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A 600-mile road trip (and data) proves EV charging doesn’t suck anymore

A recent road trip in an EV revealed just how much faster and more reliable DC Fast charging has become in the U.S.

We’re Underestimating the Power of ‘One-in-a-Thousand-Year’ Solar Storms, NASA Warns

New research led by NASA Goddard found persistent “erroneous measurements” skewing past estimates for how severe geomagnetic storms can get.

Apple Sends Letters to Dozens of Former Employees Now at OpenAI

Michael Acton, reporting for the Financial Times from San Francisco: About 40 former employees now working at OpenAI have been sent letters directing them to preserve documents and communications and demanding meetings with Apple’s lawyers, according to multiple people familiar w…

‘My Soul Left My Body’: Amazon Accidentally Bills Users Billions of Times What They Owe

If your AWS bill was $200 last month, and this month it's $1,499,659,180,107, that's probably an error.

Kimi: Threat or menace?

Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, prompting concern about "full AI communism."

Federal employees can download TikTok on their work phones again

The Department of Justice says that federal employees can now download TikTok on their government devices.

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Corgi, a startup that insures other startups, doubled its valuation to $2.6 billion three weeks after its last round — and because the same investors backed both, the jump is drawing quiet scrutiny over “internal markups”

The company says revenue growth justified the step-up. Some limited partners aren’t sure paper markups should count for as much as they do.

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Retirees who move overseas often report being happy with their new lives while also feeling lonelier — because paradise cannot automatically replace the relationships left behind

A retirement move can succeed on nearly every term used to justify it. The home may cost less, the weather may be kinder and the days may feel less hurried. A person can be pleased with all of that and still miss the wider circle of people who once made ordinary life feel inhabit…

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Hong Kong Cyberport Is Becoming the Springboard for Chinese AI Going Global: From Computing Power to Standards to Markets

Hong Kong Cyberport emerges as China AI globalization hub: 3000 PFLOPS AI supercomputing center, 30B HKD funding program, and three-board strategy connecting mainland AI to Southeast Asia and Middle East.

AI Phones Are Not Competing on Models: The Real Battle Is Over the User Entry Point, and Super Apps Hold the Key

WAIC 2026 reveals AI phone industry consensus: the real competition is not model capability but agentic OS entry points, system-level permissions, and who controls service distribution away from super apps.

BigBasket’s Retreat

“I was in denial of the idea of quick commerce. Back then, if you had asked 100 people whether they…

China MAZU AI Weather System to Reach 30 Countries: Fengyun Satellites, AI Models, and Radar Unite as Meteorological Infrastructure Goes Global

President Xi announces MAZU intelligent early warning system deployment to 30 countries at WAIC 2026 as China exports integrated meteorological infrastructure combining Fengyun satellites, AI, and radar.

‘Magic: The Gathering’ Will Embrace the Multiverse in 2027

Mechs, monsters, the deep blue sea, and afrofantasy await 'Magic: The Gathering' players when next year rolls around.

If You’re a Federal Employee, You May Now Install TikTok on Your Work Phone Even Though It’s Illegal

Did you even remember there was a ban?

★ Mornings in Cupertino Have the Aroma of Napalm Once Again

‘It Seems You Have a Different Policy’ Ben Thompson, in a subscriber-only Stratechery update Tuesday: I got a fun email from former Apple executive, Nest founder, and one-time Stratechery Interview subject Tony Fadell in response to yesterday’s Update about Apple suing OpenAI (pu…

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Your AI Ham Radio Buddy

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Write 2D and 3D Games in Modern MoonBASIC

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A Guide to Multi-Tenancy: Benefits and Challenges

In this article, we will understand multi-tenant architecture from the basics, along with its various benefits and challenges.

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A Pop-Up Truck Camper for Less

We live in a veritable Cambrian Explosion of camping options, ranging from a tarp on the ground to multi-million dollar RVs. Somewhere around the middle is the pop-up truck camper, …read more

MCP vs A2A vs ACP: How AI Agents Actually Talk to Each Other

Agents are capable on their own. Combined with tools and other agents, their capabilities compound.

Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon

Article URL: https://twitter.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2078759124914098291 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966120 Points: 230 # Comments: 119

QT6 brings BASIC to the Web Browser, or Your Computer

In the old days, you either swore by BASIC or you swore at it — but just about everybody got their start on the educational language. Nowadays, the kids are …read more

Open-Source Mid-Drive e-Bike Motor Has Lots of Promise, and Hyphens

[Pedro Neves] has a mid-drive e-bike, but he doesn’t own it — not truly, since he can’t repair the motor unit. For a hacker to be in that position, there …read more