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How an overlooked geothermal plant got a second chance
In June 2024, a small company called Zanskar purchased a geothermal power plant in New Mexico that was failing fast. The water coming from the underground reservoir was getting colder by the day, making the plant uneconomical to run. Now, two years later, that plant is running at…
MIT Technology Review
The Download: a chip talent battle, and deflating AI hype
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Samsung’s chip workers are jumping ship to rival SK Hynix   Lee, an engineer at Samsung’s semiconductor division, used to work late. But latel…
MIT Technology Review
Count Those Underscores
Nate Anderson , reporting for Ars Technica under the headline “A Missing Underscore Sent Innocent Man to Prison for 18 Months”: Police were looking for a man using the Kik messaging service under the name “fus__ro_dah” (two underscores after “fus”), but they accidentally reques…
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Apple Says iOS 27 ‘Restricted Mode’ Isn’t for Users Who Miss Payments in New Apple Upgrade Program
Last week 9to5Mac reported on code in the latest iOS 27 developer beta seemingly meant to restrict leased devices after the user had missed one or more payments. When engaged, Restricted Mode limits the device to the following apps: Accessibility Reader App Store Health Magnifier…
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The Future of Tech Is Owning Nothing
Apple’s lease program is just the beginning.
gizmodo.com
Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine
Andon Labs' latest vending machine simulation shows Opus 5 lied and colluded its way to become the best AI capitalist ever.
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Psychology says the people who never forget a face but always lose the name aren’t bad with names at all — a face connects to everything the brain knows about a person, while the name is the one detail attached to nothing, a sound with no meaning to hold onto
Your brain remembers the person—their quirks, their history, their opinions—but treats their name as an orphaned detail with nothing to cling to.
siliconcanals.com
China’s Robotaxi enters London for first time as Baidu’s Apollo Go begins UK road tests with Uber and Lyft
FREENOW, the European mobility platform owned by Lyft, announced on Tuesday that it has partnered with Baidu’s Apollo Go to begin testing robotaxis in London, UK. Uber also said Apollo Go vehicles are now operating on public roads in the British capital. Baidu said the deployment…
technode.com
Some people are brilliant one-on-one and invisible in groups
The most perceptive people often disappear in crowds, mistaking their silence for social failure rather than a mismatch between their gifts and the setting.
siliconcanals.com
BlueStone, SafeGold Partner To Convert Household Gold Into Digital Gold
Omnichannel jewellery retailer BlueStone has partnered with digital gold platform SafeGold to launch a gold-monetisation initiative that converts offline household…
inc42.com
China Advanced Packaging Enters New Wave of Investment as 400 Billion Yuan in Projects Target Chiplet 3D Integration and AI Chip Substrates
Nearly 10 advanced packaging projects totaling 400B yuan announced between May and July 2026, spanning 2.5D/3D, Chiplet, Fan-Out, and automotive chip packaging for AI and HPC.
pandaily.com
Alibaba Qoder Open-Sources Better Harness: An Open-Source Analysis and Continuous Improvement Tool for Programming Agent Workflows From Alibaba Cloud
Qoder releases Better Harness on GitHub, a three-layer open-source framework for coding agent workflow analysis covering Harness Engineering practices, evaluation models, and runnable implementations.
pandaily.com

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How ChatGPT Optimizes its Agent Loop: Harness, API, and Inference
To understand what techniques are adopted in frontier labs to make AI applications more efficient, we met with the OpenAI engineers who developed and shipped various efficiency techniques into the systems behind Codex and ChatGPT Work.
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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.
bytebytego.com
Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac
Hi HN, I built a specialized inference engine for running 4-bit Gemma 4 26B-A4B-IT on any M-series Mac using about 2 GB of RAM. It is called TurboFieldfare and is written in Swift and Metal. I have always adored on-device AI. It feels like magic that you can run a powerful NN on …
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Superlogical
https://mitchellh.com/writing/superlogical Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098965 Points: 421 # Comments: 272
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FLOSS Weekly Episode 877: RCE As a Service
This week Jonathan chats with Francois Proulx about SmokedMeat! That’s the third in a trio of Open Source security tools from Boost Security, and this one is the red team …read more
hackaday.com
Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice
Article URL: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/07/keychron-announces-first-open-source-firmware-for-gaming-mice Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099715 Points: 209 # Comments: 87
digitalfoundry.net
Behold The Most Beautifully Ambitious Starship Simulator Yet
[Kevin Kelm] created something wondrous: Halcyon Dawn, an utterly unique and desperately challenging game that is equal parts intricate starship simulator, imposing hardware console, video game, and love letter to …read more
hackaday.com
Kimi K3-256k
Article URL: https://www.kimi.com/code/docs/en/kimi-code/models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101852 Points: 256 # Comments: 68
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The ESP32 Gets a Web Browser
At the Hackaday Europe conference in Italy earlier in the year, we were shown a rather interesting device. The work of [Alun Morris], it was an ESP32-powered Cheap Black Display …read more
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