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Phia accused of ‘cookie stuffing,’ taking affiliate credit on purchases it didn’t earn
Phia, the shopping startup founded by Bill Gates’ daughter, Phoebe, and her friend Sophia Kianni is under fire for a practice known as “cookie stuffing,” which helped the product receive commissions and credit for sales it did not actually generate, per a Bloomberg investigation.
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Sperm donors need limits, says a European fertility group
Ties van der Meer doesn’t know how many siblings he has. The 47-year-old was conceived at a private fertility clinic in the Netherlands using sperm provided by an anonymous donor. After the Netherlands banned anonymous donation in 2004, the doctor who ran the clinic destroyed rec…
MIT Technology Review
US cybersecurity agency CISA had to build its incident playbook during the incident, agency reveals
Independent cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs reported in May that a security researcher with cyber firm GitGuardian alerted him to reams of exposed passwords stored in a publicly accessible GitHub repository, which an employee of a CISA contractor had uploaded.
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Insta360’s Next Action Cam Could Be a Real GoPro Competitor
The new X6 360 camera has leaked.
gizmodo.com
Razer Found a New Way to Print Money: Cinnamoroll Gaming Headphones
There's also a Cinnamoroll-themed gaming chair, keyboard, mouse, and mouse pad.
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Wall Street is debating the AI buildout. Enterprises just answered: 86% say their GPUs run at half capacity or less
Enterprise companies are running AI agents ahead of the controls needed to manage them — and they deployed that way knowingly. That is the central finding from VentureBeat Research's June survey of 573 technical leaders at companies with 100 or more employees, fielded across five…
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A MIT-OpenAI study of nearly 40 million chats found the heaviest ChatGPT users reported more loneliness, dependence, and less time with real people, though researchers warn the link is correlation, not cause
We are writers and editors, not clinicians, psychologists, or therapists. What follows is our reading of a pair of recent studies, not advice about your own screen habits or wellbeing. The research described here is observational and correlational, and population-level patterns a…
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SK Hynix debuts on Nasdaq at $170, shares surge 14% in largest-ever foreign US listing
SK Hynix made a strong debut on the Nasdaq, with its American… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Chinese chip start-up aims to build 5-nanometre equivalent chips without using EUV by 2029
A Chinese chip start-up has launched what it claims to be the world’s first 8-inch production line for two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, marking the country’s latest push to develop alternative chip technologies amid US curbs on its access to advanced chipmaking equipment. Sha…
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Justdial Posts ₹166 Cr Profit In Q1, CEO VSS Mani To Step Down After 30 Years
Digital classifieds platform Justdial’s net profit rose a meagre 4.1% to ₹166 Cr in the first quarter (Q1) of fiscal…
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logicalqubit Launches Quantum Cloud for All Industries, as First Quantum Computing Companies Begin Harvesting
Hangzhou-based logicalqubit releases its quantum cloud platform with both physical and logical qubit capabilities, marking a shift from hardware sales to cloud-based quantum computing services.
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The quiet grief of outgrowing a friendship neither of you did anything to break
Some friendships don't end in conflict — they simply thin until neither of you is quite sure when the last real conversation happened. Psychologists call this ambiguous loss, and it may be one of the most under-grieved experiences of adult life.
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Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aei1285 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48866134 Points: 202 # Comments: 70
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Fixing the Fix for a 3dfx Voodoo Card’s Overly Bright Picture
After previously fixing an overly bright picture from a Voodoo graphics card with a simple resistor on one of the RAMDAC’s pins to correct its faulty internal Vref, [Bits und …read more
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Reject Modernity, Return to 80s, Learn C.
We’re not exactly sure how old [SnailMail] is, but he’s probably a member of Generation Alpha considering that to our wizened eyes the lad looks only slightly older than a …read more
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LAST CALL FOR ENROLLMENT: Become an AI Engineer - Cohort 7
Our 7th cohort of Becoming an AI Engineer starts tomorrow, Saturday, July 11. This is a live, cohort-based course created in collaboration with best-selling author Ali Aminian and published by ByteByteGo.
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How To Use Those Cute But Slightly Odd 7-Segment LCDs
If you’re not aware, there is such a thing as adorable little three digit LCD 7-segment displays. They come in a ten-pin DIP package and are just begging to be …read more
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Documenting the IR Protocol of the PumpSaver Plus Device
Having a pump in a remote location where you aren’t constantly monitoring it is a common scenario, which can be unfortunate when said pump runs into problems like a dry …read more
hackaday.com
Streaming vs Batch: Two Philosophies of Data Processing
When is the data complete enough to be moved to the compute stage?
bytebytego.com
Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48865019 Points: 955 # Comments: 473
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The Agent Loop: How AI Goes From Answering Questions to Doing Things
In this article, we will walk through that progression. We will also look at how an agent is structured, what choices the model makes on every turn, what scaffolding holds it together, and when an agent is actually the right pattern to reach for.
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