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We’re Squandering LEDs’ Potential to Save Our Night Skies
In the chill of a London spring night, under overcast skies, iconic Trafalgar Square opens around me. Admiral Nelson rises on his pedestal, the National Gallery rests behind, the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields sits nearby. From the 13th century, the site served as the Royal Me…
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IEEE Program Helps Girls In India See a Future In STEM
Roughly half the world’s population is female, but the STEM fields don’t reflect that. The 2024 U.N. Global Education Monitoring Report on gender found that about 35 percent of STEM college graduates were women. The proportion hasn’t increased much in more than a decade. When it …
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The Great Freakout Over Open-Source AI Has Begun
There are no heroes here.
gizmodo.com
Paper
My thanks to Paper for sponsoring last week at DF. Paper is a new professional design tool where every layer is real HTML and CSS. Your design is already code, which means fewer handoffs, translations, and layers of abstraction between what you design and what you actually ship. …
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‘Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?’
Ben Thompson, on the hype regarding Kimi K3, at Stratechery: This is a point that bears repeating: because U.S. open weight model makers must follow the frontier labs’ terms of service, they (1) are worse than Chinese alternatives and (2) end up distilling the distillation, just …
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The Download: AI hiring biases, and weather data sabotage
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. AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring The next time you apply for a job, AI may screen your résumé before any human sees it…
MIT Technology Review
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ByteDance Releases Seed Audio 1.0: An Audio Generation Model With Fine-Grained Temporal Control for Cinema-Grade Sound Creation
ByteDance Seed team launches Seed Audio 1.0 audio creation model supporting unified orchestration of speech, sound effects, and ambience with precise timeline control and 20+ language support.
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ZTE Fully Activates Its AI Flywheel: From OEX Supernode and AIDC to Nubia Agent Phone and Humanoid Robots
ZTE presents end-to-end AI portfolio at WAIC 2026: OEX supernode wins SAIL Star again, Nubia NaviX Ultra ships as global first agent smartphone, humanoid robot family and AIDC solutions complete the picture.
pandaily.com
We picture loneliness as an old person’s burden, yet a global 2023 survey found this may not be the case: across 142 countries, adults aged 19 to 29 reported the most loneliness of any age group, more than a quarter of them
The loneliest generation isn't the one we think it is—it's young adults, and the reasons why challenge everything we assumed about isolation and age.
siliconcanals.com
Why China’s open-weight AI model Kimi K3 is sparking anxiety in Silicon Valley
Chinese start-up Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 has narrowed the country’s artificial intelligence gap with the US to “a matter of weeks”, fuelling jitters in Silicon Valley over its lead in frontier AI as China doubles down on its open-source strategy. The Beijing-based unicorn released …
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Scapia Announces ₹20 Cr ESOP Buyback
Travel-focused fintech startup Scapia has announced an ESOP (employee stock ownership plan) buyback programme worth ₹20 Cr. The initiative would…
inc42.com
In 1901, Greek sponge divers sheltering from a storm off the island of Antikythera stumbled onto a Roman shipwreck and hauled up a corroded lump of bronze that turned out to be a 2,000-year-old geared computer capable of predicting eclipses and tracking the Olympic calendar, a device so sophisticated nothing comparable would appear again for another 1,400 years
In 1900, Greek sponge divers took shelter from a storm off Antikythera and surfaced with a corroded lump that turned out to be a hand-cranked bronze computer built around 100 BC — capable of predicting eclipses and tracking the Olympic calendar, with nothing comparable appearing …
siliconcanals.com

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Hackaday Europe 2026: Project Gigapixel
There was once a race to put out cameras with ever higher numbers of megapixels to snare customers eager to take the highest quality digital photos. These days, we know …read more
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Annoying and alarming things about OpenCode
Article URL: https://wren.wtf/shower-thoughts/stop-using-opencode/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978112 Points: 346 # Comments: 231
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Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database
Article URL: https://news.risky.biz/risky-bulletin-hacker-wipes-romanias-entire-land-registry-database/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978605 Points: 447 # Comments: 240
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A Feature-Rich Drum Machine
A little over a month ago, we featured a project from [Igor] who built 64 bits of DRAM from scratch using discrete components. Jokes about memory pricing aside, he did …read more
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Old SSDs Find New Life as Game Cartridges
Game companies might not like physical media much anymore, but gamers sure do. There’s nothing like pawing over your collection to find what to play, and inserting a cartridge with …read more
hackaday.com
Airport Simulator
Article URL: https://airport.apunen.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976846 Points: 508 # Comments: 110
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Launching Rockets is Hard, Bring them Back is Harder
Since the first V2 rocket sailed above the Kármán line back in 1944 and right up until the modern era, the trajectory of most space-bound rockets was more or less …read more
hackaday.com
MCP vs A2A vs ACP: How AI Agents Actually Talk to Each Other
Agents are capable on their own. Combined with tools and other agents, their capabilities compound.
bytebytego.com
What is the value of one hour of a startup founder's time?
Startup founders undervalue their time. Here's why you should act like it's $1000/hr, and how it changes the decisions you make.
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