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‘Iron Lung’ Director Markiplier on How His Place in Hollywood Has Evolved
The writer-director-star kicked off the great YouTube-to-blockbuster wave of 2026 with his self-released sci-fi horror film.
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Anthropic and Gov. Newsom forge deal allowing California government to use Claude at half price
As Anthropic forges a closer relationship with the state of California, the federal government has made an enemy out of the OpenAI rival.
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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
How the U.S. Engineered Its Sovereignty
In 1839, J.M.W. Turner painted The Fighting Temeraire. The old warship, once a hero of the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, glides like a ghost across the canvas, towed by a small steam tug belching smoke on its final voyage to the ship-breakers. The image shows a clear moment of cha…
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Daniel Agee: ‘Remembering Om’
Daniel Agee, an early member of the team at Glass, writing on the Glass blog: It’s not lost on us that Om’s photography, often taken in frozen lands in or around the arctic circle, was the polar opposite of his personality. While he focused on subtle shapes and hidden landscapes,…
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DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85%
Even as the geopolitical conversation around AI continues to grow more fraught following the U.S. government's actions to limit the new models from Anthropic and OpenAI, Chinese open source darling DeepSeek is back with yet another open release that could once again change AI dev…
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DeepSeek DSpark Draws Rare Praise from PyTorch Core Maintainer in Detailed Technical Breakdown
DeepSeek and Peking University's DSpark inference system receives a comprehensive technical analysis from PyTorch core maintainer Dmytro Dzhulgakov, who highlights its semi-parallel drafting and production-grade engineering.
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Psychology says people who grew up working class aren’t less capable than their higher-class peers in job interviews — they’re simply less overconfident, and overconfidence is what interviewers keep mistaking for competence
Job interviews are supposed to measure competence. A 2020 paper in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology suggests they often measure something else: how comfortable a person is with sounding certain. Peter Belmi, Margaret A. Neale, David Reiff and Rosemary Ulfe studied…
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Love and Deepspace’s new romanceable character draws heavy criticism despite Paper Games’ apology
Paper Games’ 3D romance game Love and Deepspace has been caught in what appears to be its biggest controversy since launch following the reveal of its sixth romanceable male character, Ao Yin. The announcement triggered widespread criticism over the character’s visual design, sto…
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Zhipingfang Hits $2.8B Valuation as Brain-Like AI Era Dawns, Greater Bay Area's First Embodied AI Unicorn
Embodied AI company Zhipingfang completes approximately 5 billion yuan in new funding, pushing total valuation past 20 billion yuan with its brain-inspired NeuroVLA architecture.
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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 …
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WhatsApp opens username reservations for over 3 billion users worldwide
WhatsApp has started rolling out username reservations for its more than 3… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Hackaday Europe 2026 – Building A Retro PC From Scratch
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.self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting
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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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Hard Drive Speakers Crank Out Classic Demo
Second Reality is a legendary demoscene release by Future Crew, which won Assembly 1993 with its technical and artistic mastery. [Niv Singer] decided to give the classic demo a spin …read more
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EP220: RAG vs Graph RAG vs Agentic RAG
RAG connects LLMs to your data and there are three different ways to do it.
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European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage
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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
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A native graphical shell for SSH
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