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We’re Underestimating the Power of ‘One-in-a-Thousand-Year’ Solar Storms, NASA Warns
New research led by NASA Goddard found persistent “erroneous measurements” skewing past estimates for how severe geomagnetic storms can get.
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★ Mornings in Cupertino Have the Aroma of Napalm Once Again
‘It Seems You Have a Different Policy’ Ben Thompson, in a subscriber-only Stratechery update Tuesday: I got a fun email from former Apple executive, Nest founder, and one-time Stratechery Interview subject Tony Fadell in response to yesterday’s Update about Apple suing OpenAI (pu…
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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.
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Kimi: Threat or menace?
Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, prompting concern about "full AI communism."
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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…
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Colman Domingo May Bring ‘The Princess & the Frog’ to Live-Action
If Disney gives its seal of approval, Domingo will help revisit 'The Princess and the Frog' and give Tiana a solo vehicle of her own.
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International tech
Hong Kong Cyberport Is Becoming the Springboard for Chinese AI Going Global: From Computing Power to Standards to Markets
Hong Kong Cyberport emerges as China AI globalization hub: 3000 PFLOPS AI supercomputing center, 30B HKD funding program, and three-board strategy connecting mainland AI to Southeast Asia and Middle East.
pandaily.com
How Chinese tech giants from Ant to Tencent use AI agents to win over enterprise clients
Chinese tech giants are doubling down on enterprise artificial intelligence agents with new products unveiled at the country’s top AI summit, signalling heightened domestic rivalry to win over business clients as agent-based AI adoption accelerates. At the four-day World Artifici…
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Corgi, a startup that insures other startups, doubled its valuation to $2.6 billion three weeks after its last round — and because the same investors backed both, the jump is drawing quiet scrutiny over “internal markups”
The company says revenue growth justified the step-up. Some limited partners aren’t sure paper markups should count for as much as they do.
siliconcanals.com
BigBasket’s Retreat
“I was in denial of the idea of quick commerce. Back then, if you had asked 100 people whether they…
inc42.com
To Make Chips, First Build a Vacuum World: How Extreme Vacuum Technology Enables Modern Semiconductor Manufacturing
From Magdeburg hemispheres to EUV lithography, semiconductor manufacturing requires extreme vacuum environments to prevent contamination, enable precision etching, and stabilize plasma for sub-nanometer chip production.
pandaily.com
Huawei Cloud Unveils Enterprise AI at WAIC: Zhou Yuefeng Breaks Down the Steps for Scaling AI Agents Into Production Systems
Huawei Cloud CEO Zhou Yuefeng unveils AgentArts platform and openJiuwen framework at WAIC 2026, targeting enterprise-grade agent deployment with stability, security, and multi-agent coordination.
pandaily.com
What We’re Expecting at Samsung’s July Galaxy Unpacked 2026
The new shorter and wider, book-style foldable is likely to steal the show.
gizmodo.com
‘Odyssey’ director Christopher Nolan calls AI an obvious ‘Trojan horse’
"Everybody knows the Greeks are inside."
techcrunch.com
Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for all
Current AI, a non-profit building AI that leaves no one culture behind, has made remarkable progress across devices, AI chat and more.
techcrunch.com

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Better and Cheaper Than IPTV
Article URL: https://github.com/stupside/castor Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48964015 Points: 261 # Comments: 73
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QT6 brings BASIC to the Web Browser, or Your Computer
In the old days, you either swore by BASIC or you swore at it — but just about everybody got their start on the educational language. Nowadays, the kids are …read more
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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.
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Open-Source Mid-Drive e-Bike Motor Has Lots of Promise, and Hyphens
[Pedro Neves] has a mid-drive e-bike, but he doesn’t own it — not truly, since he can’t repair the motor unit. For a hacker to be in that position, there …read more
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Qwen 3.8
https://www.qwencloud.com/pricing/token-plan Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966120 Points: 393 # Comments: 305
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What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard
Article URL: https://chipweinberger.com/articles/20260719-hardware-is-not-so-hard Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966713 Points: 205 # Comments: 103
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Write 2D and 3D Games in Modern MoonBASIC
One of the major strengths of the BASIC programming languages has always been their no-fuss setup and rich set of commands for operations that would take considerably more work in …read more
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Remembering the Zilog Z80 as it Turns Fifty Years Old
Perhaps the saddest thing about the Zilog Z80 is that this humble 8-bit microprocessor wasn’t allowed to live until its 50th birthday. This, fortunately, doesn’t prevent people like [David Oberhollenzer] …read more
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A Pop-Up Truck Camper for Less
We live in a veritable Cambrian Explosion of camping options, ranging from a tarp on the ground to multi-million dollar RVs. Somewhere around the middle is the pop-up truck camper, …read more
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