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Apple Books and Amazon Are Lousy With AI-Generated Books Ripping Off Legitimate Authors

Joanna Stern at New Things, last month: Last month, just days after my book went on sale, AI knockoffs of the ebook version flooded Apple Books. There was Joanna Stern On I Am Not A Robot by Sophie Mercer. I AM NOT A ROBOT by Finn Tech. I AM NOT A ROBOT by Joana Stern — with one …

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Apple Sends Letters to Dozens of Former Employees Now at OpenAI

Michael Acton, reporting for the Financial Times from San Francisco: About 40 former employees now working at OpenAI have been sent letters directing them to preserve documents and communications and demanding meetings with Apple’s lawyers, according to multiple people familiar w…

Kimi: Threat or menace?

Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, prompting concern about "full AI communism."

A 600-mile road trip (and data) proves EV charging doesn’t suck anymore

A recent road trip in an EV revealed just how much faster and more reliable DC Fast charging has become in the U.S.

‘Backrooms’ Almost Got Trapped In Copyright Hell

A24 and Kane Parsons nearly stepped in it in a way that would've hurt the film's goodwill and their current creative partnership.

Federal employees can download TikTok on their work phones again

The Department of Justice says that federal employees can now download TikTok on their government devices.

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The EU’s AI Act starts requiring chatbot and deepfake labels on August 2 — while its tougher rules on hiring, biometrics and migration are pushed back to December 2027

The transparency obligations are the cheap ones to meet. The expensive, rights-protective rules are the ones that just got more time.

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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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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…

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Tencent WorkBuddy APP Launches on HarmonyOS, iOS, and Android Simultaneously: Cross-Platform AI Work Agent Goes Mobile

Tencent WorkBuddy agent desktop app launches on all three major mobile platforms with HarmonyOS as first native agent application, bridging phone and PC for workplace AI tasks.

Skyroot Creates History With India’s First Private Orbital Rocket Launch

Spacetech unicorn Skyroot created history by becoming the first private Indian company to place a rocket into orbit. Its Vikram-1…

When psychologists asked people to log what they were doing hour by hour, roughly 43 percent of daily behaviour turned out to be habit — done in the same place while the mind was somewhere else entirely

In the late 1990s, psychologist Wendy Wood paged undergraduates every hour and asked them to log what they were doing. About 43 percent of their behaviour turned out to be habit — performed in the same place while their minds wandered somewhere else.

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All the EVs that were discontinued or killed off in the U.S. this year

Th Honda Prologue will no longer be sold in the U.S., joining a growing list of EV models to exit the market this year.

Google Runs Out of Appeals, Must Pay Record $4.7 Billion EU Antitrust Fine

Arjun Kharpal, reporting for CNBC, back on July 2: Europe’s top court on Thursday upheld Google’s fine of around 4.1 billion euros ($4.67 billion) over alleged anti-competitive practices. In 2018, the European Commission slapped Google with the record-breaking penalty on the grou…

Someone Paid Almost $1 Million For Jensen Huang’s Leather Jacket, Should Be Executed by Swirlie

No, I don’t mean they should literally die.

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What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph

Article URL: https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1953768#graph Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956949 Points: 347 # Comments: 404

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Calculator UI Is More Complex Than You Might Think

Calculators are so ubiquitous and so familiar that they are easy to take for granted in many different ways. [lcamtuf] points out one that has probably never occurred to many …read more

MCP vs A2A vs ACP: How AI Agents Actually Talk to Each Other

Agents are capable on their own. Combined with tools and other agents, their capabilities compound.

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.

ESP32-driven Roulette Wheel Could Have Used a 555, but That Didn’t have WiFi

Sometimes you see a project and immediately, before going into the details, your mind throws up the old refrain: “coulda used a 555” — well, [Hulk] actually agrees when it …read more

GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1uxj3cy/after_openais_cdc_proof_announcement_gpt56_used_a/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48957779 Points: 477 # Comments: 307

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

Simple Games from a Simpler Time

Modern video games are nothing short of amazing. My son and I were playing through the one of the latest Zeldas, which involve a mix of combat and puzzle-solving that’s …read more

If You Build It, They Will Come

Article URL: https://www.benlandautaylor.com/p/if-you-build-it-they-will-come Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48959090 Points: 222 # Comments: 80

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