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It’s not about Anthropic vs. OpenAI anymore

AI models have progressed to the point where their capabilities have real political consequences. Dealing with those consequences will require collective action.

Apple’s Full Statement on Yesterday’s Price Increases

Apple, in a statement issues to the press yesterday, quoted fully by MacRumors: The consumer electronics industry is facing an unprecedented challenge. The rapid expansion of AI data centers has created an extraordinary surge in demand for memory and storage. We have never seen a…

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…

Russian hackers were behind $2.5 billion hack of Jaguar Land Rover: report

The hack on car giant Jaguar Land Rover last year was one the most disrupting, damaging, and costly hacks of the last few years.

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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‘Vampire: The Masquerade’ ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Kindred Class Includes 6 Clans

You can soon play as Toreador, Ventrue, Nosferatu, Gangrel, Brujah, and Lasombra vampires in 'Dungeons & Dragons.'

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ByteDance's AI Engine Roars Ahead But Compute Costs Crush Margins

ByteDance's Doubao hits 200M DAU and 180 trillion daily tokens, but compute costs may exceed RMB 200 billion in 2026 as MaaS revenue targets soar 10x.

Apple price hikes may hit iPhone next as memory, storage costs soar: analysts

Apple’s sweeping price hikes on MacBooks and iPads, which wiped out US$260 billion of its market cap overnight, reflect a “seismic shock” the tech industry faces from rising memory and storage costs, analysts say, warning that the iPhone could be next. The US tech giant increased…

China keeps an eye on AI smart glasses as privacy concerns come into focus

China has issued the first industry code of conduct for smart glasses powered by artificial intelligence, following public outrage over videos taken by users covertly filming strangers with the increasingly popular devices. The voluntary code calls on smart eyewear manufacturers …

SpaceX could launch Starlink mobile service, beginning with US consumers

SpaceX is preparing to make a major entry into the US mobile… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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People born between 1945 and 1965 were raised in homes where children were expected to read the emotional weather of the room before speaking, and 7 adult patterns trace directly back to that conditioning

A Silicon Canals Mind piece on how childhood emotional display rules can become adult habits around timing, calm, conflict, and directness.

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UBTECH Sells 5,000 Companion Robots in Two Weeks, Eyes Consumer Market Breakthrough

UBTECH's U1 full-size humanoid companion robot records 5,000+ pre-orders in under three weeks, signaling growing consumer appetite for emotional AI robots in China.

These Seafood Toxins Survive Cooking—and They’re Fueling Foodborne Outbreaks

Hundreds of outbreaks tied to harmful marine algae and other sources have been reported in the U.S. since 2011, a new CDC report finds.

Xprize founder says ‘humans behave better when they’re being watched’

Peter Diamandis is the latest tech executive to argue that global surveillance will make the world a better place, following Larry Ellison's comments in 2024.

Most companies think they're building a software factory. They're actually just shipping bugs faster.

Industrialized factories changed how the world produced physical goods: more output, lower costs, faster than anything that came before. Now a similar shift is happening with software. LLMs have lowered the barrier to writing code, increased individual output, and pushed organiz…

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Libre Barcode Project

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We all depend on open source. We will defend it together

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This Kid-Friendly Laptop Build is The Antidote to Age Verification

Age-verification has been a topic of hot debate recently, with many in the community feeling that keeping kids safe online is better handled by the parents. But what does that …read more

Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/why-have-papers-one-history-s-most-famous-physicists-been-retracted Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48686834 Points: 222 # Comments: 108

What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant

Article URL: https://www.fernandoi.cl/posts/hackmyclaw/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681687 Points: 302 # Comments: 132

Hackaday Podcast Episode 375: Rebuilding Tech on Our Terms and the Hero Nerd

In this episode, Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start off by taking a trip down the Raspberry Pi memory lane and then tackle a fresh pile of listener …read more

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.

Alan Turing’s Remarkable, Nearly-Forgotten Voice Encryption Device

[Popular Mechanics] has an interesting article about Alan Turing’s nearly-forgotten speech encryption device. Codenamed Delilah, it was in many ways an early form of digital encryption. It was secretly developed alongside …read more

Large Language Models vs Small Language Models

In this article, we will explore those constraints through three layers of model design, look at the tradeoffs that come with each approach, and investigate the production systems that combine both small and large models.