✨ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Signage at the Situation Room by Polymarket pop-up bar in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, March 20, 2026. Graeme Sloan | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesFederal prosecutors charged a Google employee with fraud on Wednesday, alleging that he made $1.2 million off of bets using insider information on Polymarket.Prosecutors claim that Michele Spagnuolo, a staff information security engineer at Google, used confidential information to place trades correctly betting that singer d4vd would be Google's most searched person in 2025. Spagnuolo has been charged with money…
🔥 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,Media & Entertainment,Social,clips,podcasts,Spotify,streaming 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: It's even easier to share your favorite moments from podcasts, with the introduction of Spotify's new Podcast Clips feature, launching on Wednesday. In the app, a new scissor icon in the Now Playing view will allow you to clip a specific clip from the podcast you're listening to, then share it more widely with your audience on social media, friends, colleagues, or anyone else. When you trim, you'll be able to trim the audio portion and preview it to hear it again…
✨ Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: RamAIn builds the world's fastest computer-use agents for enterprise work. We're a YC W26 company on a mission to eliminate repetitive, manual workflows by training AI agents that operate legacy systems, desktop apps, and web portals the same way humans do — but 10× faster and more reliably. Founders RamAIn was founded by Shourya Vir Jain (CEO) and Vansh Ramani (CTO), who met at IIT Delhi and dropped out to build AI-native automation for enterprise workflows. Shourya previously worked at McKinsey, where he saw firsthand…
🚀 Check out this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Media & Entertainment,ai music,ElevenLabs,Google,Music 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Audio AI company ElevenLabs has launched a new version of its music generation model, called Music v2, that can switch genres mid-track. The company said the model is designed to handle the complexity of singing and composing. The new release comes nearly 10 months after the startup launched the first version of its music generation model. ElevenLabs noted that the model can transition from opera to heavy metal and back, deliver fast rapping without losing cohesion, and add non-musical sound effects…
✨ Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I love networking, a lot. So much so that I've run my own ISP since 2024, complete with its own ASN, IPv4/6 address space, fiber optics, etc.However, do this and you quickly realize how reliant you still remain on central service providers. The internet is a mesh, but the real players on that mesh are few, far between, and easy to coerce into censorship and other bad things. Even after ascending to the lofty realms of direct BGP peering myself, my access to those resources…
💥 Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Government & Policy,doj,Google,Polymarket 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The US Department of Justice has charged Google software engineer Michele Spagnuolo with insider trading, alleging that the employee made a $1.2 million trade on Polymarket based on confidential trading information. Spagnuolo, who used the name "AlphaRaccoon" at Polymarket, has worked at Google for more than 12 years, according to information on LinkedIn. “As alleged, Spagnuolo violated duties owed to his employer and used confidential Google business information to generate business profits of more than $1.2 million at Polymarket,” Jay Clayton, U.S. Attorney…
🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: May '26So, apparently we are at the cusp of the entire world’s white collar workforce (and, by extension, much of the US workforce) undergoing a revolution in productivity. AI is the technology that is going to revolutionize the way we work, the way we interact with the world, the way we learn, the way we socialize, and all of this. This sounds great. Really, it does. Everything getting faster and easier would be an extraordinary boon to all of our lives.Can we have a…
🚀 Read this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Google,spelling 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: How many Ps are there in Google? According to Google, there are two types. There's also exactly one "1" in the word "poop," says Google's AI overview, as well as two "d's" in the word "journalism," yet it's spelled "journadism." Google identified at least one P in the last name of the President of the United States, but wrote it as trpum. You didn't need to be a prophet to predict that Google's AI-forward search overhaul would be bad. We've done this before. The first…
✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: OverviewToday we're open-sourcing a practice rig for Anduril's AI Grand Prix (a $500K autonomous drone-race competition) so contestants and anyone else curious can start writing autopilot code against a working stack now, before the official Virtual Qualifier 1 simulator drops: github.com/elodin-sys/ai-grand-prix. It's open source, runs on macOS and Linux, and the whole setup is uv sync plus a 5-minute Betaflight build. (WSL should be workable too)The Elodin JourneyThe path here was longer than we expected. I came into this from the games side. One of…
🔥 Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Climate,Climate Capital,fusion power,Gaingels,linse capital,nuclear fusion,Thea Energy,Timescale 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Thea Energy has raised a $100 million Series B round led by US Innovative Technology Fund, the merger startup told TechCrunch. This amount places the company among the best-funded fusion startups, giving it a better chance of creating a commercial reactor. The new funding will help Thea scale up manufacturing of its uniquely designed micromagnets and begin building Eos, a “power station-related” demonstration device, starting next year. Thea previously closed a $20 million Series A in early 2024. The…
