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Flock Cameras Got the Wrong License Plate 71% of the Time in California City

Good thing we're passing along so much responsibility to these systems.

A London Startup Is Selling Permanent Stick-On Tattoos—and It Wants to Do Mail Order

Concerned parents of the world, unite.

OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok

OpenAI has reportedly found evidence of additional agent misbehavior as it looks into the incident that occurred with Hugging Face.

These Are Sectors Where Seed Rounds Of $5M To $10M Are Clustering This Year

We identified popular themes for seed-stage investment this year, including cancer therapeutics and space tech.

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The Talk Show: ‘What’s in Louie’s Wallet’

Louie Mantia returns to the show to talk about the state of UI and icon design on Apple’s platforms, and some speculation on Apple’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI. Sponsored by: Notion: The collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents work side by side, with a Develop…

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Rivian spinoff Also to start delivering e-bikes after months of delays

Also has big plans beyond the TM-B. The startup mostly refers to itself as a "vehicle" company and has plans to make four-wheel pedal-assist cargo vehicles for Amazon.

International tech

Smartphone Batteries Enter the Silicon-Carbon 10,000mAh Era in 2026: OPPO, Honor, and vivo Lead Capacity Race as AI Power Consumption Drives Energy Density Breakthroughs

OPPO A7 Pro Max joins the 10,000mAh club with spherically structured silicon-carbon, as mainstream Chinese brands race into the 10K era driven by AI inference power and 35% share for 6000mAh-plus phones.

Psychology says the reason the most generous person you know goes home to a silent phone isn’t bad luck — it’s that giving without ever asking for anything back reads to other people as self-sufficiency, and nobody reaches out to someone who seems fine

The most giving people often end up isolated not because others are ungrateful, but because their relentless availability teaches everyone around them that help isn't needed.

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Can Aequs Build A Consumer Engine Under Its Aerospace Wings?

Earlier this week, listed manufacturing company Aequs reported its Q1 FY27 earnings. As usual, most of the investor attention focused…

DeepSeek puts V4-Flash API into public beta

DeepSeek has put the formal version of its V4-Flash API into public beta, with an upgrade focused on agent tasks. The company says the model scored 82.7 on Terminal Bench 2.1 and 54.4 on DeepSWE, among other benchmarks. The release adds support for the Responses API and is adapte…

RedNote eyes US$2.2 billion data centre as China ramps up AI infrastructure, source says

RedNote, the Chinese lifestyle social media platform also known as Xiaohongshu domestically, is looking to build out a large data centre facility in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, according to a source, in a move that comes amid China’s massive artificial intelligence (AI)…

Can we train AI to choose safety over speed?

Delivery platforms use sophisticated weather algorithms to profit from storm demand, while shifting all the physical risk onto workers trapped by pay incentives.

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Sam Raimi to Produce New Stephen King Adaptation From ‘Final Destination’ Directors

Raimi and King will team up for the first time on an adaptation of King's 1996 novel 'Desperation.'

★ Temu Is a Comically Bad App

Cabel Sasser on Mastodon: the temu app will be studied for generations. i opened the app, and recorded this unedited, nearly two minute, launch sequence. it somehow just gets funnier and more absurd I agree with this sentiment, right down to the fact that Temu doesn’t deserve cap…

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Authorities Investigating Mysterious Deaths of 15 Elephants at Kenyan National Park

The animals may have been poisoned from pesticides on nearby farms.

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qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work

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A Complex Way to Push a Button

We’ve likely all looked at a simple problem in our lives and thought that it would be an easy fix, only to realize that the project is enormously more complicated …read more

Hiring: Part Time Instructor, Write Production Grade Code with AI

We’re hiring a part-time instructor for “𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐈”.

NES Advantage Stick Gets Bluetooth Upgrade

The NES Advantage was a cool bit of hardware back in 1987, bringing an arcade stick to the home console gaming experience. Naturally they don’t get much use these days, …read more

A Detailed Guide to Idempotency, Delivery Semantics, and Deduplication

What happens when a service sends a request to charge a customer, but the request times out with no response?

Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion

Article URL: https://tailscale.com/blog/hugging-face-intrusion Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127306 Points: 507 # Comments: 195

Turning Glass Into a Touch-Sensitive Button

Although generally glass isn’t associated with touch-sensitive surfaces, the addition of an ITO (indium tin oxygen) coating adds the exciting property of not only being transparent to the visible light …read more

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