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Uber has always wanted to be more than a ride; now it has reason to hurry
The company has been trying to embed itself inside the AV industry — as a data provider, an investor, and a distribution platform — but the consumer-facing bet may be just as important.
techcrunch.com
RIP Koji Suzuki, Author and Creator of ‘The Ring’
Suzuki's 1991 horror novel didn't just spark the 'Ring' movies, it also changed the game for horror in and out of Japan.
gizmodo.com
A Game of Thrones Writer Reveals the Show’s Early Challenges
Writer Bryan Cogman reminisces about getting to make 'Game of Thrones' and how big an accomplishment the show was back in the day.
gizmodo.com
Korea’s biggest manufacturers back Config, the TSMC of robot data
Samsung, Hyundai and LG just bet on the startup that wants to be robotics' data backbone.
techcrunch.com
Yes, Apple Is Reportedly Retooling Some Liquid Glass Problems for macOS 27
But no, they’re not killing Liquid Glass.
gizmodo.com
AI tool poisoning exposes a major flaw in enterprise agent security
AI agents choose tools from shared registries by matching natural-language descriptions. But no human is verifying whether those descriptions are true. I discovered this gap when I filed Issue #141 in the CoSAI secure-ai-tooling repository. I assumed it would be treated as a sin…
venturebeat.com
International tech
Adda247 Lays Off 20% Workforce Ahead Of IPO
Google-backed edtech major Adda247 has laid off 20% of its workforce, or around 200 employees, in an internal restructuring ahead…
inc42.com
IPO-Bound Acko Turns Profitable, Posts ₹43.6 Cr Profit In FY26
IPO-bound insurtech unicorn Acko turned profitable in FY26, posting a net profit of ₹43.6 Cr in FY26 compared to a…
inc42.com
Ather Energy Jumps 8% To Touch Record High After PM Modi’s Clean Mobility Push
Shares of Ather Energy soared as much as 8.1% to hit a fresh all-time high at ₹989.4 on the BSE…
inc42.com
Not all social exhaustion is introversion – sometimes it’s the tiredness of wanting a real conversation and getting three hours of polite small talk instead
“So how old are yours now?” “Eleven and eight. You?” “Same age range, basically. Time flies, right?” It was somewhere around the third version of that exchange that I realised I was done. Not done with the evening, just done in some deeper way. Worn through. I drove home trying t…
siliconcanals.com
People who never post on social media and don’t constantly seek reassurance aren’t detached – they may have learned how to sit with uncertainty without needing an audience
Pew Research found in 2024 that the share of U.S. adults who say they post on social media has been steadily declining across most major platforms, while the share who only scroll has grown. The audience is staying. The performers are thinning out. There is a particular kind of p…
siliconcanals.com
LaST-R1: New Physical Reasoning Paradigm Achieves 99.9% Success Rate on LIBERO Benchmark
A joint research from Zojian Power, Peking University, and CUHK proposes LaST-R1, a new embodied AI paradigm that achieves 99.9% success on LIBERO benchmark — 22.5% higher than π0.5 in real-world tasks.
pandaily.com

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Hacked Video File Holds Multiple Films On YouTube
We notice there are a lot of hacks on YouTube lately, but we don’t share enough hacks about YouTube. That’s why [PortalRunner]’s latest oeuvre is interesting: it’s a video that …read more
hackaday.com
Mermaid Clutch-Purse Cyberdeck is Unappologetically Girly
We feature a lot of DIY portable computers — rehash the “is that a cyberdeck” in the comments to your heart’s content — but how many of them are explicitly …read more
hackaday.com
Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler
Article URL: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116550899908879585 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086190 Points: 1612 # Comments: 526
grapheneos.social
EP214: Claude Code vs. OpenClaw: 5 Design Dimensions
Both are highly capable, but they have key architectural differences.
bytebytego.com
Maryland citizens hit with $2B power grid upgrade for out-of-state AI
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/maryland-citizens-slapped-with-usd2-billion-grid-upgrade-bill-for-out-of-state-ai-data-centers-state-complains-to-federal-energy-regulators-says-additional-cost-breaks-ratepayer-protection-pledge-prom…
tomshardware.com
Binaural Microphone on a Budget
For as many speakers as someone can cram into a surround sound system, humans still (generally) only have two ears to listen to those sounds with. This means that, for …read more
hackaday.com
Become an AI Engineer | Enrollment Ends Soon
Our 6th cohort of Becoming an AI Engineer starts in about a week.
bytebytego.com
Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan
Article URL: https://cyber.netsecops.io/articles/obsidian-plugin-abused-in-campaign-to-deploy-phantom-pulse-rat/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088576 Points: 224 # Comments: 114
cyber.netsecops.io
I'm going back to writing code by hand
Article URL: https://blog.k10s.dev/im-going-back-to-writing-code-by-hand/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090029 Points: 399 # Comments: 196
k10s.dev