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Sardinia’s Ancient Reasons for Rejecting a Clean Energy Future
“Why are you here?” Fabrizio Pilo, an electrical engineer, asks me as we sit in an outdoor café near his home in Cagliari, an ancient city on the island of Sardinia. It’s a fair question. I’m a journalist from the United States. I’d just stepped off my flight 2 hours prior and co…
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The Download: the tech reshaping IVF and the rise of balcony solar
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. What’s next for IVF IVF has brought millions of babies into the world over the last four decades. But the process can still be slow, painful, …
MIT Technology Review
OpenAI Is Tired of Seeing All Those Videos of People Clowning on Its Voice Mode
Say what?
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Hackers deface school login pages after claiming another Instructure hack
The cybercrime group ShinyHunters claimed to have hacked Instructure again, defacing the login pages of several Instructure customer schools with an extortion message.
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Why AI breaks without context — and how to fix it
Presented by Zeta Global The gap between what AI promises and what it delivers is not subtle. The same model can produce precise, useful output in one system and generic, irrelevant results in another. The issue is not the model. It's the context. Most enterprise systems were n…
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Anthropic Skill scanners passed every check. The malicious code rode in on a test file.
Picture this scenario: An Anthropic Skill scanner runs a full analysis of a Skill pulled from ClawHub or skills.sh. Its markdown instructions are clean, and no prompt injection is detected. No shell commands are hiding in the SKILL.md. Green across the board. The scanner never lo…
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International tech
I’m 38 and I realized last weekend that my dad has started walking me to my car when I leave his house — something he never used to do — and the walk is always five seconds longer than it needs to be, with one extra small comment, one extra small wave, and I understood on the drive home that the walk isn’t a goodbye, it’s a quiet request for one more minute that he doesn’t know how to ask for out loud
I sat in the rental car for ten minutes at the end of my father’s road last weekend, engine off, hands on the wheel, unable to make myself drive. I was not crying. I was not on the phone. I was doing that specific thing where you have just understood something about a person you …
siliconcanals.com
Five times AI hallucinations embarrassed governments
From the Trump administration’s “formatting errors” to South Africa’s historic policy withdrawal, AI confabulation is infiltrating official documents.
restofworld.org
CAS SPACE Files for STAR Market IPO, Aiming to Become China's First Commercial Spaceflight Listing
CAS SPACE, China's first mixed-ownership commercial rocket company backed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has filed for a STAR Market listing, marking a pivotal step in the country's commercial spaceflight sector.
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Oritek Semiconductor Closes Series C, Achieves Mass Production Milestone for Automotive Chips
Oritek Semiconductor has closed a new funding round to advance domestic production of high-performance automotive chips, a critical step in China's push for semiconductor self-sufficiency in the automotive sector.
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Skyroot Aerospace raises $60Mn in new funding, becomes India’s first space-tech unicorn as valuation hits $1.1Bn
Skyroot Aerospace has become India’s first space-tech unicorn after raising a fresh… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Kissht IPO: Ventureast Books 10.9X Return, Vertex Ventures Rakes In ₹29 Cr
Lending tech startup Kissht’s parent OnEMI Technology Solutions is all set to list on the bourses tomorrow after its IPO…
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Wigglegrams with a Pinhole Camera
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How Instacart Built a Search for Billions of Products
In this article, we will learn how Instacart’s search infrastructure evolved over the years and the challenges its engineering team faced.
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Congratulations to the Green Powered Challenge Winners!
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3D Printed Train Whistles Sound Out at Full Scale
The age of steam is long gone, but there are few railfans who don’t have a soft spot for the old rolling kettles. So you’d best believe when [AeroKoi] talks …read more
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There’s More to Global Positioning than Just GPS
The Global Positioning System (GPS) was developed by the United States military in the 1970s, but it wasn’t long before civilians all over the planet started using it. By the …read more
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Container Design Patterns for Distributed Systems
In this article, we’ll walk through the patterns that have crystallized over the past decade, organized by the scope of their coordination.
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DIY Electrolysis Machine Removes Hair Permanently
If you talk to the FDA, there’s only one permanent method of hair removal—electrolysis. This involves sticking a needle into a hair follicle, getting it very hot or running a …read more
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