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★ John Ternus Should Reverse Apple’s Slide Down the Advertising Slippery Slope
In September 2014, in the wake of a series of hacks that stole private photos from the iCloud accounts of multiple celebrities, Tim Cook wrote an open letter to customers that was published at apple.com/privacy. Apple seemingly no longer hosts a copy of the letter. (That tends to…
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‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Is Projected to Have the Year’s Biggest Opening
Early tracking is out for the Tom Holland Marvel sequel, and it's very, very big.
gizmodo.com
The Live-Action ‘Naruto’ Movie Is Finally Happening, for Real
Director Destin Daniel Cretton announced that casting on the hugely popular manga has begun.
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After Apple, India’s smartphone manufacturing boom enters new phase with Vivo JV
Vivo's joint venture could become a template for Chinese smartphone makers in India.
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Today’s the Day OpenAI Fucked Up the ChatGPT Mac App
Zac Hall, writing at 9to5Mac about OpenAI’s sprawling product announcements today: To summarize today’s desktop app changes: The existing ChatGPT app is now ChatGPT Classic. Codex is now the new ChatGPT desktop app. It still looks like Codex and includes the Codex icon as an op…
9to5mac.com
X by Xreal a01+ Review: AR Glasses That Are Light on Your Face (and Wallet)
At $299, X by Xreal has a strong competitor in the entry-level AR market.
gizmodo.com
International tech
Jiying Technology Releases World First Zero-Shot Generalizable Solid Mechanics Physics Foundation Model
Jiying 2.0-s physics foundation model achieves zero-shot generalization across unseen geometries, materials, and boundary conditions, marking a milestone in physics AI for engineering simulation.
pandaily.com
A single bolt of lightning that struck across the southern United States in April 2020 stretched 768 kilometres from Texas to Mississippi, a flash so long the World Meteorological Organization had to rewrite its definition of what a lightning strike can be
On April 29, 2020, a single bolt of lightning stretched 768 kilometres across Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi — long enough to force the World Meteorological Organization to rewrite what a lightning strike can be.
siliconcanals.com
CXMT sets July 16 subscription date for STAR Market IPO
ChangXin Memory Technologies, or CXMT, has started the issuance process for its STAR Market IPO, with subscriptions scheduled for July 16. The Chinese DRAM maker plans to raise RMB29.5 billion. CXMT is China’s largest DRAM producer and one of the country’s most important memory c…
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Psychology says that many of the friendships we carry into old age are the ones formed before thirty — not simply because of loyalty, but because there is a natural limit to how many close relationships the human brain can sustain.
The friendships people carry into old age often look, from the outside, like proof of loyalty. Two people still call each other after fifty years. Three old friends still meet for lunch. A school friend still knows the family story without needing the short version. It is easy to…
siliconcanals.com
We picture AI as weightless, but by one 2025 estimate a single year of GPT-4o’s replies may need enough freshwater to cover the drinking needs of 1.2 million people
Every time you type a question into a chatbot, the reply feels weightless. But the machines that produce it run hot, and cooling them takes water. One 2025 estimate does the maths: multiply a single chatbot reply by roughly 700 million a day, across a year, and the water lost to …
siliconcanals.com
Older adults know AI is slop. They just like it
AI-generated singers, children, and even virtual lovers are providing seniors with comfort and companionship.
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GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keeper
Article URL: https://toot-books.pages.dev/blog/glm-5-2-vat-benchmark Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48850414 Points: 211 # Comments: 116
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Why American ambulance rides are so expensive
Article URL: https://davidoks.blog/p/why-american-ambulance-rides-are Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48853091 Points: 252 # Comments: 362
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ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Claude: How They Differ
In this article, we will look at the various architectural forks the teams building these models encountered and the decisions they took.
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Radio-Gaga is a Toddler Friendly Remote In a Radio
Humans of all ages like music, but you can’t exactly pass a toddler the aux cable. That’s not to say the younger set don’t have their own particular tastes– they …read more
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The Agent Loop: How AI Goes From Answering Questions to Doing Things
In this article, we will walk through that progression. We will also look at how an agent is structured, what choices the model makes on every turn, what scaffolding holds it together, and when an agent is actually the right pattern to reach for.
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Mechanosynthesis of Atomic Carbon Structures Using Inverted-Mode STM
Generally chemical synthesis involves putting a variety of compounds together in an environment where they will react and self-assemble into the desired product. You could also imagine simply putting the …read more
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ChatGPT Work
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-for-your-most-ambitious-work/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48849059 Points: 342 # Comments: 177
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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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Browser-Based Image Inpainting Runs Locally, If One Doesn’t Mind A Big Download
[Simon Willison] ported the Moebuis 0.2B image inpainting model to run locally in a web browser.  The web tool simply requires a user to provide an image, mark a section …read more
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