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Negotiating Your Salary Is About More Than Money
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Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI, Anthropic more than ever
Microsoft pitched its own homegrown AI models, harnesses, and even a Mythos competitor on Wednesday, telling Wall Street it plans for continued growth.
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Enterprise AI agents can't talk to each other, can't be trusted with permissions, and can't be audited — 5 startups are already fixing that
Enterprise AI agents can do the work — but the infrastructure to let them talk to each other, prove they should be trusted, and be audited when something goes wrong is still being built. Here's a look at how five startups are tackling that gap — around orchestration, observabilit…
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Count Those Underscores
Nate Anderson , reporting for Ars Technica under the headline “A Missing Underscore Sent Innocent Man to Prison for 18 Months”: Police were looking for a man using the Kik messaging service under the name “fus__ro_dah” (two underscores after “fus”), but they accidentally reques…
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How an overlooked geothermal plant got a second chance
In June 2024, a small company called Zanskar purchased a geothermal power plant in New Mexico that was failing fast. The water coming from the underground reservoir was getting colder by the day, making the plant uneconomical to run. Now, two years later, that plant is running at…
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‘eBay’s Bizarre Cyberstalking Saga Ends With a $56 Million Settlement’
Emma Roth, The Verge: eBay and three former executives will pay $55.7 million as part of a settlement with a Massachusetts couple targeted with a bizarre harassment and cyberstalking campaign in 2019, as reported earlier by CNBC. The settlement will resolve a lengthy legal saga t…
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Alibaba Qoder Open-Sources Better Harness: An Open-Source Analysis and Continuous Improvement Tool for Programming Agent Workflows From Alibaba Cloud
Qoder releases Better Harness on GitHub, a three-layer open-source framework for coding agent workflow analysis covering Harness Engineering practices, evaluation models, and runnable implementations.
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China’s Robotaxi enters London for first time as Baidu’s Apollo Go begins UK road tests with Uber and Lyft
FREENOW, the European mobility platform owned by Lyft, announced on Tuesday that it has partnered with Baidu’s Apollo Go to begin testing robotaxis in London, UK. Uber also said Apollo Go vehicles are now operating on public roads in the British capital. Baidu said the deployment…
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Samsung weighs using Chinese-made DRAM to expand share in China’s budget smartphone market
According to South Korean media outlet Asia Times, China’s smartphone market has contracted significantly amid turbulence in the global semiconductor industry driven by rising chip and component prices. Samsung Electronics is reportedly considering adopting cost-competitive Chine…
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Some people are brilliant one-on-one and invisible in groups
The most perceptive people often disappear in crowds, mistaking their silence for social failure rather than a mismatch between their gifts and the setting.
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Anxious Chinese students are trusting AI to help pick colleges and majors
Alibaba, ByteDance, Baidu, and Tencent guide hundreds of millions of high-school grads to optimize the high-stakes university match system.
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China Advanced Packaging Enters New Wave of Investment as 400 Billion Yuan in Projects Target Chiplet 3D Integration and AI Chip Substrates
Nearly 10 advanced packaging projects totaling 400B yuan announced between May and July 2026, spanning 2.5D/3D, Chiplet, Fan-Out, and automotive chip packaging for AI and HPC.
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FLOSS Weekly Episode 877: RCE As a Service
This week Jonathan chats with Francois Proulx about SmokedMeat! That’s the third in a trio of Open Source security tools from Boost Security, and this one is the red team …read more
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How ChatGPT Optimizes its Agent Loop: Harness, API, and Inference
To understand what techniques are adopted in frontier labs to make AI applications more efficient, we met with the OpenAI engineers who developed and shipped various efficiency techniques into the systems behind Codex and ChatGPT Work.
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The ESP32 Gets a Web Browser
At the Hackaday Europe conference in Italy earlier in the year, we were shown a rather interesting device. The work of [Alun Morris], it was an ESP32-powered Cheap Black Display …read more
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Thingino Teaches Cheap IP Cameras New Tricks
I recently found myself in the market for a few IP cameras to keep an eye on my Prusa 3D printers, and quickly found that the options on the market …read more
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Scrap Pinball Parts Become Beautiful Wall Art
[Hans Scharler] came into a neat find recently—the playfield from a 1970s Atari Superman game. It’s the sort of thing that’s too nice to throw away, but isn’t really enough …read more
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How NVIDIA Builds Open Models for the Age of AI
Bryan Catanzaro, VP of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA, walked us through how his team builds the company’s open models, the reasoning behind their architecture, and why NVIDIA open-sources so much of it.
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Why DoorDash, Instacart, and Uber Eats Integrated LLMs Into Search Three Different Ways
In this article, we will walk through their differing solutions and try to make sense of their choices and understand the pattern behind them.
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Using Video Glasses As a Camera Viewfinder Is Harder Than It Looks
[John Dingley] has a Sony ZV-E10 camera that is excellent, but the design lacks a built-in electronic viewfinder. This means it relies entirely on its rear-mounted touchscreen for framing shots. …read more
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