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I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else

OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.

Vietnam is looking to restrict social media for kids; here are the growing number of other countries doing the same

Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social media, including cyberbullying, social media addiction, and exposure to predators.

Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M

The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.

‘Spaceballs: The New One’ Just Had a Joyous, Hilarious Comic-Con Panel

The highly anticipated sequel stars Mel Brooks, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Keke Palmer, Lewis Pullman, and Josh Gad. It's out April 2027.

The Download: an organ transplant breakthrough, and homegrown Chinese chips

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. Supercooled kidneys have been transplanted into pigs in a “landmark achievement” When it comes to organ donation, time is everything. As soon…

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★ Regarding Ad Blockers and Daring Fireball

Following up on the previous item today, re: content blockers and ad-blocking, I ran into a weird situation a few weeks ago with my column “John Ternus Should Reverse Apple’s Slide Down the Advertising Slippery Slope”. That article contains this sentence, in Markdown: And -- at t…

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Honor Changes Logo: The Ring of Honor Brand Identity Signals an All-In AI Strategy as the Smartphone Maker Bets on Agent Phone Transformation

Honor unveils new Ring of Honor logo and brand slogan Dare to Think, Dare to Be Different as it accelerates transformation from smartphone maker to AI terminal ecosystem company amid market challenges.

From Zetwerk To Veriqus — Indian Startups Raised $209 Mn This Week

Indian startup funding slowed in the fourth week of July. Between July 18 and July 24, Indian startups cumulatively raised…

Flipkart, Eight Roads Offload Shadowfax Shares Worth ₹1,654 Cr In Bulk Deal

Walmart-owned Flipkart has sold shares worth nearly ₹690 Cr in listed logistics company Shadowfax via a bulk deal, joining existing…

Huawei’s Ren Zhengfei backs Tau Scaling Law to beat US sanctions

Huawei Technologies founder Ren Zhengfei has thrown his weight behind the Chinese tech giant’s Tau Scaling Law, framing the new chip-design principle as an existential necessity to survive tightening US sanctions. “The Tau Scaling Law is the only path forward for Huawei to break …

UPI In June: Navi, super.money Gain Ground As PhonePe, Google Pay Slip Slightly

The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) race got more intense in the month of June as market share shifts indicate growing…

The company behind Singha beer removed one of its heirs from every executive role days after an abuse allegation went public — a reckoning Asian family dynasties usually avoid

When Boonrawd Brewery cut ties with Sunit Scott, it did in public what family conglomerates in the region almost always handle in private. The speed and visibility of that decision is its own story.

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You Might Want to Temper Your Excitement for the Pixel Watch 5

Leaks suggest Google's new smartwatches could use the same chip as the Pixel Watch 4, while costing more and looking the same.

The quest to keep organs alive outside the body

This week, I covered a fascinating effort to preserve organs outside the body. There’s a huge shortage of donor organs, and one of the main reasons is time—they survive only a matter of hours outside the body, even when they’re kept on ice. Doctors dream of organ banks—stores of …

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General Catalyst Takes The Lead Over Y Combinator In Backing $5M+ Fintech Deals

For the first time in several quarters, General Catalyst in Q2 overtook Y Combinator when it came to participating in the most fintech deals of $5 million or more, per Crunchbase data. The quarter also marked the busiest one for General Catalyst since 2021 in terms of investing i…

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Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/health/taylor-farms-cyclospora-recall-delay-call-41fef0bc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49044074 Points: 215 # Comments: 102

Fast Volumetric Imaging of Seizures with Adaptive Optics Light Sheet Microscopy

Key to understanding something like epilepsy is to be able to record highly transient events in biological tissues. Generally this is done using light sheet microscopy, which provides effectively a …read more

Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard

Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040741 Points: 297 # Comments: 163

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Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB

Article URL: https://kitsumed.github.io/blog/posts/android-may-soon-restrict-on-device-adb/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49045159 Points: 220 # Comments: 106

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Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales

Article URL: https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-listen-notify-scalability Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040296 Points: 310 # Comments: 59

Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach

Article URL: https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/features/professor-hannah-fry-wins-leelavati-prize Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49043724 Points: 227 # Comments: 36

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3D Printed Go Kart Designed to Fit in a Suitcase

[Ivan Miranda] is famous for his large-scale 3D printed vehicles. They’re pretty fun, but they’re also pretty big and heavy—which can make transporting them around rather impractical. Hence, when he …read more

Hands-Free Mouse Uses Eyes And Muscles Instead

The standard computer mouse is a perfectly useful peripheral if your hands work. If you’ve got some trouble in that area, you might appreciate an alternative input solution. To that end, [Varun …read more

ICCU Monitor Logs Data in E-GMP EV Failures

EVs are less mechanically complicated than their combustion kin, but that doesn’t mean they’re immune to component failure. The Integrated Charge Control Unit (ICCU) has been the main failure point …read more