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Oh, There’s the ‘Ghost of Tsushima: Legends’ Trailer
Crunchyroll and Kamikaze Douga hope you like 'Ghost of Tsushima' enough to watch its co-op mode adapted into anime form.
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Gurman on Tang Tan and Paul Meade
Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg (paywalled, alas): Apple was quickly alarmed by OpenAI’s recruiting drive, which included poaching senior hardware and design leaders and ravaging several teams across its engineering organizations. The practice continued as recently as June, …
bloomberg.com
Forget typosquatting; slopsquatting is the software supply chain threat created by AI coding tools
Slopsquatting represents an emerging supply chain threat made possible by AI hallucinations. As developers increasingly rely on AI coding assistants, they unknowingly grant cybercriminals access to their software from day one.  Understanding what slopsquatting is Slopsquatting is…
venturebeat.com
This slushie machine was a lifesaver during NYC’s heat wave
Last weekend’s brutal NYC heat wave had me craving a frozen drink almost every afternoon. Normally, that would mean sweating through a walk to 7-Eleven for a slurpee. This time, though, I stayed home and put the new Ninja Slushi Twist to the test. Ninja’s latest slushie machine b…
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Reed Jobs would rather talk about curing cancer than his last name
When we last sat down with Jobs at TechCrunch Disrupt nearly three years ago, his firm Yosemite was brand new and biotech was still reeling from its post-pandemic crash. Now, the venture outfit has a team of 17; a cluster of blockbuster drugs are all losing patent protection in r…
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Can Someone Explain to Me How to Get ‘ChatGPT Classic’?
One more link from OpenAI’s Help Center, this one explaining how to upgrade from the old Mac app to the new “super” app version: Follow the prompt in the app to download the new ChatGPT desktop app. Then sign in with the same ChatGPT account. The new app may install alongside you…
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In the first quarter of 2026, investors poured roughly $242 billion into AI startups—about 80% of all venture capital deployed worldwide, according to Crunchbase. Nothing comparable appears in its historical data: never before had one sector absorbed such a large share of global startup investment in a single quarter.
The first quarter of 2026 was not just another strong period for AI fundraising. On Crunchbase’s numbers, it was a distortion of the venture market itself: one sector absorbed most of the capital deployed into startups worldwide. In Crunchbase’s April 1 report on global venture f…
siliconcanals.com
Psychology says people who are kind to everyone and close to no one often weren’t always this way — there was usually a friendship, a relationship, or a family dynamic that taught them, clearly enough to stick, that letting someone fully in was indistinguishable from handing them a way to hurt you
I once knew a man who was, without exaggeration, the most likeable person in any room. He remembered your dog’s name. He’d top up your drink before you noticed it was empty. Waiters adored him. Strangers left him feeling like the most interesting person alive. I knew him for elev…
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In homes common across the 1960s and 1970s, children learned to read a parent’s mood from the sound of the front door before anyone had spoken a word — researchers call the adult result hypervigilance, and it shows up in 5 recognisable patterns
My father learned to read a room before he learned to read a book. The lock would turn, then a pause, then the exact weight of two shoes landing on the mat, and from those few seconds of hallway sound he already knew what kind of evening the house was in for. Keys set down ... Re…
siliconcanals.com
Every 48 Hours, a New Embodied AI Model Is Born: From BAAI World Model to Alibaba Qwen-Robot
June 2026 saw 13 new embodied AI models and world models released, tracking the shift from hardware benchmarks to software intelligence competition in embodied AI.
pandaily.com
Adults who spent years being the funny one, the capable one, or the strong one in a group often arrive at a moment when the role has kept them so thoroughly in character that they are no longer sure there is anyone left underneath it
There are roles a person chooses, and roles that quietly choose them back. At first, being the funny one, the capable one or the strong one can feel like social fluency. It gives the group a shape. It gives the person a place. Everyone knows what to expect, which is one of the si…
siliconcanals.com
Indian Startup IPO Tracker 2026
Dalal Street emerged as a founder’s paradise in 2025, with 18 Indian startups listing on the bourses and collectively mopping…
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Prefer strict tables in SQLite
Article URL: https://evanhahn.com/prefer-strict-tables-in-sqlite/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873940 Points: 291 # Comments: 138
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Streaming vs Batch: Two Philosophies of Data Processing
When is the data complete enough to be moved to the compute stage?
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What xAI's Grok Build CLI Actually Sends to xAI
Article URL: https://gist.github.com/cereblab/dc9a40bc26120f4540e4e09b75ffb547 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877371 Points: 280 # Comments: 129
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AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence
Article URL: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/07/11/ai-2040.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48874200 Points: 203 # Comments: 238
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Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem
Hello HN! I'm the author of Ant, a JavaScript ecosystem built around a runtime with its own JavaScript engine. Ant also includes a package manager, the ants.land package registry, a platform for deploying and hosting applications, and Ant Desktop for building native desktop apps …
antjs.org
EP221: How Docker Works Under the Hood
A Docker container starts with a single command, but that command has to be turned into a running Linux process. Here is what actually happens.
bytebytego.com
Trying to Use a 2007 Samsung UMPC as Wii U Gamepad
As unique the Nintendo Wii U Gamepad may appear to be, at its core it’s pretty much just a tablet with game controls stuck on it. Now that the communication …read more
hackaday.com
LAST CALL FOR ENROLLMENT: Become an AI Engineer - Cohort 7
Our 7th cohort of Becoming an AI Engineer starts tomorrow, Saturday, July 11. This is a live, cohort-based course created in collaboration with best-selling author Ali Aminian and published by ByteByteGo.
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Software-Defined Vehicles Loom Closer Every Year
Vehicles long ago began to incorporate electronics and software, to the point that modern vehicles increasingly have a sort of architecture problem. The software end of things evolves ever more …read more
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