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The Zoom hack that says, ‘Don’t record me’
If every meeting, watercooler conversation, and date gets transcribed and summarized, who's actually reading any of it?
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Samantha Morton on How She Approached Her Scene-Stealing Role in ‘The Odyssey’
Christopher Nolan himself singled out Morton's performance as Circe as being crucial to the film's success.
gizmodo.com
Where Argentina And Spain Are Scoring Startup Goals
We put together a snapshot of recent startup funding tallies and trends for World Cup finalists Spain and Argentina. While neither accounts for a particularly large share of global or even regional investment, both have an intriguing pipeline of recently funded companies. Here's …
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Capital One releases VulnHunter, an open-source AI tool that finds software flaws before hackers do
Capital One on Thursday released VulnHunter, an open-source, agentic AI security tool that scans source code for exploitable vulnerabilities, maps out how an attacker would reach them, and proposes targeted fixes — all before a single line ships to production. The tool, built int…
venturebeat.com
All-In Podcast Bro Fails to Read 25-Word Email, Concludes He Is Debate Champion
This conversation could have been an email—and in fact, was.
gizmodo.com
Apple Raises Prices for Apple Music and Apple One Subscriptions
Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: Here are the new monthly prices for Apple Music and Apple One as of today: Apple Music: Individual: $11.99 (up from $10.99) Family: $19.99 (up from $16.99) Student: $6.99 (up from $5.99) Apple One: Individual: $19.95 (unchanged) Family: $27.95 (up from $25…
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International tech
IPO-Bound Jio Platforms’ Q1 Profit Jumps 9% YoY To ₹7,764 Cr
IPO-bound Jio Platforms reported a consolidated profit after tax (PAT) of ₹7,764 Cr in the first quarter of FY27 (Q1…
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30 Entrepreneurs Write to WAIC: What China Expects From AI Development at the 2026 World AI Conference
From Zhipu AI to JD.com, Sugon to Insilico, 30 Chinese and global business leaders share expectations for China AI development at WAIC 2026.
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Xi Jinping calls for ‘openness’, opposes ‘one country’ rule in AI – as it happened
President Xi Jinping spoke on Friday at the opening of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), China’s largest annual event for the AI industry. Xi’s personal attendance elevated the conference’s profile, and signalled AI development has become both a technologi…
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From humanoids to Huawei: what to watch as Xi attends China’s WAIC amid US AI rivalry
China will use its largest annual artificial intelligence gathering this week to showcase an ambition that extends beyond catching up with the United States in foundation models to building dominance in autonomous agents, scientific research, humanoid robots and consumer devices.…
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The parents and partners we stay closest to aren’t the ones who demand constant updates — they’re the ones who made contact easy without requiring you to arrive as a polished, working version of yourself
Attachment research from Purdue's Susan South and others keeps finding the same quiet pattern: the parents and partners we stay closest to are not the ones who audit our lives or demand constant updates, but the ones who made contact so low-friction we could show up unpolished, t…
siliconcanals.com
Profitability, Geopolitical Concerns Weigh On Zepto’s IPO Valuation
Quick commerce major Zepto could make its stock market debut at a valuation significantly below its peak private valuation of…
inc42.com
Intuit scrapped its own AI agent architecture twice in four months. At VB Transform 2026, its AI VP called that the fast path
Intuit was an early pioneer in the usage of agentic AI, but its path to success has hardly been a straight line. At VB Transform 2026, Intuit VP of AI Nhung Ho described how the company rebuilt its agent architecture twice in the span of about four months, first moving from a fle…
venturebeat.com
The Download: perimenopause misinformation and China’s latest AI leap
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. There’s a lot of hype around perimenopause. Don’t buy it. Perimenopause used to be considered taboo, but not anymore. Thanks at least in part …
MIT Technology Review
Agents think in milliseconds, legacy infrastructure doesn't. LinkedIn, Walmart and Zendesk shared how they closed the gap at VB Transform 2026
Legacy infrastructure, not the models themselves, is what's actually slowing AI agents down. That was the shared conclusion of three infrastructure leaders — from LinkedIn, Walmart, and Zendesk — at VB Transform 2026. The panel brought together Animesh Singh, senior director of A…
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A Guide to Multi-Tenancy: Benefits and Challenges
In this article, we will understand multi-tenant architecture from the basics, along with its various benefits and challenges.
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Hackaday Podcast Episode 378: C Coders, Ceramic Printers, and Shadow Archives
It’s a hot one at both microphones, as Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos wilt in the heat with ice lollies and freezer packs. But still, we persevered long enough to …read more
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AI Customer Support at Scale: The Travel Industry’s $Billion Bet
In this article, we will look more closely at the different solutions by following the support pipeline from first principles, show why a tail of cases resists automation regardless of model quality, and use these three approaches to understand how these can be handled.
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Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters
Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/1b8c9d52-88a9-426b-ba47-f1811f859166 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48946303 Points: 368 # Comments: 311
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MacSurf Hits 2.0 To Bring PowerPCs back Online
There’s an interesting thing about retrocomputing — the moment that you realize your 25-year-old machine can do almost everything your average person uses a computer for. The problem is that the …read more
hackaday.com
The state of open source AI
Article URL: https://stateofopensource.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947825 Points: 353 # Comments: 258
stateofopensource.ai
How Octopuses Hacked their Ribosome to Become Smart
A fascinating aspect in evolutionary biology is that of convergent evolution — whereby similar structures and functions evolve independently from each other. The highly advanced nervous system of octopuses is …read more
hackaday.com
The BornHack 2026 Cyber Ægg Is A Badge With A Life Afterwards
A problem facing the designers of event badges is this: what happens to the badge after the event? It’s one that designers have tried to solve in many ways with …read more
hackaday.com
First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4kdd1e0ejo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947560 Points: 344 # Comments: 219
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