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US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/04/us-healthcare-marketplaces-shared-citizenship-and-race-data-with-ad-tech-giants/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011689 Points: 22 ...

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Technology May 4, 2026

Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to

Article URL: https://economist.com/by-invitation/2026/04/29/stop-big-tech-from-making-users-behave-in-ways-they-dont-wa...

Technology May 4, 2026

The Visible Zorker: Zork 3

Article URL: https://eblong.com/infocom/visi/zork3/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011440 Points:...

Technology May 4, 2026

Elon Musk’s only expert witness at the OpenAI trial fears an AGI arms race

Stuart Russell is a long-time AI researcher who thinks governments need to restrain frontier labs.

Technology May 4, 2026

The creator of Roomba is back with a furry robot companion

Colin Angle, the maker of the Roomba and the man who helped put 50 million household robots into people's homes, is back...

Technology May 4, 2026

The Pixel 11 could be the next victim of the RAM shortage

Google's next round of Pixel phones could be a downgrade compared to the Pixel 10 lineup due to the ongoing RAM shortage...

Technology May 4, 2026

Sierra raises $950M as the race to own enterprise AI gets serious

The raise gives Sierra more than $1 billion to work with — capital the company says it will use to become the "global ...

Technology May 4, 2026

I am worried about Bun

Article URL: https://wwj.dev/posts/i-am-worried-about-bun/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011184 ...

Technology May 4, 2026

Elon Musk sent ominous texts to Greg Brockman, Sam Altman after asking for a settlement, OpenAI claims

Musk texted OpenAI's president and co-founder saying that he and CEO Sam Altman "will be the most hated men in America."

Technology May 4, 2026

"They would never use the death star on us"

Article URL: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/they-would-never-use-the-death-star-on-us-alderaan-residents-reflect-o...

Technology May 4, 2026

The best Star Wars Day deals

May the Fourth be with us all on this Star Wars Day. While things have been relatively quiet with the multimedia gold mi...

Technology May 4, 2026

AMD is adding HDMI 2.1 support for Linux. That's good news for the Steam Machine.

Fixed Rate Link being added now; Display Stream Compression coming soon.

Technology May 4, 2026

OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund 'AI Literacy' in Schools

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/literacy-in-future-technologies-artificial-intelligence-act-adam-schiff-mike-round...

Technology May 4, 2026

Homebridge 2.0 is here, and it speaks Matter

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/922877/homebridge-2-0-matter-update-robot-vacuums Comments URL: https://news...

Technology May 4, 2026

Anthropic and OpenAI are both launching joint ventures for enterprise AI services

Both Anthropic and OpenAI have partnered with asset managers to more aggressively market their enterprise AI products.

Technology May 4, 2026

GitHub Is Down

Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/72q3n8yxthcy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=480...

Technology May 4, 2026

Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation

Article URL: https://sierra.ai/blog/better-customer-experiences-built-on-sierra Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....

Technology May 4, 2026

Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster

Article URL: https://globalnews.ca/news/11828244/alberta-voter-list-leak-public-safety-disaster/ Comments URL: https://...

Technology May 4, 2026

As X shuts down Communities, Acorn debuts an alternative that puts creators in control

Acorn lets organizations build and run their own online communities using decentralized tech, with custom feeds, moderat...

Technology May 4, 2026

Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks

Article URL: https://www.nber.org/papers/w35117 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009983 Points: 25 ...

Technology May 4, 2026

1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/05/02/tesla-1966-mustang-ev-conversion-full-self-driving/ Comments URL: https://n...

Technology May 4, 2026

Amazon’s trying to turn its massive shipping operation into another AWS

Amazon might have a part in delivering all kinds of stuff to your door soon, as its massive shipping network opens up to...

Technology May 4, 2026

I tracked 7,700 UK petrol stations every 10 minutes for 3 months

Article URL: https://www.fuelinsight.co.uk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009747 Points: 22 # Com...

Technology May 4, 2026

Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027

Article URL: https://www.ecopv-eu.com/en/blog-en/replaceable-smartphone-batteries-2027-eu-regulation/ Comments URL: htt...

Technology May 4, 2026

Musk’s “World War III” threat in Twitter lawsuit haunts him at OpenAI trial

OpenAI accuses Musk of trying to "coerce" a settlement days before trial started. ...

Technology May 4, 2026

Pomiferous: The most extensive apples (pommes) database

Article URL: https://pomiferous.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009441 Points: 4 # Comments: ...

Technology May 4, 2026

DHS Demanded Google Surrender Data on Canadian's Activity, Location Over Anti-ICE Posts

Using a 1930s trade law, Homeland Security targeted the man—who hasn't entered the US in more than a decade—followin...

Technology May 4, 2026

US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

Virginia and Washington D.C. paused the data collection and sharing, after Bloomberg's investigation found their health ...

Technology May 4, 2026

Dara Khosrowshahi on replacing Uber drivers — and himself — with AI

Today, I’m talking with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. It’s become something of an annual tradition to have Dara join u...

Technology May 4, 2026

Tesla hits Musk’s threshold for ‘safe unsupervised’ driving

We've crossed yet another one of Elon Musk's self-driving thresholds. Tesla's fleet of vehicles using the company's Full...