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Ana Inês Inácio Designs the Future of Wireless
When Ana Inês Inácio goes to work at the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) in The Hague, she thinks about signals most people never notice: radio waves moving between satellites, sensors, and future wireless networks. The integrated circuits the resea…
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Here’s what you need to know about the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Eight passengers aboard a Dutch-flagged cruise ship have contracted a type of hantavirus, a rare viru…
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Musk v. Altman week 2: OpenAI fires back, and Shivon Zilis reveals that Musk tried to poach Sam Altman
In the second week of the landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI, Musk’s motivations for bringing the suit were under scrutiny. Last week, Musk took the stand, alleging that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman had deceived him into donating $38 million to the c…
MIT Technology Review
The Best You Can Do in the Strait of Hormuz Simulation Game Is Mess Up as Little as Possible
Are the Straits OK? Not really, to be honest.
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5,000 vibe-coded apps just proved shadow AI is the new S3 bucket crisis
Most enterprise security programs were built to protect servers, endpoints, and cloud accounts. None of them was built to find a customer intake form that a product manager vibe coded on Lovable over a weekend, connected to a live Supabase database, and deployed on a public URL i…
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DC May Be Ready to Breathe Some Life Into the Deathstroke and Bane Movie
Progress on the Deathstroke/Bane movie is a bit slow going, but at least we know it's not quietly dead.
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New-Age Tech Stocks Gain Amid Q4 Optimism, ideaForge Biggest Winner This Week
New-age tech stocks witnessed a positive week amid the ongoing Q4 FY26 earnings season, with investor sentiment favouring profitable and…
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Anthropic reportedly signs $1.8Bn deal with Akamai as global AI compute race intensifies
Anthropic has reportedly secured another major AI infrastructure partnership, signing a seven-year,… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Adults who insist they don’t have a preference for where to eat or what movie to watch usually aren’t easygoing, they grew up in homes where having a preference drew attention they couldn’t afford
The friend who never has an opinion about the restaurant isn't always being generous. Often they're running a survival strategy from a childhood where having a preference cost too much.
siliconcanals.com
SynapX Launches SYNData: Multimodal Data Collection System for Embodied AI Era
SynapX has released SYNData, a multimodal data collection system for dexterous manipulation. The system covers ego vision, EMG signals, and exoskeleton data gloves, enabling scalable collection of human manipulation data for robot learning.
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People who keep their phone face-down on the table often aren’t being polite, many learned early that being reachable was the fastest way to keep the people around them calm, and the gesture is the only boundary they can enforce without having to explain it
The face-down phone looks like good manners, but for people raised to feel responsible for everyone else's needs, it's something quieter and more important: a small, unspoken refusal to be on call.
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Xiaoyubot Raises New Round, Backed by Xiaomi, Didi, BAIC
Xiaoyubot, China's leading industrial embodied AI company, has secured a new multi-hundred-million yuan funding round. Five major industrial capitals — Xiaomi, Didi, BAIC, Fosun, and CCDC — participated, with Lei Wanqiang investing for the fourth consecutive round.
pandaily.com
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Enterprise AI, Space Tech And Biotech Top The Ranks
Another week, another infusion of big AI rounds.
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OpenAI brings GPT-5-class reasoning to real-time voice — and it changes what voice agents can actually orchestrate
Voice agents have been expensive to run and painful to orchestrate, not because the models can't handle conversation, but because context ceilings forced enterprises to build session resets, state compression, and reconstruction layers into every deployment. OpenAI's three new vo…
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San Francisco’s housing market has lost its mind
The invisible force behind all of this is no mystery to anyone paying attention to the city's tech economy. San Francisco is home to some of the most valuable private companies in the world, and their employees have been quietly accumulating — and, increasingly, cashing out — for…
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Could Your Next House be Built from Giant Lego By an Inchworm Robot?
Well, it depends when you’re going to be househunting– if it’s anytime soon, Betteridge’s law applies, but if your time horizon is a ways further out, [Miana Smith] at MIT …read more
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Getting a Proprietary-Bus GPU onto PCIe Enables Cheaper Local LLMs, For Now
If you’ve been thinking of getting into self-hosting generative AI, but don’t have a big budget for hardware, you might want to check out [Hardware Haven]’s latest video on an …read more
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Container Design Patterns for Distributed Systems
In this article, we’ll walk through the patterns that have crystallized over the past decade, organized by the scope of their coordination.
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EP214: Claude Code vs. OpenClaw: 5 Design Dimensions
Both are highly capable, but they have key architectural differences.
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EU calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" in age verification push
Article URL: https://cyberinsider.com/eu-calls-vpns-a-loophole-that-needs-closing-in-age-verification-push/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48072190 Points: 323 # Comments: 224
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Copy or Redesign?
We got asked a great question in the mailbag segment on the Podcast this week: are there hacks that we have read about on Hackaday that we use in our …read more
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A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
https://twitter.com/wtgowers/status/2052830948685676605 https://xcancel.com/wtgowers/status/2052830948685676605 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48071262 Points: 495 # Comments: 351
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Internet Archive Switzerland
Article URL: https://internetarchive.ch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074265 Points: 246 # Comments: 27
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It’s an Apple Lisa, on a FPGA
Most of us will know that Apple’s precursor to the Macintosh series of computers was a machine called the Lisa. Something of a behemoth compared to those early Macs, it …read more
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