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Pastebot 3
New from Tapbots: version 3 of their excellent clipboard manager for Mac. There are so many clipboard managers for the Mac. I run two other apps — Keyboard Maestro and LaunchBar — that offer good clipboard managers as ancillary features. But for years now I’ve chosen to use Paste…
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Apple Says iOS 27 ‘Restricted Mode’ Isn’t for Users Who Miss Payments in New Apple Upgrade Program
Last week 9to5Mac reported on code in the latest iOS 27 developer beta seemingly meant to restrict leased devices after the user had missed one or more payments. When engaged, Restricted Mode limits the device to the following apps: Accessibility Reader App Store Health Magnifier…
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FTC sues Hims & Hers for allegedly sharing patients’ medical data with advertisers Meta and Snap
The U.S. federal consumer watchdog said Hims & Hers, which prescribes for sexual wellness and mental health conditions, used website trackers to share customers' information with advertisers.
techcrunch.com
The lineage behind 69% of open models was never verified. Cisco just fingerprinted almost 900 for free
A security team approving an open-source model for production today starts with a repository page. The page lists the model name, the license, and a tag identifying the base model it descended from. That tag is a string the uploader typed. Hugging Face does not require uploaders …
venturebeat.com
Forward-deployed engineers are the AI industry’s latest talent obsession
A new study estimates only 2,000 U.S. engineers have the expertise to deliver meaningful AI ROI, as enterprises race to hire forward-deployed engineers to implement AI at scale.
techcrunch.com
A Remote Indigenous Community Built One of Canada’s Fastest Fiber Networks
In February 2024, a young man lay somewhere on the frozen shore of James Bay, Canada, surrounded by snow and darkness, succumbing to hypothermia. When he failed to get home on time, his frantic mother sent a Facebook message to Elizabeth Kataquapit, then chief of the indigenous c…
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US scientist Elsa Reichmanis defends global collaboration amid scrutiny of science exchange
American materials scientist Elsa Reichmanis, whose pioneering work helped lay part of the foundation for modern semiconductor manufacturing, said scientific collaboration should transcend rivalry after receiving one of China’s highest honours for foreign experts, describing scie…
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Why did an oil-producing country pumping about two million barrels a day make electric cars 96 percent of new sales in 2025 while building the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund?
Norway pumps two million barrels a day, exports almost all of it, banks the proceeds in a $1.8 trillion sovereign fund — and buys electric cars at a rate no other country has ever matched. Inside the policy machinery that holds the contradiction together.
siliconcanals.com
Dark Horse Muka Robotics Charges WorldArena With Only 32 Zhenwu 810E GPUs: LJM World Model Achieves Global Second Place Defining the Breakthrough From Video Quality to Physical Logic
Muka Robotics LJM Latent Joint-conditional Model achieves WorldArena global #2 at 89.17 Motion Quality with only 32 GPUs, establishing a dual-expert architecture that prioritizes physical understanding over video generation quality.
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How ByteDance’s Seedance model empowers China’s nascent AI drama industry
At a video production base in Shenzhen, creators are generating so-called comic dramas using artificial intelligence, compressing months of production down to a matter of weeks. The Moli OPC AI Comic Drama Base, located in the northeastern part of the city, brings together direct…
scmp.com
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 reaches enterprise users through Fireworks on Microsoft Foundry
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 is now available through Fireworks AI on Microsoft’s Foundry platform, giving Azure customers a managed route to run the model through OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions and Responses APIs. Fireworks lists Kimi among more than 20 open models served through F…
technode.com
Ant Group spin-offs pursue independent growth with strategic capital moves
The three independent spin-offs of Chinese fintech giant Ant Group are accelerating their capital-raising efforts, forging distinct financial paths after gaining operational autonomy in 2024. Ant Digital Technologies is preparing a financing round ahead of its initial public offe…
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AI's top startups are barely publishing their research
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Keyboard Lights As An Airgap Attack Vector
What do you do when you need to get data into an airgapped machine? Well, you might find yourself limited to basic input devices to interact with the computer in …read more
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'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling
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LLM Honeypot
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Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year
Article URL: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/07/google-play-age-signals-api-safer-experiences.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49107950 Points: 218 # Comments: 248
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Use Your Head While Trimming Trees
[Attoparsec] occasionally rides a bicycle for transportation, but with the major downside of doing this in North America, a place where bicycle infrastructure is generally neglected. From snow removal, maintenance, …read more
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Wrangling Datacenter GPUs Into a Desktop
As we’ve seen many times before, there’s usually some way wrangle a bit more life out of what would otherwise be considered old and obsolete technology. Perhaps one thing that …read more
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Why DoorDash, Instacart, and Uber Eats Integrated LLMs Into Search Three Different Ways
In this article, we will walk through their differing solutions and try to make sense of their choices and understand the pattern behind them.
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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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