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Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed Canonical?

Article URL: https://www.flyingpenguin.com/can-someone-please-explain-whether-cloudflare-blackmailed-canonical/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48098537 Points: 28 # Comments: 1

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Technology May 11, 2026

The FCC Received Hundreds of Complaints About Bad Bunny’s ‘Vulgar’ Super Bowl Performance

The complaints, obtained by WIRED, described Bad Bunny’s performance as being overly sexual and protested that the sho...

Technology May 11, 2026

Apple brings encrypted RCS chats to iPhone

Apple now lets you have encrypted RCS conversations with Android users through the Messages app on iOS. As part of iOS 2...

Technology May 11, 2026

Starlink shuts down its GPS-style cheat code. Researchers may unlock it anyway.

Shutdown of Starlink location feature won’t dampen interest in GPS alternatives. ...

Technology May 11, 2026

UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage

Article URL: https://stemcell.ucla.edu/news/ucla-discovers-first-stroke-rehabilitation-drug-repair-brain-damage Comment...

Technology May 11, 2026

Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring Founding Product Engineers

Article URL: https://bild.ai/jobs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48098122 Points: 0 # Comments: 0

Technology May 11, 2026

Daniel Ek-backed defense tech Helsing to raise $1.2B at $18B valuation

Five-year old European military drone startup Helsing is close to raising another monster round.

Technology May 11, 2026

There’s an Unhinged New Video Game About Trump and the Iran War

The game, developed by the group of anonymous artists known as Secret Handshake, is available online and in person in Wa...

Technology May 11, 2026

iOS, macOS, and iPadOS 26.5 updates arrive with encrypted RCS messaging and more

Probably the last big updates we'll see before the next versions appear at WWDC. ...

Technology May 11, 2026

Microsoft Israel chief leaves amid ethical controversy

Article URL: https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-microsoft-israel-chief-leaves-amid-ethical-controversy-1001542602 Comme...

Technology May 11, 2026

A New Hantavirus Vaccine Is in the Works

Since 2023, Moderna and Korea University have been developing a new mRNA vaccine for hantavirus. The work has been promi...

Technology May 11, 2026

Samsung made a “mockery” of Dua Lipa by putting her picture on TV boxes, lawsuit says

Lipa says her picture contributed to Samsung's "enormous revenue."

Technology May 11, 2026

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 t...

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...

Technology May 11, 2026

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. ...