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The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is a lot of fun, but it’s not a must-have

While the device is pretty and lightweight, it’s not something the everyday person needs due to its hefty price tag and size.

Google’s top hacker hunter explains why hacking groups get codenames

Google recently changed how it refers and assigns names to hacking groups. TechCrunch spoke with one of the world’s foremost experts on tracking hackers to understand why companies give hackers codenames.

Four AI agents coordinating in real time outperformed Claude Opus 4.8 on enterprise coding tasks

As enterprise codebases grow, AI agents tasked with analyzing them are buckling under the weight of long-horizon tasks that require multiple interactions and tool calls. Dividing the work among a team of agents seems like the obvious fix, but it introduces a fatal flaw: most mult…

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It May Be Game Over For the American ‘Squid Game’

Netflix still wants to keep 'Squid Game' around, but the details of what that looks like may not involve a western offshoot.

OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide

NextSlide says its team members are now working on ChatGPT.

Lionsgate Is Trying to Bring ‘Leprechaun’ Back to Life (Again)

If old horror franchises are coming back, Lionsgate wants to get in on the action with another go at reviving 'Leprechaun.'

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Alibaba Ships Qwen App Update and Puts Wan 3.0 Into Public Test, With One Eye on Enterprise Buyers

Alibaba released five new features on the Qwen App on August 7, all powered by the new Qwen3.8-MAX flagship model and all free for now. The next day, Alibaba Cloud opened Wan 3.0 to public testing, with the first document-input video model in the family and a price list aimed str…

The mayor of a small Italian village said visitors who only stay long enough to take a photo before leaving contribute nothing except the litter they leave behind, in a village whose entire modern economy exists because a photo of its church ended up on a SIM card two decades ago

A viral photo turned a quiet alpine village into a pilgrimage site for photographers who never stay long enough to spend money or respect the place they came to capture.

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Flipkart Minutes Enters Premium Grocery Segment With Pykd

Walmart-owned Flipkart’s quick commerce arm Flipkart Minutes is entering the premium grocery and specialty food products segment under its private…

Inside the 800,000-Yuan Robot Trainer Job That Did Not Exist Three Years Ago

An embodied-AI robot application technician is one of 12 new occupations the Chinese Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security plans to add to the national catalog. Average salaries in the role already run between 500,000 and 800,000 yuan, and demand growth has been explosi…

Some only children report greater happiness than children with siblings, but decades of research do not blame sharing too early — parental attention and relationship quality matter more than sibling count

Only children are not consistently happier than children with siblings, and research does not show that sharing early causes harm. Attention and relationship quality matter more.

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IPO-Bound Cult.fit’s Rishabh Telang Denies Forgery Allegations By Deepak Poduval

Deepak Poduval, cofounder of Cult Fitness Pvt Ltd, has filed an FIR against his cofounder and brother-in-law Rishabh Telang at…

OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns

OpenAI said this model, which is still in development, reached its "critical cybersecurity threshold," meaning it could independently identify and carry out cyberattacks against traditionally well-protected real-world systems.

Corrupt Minds Think Alike

Tariq Panja, reporting for The New York Times: The five men should have been in a celebratory mood. FIFA had just pulled off a World Cup that broke records on a number of fronts. Its spectacular culmination, the final, was a day away from kickoff. But their mood was anything but …

Before ‘Lanterns,’ Check Out the ‘Green Lantern’ Cartoon

Green Lantern has had a short solo life on TV, and it wouldn't hurt to see what his animated show was all about.

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Robotic Screw and Bolt Sorter Seeks a New Challenge

As someone who disassembles and repairs hardware, [Aad] eventually ended up with a huge collection of mixed bolts and screws. This led to creating the automatic bolt and screw sorting …read more

Fastmail offers EU data region

Article URL: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223082 Points: 236 # Comments: 108

The Read Path versus the Write Path: Strategies and Techniques

In this article, we will look at read path and write path operations and techniques in detail.

Grading Tomatoes with an ESP32 and ML

If you’ve ever worked with produce, you might know about grading. In addition to deciding if, say, a strawberry is good or not, they also have to sort them by …read more

A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS

Article URL: https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221668 Points: 278 # Comments: 119

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Tim Hunkin’s History Of Arcade Machines

There was a particular treat at the recent Electromagnetic Field event in the UK, as [Tim Hunkin] delivered a talk on the history of arcade machines. Given that he’s something …read more

Want Energy Efficiency? Dude, You’re Getting a Dell!

With a title like “Intel Just Matched Apple Silicon. Seriously.“, the latest video from [Jeff Geerling] makes some pretty bold claims. But as we’d expect from [Jeff], he’s got the …read more

Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220609 Points: 265 # Comments: 279

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Junkbin, a Way to Efficiently Reuse Your Old Electronics

We all have that bin in the corner of our shops — the one with all the circuit boards or broken electronics that we are totally gonna do something with. …read more