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Flighty New Connection Assistant Feature

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: Flighty’s new Connection Assistant feature includes step-by-step information for your specific connection. This includes things like terminal changes, security checkpoints, passport control, and more. Connection Assistant also gives you estimates of how lo…

Patreon lays off 20% of its workforce

In a memo to staff that was posted online, Conte said the company's core business is strong, but the platform has to respond to market changes and adjust its cost structure to remain stable.

John Dvorak Drops Dead at 80

William Gallagher, AppleInsider: Legendary technology columnist, pundit, author and podcast host John C. Dvorak has died, age 80. He is survived by his wife Mimi Dvorak. Today Dvorak is best known for co-hosting the “No Agenda” podcast with Adam Curry, where he would critique mai…

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John Dvorak on Computer Chronicles in 1987 to Discuss the Then-New IBM PS/2

Dvorak is best known for all the takes he was jacktastically wrong about, but what gave his schtick staying power is that he was technically savvy. His take here on the PS/2 was actually spot-on: that it was technically impressive in many ways, especially the way it was assembled…

The Download: energy transmission and US threats against Chinese AI

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. The power line that could reshape New York’s grid is hitting snags During a heat wave on July 3, New York State’s grid imported enough electr…

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How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers

We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s guardrails affect their work.

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After ZeroPe, Ashneer Grover Launches Employee-Focused Lending Platform Fund My Staff

BharatPe cofounder Ashneer Grover has launched a new fintech venture, ‘Fund My Staff’, a platform that enables employers to act…

The habit of buying slightly too much food whenever family visits isn’t overpreparation, for many people it’s a quiet inheritance from a household where abundance on the table was how love got expressed when words weren’t available

For many adults, buying too much food when family visits isn't anxious hosting — it's inherited grammar from a household where a full table said what nobody could say out loud.

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Computing Power Becomes the Lifeline: Tech Giants Scramble for AI Supernodes as Model Parameter Competitions Drive Unprecedented Infrastructure Demand

Huawei, ZTE, H3C, Sugon, and others race to build and deploy AI supernodes from 1024 to 100K GPU scale, as Kimi K3 and GLM-5 demand drives computing capacity to the breaking point.

Singapore’s millionaire density hit 1 in 6 households — and the mental health data is telling a very different story about what that wealth is buying

Singapore now has the highest millionaire density in Asia, with roughly one in six households holding at least US$1 million in investable assets. The country's mental health and burnout data suggests the wealth is buying something real — but not what the skyline advertises.

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The quiet reason some adults keep a drawer of pens, notepads, and unopened stationery they never use may have less to do with clutter and more to do with the self who once believed the right tools would finally make the writing happen

The unused notebooks and unopened pens in a household drawer are rarely about disorganisation. They are the archaeological residue of an ideal self who once believed the right tools would finally make the writing happen, and the psychology of why they stay is quieter and more ten…

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iQIYI launches China’s first licensed AIGC online story film

Chinese streaming platform iQIYI has launched Qitan: Paper Blade Across the Wasteland (《奇谭：纸刃渡荒墟》), which it describes as the first AIGC online story film in China to receive a Network Drama/Film Distribution License and go online. The film runs for more than 60 minutes and was j…

‘Millennium Actress’ Will Always Be My Favorite Satoshi Kon Film

Kon's follow up to 'Perfect Blue' about an actress confronting her illustrious career and her greatest regret stands the test of time as the legendary auteur's most elegiac and inspiring anime.

How AI helps scientists design the next generation of medicines

Designing and developing a new medicine is an expensive, failure-prone scientific challenge. A new drug can take many years to develop, at the cost of a significant investment. And even then, most possible candidates never reach the patient. For biologic medicines, therapies made…

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Brad Bird’s ‘Ray Gunn’ Feels Like So Much More Than an Animated Movie

The 'Ratatouille,' 'Iron Giant' and 'Incredibles' director screened the first 7 minutes of his new film at Comic-Con.

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BASICally, Its Retro Machine Language

We enjoyed [Beej’s] trip down memory lane looking at a BASIC game, The Wizard’s Castle, written for the Exidy Sorcerer. It appeared in a 1980 magazine that included the title …read more

Best Practices for Building AI Agents That Work in Production

In this article, we try to explore the collective thinking into a smaller set of practices and explain the reasoning behind each one, rather than asking anyone to memorize a numbered list.

Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died.

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Inside Roblox’s Bet on World Models

We sat down with Anupam Singh, senior vice president of engineering at Roblox, to hear from him about the world model that Roblox is using to make its multiplayer games look photorealistic, the key insights that have come from taking that approach, and the next big thing that the…

A Train Departure Board For The Home

Trains are a great way to get around. You just have to make sure you’re across the schedule if you intend to get where you’re going in a timely manner. …read more

New Method Accelerates Color 3D Printing

Multi-color 3D printing is notorious for being difficult to get right. Even with modern printers, you often end up much using more filament (and tool changes) than you would for …read more

A Beginner’s Guide to Clocks, Causality, and Ordering in Distributed Systems

Why does something as simple as reading the time become a hard problem for distributed systems?

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What happened to TheNumbers.com

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