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I told them forced consent was unlawful. Five years later it cost Elkjop €1.8 million — That Privacy Guy!

I told them forced consent was unlawful. Five years later it cost Elkjop €1.8 million — That Privacy Guy!

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🚀 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Back in the summer of 2021 I was a member of the Elgiganten Kundklubb, the customer club the Elkjop group runs across the Nordics, and like a lot of members I was buried under marketing emails. So I did the obvious thing and went looking for a way to switch them off. What I found instead was the problem that has taken five years to put right - the only way to stop the marketing was to cancel my membership of the club altogether. I…
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Snap has merged its AI video team into a new company, Dotmo, due to costs

Snap has merged its AI video team into a new company, Dotmo, due to costs

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💥 Explore this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Snap,Snapchat,Dotmo 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Snap will spin off its internal AI video team into a separate company. Snap told TechCrunch that the new company — dubbed Dotmo — will focus on developing artificial intelligence models that can create interactive gaming experiences. Snap cited the high costs of doing such work in-house as one reason for the spinoff. Although it's technically a separate company, Dotmo will retain its close ties to the creator of Snapchat. For one thing, Snap will provide Dotmo with a license to adapt its technology for…
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Integer Quantization: Deep Dive 🤿

Integer Quantization: Deep Dive 🤿

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💥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A lot has happened in transformer quantization over the past few years, from barely being able to quantize a 7B model in INT8 without destroying accuracy, to routinely fitting a 70B model in 4-bits on a single GPU. But existing guides on the topic are fragmented: either focused on a specific technique or on how to use a library. I’ve been working on integer quantization for fixed-point hardware for a while now and my goal with this series is to bridge that gap: building the…
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11 startups featured at YC Demo Day, according to venture capital funds

11 startups featured at YC Demo Day, according to venture capital funds

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💥 Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Startups,Venture,Y Combinator,Y Combinator Demo Day 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: With every new season comes another YC Demo Day. On Tuesday, the Spring 2026 collection was revealed, filled with defense technology, robotics, AI infrastructure, developer tools, and of course, the AI ​​agents themselves. TechCrunch spoke to eight investors to determine which companies were the hottest in this batch — whether ones they've been keeping an eye on or startups they've heard other VCs can't get enough of. This list consists primarily of companies that have been identified by at least two…
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The AI Hate Progression

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💥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I think I've spoken at length in other places about how I am a very staunch AI hater and everything I hate about how the tech is presented to us today. But I want to take a second to talk about how I became this way, because I wasn't always like this! Oh no, I thought the whole "I fed the Bee Movie script into a bot and had them make a sequel" thing that perpetuated the early era of generative AI was...amusing, but easily ignored…
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Match says nearly half of singles in the United States feel negatively about AI in dating

Match says nearly half of singles in the United States feel negatively about AI in dating

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🚀 Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Apps,dating,Match Group 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Dating app giant Match Group - which owns apps like Tinder, Hinge and OkCupid - conducted a study to determine how single people in the US really feel about the relationship between artificial intelligence and dating. It turns out that people don't want AI messing with every aspect of human life. Across the industry, dating apps are experimenting with artificial intelligence. Bumble introduced a dating assistant named Bee, and Tinder is spending so much on AI tools that it's slowing down the hiring process.…
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The Token Compression Illusion: Why I’m Skeptical of RTK

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💥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: RTK's pitch sounds like an absolute developer cheat code: "Cut token usage, keep the same intelligence, pay 1/10 the price." With 60k GitHub stars and counting, the industry is clearly buying into the hype. But in the current dev tools gold rush, if something sounds too good to be true, it almost always is. While compressing terminal output for LLM agents sounds like a no-brainer, a closer look under the hood reveals critical structural flaws. Here is why I am highly skeptical of RTK's…
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AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast track to the network

AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast track to the network

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✨ Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Climate,data centers,electrical agrid ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) asked grid operators on Thursday to fast-track interconnection requests from data centers and other large electricity users. Under the orders, six major network operators must demonstrate that data centers are “capable of connecting to the transmission system in a timely and orderly manner.” Data centers will be responsible for paying interconnection costs. The commissioners approved the orders unanimously. FERC also provided an opportunity for network technology startups, directing network operators to consider “alternative transmission technologies.” The committee…
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Securing internal systems against increasingly capable and imperfectly aligned AI — Google DeepMind

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✨ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: How we’re securing internal systems against increasingly capable and imperfectly aligned AIAI agents are transforming our relationship with technology. By autonomously executing complex tasks — from cyber defence to scientific discovery and product development — these systems are unlocking a new era of productivity. In the U.S alone, AI agents could create $2.9 trillion in economic value by 2030.As these agents become more capable, they also require more sophisticated safeguards. That’s why we developed our AI Control Roadmap: a framework for building and managing the…
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MapTap, an everyday geography game, is my new Wordle game

MapTap, an everyday geography game, is my new Wordle game

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✨ Explore this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,Gaming ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: As Wordle celebrates its fifth anniversary, we have to be honest with ourselves: Are we still having fun, after thousands of Wordles? Sometimes we are, but other times, the everyday pun feels like a way to keep a chain of events going. Instead, my friends and I became addicted to a new game, MapTap, which is available as an app and online. Each day, MapTap has five questions, each one offering you a city (or, sometimes, the location of a historical event or battle) to…
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