i-let-ai-build-a-tool-to-help-me-figure-out-what-was-waking-me-up-at-night/ Comments URL...

Technology May 11, 2026

Interaction Models

Article URL: https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48...

Technology May 11, 2026

GitLab Announces Workforce Reduction and End of Their CREDIT Values

Article URL: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100500 Po...

Technology May 11, 2026

After banning foreign routers, FCC says existing ones can get updates until 2029

FCC extends waiver allowing routers and drones to get patches for two more years. ...

Technology May 11, 2026

If AI Writes Your Code, Why Use Python?

Article URL: https://medium.com/@NMitchem/if-ai-writes-your-code-why-use-python-bf8c4ba1a055 Comments URL: https://news...

Technology May 11, 2026

Data center guzzled 30 million gallons of water and nobody noticed for months

Can AI save us from the AI industry’s endless thirst for water? Outlook not so good. ...

Technology May 11, 2026

Show HN: E2a – Open-source email gateway for AI agents

We were building an agent system and wanted email as a trigger. We decided to take it out and made it a standalone serv...

Technology May 11, 2026

Show HN: OpenGravity – A zero-install, BYOK vanilla JS clone of Antigravity

Hi. I’m a high school student studying for my GCSEs. I was using Google Antigravity heavily for my side projects, but...

Technology May 11, 2026

590k buyers paid $59M for Trump's gold phone, but not one has shipped

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/590-000-buyers-paid-59-223500998.html Comments URL: http...

Technology May 11, 2026

Govee’s new portable smart lamp is on sale for the first time 

If you’ve always liked the idea of the Philips Hue Go portable lamp but couldn’t justify the $100+ price tag, Govee ...

Technology May 11, 2026

Linux Terminal Memory Usage

Article URL: https://gilesorr.com/blog/linux-terminal-memory-usage.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

Technology May 11, 2026

Red Hot Chili Peppers sell music catalogue for $300M

Article URL: https://guitar.com/news/industry-news/red-hot-chili-peppers-sell-music-catalogue/ Comments URL: https://ne...

Technology May 11, 2026

Library for fast mapping of Java records to native memory

Article URL: https://github.com/mamba-studio/TypedMemory Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48099616 Po...

Technology May 11, 2026

Testing for ‘Bad Cholesterol’ Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story

There’s a more accurate way of measuring who’s at risk for cholesterol-related health issues. So why don’t more do...

Technology May 11, 2026

Palantir’s true believers are wearing this jacket

In late April, Palantir - the software company that, in recent years, has perhaps become best known for its defense indu...

Technology May 11, 2026

Passengers from hantavirus ship arrive in US; 3 people in biocontainment

A US passenger tested "mildly positive," but WHO is calling it "inconclusive" for now. ...