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★ Temu Is a Comically Bad App
Cabel Sasser on Mastodon: the temu app will be studied for generations. i opened the app, and recorded this unedited, nearly two minute, launch sequence. it somehow just gets funnier and more absurd I agree with this sentiment, right down to the fact that Temu doesn’t deserve cap…
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Apple Releases iOS and MacOS 26.6, MacOS 15.7.8, and More
Samuel Axon, Ars Technica: Apple has released iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS 26.6. Apart from potential security hotfixes, these are likely the last updates before the arrival of iOS 27, macOS 27, and so on. All of today’s releases include minor bug fixes, and there are nu…
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Montana’s new “right to try” law can’t come soon enough for some
Kris DeVault is desperate. His son, Brody, was born in March 2023. It wasn’t long before he started to show signs of developmental delay, says DeVault. As time went on, Brody started missing key milestones in speech, movement, and coordination, he says. When Brody was around two …
MIT Technology Review
Not just OpenAI: Now Anthropic says its internal models got online and cyberattacked 3 other organizations
Days after OpenAI disclosed that two frontier AI models escaped containment measures and autonomously cyberattacked the AI code sharing platform Hugging Face, OpenAI's top U.S. rival Anthropic tonight revealed that — lo and behold — it has also had models surreptitiously access t…
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Snapchat no longer rewards fully AI-generated Spotlight content
Snapchat has adjusted its recommendation systems to ensure that only videos created by real people are eligible for Spotlight recommendations, taking a stance against AI slop.
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Siri AI could come with a paywall for power users
Apple CEO Tim Cook envisions users being able to buy more compute for Siri AI via Apple's existing iCloud+ subscriptions.
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International tech
Tesla China rolls out Doubao-powered voice assistant to four vehicle lines
Tesla China has begun rolling out version 2026.14.13 of its in-car software, formally integrating ByteDance’s Doubao large language model into the Model 3, Model Y, Model S and Model X. The update is being delivered in batches to newly delivered vehicles and some existing cars. D…
technode.com
CRED After Kunal Shah: Can The ‘Walled Garden’ Business Model Pay For Itself?
For the first five years of CRED’s existence, the question on everyone’s minds was: how will CRED even make money.…
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ByteDance launches Seedance 2.5 video-generation model
ByteDance has released Seedance 2.5, the latest version of its Seed video-generation model. The model can generate a 30-second high-quality video clip in a single run and supports multi-turn extension for longer sequences. Users can provide up to 30 images, 10 videos and 10 audio…
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Retirement doesn’t always feel like freedom
The bank account is finally healthy and something still feels wrong. Why the first year of retirement is often the hardest, and what psychologists say the emotional plan should have included from the start.
siliconcanals.com
A study sent groups of friends and relatives to eat at a café and asked half to keep their phones on the table. Those diners used their phones for only about a tenth of the meal, yet still reported enjoying the experience less, feeling more distracted and being slightly more bored than diners who put their phones away.
A phone on a café table rarely looks like a decision. It looks practical. Someone might call. The map, payment app and family group chat all live in the same rectangle, so placing it beside the cutlery can feel no more significant than putting down your keys. I understand that in…
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UPI’s Monetisation Moment: Why MDR Is Back On The Table
For nearly six years, Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions in India have carried a zero-cost promise: no Merchant Discount Rate…
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Thinking Machines debuts Inkling Small open source AI model nearing performance of predecessor at about 1/4 size
Just two weeks after Thinking Machines released Inkling, its first open source AI language model, the well-funded startup led by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati today introduced Inkling-Small without sacrificing much of any performance — and in fact, the new mo…
venturebeat.com
Insta360 Luna Ultra Review: This Is the Only Gimbal Camera You Need
The Insta360 Luna Ultra is great at vlogging, but that’s just scratching the surface.
gizmodo.com
These Are Sectors Where Seed Rounds Of $5M To $10M Are Clustering This Year
We identified popular themes for seed-stage investment this year, including cancer therapeutics and space tech.
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Hiring: Part Time Instructor, Write Production Grade Code with AI
We’re hiring a part-time instructor for “𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐈”.
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Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
Article URL: https://blog.google/security/chrome-stronger-with-every-update/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120097 Points: 440 # Comments: 440
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NES Advantage Stick Gets Bluetooth Upgrade
The NES Advantage was a cool bit of hardware back in 1987, bringing an arcade stick to the home console gaming experience. Naturally they don’t get much use these days, …read more
hackaday.com
A Detailed Guide to Idempotency, Delivery Semantics, and Deduplication
What happens when a service sends a request to charge a customer, but the request times out with no response?
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DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update
Article URL: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/updates/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119559 Points: 599 # Comments: 293
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Hacking a Commercial Colorimeter to add RAL Color Code Support
When you need to match paint colors, one of the tools you’ll reach for is a deck of reference colors. Another might be a colorimeter. But what if you want …read more
hackaday.com
The End of an Era
Article URL: https://hughhowey.com/the-end-of-an-era/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49121980 Points: 334 # Comments: 377
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How ChatGPT Optimizes its Agent Loop: Harness, API, and Inference
To understand what techniques are adopted in frontier labs to make AI applications more efficient, we met with the OpenAI engineers who developed and shipped various efficiency techniques into the systems behind Codex and ChatGPT Work.
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DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/deepseek-v4-flash Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120299 Points: 457 # Comments: 242
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