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Rampant Northwestern Wildfires Will Blanket the US With More Smoke Today

Smoke from than 1.5 million acres burning in Oregon and Washington will reach as far Florida.

Uh-oh: Some Claude shared conversations and Artifacts appear to be indexed and publicly accessible on Google Search

Over the weekend, Reddit user -void1 posted an alarming discovery on the r/ClaudeAI subreddit: some conversations that users of Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot had made "shareable" via a link were being indexed by Google Search, and could be clicked on and accessed by seemingly any…

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★ Ads in Software Are Like Stickers on Laptops

Regarding my recent pieces regarding Apple’s shitty ads in the App Store and Apple News (and, perhaps soon, Apple Maps), a friend sent me this pithy take: The ads Apple is happy to inflict on us in its apps are the equivalent of the stickers it would never allow on its physical p…

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AI cites the deep pages but sends humans to the homepage — most sites are built backward

If your business depends on people clicking through to web pages, the last two years have been brutal. Pew Research Center tracked the browsing behavior of 900 U.S. adults and found that when Google shows an AI summary, users click a traditional result just 8% of the time, roughl…

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OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models broke their containment and hacked into the computer systems of Hugging Face, ano…

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Schneider Electric’s VC Arm: The AI Buildout Is Creating A New Industrial Investment Cycle

Crunchbase News recently spoke with SE Ventures managing partner Amit Chaturvedy about how the company is backing startups building the technologies that underpin the AI economy — everything from data center infrastructure and grid resilience to robotics and industrial AI.

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Ambition doesn’t fade in your 40s — a Gallup analysis suggests it quietly redirects, from wanting to be seen as impressive to wanting to be trusted by a small handful of people

The drive to prove yourself doesn't disappear in midlife—it just stops caring who's watching.

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Chinese Academy of Sciences ZhiJing Zing Social Intelligence Model Tackles AI Most Embarrassing Weakness: AI System That Understands Social Context, Emotions, and Unspoken Signals

CAS ICT releases ZhiJing social intelligence system including SoMBench evaluation benchmark and Zing model that surpasses GPT-5.5 on social cognition with FLARE self-evolving training and OPD distillation.

IndiaMART To Invest ₹65 Cr More In Fleetx, Raise Stake To 25.8%

B2B ecommerce platform IndiaMART InterMESH has entered into an agreement to invest about ₹65 Cr in fleet management startup Fleetx,…

China’s CXMT soars 466% on debut as DRAM maker becomes most valuable mainland-listed firm

ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China’s leading maker of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips, saw its shares close up 466 per cent on their Shanghai trading debut, giving the company a market capitalisation of 3.28 trillion yuan (US$484.6 billion) and making it mainlan…

CiDi targets overseas growth for autonomous mining equipment

Hong Kong-listed CiDi plans to expand deployments of its autonomous mining equipment outside China, including a larger rollout of partially automated excavators in Australia this year. The company is also seeking contracts in the Middle East, South America, and Europe. CiDi expec…

China Reusable Rocket Launch Costs Drop by Two-Thirds: CZ-10B Net Recovery Success Marks Reusable Rocket Era as Space Economy Reaches Trillion-Yuan Inflection Point

China first CZ-10B net-based rocket recovery opens reusable era with 60-70% cost reduction, as space economy paradigm shifts from disposable launches to reusable assets across commercial and government programs.

Samsung’s TriFold Phone Might Not Be Dead After All

After a limited run, the $3,000 Galaxy Z TriFold could return in 2027.

AI Found a New Way to Ruin Memes: Selling Them to Advertisers

The creator of the 'Running Away Balloon' meme is suing a company for offering the copyrighted comic as a template for advertisements.

How lasers could help provide fuel for nuclear reactors

Outside the small town of Paducah, Kentucky, a wealth of uranium is locked away in thousands of storage cylinders filled with waste material from a now-closed nuclear enrichment facility. Lasers could help get it out. A company called Global Laser Enrichment (GLE) is looking to r…

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M.A.S.K.-Inspired Cyberdeck for all your Portable Computing needs

There are infinite varieties of cyberdeck you could make, each with their own inspirations. Today, [RadioactiveArtist] shows us a M.A.S.K. lunchbox cyberdeck faithful to the 80s show. To know why …read more

Flexible PCBs: Not Only For The Few

Flexible printed circuit boards are a fascinating technique for making electronics venture beyond the two-dimensional, but surprisingly they’re not something many of us have worked with. [Jessica Stanley] gave a …read more

How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going?

Article URL: https://lockwood.dev/ai/2026/07/27/how-is-the-bun-rewrite-in-rust-going.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49067854 Points: 343 # Comments: 265

Neighborhood Bulletin Boards, circa 1982

When the Internet first started gaining mainstream popularity in the late 90s, many optimists claimed that it would bring people together by reducing barriers to communication. That ideal hasn’t exactly …read more

AI companies are shredding rare books

https://xcancel.com/HedgieMarkets/status/2081534588485296565 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49068738 Points: 662 # Comments: 412

PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works

Article URL: https://nikolays.github.io/PGSimCity/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063754 Points: 844 # Comments: 82

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A Music Box With A Very Modern Heart

A ballerina music box is a charming ornament, but it remains one that is limited by its mechanism to a very short performance. [ShielaDixon] has one, and decided to make …read more

Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace

Related: Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49070985 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49065752 Points: 1059 # Comments: 430

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.