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Federal employees can download TikTok on their work phones again

The Department of Justice says that federal employees can now download TikTok on their government devices.

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.

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…

★ 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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‘Magic: The Gathering’ Will Embrace the Multiverse in 2027

Mechs, monsters, the deep blue sea, and afrofantasy await 'Magic: The Gathering' players when next year rolls around.

A 600-mile road trip (and data) proves EV charging doesn’t suck anymore

A recent road trip in an EV revealed just how much faster and more reliable DC Fast charging has become in the U.S.

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ByteDance Doubao Phone Gen 2 Hands-On: Nubia NaviX Ultra Runs Douyin and Luckin as AI Agents Queue Up to Work

Nubia NaviX Ultra second-gen ByteDance Doubao phone debuts at WAIC with multi-app task queuing, proactive memory system, and cross-app autonomous operation across 10+ platforms.

Retirees who move overseas often report being happy with their new lives while also feeling lonelier — because paradise cannot automatically replace the relationships left behind

A retirement move can succeed on nearly every term used to justify it. The home may cost less, the weather may be kinder and the days may feel less hurried. A person can be pleased with all of that and still miss the wider circle of people who once made ordinary life feel inhabit…

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Hyper-vigilance isn’t a personality trait — it’s a stress response first documented in combat veterans, and researchers later found the same scanning-for-danger reflex in children raised around unpredictable moods

Hypervigilance was first catalogued by psychiatrist Abram Kardiner in combat veterans returning from the First World War. Decades later, attachment researchers found the same threat-scanning reflex in children raised around unpredictable parental moods — the same nervous system p…

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World First Robot Phone Dances at WAIC: Honor Robot Phone Debuts With 4DoF Mechanical Gimbal and Proactive AI That Moves

Honor Robot Phone with 4DoF titanium mechanical gimbal system makes global debut, featuring YOYO proactive AI, 200MP camera, World Cup prediction capability, and CIPA 5.5 stabilization.

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.

New-Age Tech Stocks: Fino Payments Bank Surges 29%, Go Digit Leads Weekly Losers

As the June quarter earnings season gathered pace, investors remained largely cautious on listed new-age tech stocks this week despite…

Kimi: Threat or menace?

Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, prompting concern about "full AI communism."

‘My Soul Left My Body’: Amazon Accidentally Bills Users Billions of Times What They Owe

If your AWS bill was $200 last month, and this month it's $1,499,659,180,107, that's probably an error.

‘Backrooms’ Almost Got Trapped In Copyright Hell

A24 and Kane Parsons nearly stepped in it in a way that would've hurt the film's goodwill and their current creative partnership.

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MCP vs A2A vs ACP: How AI Agents Actually Talk to Each Other

Agents are capable on their own. Combined with tools and other agents, their capabilities compound.

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

Your AI Ham Radio Buddy

AI chatbots are everywhere these days, and they seem to “know” about everything. But while that is a strength, it can sometimes be a weakness because it isn’t laser-focused on …read more

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

Gleam Is Now on Tangled

Article URL: https://tangled.org/gleam.run/gleam Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48959143 Points: 221 # Comments: 139

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.

The Kimi K3 Moment

Article URL: https://stephen.bochinski.dev/blog/2026/07/18/the-kimi-k3-moment/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48960218 Points: 315 # Comments: 346

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ESP32-driven Roulette Wheel Could Have Used a 555, but That Didn’t have WiFi

Sometimes you see a project and immediately, before going into the details, your mind throws up the old refrain: “coulda used a 555” — well, [Hulk] actually agrees when it …read more