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Mamdani’s New Click-to-Cancel Rule Makes It Easier for New Yorkers to Cancel Subscriptions
"If you can sign up with one click, you can cancel with one click," said Mamdani.
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Smart glasses without a camera? Even Realities bets productivity beats recording everyone
The glasses are targeted at people who might be constantly in meetings, giving presentations, and traveling to countries where different languages are spoken.
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Narwal Freo Z10 Turbo Review: Midrange Vacuum, High-End Performance
Good autonomous vacuuming doesn't have to cost more than $1,000.
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Fan-Favorite ‘Scooby-Doo’ Series ‘Mystery Inc.’ Comes to Blu-Ray
Just in time for Halloween season, you probably can't go wrong with 'Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated' for the first or latest time.
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‘No Interest’
Drew Pusateri, director of communications at OpenAI, on Twitter/X (or XCancel): Our statement in response to this suit: We have no interest in other companies’ trade secrets. We remain focused on building innovative technology that empowers people everywhere. Let’s say I think yo…
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US cybersecurity agency CISA had to build its incident playbook during the incident, agency reveals
Independent cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs reported in May that a security researcher with cyber firm GitGuardian alerted him to reams of exposed passwords stored in a publicly accessible GitHub repository, which an employee of a CISA contractor had uploaded.
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In 1991, two researchers at Cambridge pointed a grainy camera at the Trojan Room coffee pot and wired it into the building’s network, because they were tired of climbing the stairs to find the jug empty — and without meaning to, they built the first webcam
In 1991, two researchers at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory pointed a grey-scale camera at a coffee jug to save themselves a wasted trip down the stairs — and accidentally built the world's first webcam, watched by 2.4 million people before it was switched off in …
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Exclusive: GoKwik Lays Off Around 120 Employees Amid AI Push
Ecommerce enabler GoKwik has fired 100-120 employees as part of a restructuring exercise carried out over the past few weeks,…
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Global First Rocket Net Recovery: China Achieves Multiple Major Breakthroughs in One Week
China completes world-first rocket net recovery, activates 100K-card AI supercluster, and reaches asteroid with Tianwen-2 probe in a landmark week for space and computing infrastructure.
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Second-Generation Doubao Phone Coming: Nubia and ByteDance AI Agent Smartphone Nears Launch at WAIC
Nubia and ByteDance second-generation Doubao AI Agent phone spotted with orange AI button and blue chassis, debuting at WAIC 2026 with refined Obric UI after 216 days of iteration.
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Chinese chip start-up aims to build 5-nanometre equivalent chips without using EUV by 2029
A Chinese chip start-up has launched what it claims to be the world’s first 8-inch production line for two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, marking the country’s latest push to develop alternative chip technologies amid US curbs on its access to advanced chipmaking equipment. Sha…
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Psychology says people who find the first year of retirement harder than any year of work aren’t failing to enjoy freedom — they’re grieving a structure that provided identity, routine, and the low-level human contact that kept loneliness at bay without anyone noticing
My dad spent the better part of forty years walking into the same office. When he finally retired, we threw him the dinner, made the toasts, and told him he’d earned every slow morning coming his way. He smiled and agreed. Six months later he was one of the loneliest men I knew, …
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LAST CALL FOR ENROLLMENT: Become an AI Engineer - Cohort 7
Our 7th cohort of Becoming an AI Engineer starts tomorrow, Saturday, July 11. This is a live, cohort-based course created in collaboration with best-selling author Ali Aminian and published by ByteByteGo.
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To Build More Believable Bots, Simulate The Neurochemistry
Giving machines the ability to communicate nonverbally has real value, and [Drew Smith] clearly thinks your robot deserves better than an emoji. He shared a very interesting approach with his …read more
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Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48865019 Points: 1458 # Comments: 814
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Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aei1285 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48866134 Points: 358 # Comments: 159
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An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation
Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1080822/990a8a5e2d379085/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48864252 Points: 293 # Comments: 302
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GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]
https://x.com/__eknight__/status/2075643450196971805, https://xcancel.com/__eknight__/status/2075643450196971805 Prompt: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/04d1d1e4-bc75-476a-97cf-49055cd98... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48863490 Points: 501 # Comments: 417
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Streaming vs Batch: Two Philosophies of Data Processing
When is the data complete enough to be moved to the compute stage?
bytebytego.com
EP221: How Docker Works Under the Hood
A Docker container starts with a single command, but that command has to be turned into a running Linux process. Here is what actually happens.
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A Look Inside a 1997 BBC Ceefax Generator
Ceefax was the BBC’s broadcast teletext service that ran until 2012, providing text and rudimentary graphics that were broadcast invisibly with the TV signal. In order to get this teletext …read more
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