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Annie Jacobsen’s ‘Biological War’ Is Coming to TV

The author of 'Nuclear War: A Scenario' just released her latest terrifying 'what if' scenario, and it's getting a series adaptation.

Sam Altman is ready to decelerate

His change of position comes after "the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally."

Laboratoria’s Mariana Costa Empowers Women in Tech

In shaping her career, Peru native Mariana Costa has asked herself a question: What can I do to make life better for women in Latin America? The answer she landed on was training them for tech jobs. Mariana Costa Employer Laboratoria Title Co-founder and president Alma Maters …

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The robot NASA hired to lift a orbital telescope tumbled out of control

According to NASA, two of the three reaction wheels that control the spacecraft's alignment have failed, and there are problems with one of the spacecraft's thruster systems.

Instacart's CTO says AI made the company stop worrying about tech debt

Instacart is posing the provocative question: What if most of the work your engineers do today should, in fact, be done by machines? At VB Transform 2026, CTO Anirban Kundu argued that dev teams continue to waste their time on draining, repetitive, high-volume work; this should b…

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Runway couldn't fix a bug in its AI video model, so it turned the bug into a feature

Runway spent weeks trying to engineer its way out of a stubborn bug: AI-generated avatars would drift off-center during real-time video generation. The fix wasn't a back-end patch — it was a new front-end feature that just worked around the problem. That's the kind of lesson Ryan…

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From CXMT to Zhipu: How Alibaba’s investment pays off with a growing AI and chip portfolio

ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) and Zhipu AI have not only seen their share prices skyrocket, but they have also handed a windfall to their common backer: Alibaba Group Holding. Before the listing of China’s memory-chip giant on Monday, Alibaba owned nearly 5 per cent of CXMT…

At the peak of Zimbabwe’s 2008 meltdown, prices doubled roughly every day. The central bank answered by printing a hundred-trillion-dollar note worth only about US$30 when it appeared.

When a government prints money faster than prices can rise, the only winner is the black market.

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SEDEMAC’s Q1 Profit Soars To ₹33 Cr, Revenue Up 43% YoY

Deeptech company SEDEMAC Mechatronics’ net profit zoomed 95.1% to ₹33.3 Cr in the first quarter (Q1) of the fiscal year…

Vishal Mega Mart Doubles Down On Quick Commerce Amid Retail Shift

Amid growing penetration of quick commerce in Indian retail, value retail chain Vishal Mega Mart is looking to double down…

Deconstructing the Kimi K3 Technical Report: Moonshot AI Starts Setting Problems for DeepSeek as Two Scaling Axes Redefine the Frontier

Moonshot AI 47-page K3 report reveals KDA+Gated MLA hybrid attention, AttnRes cross-layer retrieval, Stable LatentMoE with 896 experts, and 51.2M RL sandboxes.

InfiMaker seeks to bring industrial manufacturing to every desktop with AI

When people think of advanced manufacturing, they typically picture multimillion-dollar industrial machines operating inside factories, not a compact device sitting on a desk. But that’s precisely the perception InfiMaker, a startup founded in 2024, is trying to change. The start…

Steve Jobs in 2011: ‘We Build Products That We Want for Ourselves, Too, and We Just Don’t Want Ads’

Dan Frommer, writing for Business Insider in 2011 about that year’s WWDC (Jobs’s last): While discussing Apple’s free, new iCloud email service, he took an apparent jab at Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and the others, which stuff ads in their free email services. “No ads,” he boasted. “We b…

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Exclusive: Co-Founded By Former Whoop CTO, Throne Science Raises $10M To Track Gut Health From The Toilet

Throne Science, a startup that makes an AI-powered toilet camera to track gut health and hydration, has raised $10 million in a Series A round led by Will Ventures, it told Crunchbase News exclusively. Emerson Collective, Workshop, LEAD VC, Salt VC, Accomplice, Moxxie Ventures, a…

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GM redesigned its engineering workflows around AI agents — and tripled its merged pull requests

Software engineers at General Motors' (GM's) autonomous driving division spend only 15% of their time writing code, according to Rashed Haq, GM's VP of autonomous vehicles, in a recent onstage interview at VB Transform 2026. GM is now using AI agents to accelerate much of the oth…

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Why Is Textile Work Not Taught To Engineers?

A talk from the recent Electromagnetic Field event in the UK caught our eye, in which [Amy Jeskins] looked at the overlooked engineering skill of pattern cutting. She takes us …read more

OpenAI just open-sourced Codex Security

Article URL: https://github.com/openai/codex-security Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089755 Points: 278 # Comments: 58

Substack writers, you need a website

Article URL: https://elizabethtai.com/2026/06/10/substack-writers-you-need-a-website/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49086788 Points: 377 # Comments: 195

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Donate to GrapheneOS

Article URL: https://grapheneos.org/donate Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49088451 Points: 220 # Comments: 70

Breaking the Parental Lock on an XBox 360 is Very Much an Inconvenience

There are many ways to soft-brick a device to the point where it cannot easily be used again, and “Cloud locks” or parental locks are probably at the top of …read more

A walk through of the DeltaNet family of linear attention variants

Article URL: https://blog.doubleword.ai/you-could-have-come-up-with-kimi-delta-attention Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49085909 Points: 280 # Comments: 116

Sharkfin Bites Attack Shark

The Attack Shark is a modern keyboard with fancy magnetic keyswitches, macros, configurable blinky LEDs, and more. The problem is that the configuration software only works on Windows, so [JR …read more

Samsung’s SmartThings API Terminates Free Access

If there’s one constant in the world of commercial home automation solutions, it is that of decreasing availability and higher costs as time goes on. So too with Samsung’s SmartThings, …read more

How NVIDIA Builds Open Models for the Age of AI

Bryan Catanzaro, VP of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA, walked us through how his team builds the company’s open models, the reasoning behind their architecture, and why NVIDIA open-sources so much of it.