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Tuesday, 12 May 2026 · Global Edition · Updated 03:25 CST
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Google gives in to users’ complaints over AI-powered ‘Ask Photos’ search feature

The option appears on the Google Photos Search screen and lets users pick which experience they want.

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Legora reaches $5.55 billion valuation as AI legal tech boom endures

Legora, an AI platform for lawyers, is now valued at $5.55 billion following a $550 million Series D led by Accel to fuel its growth in the U.S.

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Meta acquired Moltbook, the AI agent social network that went viral because of fake posts

Meta says that Moltbook's approach to "connecting agents through an always-on-directory" is novel.

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YouTube expands AI deepfake detection to politicians, government officials, and journalists

YouTube's AI deepfake detection tool is becoming available to politicians, journalists, and officials, letting them flag unauthorized likenesses for removal.

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An iPhone-hacking toolkit used by Russian spies likely came from US military contractor

Google found a series of hacking tools they said were used by a Russian espionage group and a cybercriminal group in China. Sources from a U.S. government defense contractor said some of those hacking tools were theirs.

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Ig Nobels ceremony moves to Europe over security concerns

Marc Abraham: “During the past year, it has become unsafe for our guests to visit the country."

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These new winter tires have studs that retract as it warms up

Clever polymer science and a little robotic precision created the Hakkapeliitta 01.

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Launch HN: Didit (YC W26) – Stripe for Identity Verification

Hi HN, I’m Alberto. I co-founded Didit ( https://didit.me ) with my identical twin brother Alejandro. We are building a unified identity layer—a single integration that handles KYC, AML, biometrics, authentication, and fraud prevention globally. Here

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Amazon is holding a mandatory meeting about AI breaking its systems

Article URL: https://twitter.com/lukolejnik/status/2031257644724342957 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324211 Points: 92 # Comments: 33

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Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions

Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1061544/125f911834966dd0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324087 Points: 61 # Comments: 55

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Tony Hoare has died

Article URL: https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony-hoare-1934-2026.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324054 Points: 317 # Comments: 26

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Show HN: A playable version of the Claude Code Terraform destroy incident

Article URL: https://www.youbrokeprod.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323915 Points: 3 # Comments: 4

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Meta acquires Moltbook

https://web.archive.org/web/20260310154640/https://www.axios... , https://archive.ph/igqsh https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-acquires-ai-agent-soci... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323900 Points: 56 # Comments: 31

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RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/bignimbus/a75cc9d703abf0b21a57c0d21a79e2be Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323891 Points: 54 # Comments: 39

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Show HN: How I Topped the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard on Two Gaming GPUs

Article URL: https://dnhkng.github.io/posts/rys/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47322887 Points: 42 # Comments: 24

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