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‘The Ribbon Hero’ Is an Infectiously Hopeful Magical Girl Take on a Classic

Studio OUTLINE's reimaigining of Osamu Tezuka's 'The Princess Knight' is a kick-ass anime film whose heart makes up for its whimsically off the rails final act.

Tencent's Team Memory shares AI agent memory across a team — with no governance yet for when it's wrong

A VB Pulse survey this June found that 57% of enterprises had traced a confidently wrong agent answer back to missing or inconsistent context — the latest sign of how central context has become to whether AI agents can be trusted to act on their own. Most of the fixes so far have…

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Just How Bad Are AI Data Centers for Your Local Water?

Communities say AI is draining their water supplies, but the tech industry begs to differ. Gizmodo asked experts for their honest assessments.

After Rippling blew millions on AI in months, it built an employee ROI tool

After its own AI usage wake-up call, Rippling this week unveiled AI Spend Console, a product that tracks individual and team employee AI spending.

Four AI agents coordinating in real time outperformed Claude Opus 4.8 on enterprise coding tasks

As enterprise codebases grow, AI agents tasked with analyzing them are buckling under the weight of long-horizon tasks that require multiple interactions and tool calls. Dividing the work among a team of agents seems like the obvious fix, but it introduces a fatal flaw: most mult…

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The X-Men Casting Rumors Just Keep on Coming

All eyes are on the next 'X-Men' movie and what actors Marvel will enlist to help fill out its cast.

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Psychology says pushing your chair back in when you leave a table speaks volumes about your character, because it’s a habit built entirely on consideration for a stranger you’ll never meet and will never thank you

The smallest gestures reveal the deepest character traits—especially when no one's keeping score.

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Inside the 800,000-Yuan Robot Trainer Job That Did Not Exist Three Years Ago

An embodied-AI robot application technician is one of 12 new occupations the Chinese Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security plans to add to the national catalog. Average salaries in the role already run between 500,000 and 800,000 yuan, and demand growth has been explosi…

Flipkart Minutes Enters Premium Grocery Segment With Pykd

Walmart-owned Flipkart’s quick commerce arm Flipkart Minutes is entering the premium grocery and specialty food products segment under its private…

[Update] Now, Finance Ministry Rules Out Consumer UPI Charges Amid MDR Debate

Update | August 8, 21:16 ISST Addressing concerns over merchant discount rates (MDR) on UPI, the finance ministry categorically clarified…

Psychology says procrastination about retirement may be less about discipline than identity — brain scans found people often represent their future selves more like strangers than like themselves, and experiments using age-progressed faces made tomorrow’s person feel real enough for participants to save more money for them

Research on future self-continuity suggests retirement delay can involve identity as well as discipline, though early face-ageing studies measured hypothetical choices.

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FY26 Financial Tracker: Tracking The Financial Performance Of Indian Startups

The Indian startup ecosystem continued to mature in FY26, with 22 new-age tech companies making their public market debut as…

Wacom’s MovinkPad 11 is a fun, midpriced entry point for digital artists

The MovinkPad 11 a versatile little graphics tablet that can help make your wildest digital art dreams come true.

Some New Data Centers Are Necessary

A bunch of mine are stored here. ★

Thrift Store Chain Starts Using AI to Price Items (but Denies It’s for Dynamic Pricing)

The AI replaces the work of employees who used to determine prices.

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The BBC Tetris Companion

[Leaded Solder] took on an interesting challenge. The BBC, apparently, produced a game console known as the BBC Bridge Companion that connected to your TV and helped you learn to …read more

The Read Path versus the Write Path: Strategies and Techniques

In this article, we will look at read path and write path operations and techniques in detail.

Junkbin, a Way to Efficiently Reuse Your Old Electronics

We all have that bin in the corner of our shops — the one with all the circuit boards or broken electronics that we are totally gonna do something with. …read more

U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative

Article URL: https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216946 Points: 304 # Comments: 120

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Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

Article URL: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49219508 Points: 247 # Comments: 79

Block, shmock — Just Pump Water Over The Chip

If you’re water cooling a PC, it’s generally accepted that you need some interface between the coolant and the chips — a water block of copper or aluminum that carries …read more

Want Energy Efficiency? Dude, You’re Getting a Dell!

With a title like “Intel Just Matched Apple Silicon. Seriously.“, the latest video from [Jeff Geerling] makes some pretty bold claims. But as we’d expect from [Jeff], he’s got the …read more

DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones

Article URL: https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220126 Points: 232 # Comments: 68

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The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded

Article URL: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixpkgs-core-team-has-disbanded/79413 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49217993 Points: 358 # Comments: 178

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