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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI Drives Another Spree Of Megadeals
This week, most of the largest U.S. startup funding rounds centered around the sector one would suspect: artificial intelligence. Beyond that, the next-biggest area for startup funding was biotech.
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Apple Vision Pro exec is reportedly leaving for OpenAI
Paul Meade, the Apple vice president in charge of the Vision Pro headset, is reportedly leaving the company to join OpenAI’s hardware team.
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Expect Claude Fable 5 to Be Turned Back on in a Matter of Days, Report Says
Anthropic's most advanced publicly available AI model will reportedly be unleashed by the White House this coming week.
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A24 Wants You to Be Nice About Its Google AI Deal
The fan-favorite indie studio is on the defense for its expensive, research-heavy teamup with DeepMind.
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★ Om
Om died two days ago, after a long battle against a bum heart. Om and I often sat next to each other at Apple keynotes. This was not at all surprising or odd, insofar as we’d been friends for 20 years. Folks at Apple PR knew that we were close, and would often pair us together i…
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It’s Possible to 3D Print an Entire Outfit Now. ‘Should You?’ Is Another Question
One plucky YouTuber explores whether 3D printers might let us wrest back the means of production from Big Fashion.
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We tend to assume AI is replacing jobs because coding is complex work it has mastered, but the World Economic Forum found the opposite is true: AI is more likely to replace coders than truck drivers not because coding is harder, but because the training data is easier to come by
A Silicon Canals piece on why AI exposure follows available training data and task legibility, not a simple ranking of job difficulty.
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Apologies online fail more often than apologies in person, and the reason has less to do with sincerity than with what digital distance removes from the conversation
Studies of organizational conflict have found that apologies delivered in person are perceived as more sincere and more effective at restoring trust than the same content delivered through text or email. Research into mediated communication points the same direction: the leaner t…
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China Achieves Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion Superconducting Magnets
China completes the world's largest fusion reactor superconducting magnet — a 582-ton toroidal field coil — and tests a fully domestically produced high-temperature superconducting solenoid at internationally leading performance levels.
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MediaTek Emerges as Major Challenger in Optical Interconnect Chip Market
MediaTek enters the optical interconnect chip market with CPO technology and Micro LED optical solutions, challenging Broadcom and Marvell's duopoly in the AI data center optical chip sector.
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Apple requests US clearance to source chips from China’s blacklisted CXMT: Report
Apple is trying to get approval from the Trump administration to buy… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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New-Age Tech Stocks: Meesho, Smartworks Rally; ideaForge, EaseMyTrip Tumble
It was a mixed week for new-age tech stocks, with 23 of the 57 stocks gaining in a range of…
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Top Anti-Patterns to Avoid in Service Architecture
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If you can't hold it, you don't own it
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A Quantum Magic 8-Ball
If you ever cracked open one of those Magic 8-Ball toys, you found little more than a polyhedron floating in some dark-colored fluid. It was a quasi-random way of asking …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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Requiem For Long Wave, As The BBC Goes Silent
Something happened this morning which will have been unnoticed by many, but which for a certain breed of radio enthusiast marks the end of an era. The BBC stopped broadcasting …read more
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Watch YouTube on a Game Boy Color With a Special Cartridge
There’s no questioning [Throaty Mumbo]’s uncanny skill at answering questions that nobody ever asked, such as whether it’s possible to watch YouTube videos on a Nintendo Game Boy Color handheld …read more
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Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days
Article URL: https://github.com/bikini/exploitarium Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698617 Points: 302 # Comments: 123
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Do Metal Roofs Turn a Bird House into an Oven?
Birdhouses can be a great way to help out nesting birds in your area, but they can be a bit intensive to make. As part of a 500 birdhouse marathon, …read more
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Hacking Routers Like It’s 2008
How long have we been hacking routers? To some of you who’ve been in the Hackaday audience for a while, the answer is “nearly forever”. In the early 2000s, they …read more
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