Startup Battlefield 200 applications are open until May 27

Startup Battlefield 200 applications are open until May 27

💥 Read this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: TC,Startups,Climate,Fintech,Biotech & Health,Venture,AI,Apps,Robotics,Fundraising,Startup Battlefield,Startup Battlefield 200,TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Pre-Series A founders and anyone who knows a startup is worth funding, this is your reminder. Nominations for Startup Battlefield 200 are open, and the strongest contenders are already advancing. If your startup is nominated, don't stop there. Submit your application today. This isn't just another opportunity for exposure. You step onto the main stage in front of over 10,000 attendees, top-tier venture capital, and TechCrunch's global audience in... TechCrunch disabled 2026. You compete, get direct feedback from…
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No, I Won’t Download Your App. The Web Version is A-OK.

✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: As someone who prefers using services via their websites, I’ve gotten terribly jaded lately. Almost everyone wants me, and by extension, you, to use their darn apps to consume content and off their web versions. Whether it's the obvious social media apps or something as basic as parking, the app is the priority and the site the red-headed stepchild. And they aren't too subtle in the push either. It might be a modal covering half the web version with links to the App Store, an…
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How to use new ChatGPT app integrations, including DoorDash, Spotify, Uber, and more

How to use new ChatGPT app integrations, including DoorDash, Spotify, Uber, and more

💥 Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Apps,ChatGPT,evergreens 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: OpenAI offers app integrations into ChatGPT to let you connect your accounts directly to ChatGPT and ask Assistant to do things for you. For example, with Spotify integration, you can tell it to create custom playlists that will appear directly in your Spotify app. To get started, make sure you're signed in to ChatGPT. Then type the name of the app you want to use at the beginning of the prompt, and ChatGPT will guide you through logging in and linking your account. If you…
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PostHog (YC W20) Is Hiring

💥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: PostHog equips developers to build successful products by combining product analytics, feature flags, session replay, a data warehouse, CDP and many more. \\* we have a public handbook (posthog.com/handbook) if you want to learn how we work, pay and more in complete detail. \\* we are growing through more autonomy and transparency not through process. \\* we have a ton of scale and a bunch of super interesting technical problems to solve \\* we're building 20 more products over the next couple of years,…
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Convicted spyware maker Brian Fleming avoids prison at sentencing

Convicted spyware maker Brian Fleming avoids prison at sentencing

✨ Explore this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,bryan fleming,cybersecurity,data breach,pctattletale,stalkerware ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The first spyware maker convicted in more than a decade has managed to avoid a prison sentence after earlier pleading guilty to US federal charges linked to running his surveillance company. Brian Fleming was sentenced Friday in federal court in San Diego to time served and a $5,000 fine, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California, whose office brought the charges against Fleming, confirmed. During a hearing in January after a years-long federal investigation into his spyware company,…
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The Real Intelligence Failure in Iran

The Real Intelligence Failure in Iran

🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: In 2005, a bipartisan commission of lawmakers and security experts concluded that “the Intelligence Community was dead wrong in almost all of its pre-war judgments about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.” America’s spies had told President George W. Bush that Saddam Hussein had reconstituted a nuclear-weapons program and that Iraq possessed biological weapons and mobile production facilities, as well as stockpiles of chemical weapons. These supposed facts became the basis for a U.S. invasion and an eight-year occupation. “Not one bit of it could…
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Robotic mowers are really good now

Robotic mowers are really good now

💥 Discover this insightful post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Products / Home,Gear / Products / Outdoor,Gear / Products / Smart Home,Mowbot Magic ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Photo: Simon HillLight Detection and Ranging (LIDAR): This system, which is also used by self-driving cars, fires rapid laser pulses to map a 3D terrain. It enables mowers to cut grass under thick tree canopies or near tall buildings where GPS signals typically fail.Artificial intelligence vision: Some mowers now use cameras to recognize grass areas, boundaries and obstacles. Robotic mowers with AI vision can avoid stray footballs, cats and other critters,…
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Surveillance Findings: Age Verification as Mass Surveillance Infrastructure

Surveillance Findings: Age Verification as Mass Surveillance Infrastructure

🔥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Independent decompilation of the Persona Wallet APK v1.14.0 (SDK v2.32.3, built March 11, 2026) and analysis of the web inquiry bundle from cdn.withpersona.com (inquiry-main.js, 1.8MB) reveals the full scope of Persona's surveillance capabilities. The APK was obtained from APKPure and decompiled with jadx 1.5.5. The Roblox APK v2.714.1091 was decompiled separately to confirm the SDK integration. All findings are from publicly available APKs and client-side JavaScript served to every user. New SDKHardcoded AES-256-GCM Telemetry Encryption Key Every copy of the Persona SDK contains a hardcoded…
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The Department of Justice misled a judge about how it used voter roll data

The Department of Justice misled a judge about how it used voter roll data

💥 Check out this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Politics,Midterm Season 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Last week in In Rhode Island, at a hearing on the Trump administration's efforts to access the state's unredacted voter rolls, U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy asked a Justice Department lawyer what the agency was doing with voter roll data it had already collected from other states in recent months.“We haven't done anything yet,” said Eric Neff, the acting head of the Voting Section, a key part of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division that focuses on enforcing federal laws that protect the…
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Make Your Own ColecoVision At Home (Part 5 – Making More)

Make Your Own ColecoVision At Home (Part 5 – Making More)

🚀 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Leako – my ColecoVision clone – has reached a point where it has to become a thing that is actually buildable by other, more normal, people. On top of that, we’ve got chip and part shortages out the wazoo, and a smattering of bugs and reliability issues to knock down. Will revision number seven be the charm? What’s New? This revision of the board was mostly to try and improve reliability of the machine. While heavily testing (playing with) my previous-generation board, a lot of…
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