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Musely secures $360M from General Catalyst without giving up equity

The DTC skin, hair, and and menopause care brand will use the non-dilutive capital to super-charge customer acquisition.

TechCrunch • May 1, 2026 • Marina Temkin
Technology May 1, 2026

Waymo Is Trying to Crack Down on Solo Kids in Driverless Cars

As adult riders report new age-verification checks, the self-driving car company says it’s continuing to “refine” ...

Technology May 1, 2026

Study: AI models that consider user's feeling are more likely to make errors

Overtuning can cause models to "prioritize user satisfaction over truthfulness.” ...

Technology May 1, 2026

Meta buys robotic startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions

Meta bought humanoid startup Assured Robot Intelligence to beef up its AI models for robots, the company said.

Technology May 1, 2026

Microsoft tests redesigned Windows 11 Run menu with dark mode and more

Microsoft is testing its much-needed refresh for the Windows 11 Run menu, offering a modern interface that the company s...

Technology May 1, 2026

The RAMpocalypse has bought Microsoft valuable time in the fight against SteamOS

Op-ed: Valve has made a dent in Windows' gaming share, but can it keep going? ...

Technology May 1, 2026

Apple raises the Mac Mini’s starting price

Apple's Mac Mini now starts at $799 after the company pulled the $599 option with 256GB of storage from its online store...

Technology May 1, 2026

OpenAI Enables Marketing Cookies by Default for Free ChatGPT Users

ChatGPT’s new privacy policy states how the company uses cookies for tracking, to turn free users into paying subscrib...

Technology May 1, 2026

Man dies covered in necrotic lesions after amoebas eat him alive

Doctors suspect three factors, each unremarkable on its own, contributed to his fate. ...

Technology May 1, 2026

Dangerous New Linux Exploit Gives Attackers Root Access to Countless Computers

The exploit, dubbed CopyFail and tracked as CVE-2026-31431, allows hackers to take over PCs and data center servers. The...

Technology May 1, 2026

Credit Cards Are Vulnerable to Brute Force Kind Attacks

Article URL: https://metin.nextc.org/posts/Credit_Cards_Are_Vulnerable_To_Brute_Force_Kind_Attacks.html Comments URL: h...

Technology May 1, 2026

A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat

Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is fund...

Technology May 1, 2026

Ti-84 Evo

Article URL: https://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/graphing-calculators/ti-84-evo Comments URL: https://news...

Technology May 1, 2026

Show HN: Destiny – Claude Code's fortune Teller skill

Destiny is the Claude Code's plugin that gives you a real fortune reading.Type /destiny to see today's destiny!It uses ...

Technology May 1, 2026

Whimsical Animations Course Open House

Article URL: https://courses.joshwcomeau.com/wham/open-house/00-introduction Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

Technology May 1, 2026

Ubuntu servers taken offline by "sustained, cross-border attack"

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/ubuntu-infrastructure-has-been-down-for-more-than-a-day/ Comments...

Technology May 1, 2026

Ubuntu infrastructure has been down for more than a day

The outage has hampered communication concerning a critical vulnerability that gives root. ...

Technology May 1, 2026

Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming

Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/lib0xc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978834 Points: 7 ...

Technology May 1, 2026

This Eye-Catching Indoor Garden Is 20 Percent Off Right Now

Lettuce Grow's Farmstand is sure to impress, and it's 20 percent off for Mother's Day.

Technology May 1, 2026

The Next Alzheimer’s Breakthrough Will Take More Than Just Science

At WIRED Health, pioneering Alzheimer's researcher John Hardy outlined the stakes—and next steps—of where treatment ...

Technology May 1, 2026

Birdfy’s smart bird feeder is down to its best-ever price for Mother’s Day

From crafting machines to smart calendars, a number of unique gifts are already on sale in the run-up to Mother’s Day,...

Technology May 1, 2026

A statement about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia

Article URL: https://www.rightscon.org/rc26-statement/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978386 Poin...

Technology May 1, 2026

City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/city-learns-flock-accessed-cameras-in-childrens-gymnastics-room-as-a-sales-pitch-d...

Technology May 1, 2026

First Tesla Semi Rolls Off High-Volume Production Line

Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/04/29/tesla-semi-first-truck-high-volume-production-line/ Comments URL: https://n...

Technology May 1, 2026

Coatue has a plan to buy up land for data centers, possibly for Anthropic

Coatue, one of the biggest names in venture capital, has a new venture that is reportedly buying land near large power s...

Technology May 1, 2026

Amazon’s built-in AI price history expands to show the entire last year

Amazon's built-in price tracking feature now allows you to see how much a product's price has changed over the past year...

Technology May 1, 2026

Dreame — the vacuum company — just ‘launched’ its own phones

Dreame, a Chinese manufacturer best known for its robot vacuums but with ambitions to do much more, says it's making sma...

Technology May 1, 2026

Senators ban themselves from prediction markets after candidates bet on own races

Senator decries "blatant, brazen corruption," wants to target Trump admin next. ...

Technology May 1, 2026

It's Possible to Learn in Our Sleep. Should We?

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/its-possible-to-learn-in-our-sleep-should-we Comments ...

Technology May 1, 2026

Show HN: AI CAD Harness

Hi HN, I'm Zach, one of the co-founders of Adam (https://adam.new).We've been on HN twice before with text-to-CAD/3D ex...