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AOL’s Parent Company Just IPO’d. No, It’s Not 1992
An Italian company that likes old brands went public. It happens to own AOL.
gizmodo.com
Apple is reportedly planning new iPad Pro and MacBook Pro releases early next year
Apple is readying several new iPad Pro tablets and a budget-friendly MacBook Pro, reports suggest.
techcrunch.com
Anthropic is bringing back Claude Fable 5 globally after US lifts export control order — where can enterprises access it?
Anthropic is restoring global access to its most powerful generally released AI model yet, Claude Fable 5, today, after the U.S. Department of Commerce last night withdrew the emergency export controls it had issued previously around the model. The U.S. export control order iss…
venturebeat.com
Indian tech tycoon bets $30M of his own money to build AI alternative to Microsoft Office
Neo is Bhavin Turakhia’s fifth venture and his latest involving enterprise software. This time he's taking on Microsoft Office, Google Apps with AI.
techcrunch.com
The Download: Anthropic launches Claude Science, and California’s carbon manure math
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. Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product At an event for pharmaceutical executives, biotech founders, and researchers yesterday, …
MIT Technology Review
PlayStation Plus and Xbox Game Pass Subscriptions
Following up on my earlier post on Valve’s righteous objection to selling game console hardware at a loss, I should have noted that PlayStation Plus starts at $11/month (and goes up to $20/month) and Xbox Game Pass starts at $10/month (and goes up to $23/month). One draw of these…
daringfireball.net
International tech
Xiaomi launches crowdfunding for its first smart storage device
Xiaomi on Wednesday launched crowdfunding for its first smart storage device on the Xiaomi Youpin platform, marking the company’s debut in the home data storage market. The device is powered by a high-performance quad-core processor and comes with up to 16TB of storage capacity. …
technode.com
Tsinghua University Trains a Top-Tier Computer Control Agent Using Massive Free Screenshots
Tsinghua and Tencent Hunyuan’s GUICrafter trains GUI agents with zero-cost web screenshots and meta-tasks, rivaling top models at 0.1% of the training data cost
pandaily.com
People expect marriage to get harder with age, but many couples describe the opposite — a softening that arrives once they stop trying to change each other and start trying to enjoy what’s left
My husband’s grandparents have been married forty-three years, and the clearest picture I have of their marriage is the two of them at the kitchen counter on a Sunday morning. He loads the dishwasher wrong, by any reasonable standard, plates leaning against glasses, mugs in the b…
siliconcanals.com
PDD embraces China’s ‘city of the future’ after bruising regulatory clash and record fine
The operator of budget online marketplaces Temu and Pinduoduo is ramping up its commitment in a state-backed development zone – dubbed a “city of the future” in official discourse – months after the e-commerce group was hit by the heaviest penalty in a record food-safety crackdow…
scmp.com
Sparrow Capital Closes Third Fund At ₹475 Cr To Back Seed Stage Startups
VC firm Sparrow Capital has closed its third fund with a corpus of ₹475 Cr (about ₹50 Mn), surpassing its…
inc42.com
A lot of men reach their sixties having built their entire sense of usefulness on being the one who fixes things, and the quiet crisis nobody names is what happens to them the year there is finally nothing left to fix.
Surveys of retired men in the UK and US consistently find the same uncomfortable pattern: a significant share report a loss of purpose, identity, or self-worth within the first two years of leaving structured work. Researchers name it in different ways — role loss, retirement ide…
siliconcanals.com

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Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise 
Article URL: https://news.ubc.ca/2026/06/mrna-vaccines-are-safe-effective-and-full-of-promise/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48754963 Points: 305 # Comments: 317
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How AI Agents Manage Memory and Avoid Forgetfulness
In this article, we will try to understand how that architecture gets built, from the constraint that forces it to exist all the way to the tradeoffs that follow.
bytebytego.com
Bring back crappy forums
Article URL: https://tedium.co/2026/07/01/online-web-forums-retrospective/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48755731 Points: 312 # Comments: 193
tedium.co
A Rare Drone Common Sense Outbreak, In Denmark
Last September, Denmark was gripped by a spate of drone sightings near airports. It’s familiar territory for Hackaday, as we reported on a similar drone panic saga at British airports …read more
hackaday.com
GPU-Accelerated Autorouter Handles Monstrous PCB Designs
[Brian] had an absolute monster of a PCB with thousands of nets to be routed, the kind of design that stopped traditional routers in their tracks. It would take months …read more
hackaday.com
How OpenAI Delivers Low-Latency Voice AI for 900M Users
In this article, we will look at the entire journey in detail and challenges the OpenAI engineering team faced.
bytebytego.com
Inside Thinking Machines’ Interaction Models
In this article, we will look at what the research preview covers and the concept of an interaction model proposed by Thinking Machines.
bytebytego.com
No-Drill Sailing Kit for a Canoe
The first known use of humans using wind to perform mechanical work with machines dates back to ninth-century Persian windmills. But if we count sailing vessels among those machines, the …read more
hackaday.com
Trying Out Viewer Suggestions for Levitation on an Induction Cooker
Doing something once is fun, but if you get interesting feedback from viewers on how to make things even more fun, you can only follow all of these instructions and …read more
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