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Trump SEC lets Musk settle $150 million Twitter lawsuit for $1.5 million
SEC alleged Musk's late disclosure cheated Twitter investors out of $150 million.
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California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy
Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/usda-aid-california-farmers-22240694.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026349 Points: 112 # Comments: 114
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Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
I built PaletteInspiration.com, a browsable archive of color palettes pulled from artworks by 3,000+ master painters (Monet, Vermeer, Raphael, Van Gogh). Why I built it: every color palette generator I tried converged on the same five muted pastels.
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Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement
Article URL: https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/meta-ai-mark-zuckerberg-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-publishers-scott-turow-1236738383/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026207 Points: 40 # Comments: 13
Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue
Article URL: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/clarify-npp-trademark-infringement/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026206 Points: 123 # Comments: 54
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Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs
Article URL: https://reflex.dev/blog/computer-use-is-45x-more-expensive-than-structured-apis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024859 Points: 166 # Comments: 97
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I'm scared about biological computing
Article URL: https://kuber.studio/blog/Reflections/I%27m-Scared-About-Biological-Computing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024358 Points: 94 # Comments: 70
EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JhK8iCQuqI Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024129 Points: 146 # Comments: 37
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Airbnb co-founder taps Peter Arnell as first U.S. Chief Brand Architect
Arnell joins Gebbia’s National Design Studio under Trump to unify UX across 27,000 federal sites and streamline how Americans use government services.
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Pennsylvania sues Character.AI after a chatbot allegedly posed as a doctor
According to Pennsylvania's filing, a Character.AI chatbot presented itself as a licensed psychiatrist during a state investigation, and also fabricated a serial number for its state medical license.
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OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant, a new default model for ChatGPT
The company said the model reduces hallucination in sensitive areas such as law, medicine, and finance, while maintaining the low latency of its predecessor.
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PayPal says it’s ‘becoming a technology company again’ — that means AI
PayPal is pitching an AI-led turnaround, tying automation and restructuring to $1.5 billion in savings as it cuts jobs and works to modernize its tech stack.
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ElevenLabs lists BlackRock, Jamie Foxx, and Eva Longoria as new investors
ElevenLabs reveals new investors, hits $500M ARR, and expands enterprise footprint as voice AI becomes a critical interface.
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GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26752 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026021 Points: 14 # Comments: 2
Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and Quantum Cryptography (QC)
Article URL: https://www.nsa.gov/Cybersecurity/Quantum-Key-Distribution-QKD-and-Quantum-Cryptography-QC/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48025828 Points: 10 # Comments: 2