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‘AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making’
Fascinating essay by Nikhil Suresh: On a trip overseas, I had the privilege of a meeting with one of the Fortune 500 executives mentioned at the beginning of the post, who will remain anonymous so that they are not executed by firing squad by their board. As we were chatting, it …
ludic.mataroa.blog
The Most Amazing Cosplay of San Diego Comic-Con 2026, Day 3
Robots, aliens, and troopers, oh my!
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Measles Cases Hit New Record in U.S., as Stupid-Americans Reject Vaccines
Teddy Rosenbluth, reporting for The New York Times: On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that there have been 2,318 confirmed cases of measles so far this year. The case count toppled the record set last year, when measles infected more than 2,200 A…
New York Times
Kalshi demands Netflix take down trailer for ‘Prediction Games’ documentary
Kalshi claims the trailer is “defamatory” and contains “both fabricated documents and false and misleading statements.”
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The hacker who humiliated spyware makers and was never caught
An awe-inspiring hacktivist who hacked two controversial government spyware makers may be the most prolific hacker to have never gotten caught. What do we know about Phineas Fisher?
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Apple Maps to Power Navigation Experience for Ford’s New EVs
Apple Newsroom: Apple and Ford today announced that Apple Maps will be integrated directly into Ford’s upcoming Universal Electric Vehicle (UEV) Platform through Apple’s new MapKit for Automotive SDK. Coming to Ford’s UEV Platform in 2027, this integration will deliver a beautifu…
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Tencent Miora Design Agent Hands-On: One Brief Generates Full Brand Visual Assets Through Multi-Agent Collaboration, Though Integration Still Has Limits
Hands-on test of Tencent Miora creative agent: input a brand brief for Puff AI companion robot, received logo, brand guidelines, VI assets, app UI, poster, video, and sticker pack from single 1000-integral run.
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The West is debating AI’s future with half the world absent
On July 13, more than 200 leading economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates, signed an open letter organised by the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. Its warning was stark: artificial intelligence may drive an economic transformation “larger than the Industrial Revo…
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Swiggy Plummets, BlueStone Soars Amid Bearish Week For New-Age Tech Stocks
It was a bearish week for India’s new-age tech stocks as renewed geopolitical tensions and a broad-based market selloff weighed…
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China First Science Lab Module Wentian Completes Four Years in Orbit: 17.9-Meter Research Platform Enables Over 1,400 Days of Space Science Experiments
China Wentian lab module, launched July 2022, marks four years of stable orbit operation as the nation first dedicated science experiment module supporting 6-crew capacity and external exposure experiments.
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China Swarm Drones Achieve First Full 3D Typhoon Observation: Bee Colony Drone Array Captures Complete Typhoon Landfall Process From Multiple Altitudes Simultaneously
China Meteorological Administration uses bee colony drone swarm for first full-process three-dimensional typhoon observation, deploying coordinated UAV array to capture temperature, humidity, wind, and turbulence data.
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30,000 Hours of Tactile Data Fills Embodied Intelligence Gap: XinZhi Embodied and Fudan University Release Three Technical Reports on Haptic Sensing
XinZhi Embodied and Fudan University publish three technical reports covering 30,000 hours of tactile data for embodied intelligence, addressing the missing touch sensing capability in robot manipulation.
pandaily.com
Warner Bros. lawsuit accuses Amazon of illegally poaching executives
The lawsuit will likely renew debates about whether term employment agreements are enforceable under California. law
techcrunch.com
EU Fines Google $1 Billion for DMA Competition Violations, Including Making Search Results More Useful
The European Commission on Thursday: The Commission found that Google gives preferential treatment to its own services, including shopping, hotels, transport and sports results, over those of third parties in Google Search, thereby breaching its obligations under the DMA. Google …
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We Just Saw Even More Footage From ‘Avengers: Doomsday,’ and Deadpool?
The Marvel Studios Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con did not disappoint in terms of Doomsday footage.
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The growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/25/flock-surveillance-cameras Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49050538 Points: 253 # Comments: 148
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How Film Industry Data Website The-Numbers.com got Mauled by Bots
A lot has been made about the increase of automated traffic on the Internet, with the past years LLM-related crawlers having quite literally swarmed the picture here. Not only does …read more
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Taking Tri-Camera True-Color Infrared Videos
Silicon-based CMOS camera sensors are cheap and plentiful, but they’re rarely used to their full potential: they can detect a greater range of wavelengths in the infrared spectrum than they …read more
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Did they ghost you?
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Building A Fencing Scoring Box
The sport of fencing requires keeping score, just like so many other similar pastimes. When their club’s existing scoring rig broke, [jc0025] stepped up to build a scoring box of …read more
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Delta Pen Plotter Draws In Multiple Colors
If you’re building your first plotter, or you just like thinking in right angles, you’d probably consider a Cartesian design for your build. [András Vujovits] went another route with his …read more
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Duplicating Parts Using Silicone Molds
[Do As I Do] had a simple task to complete. A couple of small parts needed to be duplicated in some quantity, with good dimensional accuracy and surface finish. There …read more
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The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models
Article URL: https://claude.com/blog/the-new-rules-of-context-engineering-for-claude-5-generation-models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051361 Points: 369 # Comments: 262
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A Beginner’s Guide to Clocks, Causality, and Ordering in Distributed Systems
Why does something as simple as reading the time become a hard problem for distributed systems?
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