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‘Evangelion’ 30th Movie Fest Brings the Series Back to the Big Screen

The two-night-only event runs on July 21 and 22.

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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The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model over safety concerns

OpenAI reportedly plans to share its newest model, GPT 5.6, with a select group of partners instead of with the broader public. The reason: the Trump administration told it to.

Liquid AI's smallest model yet LFM2.5-230M beats models 4X its size at data extraction, can run 'anywhere'

Liquid AI, founded by former MIT computer scientists, today released its smallest AI language model yet, LFM2.5-230M, and enterprises would do well to consider it for their uses in data extraction and local deployment on smartphones, laptops and robotics. This is a 230-million-pa…

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Early Bird pricing ends tonight for TechCrunch Founder Summit

Save up to $190 on your pass to TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026. Early Bird pricing ends today, at 11:59 p.m. PT, after which rates increase. Register now.

Robotaxis drive miles just to get cleaned and charged; this new startup wants to fix that

Aseon Labs, which came out of Y Combinator's 2026 spring cohort, has raised $10 million from Crane Venture Partners and others.

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Forget the score, MWC Shanghai’s humanoid robot penalty shootout put embodied AI to the test

One of the biggest crowd-pullers at MWC Shanghai 2026 was a fully autonomous humanoid robot penalty shootout, rather than a smartphone launch or an AI keynote. Held over two days at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre, the competition drew more than 10,000 spectators as ei…

Borneo’s rainforest is frequently dated to around 130 million years old — older than the Andes mountains themselves — yet a single tree planted in rows has replaced vast stretches of it within a few decades

Borneo's lowland dipterocarp rainforest is roughly 130 million years old — older than the Andes — yet decades of oil palm expansion have replaced vast stretches of it with rows of a single cultivated tree.

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China’s Zhipu AI sparks new ‘DeepSeek moment’ with cost-effective coding model

Nearly a year and a half after China’s DeepSeek shook Silicon Valley with its powerful yet affordable artificial intelligence model, Beijing-based Zhipu AI has delivered another jolt to the US tech industry. American entrepreneurs and researchers are praising the coding performan…

PharmEasy Cofounders’ Home Interiors Startup AllHome Raises ₹200 Cr

Home improvement startup AllHome has raised ₹200 Cr (about $21 Mn) in its Series B round led by Bessemer Venture…

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…

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.

Patronus AI lands $50M to build ‘digital worlds’ that stress-test AI agents

Agent-testing startup Patronus AI, founded by former Meta AI researchers, is experiencing nearly insatiable demand, its investor says.

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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6 Startup Investors On What It Will Take To Fund More Black Founders

In the final installment of our series on the state of venture investment to Black-founded startups, six investors offer their advice for overlooked founders and explain how the venture industry can broaden access to capital by rethinking sourcing, networks and long-held investin…

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Libre Barcode Project

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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.

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

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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: 265 # Comments: 112

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.

Increasing Photon Upconversion Efficiency with Structural Exciton Localization

In structures like photovoltaic cells there is only a limited spectrum of wavelengths that can perform useful work, with the remaining wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation effectively wasted. If the energy …read more

This Week in Security: Stealing Email with AI, AMD Nerfs Chips, the World Cup Nearly Rickrolled, and GPSD Bugs

Firefox recently added integrated AI support — a generally poorly received move among many Firefox users — that includes an AI chatbot integration for interacting with web pages. Florian Port …read more

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

Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/military-branches-restore-flu-shot-requirement-after-virus-swept-through-base/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48679934 Points: 217 # Comments: 132

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