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Om Malik, 1966-2026
Heartbreaking news, shared by Om’s family: Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital after a long health journey with his heart. He was surrounded by family and friends. We invite you to share your remembrances of Om in the comments below or by posting and taggi…
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Why Does a Bank Need a Chief Scientist?
This article is brought to you by Capital One. After five years leading natural language understanding and eventually the entire Alexa AI organization at Amazon, Prem Natarajan made a nontraditional move: He became Chief Scientist at a bank. Not just any bank: Capital One, a fina…
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Cursor Deal Puts US On Track For Record Startup M&A Year
While SpaceX’s $60 billion acquisition of Anysphere dominates the headlines, a number of other multibillion-dollar transactions have also closed this year. We take a look at the 10 largest M&A deals so far in 2026.
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The Download: Europe’s heat wave hits the grid, and IBM’s chip targets Moore’s Law
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Europe’s extreme heat is shutting down power plants Europe is in the middle of a record-breaking heat wave, and the grid is being pushed to it…
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Polymarket says hackers stole users’ funds
The prediction market giant Polymarket said it's refunding users who had funds stolen due to a third-party breach.
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The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model over safety concerns
penAI reportedly plans to share its newest model, GPT 5.6, with a select group of partners instead of to the broader public. The reason: the Trump administration told it to.
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What happened to China’s overseas EV factory boom?
Three charts show China’s promised overseas production hasn’t materialized — yet.
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Sofina Ventures Offloads Honasa Consumer’s Shares Via ₹177 Cr Bulk Deal
Honasa Consumer’s investor Sofina Ventures has parsed its stake in the BPC major via a bulk deal worth about ₹177.2…
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10 dog breeds that form the deepest emotional bonds with their owners
Every dog forms a bond with its person. Whether that bond runs deep or stays light depends mostly on the individual animal, on how it was raised, and on how the person treats it day to day. Breed is one factor among many, and on the specific question of how attached a dog becomes…
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My mother is 65 and has no close friends, and what gets me is that she used to have so many — she was the one who organized everything, remembered every birthday, held the whole group together, and somewhere in being everyone’s reliable one she became the person none of them thought to keep
My mum is sitting at her kitchen table with a cup of tea going cold in front of her. It’s a Saturday. Her phone is face-up next to the sugar bowl, and it has not made a sound all afternoon. She isn’t waiting for it exactly. She’s just near it, the way you are near ... Read more
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Forget the score, MWC Shanghai’s humanoid robot penalty shootout put embodied AI to the test
One of the biggest crowd-pullers at MWC Shanghai 2026 was a fully autonomous humanoid robot penalty shootout, rather than a smartphone launch or an AI keynote. Held over two days at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre, the competition drew more than 10,000 spectators as ei…
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DeepSeek Doubles Down on Harness Talent as AI Strategy Shifts from Light to Heavy
DeepSeek aggressively recruits Harness engineers and considers self-built compute as the company pivots toward a heavier AI infrastructure strategy
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Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates
Article URL: https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-quietly-gets-one-more-year-of-support-and-updates/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675369 Points: 229 # Comments: 198
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An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
Preprint: https://scrollprize.org/pdf/main.pdf https://github.com/ScrollPrize/villa Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675179 Points: 1122 # Comments: 235
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An Ex-Meta L8’s Agentic Engineering Setup
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Om Malik has died
https://runtimewire.com/article/om-malik-taught-silicon-vall... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48678852 Points: 701 # Comments: 68
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CSS On The ESP32
There are lots of graphics libraries available for the ESP32, and lots of ways to program one to boot. Even still, most of us wouldn’t immediately think to CSS when …read more
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Make That Smart TV into a Computer
The smart TV is a fixture in most houses, variously an entertainment portal, corporate data gathering tool, or sometimes an outright spy. It’s a nice monitor with a computer built …read more
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Increasing Photon Upconversion Efficiency with Structural Exciton Localization
In structures like photovoltaic cells there is only a limited spectrum of wavelengths that can perform useful work, with the remaining wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation effectively wasted. If the energy …read more
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Large Language Models vs Small Language Models
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