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Maybe ‘Steal Underpants by Blowing a Fortune on AI Tokens’ Is, in Fact, Not a Good Business Plan

Joseph Cox, writing for 404 Media (paywalled, sans gift links, alas): Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to presentation slides, according to le…

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.

Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S.

As part of a planned Texas data center, Amazon is investing in an on-site power plant that could reportedly become the largest source of climate pollution in the United States.

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.

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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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…

Psychology says procrastination about retirement may be less about discipline than identity — brain scans found people often represent their future selves more like strangers than like themselves, and experiments using age-progressed faces made tomorrow’s person feel real enough for participants to save more money for them

Research on future self-continuity suggests retirement delay can involve identity as well as discipline, though early face-ageing studies measured hypothetical choices.

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Psychology says the person who appears totally fine after a devastating loss and the person who falls apart are not as different as you’d think, and the truly resilient one is rarely who you’d guess.

Our culture has it backwards: the person who breaks down at a funeral and the one who stays composed may both be processing loss in equally valid ways, and the stoic response isn't necessarily denial.

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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…

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…

[Update] Now, Finance Ministry Rules Out Consumer UPI Charges Amid MDR Debate

Update | August 8, 21:16 ISST Addressing concerns over merchant discount rates (MDR) on UPI, the finance ministry categorically clarified…

X replaces ‘misaligned’ revenue sharing program with Original Content Rewards

X is winding down its existing Revenue Sharing program.

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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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

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

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.

Track Bird Visitors With a Raspberry Pi and a USB Mic

Avian Visitors is a lovely project by [Teddy Warner] that uses a Raspberry Pi and microphone to keep track of which birds have been visiting your home, and creates a …read more

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

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: 288 # Comments: 130

“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers

Article URL: https://blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222189 Points: 502 # Comments: 335

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: 322 # Comments: 126

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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