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Flock Reportedly Tried to Turn Uber Drivers Into Mobile Snitches
More eyes on you.
gizmodo.com
What’s the Difference Between Surveillance Pricing and Dynamic Pricing?
All the surveillance pricing terms you need to know to avoid getting ripped off.
gizmodo.com
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: A Big Week For Big Checks
Startups raised funding rounds with a lot of zeroes at the end this week, with three companies securing financings of $1 billion or more. Additionally, a robust lineup of companies in sectors including AI, e-commerce, cybersecurity, biotech and even mining also announced sizable …
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Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents
Kitesurf is a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents instead of people. It uses less computing power than Chromium for common automation tasks, helping developers build browser-based AI agents more efficiently.
techcrunch.com
‘The Ribbon Hero’ Is an Infectiously Hopeful Magical Girl Take on a Classic
Studio OUTLINE's reimaigining of Osamu Tezuka's 'The Princess Knight' is a kick-ass anime film whose heart makes up for its whimsically off the rails final act.
gizmodo.com
Wacom’s MovinkPad 11 is a fun, midpriced entry point for digital artists
The MovinkPad 11 a versatile little graphics tablet that can help make your wildest digital art dreams come true.
techcrunch.com
International tech
Psychology says the person who appears totally fine after a devastating loss and the person who falls apart are not as different as you’d think, and the truly resilient one is rarely who you’d guess.
Our culture has it backwards: the person who breaks down at a funeral and the one who stays composed may both be processing loss in equally valid ways, and the stoic response isn't necessarily denial.
siliconcanals.com
L3 Is Just the Starting Line for China's AI-Agent Phones
Eleven mobile devices cleared the first batch of China's national AI-terminal intelligence grading tests in July, including nine smartphones from Huawei, Motorola, Honor, vivo, OPPO, Xiaomi and Stepfun. Vendors are calling L3 the highest level, but the real bottleneck for L4 is n…
pandaily.com
Ather Jumps 17% To Lead Weekly Rally In New-Age Tech Stocks, MapmyIndia Biggest Loser
With the Q1 earnings season in full swing, investors actively traded new-age tech stocks based on the latest financial disclosures,…
inc42.com
Psychology says procrastination about retirement may be less about discipline than identity — brain scans found people often represent their future selves more like strangers than like themselves, and experiments using age-progressed faces made tomorrow’s person feel real enough for participants to save more money for them
Research on future self-continuity suggests retirement delay can involve identity as well as discipline, though early face-ageing studies measured hypothetical choices.
siliconcanals.com
Centre Seeks Technical Changes From Meta To Tackle Deepfakes, Child Abuse Material
The Centre’s discussions with Meta have moved into a technical phase after two days of intensive questioning over deepfakes, child…
inc42.com
Indian Listed New-Age Tech Company Tracker: Market Cap, Revenue & More
For years, we at Inc42 have tracked the Indian tech startup ecosystem and seen it grow from a kid to…
inc42.com
An AI Model From Meta Also Hacked Another Company During Testing
Simon Willison: So that’s Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta. Google Gemini really needs to catch up on accidentally cyberattacking other companies. I’m surprised Willison hasn’t heard about how much momentum Gemini has.  ★
simonwillison.net
Meta: Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
Meta AI: We’re excited to release Muse Code (beta), a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, our newest model. This marks our next step toward the frontier, with larger and much more capable models on the way. [...] Muse Code takes on complex software engineering tasks …
research.meta.ai
Four AI agents coordinating in real time outperformed Claude Opus 4.8 on enterprise coding tasks
As enterprise codebases grow, AI agents tasked with analyzing them are buckling under the weight of long-horizon tasks that require multiple interactions and tool calls. Dividing the work among a team of agents seems like the obvious fix, but it introduces a fatal flaw: most mult…
venturebeat.com

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Want Energy Efficiency? Dude, You’re Getting a Dell!
With a title like “Intel Just Matched Apple Silicon. Seriously.“, the latest video from [Jeff Geerling] makes some pretty bold claims. But as we’d expect from [Jeff], he’s got the …read more
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The BBC Tetris Companion
[Leaded Solder] took on an interesting challenge. The BBC, apparently, produced a game console known as the BBC Bridge Companion that connected to your TV and helped you learn to …read more
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U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative
Article URL: https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216946 Points: 273 # Comments: 101
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Tim Hunkin’s History Of Arcade Machines
There was a particular treat at the recent Electromagnetic Field event in the UK, as [Tim Hunkin] delivered a talk on the history of arcade machines. Given that he’s something …read more
hackaday.com
App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours
Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/app_store_rejection_of_the_week_dark_hours Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214863 Points: 325 # Comments: 192
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Block, shmock — Just Pump Water Over The Chip
If you’re water cooling a PC, it’s generally accepted that you need some interface between the coolant and the chips — a water block of copper or aluminum that carries …read more
hackaday.com
Road to Staff+ TPM: The Mindset
2026.05 — Part of the Road to Staff+ TPM series, examining the gap between succeeding as a mid-level TPM and thriving as a Staff+ TPM.
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How Big Models Teach Small Models to Be Smart
In this article, we will walk through the idea from the ground up.
bytebytego.com
The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
Article URL: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixpkgs-core-team-has-disbanded/79413 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49217993 Points: 331 # Comments: 163
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