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NASA Detects Intense Heat Beneath Io, Jupiter’s Most Volcanic Moon

The heat could be rising from cooling lava flows beneath a layer of solidified crust.

Are brain waves the next unlock for physical AI?

Forget YouTube videos—frontier physical AI models need multiple camera angles, dense annotation, and soon, brain wave readings.

The Atari Cinematic Universe Gets the Green Light

Plus, Empire casually confirms those 'Brand New Day' rumors were all true.

Snapchat now lets you share what you’re listening to in real time

Starting with Spotify, Snapchat users will be able to link their accounts, choose who can see their listening activity, and see what their friends are listening to in real time.

‘The Odyssey’ Keeps on Sailing as ‘Toy Story 5’ Hits $1 Billion

Before Spider-Man comes and does whatever a spider does, audiences just can't get enough of 'The Odyssey.'

Building the enterprise environment for agentic AI

For the enterprise, the promise of agentic AI is much more than just a better chatbot. It is software agents that execute business tasks end-to-end across people, business workflows, data, and systems. The platform best-suited to run agents is built with proper CPU capacity, resi…

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Moonshot AI to make Kimi K3 available for public download

Moonshot AI is set to release the model weights for Kimi K3 on July 27, allowing developers to download, modify, and host the model independently. Kimi K3 was launched earlier this month with 2.8 trillion parameters, native visual understanding, and a one-million-token context wi…

Delhi HC Restrains ‘Zepto Finance’ From Using Zepto Trademark

Delhi High Court (HC) has granted Zepto an ex-parte interim injunction against entities operating under the name “Zepto Finance”, restraining…

What CXMT must do to grow global memory market share and build on its surge: analysts

Shares of ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) could more than double from Monday’s close as the Chinese chipmaker expands its global dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) market share to 18 per cent by 2028, according to Nomura, which set a price target of 116 yuan. The listing of …

Ambition doesn’t fade in your 40s — a Gallup analysis suggests it quietly redirects, from wanting to be seen as impressive to wanting to be trusted by a small handful of people

The drive to prove yourself doesn't disappear in midlife—it just stops caring who's watching.

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China’s CXMT soars 466% on debut as DRAM maker becomes most valuable mainland-listed firm

ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China’s leading maker of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips, saw its shares close up 466 per cent on their Shanghai trading debut, giving the company a market capitalisation of 3.28 trillion yuan (US$484.6 billion) and making it mainlan…

Enterprise WeChat opens beta testing of AI assistant Dayuan

Tencent’s workplace communication and collaboration platform Enterprise WeChat has opened beta testing of an AI assistant named Dayuan. Users can swipe left from any interface to activate the assistant, which can access Enterprise WeChat’s documents, spreadsheets, meetings, and c…

Closing the data loop in AI-driven drug discovery

Drug discovery is a high-cost, high-risk endeavor that is under growing pressure from a market increasingly defined by first-mover advantage. Since the 1950s, the cost of developing new pharmaceuticals has roughly doubled every nine years—a phenomenon known as Eroom’s Law. Today,…

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Enigma raises $70M to make controlling a robot as easy as adjusting the volume

The massive seed round was led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sarah Guo's Conviction Partners.

Can Apple make smart glasses that aren’t a constant privacy threat?

As Apple prepares to launch its first smart glasses, the company may also be wrestling with how to address consumer privacy concerns.

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Scanwheel: A Pocket-Sized POV TV

When you hear the word TV, you probably think of a big LED screen, maybe even the old CRT TVs, but in either case it’s something large and fairly complicated. …read more

Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary

Article URL: https://github.com/vercel-labs/scriptc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063175 Points: 222 # Comments: 111

2026 Frikkin Lasers Challenge: Measuring Nanometer-Scale Displacements with an Optical Cavity

Optical cavities – two mirrors arranged to reflect light multiple times between them – form the basis of lasers and certain optical filters. Since any angle between the two mirrors …read more

PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works

Article URL: https://nikolays.github.io/PGSimCity/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063754 Points: 730 # Comments: 69

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A Music Box With A Very Modern Heart

A ballerina music box is a charming ornament, but it remains one that is limited by its mechanism to a very short performance. [ShielaDixon] has one, and decided to make …read more

US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search

Article URL: https://www.techspot.com/news/113236-us-prosecutors-charge-atlanta-man-after-grapheneos-phone.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063022 Points: 961 # Comments: 737

The Strongest El Niño Ever

Article URL: https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-strongest-el-nino-ever Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060978 Points: 267 # Comments: 298

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Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49065752 Points: 570 # Comments: 256

Neighborhood Bulletin Boards, circa 1982

When the Internet first started gaining mainstream popularity in the late 90s, many optimists claimed that it would bring people together by reducing barriers to communication. That ideal hasn’t exactly …read more