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The Download: lasers for nuclear fuel, and organ preservation advances
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How lasers could help provide fuel for nuclear reactors  Nuclear power provides about 9% of global electricity today, and that fraction could …
MIT Technology Review
Thea Energy lands $20M federal grant to build its magnets for fusion reactors
Fusion power startup Thea Energy snagged a $20 million award from ARPA-E to scale production of its high-temperature superconducting magnets.
techcrunch.com
Microsoft launches AI cybersecurity model, agentic defense platform to cut enterprise security costs
Microsoft opened a new front in the AI security wars on Monday, unveiling its first custom-built cybersecurity model and a sweeping agentic defense platform — and making an argument that could reshape how enterprises buy AI: the future belongs not to the biggest model, but to the…
venturebeat.com
These Moths Smell Flowers Through Their Wings, Study Finds
Until now, scientists have mostly focused on the wings' mechanical function. Turns out there was a lot more going on then they realized.
gizmodo.com
Why SAP says enterprise AI agents need knowledge graphs and governance
Presented by SAP At VB Transform 2026, Max McPhee, senior solution advisor at SAP, spoke with Rob Stretchay, lead analyst at VentureBeat Research, about what it takes for enterprises to move beyond chatbots to autonomous AI agents that can execute real business processes. He ar…
venturebeat.com
Why AI-Driven Cognitive Systems Are Redefining Radar and Electronic Warfare
An overview of how mode-agile threats challenge static library radar/EW systems, and how AI/ML cognitive architectures enable adaptive, real-time countermeasures. What Attendees will Learn Why mode-agile threats render static library systems ineffective — Explore how wartime res…
content.knowledgehub.wiley.com
International tech
A study asked people to spend fifteen minutes a week walking outdoors while deliberately looking for things that amazed them, and by the eighth week their selfies showed them smaller in the frame and smiling more.
A simple practice—noticing what amazes you on a walk—made people literally shrink in their own photographs, revealing something profound about how awe reshapes our sense of self.
siliconcanals.com
Heguang Quantum Accelerates Photonic Quantum Computing Commercialization With Deterministic Error Correction Breakthrough and Distributed Architecture
Hangzhou-based Heguang Quantum completes seed round, achieves first deterministic photonic quantum error correction code generation, targets HQ10 quantum accelerator sales by 2027 for hybrid classical-quantum computing.
pandaily.com
China Cleaning Robots Sweep 70% of Global Market on Technology Innovation, Not Low Prices: Roborock Ecovacs and Dreame Lead With Stair-Climbing and Robotic Arm Features
Chinese home cleaning robot makers now control 70% of global market led by Roborock (27% share), Ecovacs, and Dreame, with innovative features like stair-climbing and robotic arms replacing price-based competition.
pandaily.com
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…
technode.com
Momenta expands into autonomous freight with Robovan
Chinese autonomous driving company Momenta has launched its Robovan autonomous freight business, with vehicles already operating in Suzhou’s Xiangcheng district. The company said the vehicles are being deployed for express delivery and overnight delivery, using its R7 world model…
technode.com
In China, people are renting out their faces to AI
New platforms are paying people to license their likeness for AI-generated dramas and ads, creating a new marketplace for biometric identity.
restofworld.org
The Heartwarming Reason Why ‘Spaceballs 2’ Went to Comic-Con
Sure, it was to promote the upcoming sequel, but there was an even better reason why 'Spaceballs: The New One' was in San Diego.
gizmodo.com
AI cites the deep pages but sends humans to the homepage — most sites are built backward
If your business depends on people clicking through to web pages, the last two years have been brutal. Pew Research Center tracked the browsing behavior of 900 U.S. adults and found that when Google shows an AI summary, users click a traditional result just 8% of the time, roughl…
venturebeat.com
WorkOS MCP
My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last week at DF to promote their MCP server. Debugging SSO, managing users, adjusting auth policies, configuring branding: every configuration task has lived behind a UI that only a human can drive. The WorkOS MCP server gives agents the same ac…
workos.com

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Canceling "Hey"
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Reviving a Retro Mouse with BlueTooth low Energy support
One of the disadvantages to collecting retro peripherals is that they’re not necessarily easy to use anymore. [eSPee77] changes that by retrofitting a Genius GM-6000 mouse with modern hardware, all …read more
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Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped
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MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH
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Regain Some Trust in Unknown USB Drives
For how useful USB thumb drives are for quickly toting around and copying files from one computer to another, they can be a bit of a security headache. Programs can …read more
hackaday.com
Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]
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Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website
Article URL: https://www.sgieurope.com/e-commerce/decathlon-germany-launches-wero-payment-on-its-website/122397.article Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49072310 Points: 294 # Comments: 203
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Flexible PCBs: Not Only For The Few
Flexible printed circuit boards are a fascinating technique for making electronics venture beyond the two-dimensional, but surprisingly they’re not something many of us have worked with. [Jessica Stanley] gave a …read more
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How NVIDIA Builds Open Models for the Age of AI
Bryan Catanzaro, VP of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA, walked us through how his team builds the company’s open models, the reasoning behind their architecture, and why NVIDIA open-sources so much of it.
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