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Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors

Article URL: https://kotaku.com/kickstarter-is-the-latest-platform-seemingly-forced-to-ban-adult-content-by-payment-processors-2000695648 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123198 Points: 231 # Comments: 178

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The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization

Article URL: https://avkcode.github.io/blog/us-winning-ai-race.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48121929 Points: 64 # Comments: 172

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Leaving GitHub for Forgejo

Article URL: https://jorijn.com/en/blog/leaving-github-for-forgejo/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48121266 Points: 411 # Comments: 221

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I moved my digital stack to Europe

Article URL: https://monokai.com/articles/how-i-moved-my-digital-stack-to-europe/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120629 Points: 695 # Comments: 461

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The Emacsification of Software

Article URL: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/05/12/emacsification/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48118727 Points: 50 # Comments: 6

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Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/drop-database-what-not-to-do-after-losing-an-it-job/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115438 Points: 68 # Comments: 23

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Origin Lab raises $8M to help video game companies sell data to world-model builders

Origin Lab will serve as a marketplace where AI labs can buy high-quality licensed data, and video-game companies can sell it.

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Anthropic courts a new kind of customer: small business owners

Anthropic is looking to broaden its customer base from larger enterprise customers to smaller and mid-sized businesses.

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Ransomware hackers claim breach at Foxconn, a major electronics manufacturer for Apple, Google, and Nvidia

A ransomware group has claimed responsibility for hacking the electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn, and is attempting to extort the company.

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Amazon launches an AI shopping assistant for the search bar, powered by Alexa+

Alexa for Shopping is a new personalized AI shopping assistant in the Amazon search bar that replaces its Rufus assistant.

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Anduril raises $5B, doubles valuation to $61B

After achieving $2.2 billion in revenue in 2025, the defense tech startup has raised another massive round, led by Thrive and a16z, it says.

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r/WallStreetBets really hates the SEC’s proposal to weaken quarterly reporting

The retail trading subreddit submitted the sharpest criticism yet in response to the financial regulator's idea of letting companies report twice per year.

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US lawmakers demand answers from Instructure after Canvas data breaches

U.S. House lawmakers want to know how hackers broke into education tech giant Instructure twice, and stole reams of data from students who use the company's flagship student data software Canvas.

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Gravitational lens shows a galaxy just 800 million years post-Big Bang

Early galaxy has elements produced by the Universe's first supernovae.

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Blue Origin may need external funding to hit ambitious launch targets

Are the pockets of Jeff Bezos not as deep as everyone thinks?