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The Zoom hack that says, ‘Don’t record me’
If every meeting, watercooler conversation, and date gets transcribed and summarized, who's actually reading any of it?
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This Graduate Student Equips NASA’s Robots With Assembly Skills
Like many engineers, Sarah Downs says she knew she wanted to pursue a STEM career from a young age. As a teenager, she discovered robotics through her Tulsa, Okla., middle school’s First Lego League team, and she fell in love with the field, she says. Downs participated in the in…
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Roblox Set to Introduce AI Game-Building Feature, Including on iOS
Roblox executives Nick Tornow and Vlad Loktev, on the Roblox blog: Twenty years ago, Roblox launched with a simple idea: “You make the game.” At the time, that was a radical proposition — most games were made by studios and professionals, and the idea that anyone could be a creat…
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Intuit scrapped its own AI agent architecture twice in four months. At VB Transform 2026, its AI VP called that the fast path
Intuit was an early pioneer in the usage of agentic AI, but its path to success has hardly been a straight line. At VB Transform 2026, Intuit VP of AI Nhung Ho described how the company rebuilt its agent architecture twice in the span of about four months, first moving from a fle…
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Flock’s CEO Is Sorry for Calling Privacy Activists ‘Terrorists’
If Tucker Carlson's "douchebag factory" remark is any indication, the backlash is bipartisan.
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Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second act
Databricks has remade its image into an AI company and has published research on the cost savings of open weight AI models for coding.
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Hyper-vigilance isn’t a personality trait — it’s a stress response first documented in combat veterans, and researchers later found the same scanning-for-danger reflex in children raised around unpredictable moods
Hypervigilance was first catalogued by psychiatrist Abram Kardiner in combat veterans returning from the First World War. Decades later, attachment researchers found the same threat-scanning reflex in children raised around unpredictable parental moods — the same nervous system p…
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People who find it physically uncomfortable to look someone in the eye during a compliment aren’t insecure or evasive — they’re often the ones who take in emotional information so directly that full eye contact during something kind becomes almost too much to hold
The last time I paid someone a proper compliment, they looked at the floor like I’d dropped a twenty and were deciding whether to tell me. Not a “nice jacket.” The kind that names something true about who a person actually is. For years I read that gesture the lazy way. Shy. Awkw…
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Alibaba targets Nvidia’s dominant software ecosystem with open-source AI stack
Alibaba Group Holding’s chip design unit, T-Head, has announced that it will open-source its proprietary software stack, marking its latest effort to streamline developer operations and challenge the dominance of American chip giant Nvidia’s CUDA ecosystem. At the World AI Confer…
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BREAKING India’s Skyroot successfully launches country’s first private rocket ‘Vikram-1’
In a historic first for India’s rapidly evolving space-tech sector, Skyroot Aerospace… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Retirees who move overseas often report being happy with their new lives while also feeling lonelier — because paradise cannot automatically replace the relationships left behind
A retirement move can succeed on nearly every term used to justify it. The home may cost less, the weather may be kinder and the days may feel less hurried. A person can be pleased with all of that and still miss the wider circle of people who once made ordinary life feel inhabit…
siliconcanals.com
Supreme Court Seeks Snapdeal’s Reply In Prescription Drug Sale Case
The Supreme Court has sought responses from Snapdeal and its directors on Karnataka government’s plea challenging a Karnataka High Court…
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Cross-Sectioning Crickets with a Femtosecond Laser
Unlike most cutting lasers, femtosecond lasers don’t vaporize materials; rather, they produce such short, intense bursts of light that the affected region is ablated without having the chance to heat …read more
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Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse
Article URL: https://localnewsmatters.org/2026/07/15/kaiser-nurses-say-ai-workplace-surveillance-are-making-their-jobs-and-patient-care-worse/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48952880 Points: 528 # Comments: 352
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AI Customer Support at Scale: The Travel Industry’s $Billion Bet
In this article, we will look more closely at the different solutions by following the support pipeline from first principles, show why a tail of cases resists automation regardless of model quality, and use these three approaches to understand how these can be handled.
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Flex Filament Stuck To Your Build Platform? Reach For The Isopropanol
3D printing has been around long enough that everyone’s heard at least one weird trick regarding 3D prints. [Angus] of [Maker’s Muse] puts a few to the test, and came …read more
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LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
Article URL: https://videocardz.com/newz/lg-monitors-silently-install-software-through-windows-update-without-user-consent Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956688 Points: 425 # Comments: 222
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A Guide to Multi-Tenancy: Benefits and Challenges
In this article, we will understand multi-tenant architecture from the basics, along with its various benefits and challenges.
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Using Solar Air Heating to Dry Clothes
About a month ago, [Greenhill Forge] built a few solar panels to collect energy from the sun. Unlike solar photovoltaics, which turn sunlight directly into electricity, these were designed to …read more
hackaday.com
Spidery Drone Goes Near-invisible By Spinning Really, Really Fast
Researchers demonstrate that something interesting happens when a small drone with a spindly airframe spins at a high speed: it very nearly turns invisible. The spidery device is shown mounted …read more
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Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)
Article URL: https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956924 Points: 315 # Comments: 100
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