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Digital Surveillance Reshapes Fishery Enforcement in Indonesia
In the eastern Indian Ocean, south of Java in the vast sea stretching toward Australia, a fishing vessel slightly alters its course while operating near the boundary of its authorized fishing ground. Nothing appears unusual on deck. Nets remain in the water. Engines maintain a st…
spectrum.ieee.org
Body Bags Found Outside OpenAI HQ as Execs Increasingly Fear for Their Lives
OpenlyAfraid.
gizmodo.com
Coca-Cola suspended production at its Fairlife dairy after a ransomware attack
Coca Cola said dairy production at its Fairlife unit will "remain suspended" in the United States following a hack.
techcrunch.com
Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos
Google is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids that let users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, alongside Gemini Omni-powered tools for generating and editing videos from prompts and reference images.
techcrunch.com
People Can Lose Their Zest for Life After Starting GLP-1s, Docs Warn
A new case report highlights the potential risk of "anhedonia" from high doses of tirzepatide, though it can be treated effectively.
gizmodo.com
European Commission Adds Exemptions for Watches and Earbuds to Portable Battery Removal Rules
The European Commission: The European Commission adopted a delegated act today (14 July) introducing new rules that exempt additional products from EU requirements on the removability and replaceability of portable batteries. Under the EU’s Batteries Regulation, portable batterie…
environment.ec.europa.eu
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Uber is acquiring Delivery Hero for $14.8Bn
Uber is powering its global food delivery ambitions with its latest $14.8Bn… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
thetechportal.com
On the Eve of Edge AI Explosion, ModelBest Valuation Surpasses $2.8B After MiniCPM Success on Galaxy AI
ModelBest raises 5 billion RMB in H1 2026 as edge AI pure-play unicorn with MiniCPM models powering Samsung Galaxy AI and automotive deployments.
pandaily.com
The problem AI content moderation cannot solve
Meta and other big tech companies are increasingly using AI for content moderation, but as the backlash to Muse Image shows, it cannot protect users because it does not account for consent.
restofworld.org
From humanoids to Huawei: what to watch as Xi attends China’s WAIC amid US AI rivalry
China will use its largest annual artificial intelligence gathering this week to showcase an ambition that extends beyond catching up with the United States in foundation models to building dominance in autonomous agents, scientific research, humanoid robots and consumer devices.…
scmp.com
China Visual AI Leader SenseTime Declares End of Stitch-Monster Era With Open-Source Unified Vision Model
SenseTime open-sources SenseNova-Vision, a single model unifying detection, segmentation, depth prediction and 3D reconstruction, topping HuggingFace Any-to-Any Leaderboard globally.
pandaily.com
Skyroot Aerospace eyes July 18 for India’s first private orbital rocket launch
In a historic first, India’s booming private space-tech sector is set to… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
thetechportal.com
The Billion-Dollar Seed Isn’t The Deal You Think It Is
Despite attention-grabbing AI mega-seed rounds, historical data shows that very large first financings rarely produce venture-scale returns because high entry valuations limit investor upside. Instead, argues guest author Ellie McDonald, the strongest venture outcomes have typica…
news.crunchbase.com
Why heat pumps are still so hot in the US
It feels as if it should be illegal to even think about heating appliances during the height of summer—seriously, these heat waves in New York have been brutal—but we need to talk about heat pumps. The appliances use electricity for heating, they’re incredibly efficient, and they…
MIT Technology Review
The AI compute gap: Enterprises are buying infrastructure faster than they can measure what it costs
Across 107 enterprises, AI infrastructure spending is accelerating well ahead of the ability to see or steer its economics. Most organizations run their AI on a familiar base of hyperscalers and model-provider APIs, yet the next dollar is aimed at specialized compute almost none …
venturebeat.com

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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.
bytebytego.com
Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
https://www.kimi.com/en Kimi K3 Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/kimi-k3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935342 Points: 1371 # Comments: 838
kimi.com
Decoy Font
Article URL: https://www.mixfont.com/experiments/decoy-font Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936584 Points: 470 # Comments: 112
mixfont.com
A Sloshing-Mercury-Powered Neon Light
In 1675, while transporting a barometer by night, the astronomer Jean Picard noticed a glow inside its glass tube, just above the mercury. As the mercury sloshed and splashed across …read more
hackaday.com
White Rails are the Infrastructure Hack We Didn’t Know We Needed
Railroads might be a nineteenth century technology, but they’re still the backbone of cargo transportation in the 21st century. They’ve also far from run out of innovation, including this one …read more
hackaday.com
Even Chemical Bonds Obey Einstein’s Relativity
Although Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is typically associated with really large and really heavy things like planets in solar systems and big things in universes in general, it turns out …read more
hackaday.com
Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
Article URL: https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936426 Points: 604 # Comments: 135
opensource.microsoft.com
Bad Apple on a Karaoke Machine
CD+Graphics was a format that never really caught on. It let music discs pack some graphics, maybe liner notes, and mostly song lyrics into the otherwise empty space on a …read more
hackaday.com
AI Customer Support at Scale: The Travel Industry’s $Billion Bet
In this article, we will look more closely at the different solutions by following the support pipeline from first principles, show why a tail of cases resists automation regardless of model quality, and use these three approaches to understand how these can be handled.
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