Year: 2026

Cuba says it has completely run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo

Cuba says it has completely run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo

✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Cuba's energy minister said Wednesday that Havana, the capital, was without electricity for as much as 22 hours a day because the country had run out fuel. File photo by Ernesto Mastrascusa/EPA-EFE May 14 (UPI) -- Cuban Energy Minister Vincente de la O Levy said the country's diesel and fuel oil stocks had run completely dry and that the energy system was on life support due to the oil embargo imposed by the United States in January. "We have absolutely no diesel," O Levy said…
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Cerebras raises $5.5 billion, kicks off 2026 IPO season strong

Cerebras raises $5.5 billion, kicks off 2026 IPO season strong

✨ Read this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Hardware,TC ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Cerebras raised $5.5 billion in its initial public offering on Thursday, pricing shares at $185 on Wednesday evening, well above its range ($115-$125, later raised to $150-$160), even as the offering size increased to 30 million shares. Pre-market trading indicates that shares will open with a giant bang, as retail investors bid up to grab them. (We will update this story after trading begins.) Even at its IPO price, the company enters its first day of trading at a fully diluted valuation of $56.4 billion…
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RTX 5090 + M4 MacBook Air: Can it Game?

RTX 5090 + M4 MacBook Air: Can it Game?

🔥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: What if you could strap a full desktop GPU to your MacBook Air? Turns out, you can.Just a quick FTC required note: When you buy through my links, I may earn a commission.As much as I hate to admit it, step one in most of my projects now is to ask AI about it. Maybe it’ll tell me something I don’t know.Fortunately, borderline-impractical is kind of my thing.What’s a Thunderbolt eGPU?#Ok, so the plan is to plug a big PC gaming GPU, an NVIDIA RTX…
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Spotify will adopt Apple’s new video podcasting technology, offering creators easier cross-platform distribution

Spotify will adopt Apple’s new video podcasting technology, offering creators easier cross-platform distribution

✨ Read this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,Media & Entertainment,Apple,apple podcasts,podcasts,Spotify,video podcasts 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Spotify announced on Thursday that it plans to adopt Apple's HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) video technology, which Apple recently introduced on Apple Podcasts to enhance the video experience. This certification means that Spotify-hosted shows will soon be able to distribute and monetize their audio video files on Apple Podcasts, expanding creators' reach without having to make any changes to their existing settings. With HLS certification, Spotify listeners should be able to enjoy a consistently high-quality video experience, regardless of their Internet…
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Video transcript: A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline | MIT Office of the President | MIT

🔥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Hello, everyone.It’s been a while since I’ve spoken with you all.But the Institute is facing ongoing challenges in two related areas: funding, and our talent pipeline.So I thought you’d appreciate hearing the facts.First, funding.For more than a year, we’ve all worked on responding to extraordinary new and sustained pressures on our budget (due largely to the heavy new 8% tax on our endowment returns, a burden for MIT and only a few other peer schools).Across the Institute – centrally and in local units – it…
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A spyware investigator has uncovered Russian government hackers trying to hijack Signal accounts

A spyware investigator has uncovered Russian government hackers trying to hijack Signal accounts

💥 Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,Amnesty International,cybersecurity,hackers,hacking,russia,signal,Spyware 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Earlier this year, Doncha O Sirbhil, a security researcher who investigates spyware attacks, found himself in an unusual situation. For once, he became a target for hackers. "Dear user, this is the Signal Security Support ChatBot. We have noticed suspicious activity on your device, which could lead to a data leak," read a message he received on his Signal account. “We have also detected attempts to access your private Signal data,” the message claimed. “To prevent this, you must pass the verification procedure, and…
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Computer Hobby Movement in Canada · Computer Hobby Movement in Canada · York University Computer Museum Canada

💥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: In the mid-1970s, there were just a few computers in Canadian homes. A decade later, a worldwide personal computing frenzy was on and all kinds of computers for home and personal use were manufactured by the millions. The computer hobby movement—activities of hobbyists interested in computing—was one of the main contributing factors to that sudden change which Computer Hobby Movement in Canada exhibit intends to affirm and chronicle. This exhibit is dedicated to a decade-long computer hobby movement in Canada and its role in…
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Uber opens two campuses in India to support product and operations development

Uber opens two campuses in India to support product and operations development

🚀 Discover this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Transportation,Dara Khosrowshahi,Uber 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Uber is expanding its technology footprint in India with new engineering branches and a data center partnership aimed at supporting its end-to-end product development and infrastructure operations. On Thursday, Uber detailed plans to open two new campuses that can accommodate about 9,600 people in Bengaluru and Hyderabad by the end of 2027. The offices will add to Uber's existing operations in the two Indian cities, both of which are software and engineering hubs. Additionally, Uber said it has partnered with Indian conglomerate Adani Group…
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The Siri For Families Apple Will Never Build

The Siri For Families Apple Will Never Build

✨ Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The Ternus announcement got me thinking about the one thing I keep wishing Apple would build and almost certainly never will: a family-scoped AI assistant that actually works across all our devices. I don’t mean a frontier model or a “reasoning engine”–just a competent, context-aware agent that understands my family as a unit. The shared calendar, the school schedules, the medication reminders, who’s picking up whom and when. The kind of thing that Apple Intelligence was supposed to be, except pointed at the problem…
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Arne Slott: Liverpool boss says he has ‘every reason to believe’ he will stay at the club

Arne Slott: Liverpool boss says he has ‘every reason to believe’ he will stay at the club

💥 Check out this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Liverpool Manager Arne Slott says he has "every reason to believe" he will remain in charge of the club next season.The Dutchman led Liverpool to the English Premier League title in his first season with the team, but he received criticism for the team’s performance and results this season.The fourth-placed Reds will end the season without a trophy and are yet to secure a place in next season's Champions League with two games remaining.Despite fans' dismay, the club's hierarchy have not indicated they are…
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