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‘We’re at a Crazy Moment in History’: Midjourney Buys Astrology App Co-Star
"Using Midjourney feels like uncovering something subliminal and new about yourself," the founder of Co-Star wrote.
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The Download: an organ transplant breakthrough, and homegrown Chinese chips
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. Supercooled kidneys have been transplanted into pigs in a “landmark achievement”  When it comes to organ donation, time is everything. As soon…
MIT Technology Review
Facebook Is Making Some Big Changes and Giving Marketplace Its Own App
About 430 million items are listed on Marketplace each month, according to Meta.
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The quest to keep organs alive outside the body
This week, I covered a fascinating effort to preserve organs outside the body. There’s a huge shortage of donor organs, and one of the main reasons is time—they survive only a matter of hours outside the body, even when they’re kept on ice. Doctors dream of organ banks—stores of …
MIT Technology Review
Bond Movie Filming Locations Map
“From a Bond fan to Bond fans worldwide.” Nice work.  ★
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General Catalyst Takes The Lead Over Y Combinator In Backing $5M+ Fintech Deals
For the first time in several quarters, General Catalyst in Q2 overtook Y Combinator when it came to participating in the most fintech deals of $5 million or more, per Crunchbase data. The quarter also marked the busiest one for General Catalyst since 2021 in terms of investing i…
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International tech
Alibaba reportedly tests standalone Qwen Office product
Alibaba is reportedly testing a product called Qwen Office internally, positioning it as a workplace AI product separate from Tongyi Qianwen. The product is focused on intelligent collaboration for office workflows and may be released in the near term. Alibaba is also hiring solu…
technode.com
Delhi Police Advises App-Based Aggregators To Restrict Services In Central Delhi
As student protests continue in the national capital, Delhi Police has requested app-based aggregators to regulate operations around the central…
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Huawei’s Ren Zhengfei backs Tau Scaling Law to beat US sanctions
Huawei Technologies founder Ren Zhengfei has thrown his weight behind the Chinese tech giant’s Tau Scaling Law, framing the new chip-design principle as an existential necessity to survive tightening US sanctions. “The Tau Scaling Law is the only path forward for Huawei to break …
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Token Factories Emerge as WAIC 2026 Theme: Is Selling Token the Next Big Business Model for the AI Economy?
Token factories proliferate at WAIC 2026 as computing shifts from card-rental to token-delivery; soft and hard infrastructure models compete to standardize AI productivity measurement.
pandaily.com
Intel and AMD sign longer-term server CPU deals with Chinese customers as prices rise
Intel and AMD are signing longer-term purchase commitments with Chinese server customers for data-center processors as prices rise. Some agreements cover about one year, while the two companies have discussed commitments of two years or longer with some customers, according to pe…
technode.com
AutoFlight Moves Beyond Concept Racing to Offshore Operations: Low-Altitude Commercialization Enters the Practical Combat Phase With SF Express Partnership and Overseas Certification
AutoFlight accelerates low-altitude logistics commercialization through SF Express offshore wind partnership, Indonesia type certification, and cargo-first aircraft strategy targeting real operational routes by 2027.
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This Week in Security: AI is a Mess, Hacking Car Chargers, an OpenSSL DoS, and Factories Under Attack
[Ayush Paul] posts about extracting data from Claude agents while it accesses web data to fulfill user requests. But it wasn’t that easy. [Ayush] discovered that Anthropic anticipated many of …read more
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A New Blood Hack For An Old Game
Even before 3D graphics and advanced shaders became common in the gaming world, there were concerns that virtual violence looked too realistic. Fighting games in the 1990s were routinely toned-down …read more
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Hackaday Podcast Episode 379: Driving E-ink DIY, NES on ESP, and the Other IRC
On this episode, Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi discuss their love of electronic paper, clunky cartridges, and keeping old games alive by any means possible. You’ll also hear …read more
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Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models
Article URL: https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-3-mimic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033127 Points: 280 # Comments: 45
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A Beginner’s Guide to Clocks, Causality, and Ordering in Distributed Systems
Why does something as simple as reading the time become a hard problem for distributed systems?
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Keeping Mosquitoes Away with Catnip-Based Repellent
Despite their small size, mosquitoes are one of the deadliest creatures on Earth, and keeping them away from you is one of the best ways to stay safe. DEET has …read more
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Exploring Hidden JPEG Features
The lossy compression algorithm used by JPEG was useful for those on the early Internet not only because it enabled pictures to be shared easier, but because it allows a …read more
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My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page
Article URL: https://hhh.hn/hanwha-github-token/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49034292 Points: 365 # Comments: 139
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Em dashes are fucking amazing
Article URL: https://psychotechnology.substack.com/p/em-dashes-are-fucking-amazing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49034747 Points: 263 # Comments: 232
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