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Apple announces updates to accessibility features powered by Apple Intelligence

Apple announces updates to accessibility features powered by Apple Intelligence

✨ Read this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,accessibility,Apple,Apple Intelligence 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Ahead of Google's annual developers conference on Tuesday, Apple announced several new accessibility updates powered by Apple Intelligence for features like VoiceOver, voice control, live recognition, and real-time caption creation for videos. The company also said that Vision Pro users will be able to control the compatible wheelchair with their eyes with this update. Apple Intelligence's image recognition feature in VoiceOver will better understand an image and describe it in more detail, the company said. For example, he can view the invoice and read…
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Anthropic is Preparing for IPO and We Should Be Worried

Anthropic is Preparing for IPO and We Should Be Worried

💥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Anthropic is starting to act like a company preparing for public markets: protecting margins, tightening access. The gap between the brand and the behavior is now too obvious to ignore.I'm writing this while working on vroni.com, my AI coding tool for turning tasks into pull requests. Claude Code Starting June 15, 2026, Anthropic says Claude Agent SDK and claude -p usage will stop counting toward normal Claude subscription limits. It will draw from a separate monthly Agent SDK credit instead. After that credit runs…
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The United States built the site to ensure equitable access to public lands. Then everything went wrong

The United States built the site to ensure equitable access to public lands. Then everything went wrong

🚀 Explore this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Science,Wreck.gov ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: We know that Booz Allen Hamilton is making a lot more money than it originally expected. In the contract, the company estimated it would earn $87 million in the first five years, and a total of about $182 million over 10 years if the contract was extended, which it did.According to its billing, Booz Allen Hamilton billed more than $140 million in the first four years of the contract. The Forest Service did not return our Freedom of Information Act request for more recent numbers,…
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Apple unveils new accessibility features, and updates with Apple Intelligence

Apple unveils new accessibility features, and updates with Apple Intelligence

✨ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: May 19, 2026 PRESS RELEASE Apple unveils new accessibility features, and updates powered by Apple Intelligence With Apple Intelligence, detailed descriptions and natural language navigation are coming to features such as VoiceOver, Magnifier, Voice Control, and Accessibility ReaderApple also announced new features for controlling power wheelchairs with Apple Vision Pro and generating subtitles across the Apple ecosystem, all coming later this year CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today previewed a suite of accessibility updates that use Apple Intelligence to bring new capabilities to features users rely on…
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Stilta raises $10.5 million from a16z and YC to help companies rediscover patents they forgot they owned

Stilta raises $10.5 million from a16z and YC to help companies rediscover patents they forgot they owned

🔥 Read this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Startups,Venture,AI,a16z,legal tech 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Oscar Block has never been able to stay away from entrepreneurship for long. He was just 18 when he launched his first startup, building machine learning models for sports betting. “I've always been drawn to solving hard data problems,” he told TechCrunch. He moved into consulting, where he helped companies with their AI integration strategies and learned what it took to get large companies to adopt this technology. Block then took a role at a self-driving trucking company, where he saw firsthand how manual…
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The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

✨ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The last six months in LLMs in five minutes 19th May 2026 I put together these annotated slides from my five minute lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, using the latest iteration of my annotated presentation tool. # I presented this lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, attempting to summarize the last six months of developments in LLMs in five minutes. # Six months is a pretty convenient time period to cover, because it captures what I’ve been calling the November 2025 inflection point.…
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The Herman Miller Coyl standing desk is designed just for gamers

The Herman Miller Coyl standing desk is designed just for gamers

🚀 Check out this trending post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Gear News and Events,Gear / Products / Home Office,Game On ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: “Files inherently solve a problem, which is how to maintain a clean, tidy space of variable length between two objects,” says Stephen Harton, senior product manager at Herman Miller. He says the design choice was inspired by the coiled cables in ancient technology such as telephones and early mechanical keyboards. The result is fun and organized.Finally, there is the turntable. This is the height adjustment mechanism found on the Coyl desk. Instead of…
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[multicians] Peter Neumann has died

🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: [TUHS] Fwd: [multicians] Peter Neumann has died Dan Cross via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org Mon May 18 03:58:33 AEST 2026 Tom van Vleck just passed the below forwarded message on the Multics mailing list. Very sad news. - Dan C. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Tom Van Vleck via groups.io multicians.org at groups.io> Date: Sun, May 17, 2026, 1:27 PM Subject: [multicians] Peter Neumann has died To: <multicians at groups.io> Robert Watson wrote me Unfortunately, I email with the heartbreaking news that Peter Neumann passed away…
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Solar will dominate the energy sector by 2035, but AI data centers will keep fossil fuels in business

Solar will dominate the energy sector by 2035, but AI data centers will keep fossil fuels in business

💥 Explore this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Climate,data centers,renewable energy,Solar Power,lithium ion batteries,fossil fuels ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Solar energy will become the largest energy source in the next decade, surpassing coal, oil and natural gas, according to a new report from BloombergNEF. The tectonic shift will occur alongside the historic rise in energy use driven by AI and the electrification of entire industries. “Solar is winning the race,” Matthias Kimmel, head of energy economics at BloombergNEF, told TechCrunch. BloombergNEF expects this shift to happen on economic grounds alone: ​​solar energy is too cheap to ignore. Pakistan,…
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AI is changing who gets hired in America’s economy

AI is changing who gets hired in America’s economy

🔥 Explore this awesome post from Business News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: From the Dayton, Ohio, suburbs to boardrooms in Dallas, the employees fueling AT&T's next wave of growth aren't fresh-faced college graduates with expensive four-year degrees. They're skilled, blue-collar workers ready to get their hands dirty — and AT&T can't find enough of them. "We need people who know how to actually work with electricity. We need people who understand photonics. We need people who can go into folks' homes and connect this infrastructure to make it work right," AT&T CEO John Stankey told CNBC during a…
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