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The Download: metric weaknesses and AI elephant warnings
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. The inevitable weakness of metrics There are plenty of useful things a metric can reveal. There are even more that it can obscure or corrupt. …
MIT Technology Review
South Korean tech giants commit over $550B to ease ‘RAMageddon’
The world's two largest memory chip companies vow to build more memory lab fabs as South Korea positions itself as an AI tech powerhouse country.
techcrunch.com
AI agents are not your “coworkers”
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Imagine coming in to work to learn that a new underling will report to you. The worker is not a person but an AI tool—one that your company no…
MIT Technology Review
‘Silo’ Season 3 Is Hugely Revealing and Satisfying… Eventually
Rebecca Ferguson stars in the latest season of Apple TV's excellent sci-fi mystery show, which returns July 3.
gizmodo.com
The Ozone Hole’s Earliest Cause Wasn’t CFCs After All
Scientists discovered the ozone hole in 1985, but if they'd had the atmospheric monitoring capabilities of today, they could have found it 30 years earlier, according to new research.
gizmodo.com
Holy Crap, We Were Way Off About How Many Insect Species Live on Earth
A new study more than doubles previous estimates of how many distinct kinds of insects are currently inhabiting the planet.
gizmodo.com
International tech
Chinese AI model’s bug-hunting prowess narrows gap to US
A Chinese artificial-intelligence (AI) model whose launch has been hailed as another “DeepSeek moment” can go toe-to-toe with US rival Anthropic’s powerful Mythos model on cybersecurity tasks, researchers have said. Beijing-based start-up Zhipu AI’s GLM-5.2, released on June 13, …
scmp.com
China’s cooling, e-commerce giants see sales surge as scorched Europe scrambles for relief
A heatwave sweeping across Europe has triggered a massive surge in sales for Chinese home appliances, with e-commerce giant Alibaba recording triple-digit growth for air conditioners and fans on its overseas platforms. On AliExpress, Alibaba’s international retail site, the June …
scmp.com
How AI Is Rewiring The Consumer Growth Stack Across India’s B2C Economy
John Wanamaker, one of the biggest retailers of the 1900s, once said, “Half the money I spend on advertising is…
inc42.com
I went to the Maldives. Everyone wanted to talk about Temu
The Chinese shopping app has become so popular that even a government surcharge couldn't slow demand.
restofworld.org
Exclusive: Lightbox-Backed Nua In Talks To Raise $25 Mn From Peak XV, Others
D2C femtech brand Nua is in talks to raise $20 Mn (about ₹189 Cr) to $25 Mn (about ₹236 Cr)…
inc42.com
When DeskTime studied how its users actually worked, the most productive tenth were not the ones who never stopped — rest seemed to be key to output
I have a bad habit I am not proud of. When the work is going badly, I keep going anyway. The screen stays on, the cursor stays blinking, and I sit there past the point where anything good is coming out, as if the act of staying put is itself the work. Some part of ... Read more
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Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
Article URL: https://quesma.com/blog/qwen-36-is-awesome/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721903 Points: 363 # Comments: 309
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How AI Agents Manage Memory and Avoid Forgetfulness
In this article, we will try to understand how that architecture gets built, from the constraint that forces it to exist all the way to the tradeoffs that follow.
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US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/29/supreme-court-geofence-warrants-case-decision Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720924 Points: 286 # Comments: 127
The Guardian
Hackaday Europe 2026 – Building A Retro PC From Scratch
If you’re big into retrocomputing, you probably spend a lot of time chasing parts and machines on online classifieds or through local swap meets. But what if there was a …read more
hackaday.com
European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage
Article URL: https://torrentfreak.com/european-isps-want-rightsholders-held-accountable-for-overblocking-damage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721072 Points: 248 # Comments: 64
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2026 Frikkin Lasers Challenge: Super-Simple Laser Precision for Your Stargazing
Perhaps the hardest thing for amateur astronomers just starting out is finding the things you want to look at. Prolific maker [mircemk] has submitted a quick-and-easy star-hopper device that will …read more
hackaday.com
EP220: RAG vs Graph RAG vs Agentic RAG
RAG connects LLMs to your data and there are three different ways to do it.
bytebytego.com
The Teenage Angst of 3D Printing: Solidoodle, Printrbot, and Bridges
Bridges are a part of our constructed landscape that we take for granted. And bridges by themselves aren’t especially important. What is important is that bridges let you get from …read more
hackaday.com
Mechanical TV, Without The Benefit Of New Parts
There are many experimenters who have had a go at a mechanical television, and though there are a few challenges, it’s a relatively straightforward project in 2026. A hundred years …read more
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