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OpenAI's updated GPT-5.5 Instant is better at shopping, complex constraints, and understanding user intent  — and it's already in the API
OpenAI has made a significant update to its most widely used language model, GPT-5.5 Instant, which is the default in the free version of ChatGPT. The company announced the upgraded version of GPT-5.5 Instant yesterday on X, calling it "much more fun to talk to" and saying it is…
venturebeat.com
America’s Time Capsule for 2276 Includes Futuristic Predictions From Claude
"San Francisco, famously predicted to be underwater, is not — quite."
gizmodo.com
Apple Journal’s Atrocious Undo Bug Has Been Fixed (and SwiftUI, Per Se, Is Not to Blame)
On the eve of WWDC, in a post arguing that “SwiftUI Only Makes It Easy to Develop Bad Apps”, I wrote about an atrocious bug in Apple’s Journal app: If you’re running MacOS 26 Tahoe, open Journal and make a new dummy entry. Type something like “The quick brown fox.” Then double-cl…
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Om Malik, 1966-2026
Heartbreaking news, shared by Om’s family: Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital after a long health journey with his heart. He was surrounded by family and friends. We invite you to share your remembrances of Om in the comments below or by posting and taggi…
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Cursor Deal Puts US On Track For Record Startup M&A Year
While SpaceX’s $60 billion acquisition of Anysphere dominates the headlines, a number of other multibillion-dollar transactions have also closed this year. We take a look at the 10 largest M&A deals so far in 2026.
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Hackers Steal Funds From Polymarket Users, Potentially Millions
"We're contacting impacted users & refunding them in full."
gizmodo.com
International tech
China's Lingsheng Supercomputer Tops Global Rankings with 2.19 EFLOPS
China's domestically developed Lingsheng supercomputer has reclaimed the world's No. 1 ranking on the TOP500 list, achieving a sustained double-precision floati...
pandaily.com
Deep thinkers often do not realize it, but the way they make decisions can be different from most people
A Silicon Canals Mind piece on how reflective people can approach decisions differently, from questioning first answers to weighing reversibility and search costs.
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China’s Big Fund becomes SMIC’s third-largest shareholder after record Star Market buyout
China’s state-backed Big Fund has become the third-largest shareholder of the Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), the country’s largest wafer foundry, after SMIC completed its acquisition of a manufacturing subsidiary in the largest merger and acquisitio…
scmp.com
Huawei and Cambricon lead China’s AI server chip surge, piling pressure on Nvidia
Chinese chip suppliers led by Huawei Technologies and Cambricon Technologies, together with tech giants developing their own silicon, are set to capture nearly 80 per cent of the domestic AI server market this year, further squeezing global rivals such as Nvidia, according to Tre…
scmp.com
RoboScience Unveils Visics, a General-Purpose Embodied AI Model
Beijing-based embodied intelligence company RoboScience officially unveiled its general-purpose embodied AI model Visics on June 24, complete with a full techni...
pandaily.com
Apple shares plummet over 6% amid price increase for Macs, iPads, home and Vision Pro
As Apple announced a rare extreme step of steep price increases across… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
thetechportal.com
Polymarket says hackers stole users’ funds
The prediction market giant Polymarket said it's refunding users who had funds stolen due to a third-party breach.
techcrunch.com
Why Does a Bank Need a Chief Scientist?
This article is brought to you by Capital One. After five years leading natural language understanding and eventually the entire Alexa AI organization at Amazon, Prem Natarajan made a nontraditional move: He became Chief Scientist at a bank. Not just any bank: Capital One, a fina…
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IBM has unveiled chip technology that could help extend Moore’s Law another decade
IBM has built a new prototype chip with around 100 billion transistors on an area the size of a fingernail, which is twice the density of the company’s previous state-of-the-art technology announced in 2021. The design could pave the way for faster and more energy efficient compu…
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Fixing a Warped Paperback Spine With Gentle Heating
Although paperbacks are a much-loved aspect of the literary world, they are not really intended to last the decades the way that hardcover books are. Beyond the typical ravaged covers, …read more
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An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
Preprint: https://scrollprize.org/pdf/main.pdf https://github.com/ScrollPrize/villa Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675179 Points: 844 # Comments: 196
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The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy
Article URL: https://expression.fire.org/p/the-papers-please-era-of-the-internet Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48679608 Points: 205 # Comments: 71
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Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates
Article URL: https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-quietly-gets-one-more-year-of-support-and-updates/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675369 Points: 216 # Comments: 188
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Top Anti-Patterns to Avoid in Service Architecture
In this article, we will look at some of the most important anti-patterns in service architecture, how they happen, and how they can be avoided.
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Increasing Local GPS Accuracy for a Small Robot
Even though GPS makes it possible for us to easily navigate around the planet in almost any vehicle we’d like, whether that’s a passenger vehicle, airplane, or cargo ship, it’s …read more
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Om Malik has died
Article URL: https://om.co/2026/06/24/1966-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48678852 Points: 255 # Comments: 23
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Flying Cell Towers Are A Thing
Typically, when you’re sitting on a plane on the tarmac, you switch your phone to flight mode while you’re sitting through yet another “quirky” (boring) safety video. You’ll watch some …read more
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CSS On The ESP32
There are lots of graphics libraries available for the ESP32, and lots of ways to program one to boot. Even still, most of us wouldn’t immediately think to CSS when …read more
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