Year: 2026

Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract

✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Last year I said I'd probably never recommend another Bambu Lab printer again.I still use my P1S, but after Bambu Lab started pushing their always-connected cloud solution as the new default:I blocked the printer from the Internet via my OPNsense FirewallI stopped updating the firmwareI locked the printer into Developer modeI deleted Bambu Studio and started using OrcaSlicerI had to do that to keep it under my control, instead of Bambu's.But I'm weird—I acknowledge that. I'm one of those crazy ones who likes to own…
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Waymo is calling in cases to deal with the flooding problem

Waymo is calling in cases to deal with the flooding problem

🔥 Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Transportation,autonomous vehicles,avs,robotaxis,self-driving cars,Waymo 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Waymo has released a software update for its fleet of nearly 4,000 vehicles to help them avoid flooded roads as part of a recall announced by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Tuesday. But the company has not completely solved the problem of how its vehicles behave in these conditions. In documents released by NHTSA, the federal safety regulator says Waymo is still "developing the final remedy for this recall." The problem appears to be that Waymo's robotaxis were slowing,…
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On Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets

On Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets

🔥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: There’s this photo that’s been sitting on my inspiration board for a while, of the space shuttle Endeavour, suspended in space in low Earth orbit at sunset. It shows Earth’s upper atmosphere as a backdrop, featuring beautiful, colorful layers ranging from dark orange to blue before fading away into the deep black of space. Not only is that gradient of color aesthetically pleasing, but the phenomenon behind those colors, atmospheric scattering, is even more of an interesting topic once you start looking into how it…
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The instruction strikes against hackers who have violated it twice

The instruction strikes against hackers who have violated it twice

💥 Read this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,cybersecurity,data breach,instructure,school,shinyhunters ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Instructure, the maker of the popular school information portal Canvas, said Tuesday it had "reached an agreement" with hackers who breached its systems twice, stole a massive amount of student and employee data, and disrupted thousands of schools that relied on the company's software. ShinyHunters, a financially motivated cybercrime group, claimed responsibility for the data breach on April 29, alleging that it stole student and employee data, including personal information, for a total of 275 million people. The hackers said they breached Canvas, which…
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Don’t Hijack My Mouse Pointer

💥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I wanted to write this blog post for a while, but didn’t find time with all the work I have with my day-job and side projects. But I finally found a few minutes to write it down. The mouse pointer exists for a reason, a lot of thought has been put throughout the years to make it the way it is. For example, making it slightly tilted because it was easier to draw on old screens. And the pointed shape makes sure you are clicking…
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Spotify launches a wrap-style summary of your entire listening history

Spotify launches a wrap-style summary of your entire listening history

🔥 Explore this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,Spotify,music streaming,spotify wrapped 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Spotify's annual wrap-up gives users a glimpse into their favorite artists and what they listened to most that year. As part of its 20th anniversary celebrations, the streaming service is now launching a limited-time feature that displays various facts about users, such as when they joined the app, the first song they streamed, their favorite artist, and a playlist of their most-streamed songs. Image credits: SpotifyImage credits:Spotify Users can access this feature by opening Spotify and searching for “Spotify 20” or “Concert of…
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The Blaze “No AI Summer” Internship at Text Blaze

The Blaze “No AI Summer” Internship at Text Blaze

🔥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The role We are excited to open applications to our “No AI Summer” internship. We invite dedicated late-college or early career candidates to apply for this role. You’ll be a great fit for this role if you: are excited to tackle complex problems enjoy engaging with users and solving their problems love building and creating are high-performing and driven Also, you aren’t allowed to use AI. At all. All summer. We want to train you, not LLMs, to become an excellent full-stack engineer. You’ll…
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AI startup Vapi reaches $500 million valuation after beating Amazon Ring by more than 40 competitors

AI startup Vapi reaches $500 million valuation after beating Amazon Ring by more than 40 competitors

🔥 Read this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Bessemer Venture Partners,Kleiner Perkins,Exclusive,M12,Peak XV Partners,Vapi,Amazon Ring 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Amazon Ring, facing a spike in customer support calls during the holiday season last year, evaluated more than 40 voice AI vendors before selecting startup Vapi to handle incoming phone traffic. Today, Ring routes 100% of its incoming calls through the Vapi platform. The rollout helped Vapi raise a $50 million Series B led by Peak XV Partners at a valuation of about $500 million after the investment, according to a person familiar with the matter. Ring turned to…
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Coursera and Udemy are now one company, creating the world’s most comprehensive skills platform 

Coursera and Udemy are now one company, creating the world’s most comprehensive skills platform 

💥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Today, I’m excited to share that we have completed the Coursera-Udemy combination, bringing together two mission-driven companies to create one of the world’s most comprehensive skills development platforms.This marks an important step forward in our ability to better serve our learners, customers, partners, and instructors around the world. Together, we now reach over 290 million learners, 18,000 enterprise customers, and a global ecosystem of 95,000 content creators, alongside hundreds of university and industry partners.We’re joining forces at a pivotal moment. AI is transforming every…
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Amazon launches 30-minute delivery service across the United States

Amazon launches 30-minute delivery service across the United States

✨ Discover this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Commerce,Amazon,e-commerce,commerce,online shopping 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Amazon deliveries continue to grow faster. On Tuesday, the online retailer announced the launch of a 30-minute delivery option, called “Amazon Now,” in dozens of US cities. Amazon says this super-fast delivery option will allow customers to shop "thousands" of items, including fresh groceries, household essentials and other locally relevant items. At launch, Amazon will now be widely available in Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Philadelphia, and Seattle, and expanding to Austin, Denver, Houston, Minneapolis, Orlando, Oklahoma City, and Phoenix. By the end of the year,…
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