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This flying solar-powered platform could deliver better internet from the air
As soon as August, a giant silver bullet will cut its way through the dry air of the southwestern US and cross the Pacific to reach the coast of Japan.  Once there, the roughly 200-foot-long craft, built by the New Mexico–based company Sceye, will park some 18 kilometers above th…
MIT Technology Review
Walmart-backed Flipkart expands quick-commerce push as Amazon ramps up in India
Walmart-backed Flipkart has crossed 1,000 micro-fulfillment centers as Amazon accelerates its own quick-commerce push in India.
techcrunch.com
AI Is Designing Radio Chips That Humans Couldn’t Even Imagine
Summary RFIC design is a complex “dark art” that limits progress in wireless technologies like 5G, autonomous vehicles, and satellite communications. Princeton researchers use reinforcement learning and inverse design to rapidly create RFICs from scratch. Diffusion models rapidl…
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Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero
Superhuman, which also has an AI detection tool as part of Grammarly, has snapped up GPTZero.
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The emergence of the web data infrastructure layer for AI
AI is booming. New use cases are emerging each day. To capitalize on the technology’s potential, enterprises require data at scale. In many cases, though, the relevant information is blocked or unstructured, which limits its use by AI models.  To understand this challenge, consid…
MIT Technology Review
Anthropic launches Claude Tag, replacing its Slack app with a persistent AI teammate that learns, monitors and works autonomously
Anthropic on Tuesday launched Claude Tag, a new product that embeds its most advanced AI model directly inside Slack as a persistent, shared teammate that anyone on a team can delegate work to by simply typing @Claude. The product, available today in beta for Claude Enterprise an…
venturebeat.com
International tech
China's Large Scientific Facilities Adopt a New KPI: Industrial Impact at HEPS Synchrotron
HEPS fourth-generation synchrotron light source shifts focus from publications to industrial applications in batteries, aviation and chips
pandaily.com
In 1957, a stray dog named Laika was strapped into Sputnik 2 and launched into orbit about a week after being plucked off the streets of Moscow, and Soviet engineers admitted decades later that she died of overheating within hours because the thermal control system failed and there had never been a plan to bring her home
In November 1957, a Moscow street dog became the first living creature to orbit Earth — and the first to die there, killed by a thermal control failure her engineers had no time to fix.
siliconcanals.com
Behind Kimi K2.7 Code: An Overlooked New Paradigm in AI Coding Is Taking Shape
Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.7 Code shifts AI coding from generating code to reconstructing behavior from existing products
pandaily.com
Exclusive: Home Loan Marketplace Ambak In Talks To Raise ₹80 Cr
Home loan marketplace Ambak is in talks to raise ₹80 Cr ($8.4 Mn) in a fresh funding round, which will…
inc42.com
Tencent QQ Mail Launches Agently Mail, Enabling Autonomous Email and Business Coordination for AI Agents
Tencent has launched Agently Mail, a dedicated email service purpose-built for AI agents, now in beta testing. The product directly addresses two core pain poin...
pandaily.com
China and the West are taking opposite paths on EV battery recycling
China has 85% of the world’s recycling capacity and a mandate to shred old packs. The U.S. has another plan: use them to save the power grid first.
restofworld.org
The Talk Show: ‘Perp Walk for Selfies’
Jason Snell returns to the show for a look back at WWDC 2026, and a look ahead to Designed in California, his and Myke Hurley’s upcoming 50-episode Apple history podcast. Sponsored by: Factor: Healthy eating, made easy. Get 50% off your first box, plus free daily greens, with co…
daringfireball.net
How to invest when everything is moving too fast
TechCrunch's StrictlyVC evening in Los Angeles late last week brought together two of the more straight-talking investors working in AI right now. They were as entertaining as they were illuminating.
techcrunch.com
Enterprise-grade AI image generation in 2 seconds is here: Krea 2 Raw and Turbo available as open weights under custom license
While many enterprises have already begun integrating AI-generated images, visuals, graphics and videos into their production workflows — there is also a growing pool of data and subjective commentary indicating AI imagery ultimately looks non-distinct, monotonous, and too unorig…
venturebeat.com

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We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself
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Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/meta-pauses-employee-tracking-program-following-internal-security-breach/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48653575 Points: 296 # Comments: 214
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An Ex-Meta L8’s Agentic Engineering Setup
If you’re on the same journey of making your work with agents more productive and enjoyable, I hope this gives you a head start and shortcuts some of your own exploration.
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Raspberry Pi Locator Website to Shut Down in July
As announced by [André] on Bluesky, next month the much loved Rpilocator.com website will cease displaying the stock status and pricing of Raspberry Pi computers from various online retailers. One …read more
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One Commodore, Five Displays
If you had one monitor back in the 8-bit era, instead of having to wait to use the family TV, you were already amongst the blessed. If you had five, …read more
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A T9 Keyboard For Your Smartphone
These days, most of us are fortunate enough to use smartphones with decent touchscreen keyboard capabilities. However, once upon a time, if you wanted to type something on a phone, …read more
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Vulnerability reports are not special anymore
Article URL: https://words.filippo.io/vuln-reports/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48653216 Points: 332 # Comments: 189
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A Commodore Boombox: The 1530 as You’ve Never Heard it Before
No, this isn’t another product from [PeriFractic]’s revived company, though we hope he’s taking notes. This is, in fact, a hack on the beloved 1530 Datasette, using the tape mechanism …read more
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AI-Native Leaders: The Organizational Playbook for Engineering Transformation at Scale
Individual gains do not become organizational gains on their own. This is the playbook for making that leap. Let’s dive in.
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