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Why California’s carbon manure math doesn’t add up
Something stinks in California’s climate policies. Years ago, the state set up a system that pays cattle farmers across the country to turn the methane emitted from cattle manure into natural gas, encouraging the dairy sector to produce a gas we burn instead of one that just poll…
MIT Technology Review
Valve Explains Why It Doesn’t Subsidize Its Hardware Platforms
Valve, in a statement to The Verge, explaining why it doesn’t sell its handheld Steam Deck or new Steam Machine gaming devices at a loss (gift link): While this might seem like an easy solution, it doesn’t align with our beliefs about how healthy ecosystems are built. If there’s …
The Verge
★ A Tale of Two Modems
Marko Zivkovic, reporting for AppleInsider regarding some of the data revealed by Tata Electronics’s massive data breach: For the U.S. variant of the iPhone 18 Pro, which will feature mmWave compatibility, Apple seemingly plans to use Qualcomm modem hardware. Multiple Qualcomm co…
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As AI Reshapes Global Energy Systems, Melbourne Leads Through Engineering Collaboration
This article is brought to you by Melbourne Convention Bureau (MCB) supported by Business Events Australia. As artificial intelligence accelerates global demand for compute, a parallel constraint is emerging with equal urgency: energy. From hyperscale data centers to electrified …
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Anthropic is bringing back Claude Fable 5 globally after US lifts export control order — where can enterprises access it?
Anthropic is restoring global access to its most powerful generally released AI model yet, Claude Fable 5, today, after the U.S. Department of Commerce last night withdrew the emergency export controls it had issued previously around the model. The U.S. export control order iss…
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Tesla saw a massive sales jump in the second quarter
The company delivered more than 480,000 EVs globally, seemingly thanks to geographic expansion and cheaper versions of the Model 3, Model Y, and Cybertruck.
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People expect marriage to get harder with age, but many couples describe the opposite — a softening that arrives once they stop trying to change each other and start trying to enjoy what’s left
My husband’s grandparents have been married forty-three years, and the clearest picture I have of their marriage is the two of them at the kitchen counter on a Sunday morning. He loads the dishwasher wrong, by any reasonable standard, plates leaning against glasses, mugs in the b…
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Tsinghua University Trains a Top-Tier Computer Control Agent Using Massive Free Screenshots
Tsinghua and Tencent Hunyuan’s GUICrafter trains GUI agents with zero-cost web screenshots and meta-tasks, rivaling top models at 0.1% of the training data cost
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OpenAI could offer a 5% stake to the US government
OpenAI is reportedly considering one of the most unusual ideas in the… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Will share buy-backs help Chinese big tech companies rescue battered valuations?
Chinese tech giants including Tencent Holdings, Alibaba Group Holding, Meituan, and Xiaomi have launched aggressive share buy-back programmes to revive investor confidence amid continuing scepticism towards the sector, while analysts suggest that a bottoming out could soon be in …
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Chinese Tech Giants Race to Match Claude Code as Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance Join the Fray
Tencent, Alibaba, ByteDance, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, and Zhipu AI launch competing AI coding agents, betting on localized workflows to challenge Anthropic and OpenAI
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Xiaohongshu reportedly launches internal Darwin project to develop new products
Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu has launched an internal startup incubation program, codenamed Darwin, aimed at developing new products beyond its flagship app, according to Sina Tech. The initiative, which recently opened applications to employees, allows selected part…
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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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Bring back crappy forums
Article URL: https://tedium.co/2026/07/01/online-web-forums-retrospective/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48755731 Points: 379 # Comments: 245
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Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise 
Article URL: https://news.ubc.ca/2026/06/mrna-vaccines-are-safe-effective-and-full-of-promise/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48754963 Points: 314 # Comments: 352
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Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot
Article URL: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-01-kimi-k2-7-is-now-available-in-github-copilot/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48756602 Points: 246 # Comments: 105
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Oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself
Article URL: https://makerspet.com/blog/building-an-open-source-robot-vacuum-meet-oomwoo/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48755005 Points: 374 # Comments: 70
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Sony to End Physical PlayStation Disc Production in 2028
Sony has just announced on their PlayStation blog that they will stop the production of game discs starting January 2028. This effectively means a shift away from physical media to …read more
hackaday.com
How OpenAI Delivers Low-Latency Voice AI for 900M Users
In this article, we will look at the entire journey in detail and challenges the OpenAI engineering team faced.
bytebytego.com
GPU-Accelerated Autorouter Handles Monstrous PCB Designs
[Brian] had an absolute monster of a PCB with thousands of nets to be routed, the kind of design that stopped traditional routers in their tracks. It would take months …read more
hackaday.com
A Rare Drone Common Sense Outbreak, In Denmark
Last September, Denmark was gripped by a spate of drone sightings near airports. It’s familiar territory for Hackaday, as we reported on a similar drone panic saga at British airports …read more
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