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Google Is Teasing Some Kind of Notification Light on the Pixel 11’s Camera Bar

Google really does beat to the rhythm of its own drum.

The Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak Has Turned Deadly

Though cyclosporiasis is rarely fatal, it can be life-threatening in people with underlying health conditions.

NASA Backs Wild Plan for a Laser-Powered Drone to Explore Giant Caves Below the Moon’s Surface

NASA awarded $175,000 for preliminary research into lunar cave-spelunking drones as part of $3.2 million dispersed via its “innovative advanced concepts” awards this summer.

[Sponsor] MCP vs. REST: The Right Way to Connect Agents to Your API

REST serves the developers building against your API. MCP serves the agents now trying to use it. Most teams treat these as competing standards and have to pick one. They’re not rivals, they’re layers: most MCP servers just call REST internally to do the real work. The best ones …

The Information on Apple’s Unusual Use of iCloud for Confidential Work

Aaron “Homeboy” Tilley, reporting for The Information (paywalled without gift links, alas, but MacRumors has a summary): When new employees join Apple, the company often issues them an iPhone and Mac and pays for an iCloud account with a large amount of online storage capacity. C…

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Qwen3.8-Max arrives with a bold claim: it outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol Max and Fable 5 on agentic computer use

Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba's famed Qwen team of AI researchers last night unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a new flagship 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) multimodal large language model (LLM) that targets one of the most competitive corners of the frontier AI…

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PCB and EDA platform JLC debuts on Shenzhen exchange with market value above RMB100 billion

JLC (嘉立创) began trading on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange’s main board on Aug. 4, with an IPO price of RMB84.46 per share. Its shares opened more than 170% above the offer price, pushing the company’s market value above RMB100 billion. The Shenzhen-based company operates a platform …

How Octobotics Is Saving Human Lives By Placing Robots In Hazardous Industrial Jobs

In July 2025, two field operators working with Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) died after they were exposed to…

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.

Top Huawei chip scientist opens up on strategy, ‘blind arrogance’ and his war-hero mindset

When Liao Heng joined Huawei Technologies’ chip-design unit in 2016, he was sceptical about whether China could ever build world-class semiconductors. A former child prodigy who entered Beijing’s prestigious Tsinghua University in 1987 at age 14 before moving to Princeton Univers…

Shanghai-based AI-chip startup reportedly completes A1 round at valuation above RMB10 billion

Fangqing Technology (our translation of 昉擎科技) has reportedly completed an A1 financing round at a valuation above RMB10 billion, according to a report published on Aug. 4. The available information does not establish the round size, investor lineup or use of proceeds, so the deve…

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.

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India moves to give its instant payments network a business model

The legislation lays the groundwork for a potential overhaul of India's zero-merchant-discount-rate regime, under which businesses have not paid fees to accept UPI payments since 2020.

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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John Ternus Has Rehired Former Hardware VP Laura Legros

Juli Clover, MacRumors: Incoming Apple CEO John Ternus is rehiring Laura Legros, a former vice president of hardware engineering who retired from Apple in 2022, reports Bloomberg. Legros previously managed product delivery, development schedules, and coordination across engineeri…

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DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X

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Sketching Temporary Circuits with a Light-Triggered Floquet Topological Insulator

In semiconductor technology, a base material like silicon is permanently modified to induce certain electrical behavior. In comparison a topological insulator material could be used to create temporary circuits using …read more

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.

Testing Hundreds of Used LFP Cells Requires Some Automation

Although Li-ion cells have become a lot cheaper over the years, if you wish to buy hundreds of high-quality ones for that performance go-kart project, you may feel financially pressured …read more

AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog

Article URL: https://nelson.cloud/ai-generated-images-discourage-me-from-reading-your-blog/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167113 Points: 529 # Comments: 305

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

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

A Versatile PDP-11/70 Emulator

The PDP-11 was a 16-bit minicomputer that was very influential in its time. That’s what inspired [vanheusden] to start working on an emulator for the machine in 2018, which has …read more

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