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The lineage behind 69% of open models was never verified. Cisco just fingerprinted almost 900 for free
A security team approving an open-source model for production today starts with a repository page. The page lists the model name, the license, and a tag identifying the base model it descended from. That tag is a string the uploader typed. Hugging Face does not require uploaders …
venturebeat.com
NTT DATA AIVista and Snowflake: Identity alone won’t secure enterprise AI agents
Presented by NTT DATA AIVista VentureBeat’s June research found that 69% of enterprises are still running AI agents that share credentials, a practice associated with higher rates of security incidents and near-incidents. But at VB Transform 2026, Mukesh Karki, CTO of NTT DATA …
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Companies are finally seeing AI ROI — and now they know how much more value it can deliver
Presented by SAP Enterprise AI has moved from experiment to execution, and that shift is beginning to show real returns. The SAP Value of AI Report 2026, produced with Oxford Economics and based on a survey of 2,600 business leaders across 13 countries, found that AI now support…
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Google says it fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
As experts have warned for the last two years, some companies — like Microsoft and now Google — are finding and patching an exponential number of bugs in their products, thanks to the use of LLMs and AI tools.
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This Asteroid Has 3 Lobes and a Secret Moon Scientists Didn’t Expect
Nysa has a strange, three-lobed structure with two prominent valleys wrapped around it.
gizmodo.com
AI Will Make a Perfect CEO One Day
Would the world notice if OpenAI was run by a chatbot?
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International tech
Why did an oil-producing country pumping about two million barrels a day make electric cars 96 percent of new sales in 2025 while building the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund?
Norway pumps two million barrels a day, exports almost all of it, banks the proceeds in a $1.8 trillion sovereign fund — and buys electric cars at a rate no other country has ever matched. Inside the policy machinery that holds the contradiction together.
siliconcanals.com
The most quoted line in self-help is attributed to Viktor Frankl — “between stimulus and response there is a space, and in that space is our power to choose our response” — and almost everyone misreads what it is actually asking of them
Viktor Frankl's most quoted sentence is usually read as a motivational line. Read carefully, it is something harder: a field report from the concentration camps about the one freedom no circumstance can remove.
siliconcanals.com
China reportedly moves to bar blue ADAS lights on newly certified vehicle models
China is reportedly moving to bar newly certified passenger-car models from using blue exterior lights that signal when an assisted-driving system is active. Starting with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s 410th batch of vehicle product applications, testing a…
technode.com
China’s top court finds patent lawsuits against Unitree Robotics malicious
China’s Supreme People’s Court has found that two patent lawsuits brought against Unitree Robotics over its Go2 and A2 robot dogs constituted malicious litigation. The cases concerned a patent titled “An Electronic Dog,” with the court ultimately rejecting the plaintiff’s infring…
technode.com
Psychology says the reason competent, dependable people often feel invisible in their own families isn’t modesty, it’s that they became the person everyone relies on before anyone thought to ask what they needed
The reliable person becomes so essential to the family's survival that their presence stops registering as a choice and starts feeling like a given.
siliconcanals.com
Dark Horse Muka Robotics Charges WorldArena With Only 32 Zhenwu 810E GPUs: LJM World Model Achieves Global Second Place Defining the Breakthrough From Video Quality to Physical Logic
Muka Robotics LJM Latent Joint-conditional Model achieves WorldArena global #2 at 89.17 Motion Quality with only 32 GPUs, establishing a dual-expert architecture that prioritizes physical understanding over video generation quality.
pandaily.com
Hush Security says the AI security problem has shifted from protecting models to governing identities as autonomous agents spread
Less than a year after emerging from stealth to tackle non-human identity security, Israeli cybersecurity startup Hush Security believes the enterprise AI security conversation has fundamentally changed. The company, which earlier this week announced a $30 million Series A round …
venturebeat.com
Fabian Frankel Is Surprised by the Reaction to Criston Cole’s ‘House of the Dragon’ Demise
The character fans loved to hate met his end in season three episode "Faceless Men."
gizmodo.com
A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack
It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a team of researchers argue in a paper presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning, a top AI conference, this month. The claim has huge impl…
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'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling
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How ChatGPT Optimizes its Agent Loop: Harness, API, and Inference
To understand what techniques are adopted in frontier labs to make AI applications more efficient, we met with the OpenAI engineers who developed and shipped various efficiency techniques into the systems behind Codex and ChatGPT Work.
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Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
Article URL: https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-2-brings-whole-body-intelligence-to-robots/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111237 Points: 310 # Comments: 293
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RC Telemetry Board Lets Virtual Crewmember Help You Race Better
Logging and telemetry in remote controlled racing is a great thing, and not only does [jwachlin]’s Open RC Spotter do a fantastic job of that, it has quite a few …read more
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A Capable KVM Built With The ESP32
[Evgenij Spitsyn] spotted a KVM build on these very pages some time ago. That inspired their own build, leveraging the versatility of the ESP32-P4 microcontroller. The concept is straightforward. Named …read more
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Pizza Eye Surgery Saves Hemispherical Projector
If you ever make it to DNA Pizza in San Francisco, you may feel as though you’re being watched. The Eye of the Pizza is Upon You. Or, it was, …read more
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A Detailed Guide to Idempotency, Delivery Semantics, and Deduplication
What happens when a service sends a request to charge a customer, but the request times out with no response?
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Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year
Article URL: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/07/google-play-age-signals-api-safer-experiences.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49107950 Points: 287 # Comments: 349
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Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2
Article URL: https://www.grumpygamer.com/twp2_announce/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49107246 Points: 212 # Comments: 101
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