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OpenAI Is Trying to Shame Apple Into Backing Down From Its Lawsuit
Weeks after a bombshell lawsuit, OpenAI is publishing its own receipts.
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TV Time co-founder launches Bingers to revive the beloved TV-tracking app
After TV Time’s shutdown left millions of users searching for an alternative, one of the app’s original founders is back with Bingers, a new TV and movie tracker that revives the social features fans loved while adding support for importing their viewing history.
techcrunch.com
Why R&D Waste Persists Despite Widespread AI Adoption
This report examines R&D waste and how AI adoption has outpaced the intelligence needed to make consequential decisions well. What Attendees will Learn Where R&D budget is lost. More than a third of organizations spend 25 to 40 percent of their R&D budget on projects that never …
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The ‘Violent Night 2’ Trailer Adds Mrs. Claus to Its Gory Christmas Action
David Harbour is joined by Kristen Bell in the holiday action sequel, out on December 4.
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Spotify expands AI remix and covers project with Merlin partnership
Spotify says Merlin, which represents more than 30,000 independent labels and distributors, has joined Universal Music Group in backing its upcoming AI-powered remix and covers product. The paid tool will let fans create AI-generated covers and remixes of participating artists’ m…
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This 100-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals a Brutal Chain of Cretaceous Violence
The findings represent the first three-tier predator interaction from the Dinosaur Age.
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International tech
WorkBuddy Security Center Goes Live: Tencent Brings OS-API Layer Sandboxing, Recoverable File Deletion, and Version Rollback as Default Agent Safety Defaults
Tencent WorkBuddy 5.0 ships default security sandbox, recycle-bin file deletion, and version-restorable edits at the OS API layer, addressing the agent safety crisis without slowing agent efficiency.
pandaily.com
Embodied-AI startup PaXini raises RMB1 billion to scale tactile-sensing technology
PaXini has completed a RMB1 billion strategic funding round, bringing its cumulative fundraising to RMB3.5 billion, the company said on Aug. 3. The new round was jointly led by an unnamed global consumer electronics and semiconductor group, BOC International Investment, Kunpeng F…
technode.com
Productivity Agent Becomes the New Office Entry Point as ByteDance Tencent Alibaba and WPS Race to Organize Enterprise AI Workflows
Kingsoft Lingxi, Tencent QClaw, Alibaba Qianwen Office, and ByteDance Doubao-Feishu integration redefine enterprise office as the agent becomes the task entry while Feishu DingTalk and WeChat Work become supporting infrastructure.
pandaily.com
The men who consume the most information — podcasts queued, newsletters unread, tabs left open for weeks — are often the ones who have quietly stopped asking whether any of it is changing how they think
The endless consumption of information has become a substitute for the harder work of actually thinking.
siliconcanals.com
Productivity advice usually starts after the plan is made, but decades of research suggest many missed deadlines begin earlier, with an optimistic estimate of how long the work will take
The estimates we make before starting work shape everything that follows—yet we're terrible at making them accurately.
siliconcanals.com
On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse sat in the US Capitol and tapped out ‘What hath God wrought’ to his assistant Alfred Vail 60 kilometres away in Baltimore, a phrase chosen not by Morse but by Annie Ellsworth, the young daughter of a friend, who picked it out of the Book of Numbers and then traced every letter of it on the tape in ink herself
On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse tapped out a four-word message from the US Capitol to Baltimore over 38 miles of copper wire. The verse was chosen by a 17-year-old named Annie Ellsworth from the Book of Numbers that morning.
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Yellow YAG Produces Powerful Pulses in Les’ Leftover Laser
[Les] likes lasing lasers, and who doesn’t? [Les] likes larger lasers than lots of folks, with his current project being an Nd:YAG (that’s Neodymium:Yttrium Aluminum Garnet) flash pumped laser intended …read more
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FFmpeg 9.0
Article URL: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/n9.0/RELEASE_NOTES Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166202 Points: 391 # Comments: 89
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BornHack Radio 102.8 FM, Playing Radio At A Hacker Camp
Over the years I have been to many hacker camps and done a lot of very cool things, but BornHack 2026 brought me something entirely new: Radio. By which I …read more
hackaday.com
DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X
Article URL: https://github.com/ryanzhou/deepseek-v4-flash-mi300x Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166386 Points: 283 # Comments: 62
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Un Ordinateur Pour Le Minitel-1 (A Computer For The Minitel-1)
In the 1980s, France was the stage for one of the boldest public computing projects of the era. Minitel was the French take on viewdata, and instead of making it …read more
hackaday.com
LLM Security Basics: The Full Threat Model
In this article, we try to build a map of the full attack surface that threatens an LLM’s security.
bytebytego.com
Road Trains Roam The Backroads of Australia
Trains and the railways they run on are a great way to move lots of stuff, or lots of people, a long way. Steel wheels on steel rail can shift …read more
hackaday.com
Why An LLM’s Memory Gets Expensive and How to Fix It
In this article, we will learn how LLMs use memory, how it gets expensive, and how to fix it.
bytebytego.com
Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
Article URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/xbox-goes-down-you-cant-play-games-you-own-on-disc/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167448 Points: 407 # Comments: 472
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