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Earth Could Survive the Sun’s Bloated Death Stage, But There’s a Catch
Our planet could endure, but we definitely will not.
gizmodo.com
Crunchbase Data: Q2 Brought The Most Billion-Dollar Startup Exits Since 2021
Startup exits valued at $1 billion or more are now more numerous than at any point since the 2021 market peak, Crunchbase data shows. The trend we’re seeing for the second quarter of 2026 includes both the largest venture-backed exit of all time and a bevy of other comparatively…
news.crunchbase.com
The ‘Werwulf’ Trailer Invites You to Embrace the Darkness
The latest from Robert Eggers makes his 'Nosferatu' look like a rom-com.
gizmodo.com
In a Win for Privacy, Supreme Court Rules Geofence Warrants Are a ‘Search’ Under 4th Amendment
The court stopped short of declaring geofence warrants unconstitutional.
gizmodo.com
Australia Ups the Ante in Under-16 Social Media Ban as Kids Find Workarounds
Social media companies can face double the fines if they fail to comply.
gizmodo.com
Cursor now has a mobile app for guiding your coding agent on the go
Cursor has launched a new mobile app for remote oversight over coding agents.
techcrunch.com
International tech
Delhi Government Plans To Invest ₹15,000 Cr To Fuel Electric Mobility
Adding to its effort to electrify transportation in the national capital, Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta announced the government’s plans…
inc42.com
Zhipingfang Hits $2.8B Valuation as Brain-Like AI Era Dawns, Greater Bay Area's First Embodied AI Unicorn
Embodied AI company Zhipingfang completes approximately 5 billion yuan in new funding, pushing total valuation past 20 billion yuan with its brain-inspired NeuroVLA architecture.
pandaily.com
Psychology says people who grew up working class aren’t less capable than their higher-class peers in job interviews — they’re simply less overconfident, and overconfidence is what interviewers keep mistaking for competence
Job interviews are supposed to measure competence. A 2020 paper in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology suggests they often measure something else: how comfortable a person is with sounding certain. Peter Belmi, Margaret A. Neale, David Reiff and Rosemary Ulfe studied…
siliconcanals.com
The generation that grew up with one shared phone in the hallway learned something their children never had to: how to be bored in front of other people without reaching for an escape
Picture a narrow hallway in a small apartment. A single phone is bolted to the wall, and a teenager twists the cord around her finger while her whole family pretends not to listen. If the call went quiet, she had nowhere to hide. She stood there, in full view of everyone, and wai…
siliconcanals.com
China’s cooling, e-commerce giants see sales surge as scorched Europe scrambles for relief
A heatwave sweeping across Europe has triggered a massive surge in sales for Chinese home appliances, with e-commerce giant Alibaba recording triple-digit growth for air conditioners and fans on its overseas platforms. On AliExpress, Alibaba’s international retail site, the June …
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Apple questions credibility of India’s App Store antitrust probe, alleges watchdog copied rivals’ claims: Report
Apple has intensified its legal battle with India’s antitrust regulator, accusing the… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
thetechportal.com
The attack that hijacked Claude Code came through Sentry. Datadog, PagerDuty, and Jira have the same exposure.
A single fake error report hijacked Claude Code in controlled testing — the agent ran the attacker's code with the developer's full privileges, and not one alert fired. EDR, WAF, IAM, and the firewall all missed it completely. Tenet Security's June agentjacking disclosure describ…
venturebeat.com
The New York Times: ‘Om Malik, Whose Blog Shaped How Silicon Valley Saw Itself, Dies at 59’
Clay Risen, writing for The New York Times (gift link): Mr. Malik started his blog just as the dot-com bubble burst, leading to a recession that also took down many of the journalism start-ups that wrote about tech, like The Industry Standard and Inside.com. He was among the most…
New York Times
Agent confidence on the technical frontier
Enterprise investment in AI is booming. Gartner is calling 2026 an “inflection year” for organizations to align their AI projects with strategic business objectives. As the pressure to prove ROI mounts, executives and technology leaders are looking to agentic AI to drive the meas…
MIT Technology Review

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Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech
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It’s Linux, on a Sega Megadrive
If you were in the market for a games console in 1990, the chances are that the object of your desire was either a Super Nintendo with its 16-bit 6502 …read more
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The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
Article URL: https://det.social/@lostgen/116820546568940358 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48717469 Points: 210 # Comments: 561
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Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it
Article URL: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/pollen-tried-to-remove-my-article-about-callum-negus-fancey-and-google-is-assisting-to-it/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48716902 Points: 731 # Comments: 99
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Mechanical TV, Without The Benefit Of New Parts
There are many experimenters who have had a go at a mechanical television, and though there are a few challenges, it’s a relatively straightforward project in 2026. A hundred years …read more
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Hackaday Europe 2026 – Building A Retro PC From Scratch
If you’re big into retrocomputing, you probably spend a lot of time chasing parts and machines on online classifieds or through local swap meets. But what if there was a …read more
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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
EP220: RAG vs Graph RAG vs Agentic RAG
RAG connects LLMs to your data and there are three different ways to do it.
bytebytego.com
HamsterOS Crams Complete Graphical Desktop onto 1.44 MB Floppy
It’s not every day that there’s a new OS in the works for 386 and 486-era hardware, but [John Swiderski] let us know he working hard to bring HamsterOS to retrocomputing …read more
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