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Dickover of the Week: The Observer
Bharet Iyer: Let’s be real … if The Observer actually cared at all about your privacy, they wouldn’t share your personal data with ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY ONE FUCKING PARTNERS. [...] Imagine if, upon purchasing a copy of the Sunday newspaper in 1791, you were followed around town b…
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European Investor Seedcamp Closes On $320M Across Two Funds To Back Seed Startups And Reaches $1B AUM
Seedcamp, one of Europe’s earliest seed investors, has closed on its 7th fund of $220 million and a select fund 2 of $100 million to invest in winners from the core fund.
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Researchers introduce Self-Harness, a framework that lets AI agents rewrite their own rules, boosting performance up to 60%
Not every company can or should build their own frontier AI language model. However, the harness controlling the model is something that most enterprises can and should customize for their specific purposes. Of course, this is easier said than done. Agent harnesses are still larg…
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Commemorating 70 Years of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is the transformative, strategic technology of the early 21st century. It is significantly reshaping practically every aspect of our lives, including in ways that probably no one anticipated. Its rate of adoption and impact have been unprecedented when com…
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The Download: record-breaking subsea tunnels and flexible data centers
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. Inside the world’s deepest and longest subsea road tunnel —Niall Firth I’m currently around 1,000 feet beneath the North Sea, in a dark, dank …
MIT Technology Review
Microsoft and Chevron plan one of the largest gas-powered data center projects in US
Microsoft inked a 20-year power purchase agreement with Chevron, locking in decades of carbon emissions from a new natural gas power plant.
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International tech
JD.com founder says delivery workers will no longer be needed in future
At the 2026 APEC China CEO Forum held on Sunday, JD.com founder Liu Qiangdong revealed that the company has launched an internal Nirvana Plan aimed at helping its 700,000 delivery workers and other frontline employees adapt to the impact of AI and automation. Liu said he believes…
technode.com
Xiaomi vs Huawei On-Device AI: Decoding the AI Strategies of 8 Major Smartphone Giants
The on-device AI battle among major smartphone makers intensifies as Xiaomi and Huawei lead with distinct approaches to mobile AI, from MiMo-V2.5 to Pangu models.
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Kunal Shah Leaves CRED For Top Role At WhatsApp
CRED founder Kunal Shah is stepping down from day-to-day operations at the fintech unicorn to take over as the global…
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Xpeng unveils MONA L03, first SUV in MONA lineup
Chinese electric vehicle maker Xpeng today announced that its MONA brand’s first SUV, the MONA L03, is set to make its debut soon. Xpeng CEO He Xiaopeng explained the naming logic behind the model, saying that “M stands for sedan, L stands for SUV,” together forming the name MONA…
technode.com
Hard work and endurance: what Alibaba’s team-building says about its AI drive
An Alibaba Group Holding executive has urged hard work and endurance in an internal blog post after founder Jack Ma Yun and top executives gathered for a rice-planting team-building event, as the Chinese tech giant sharpens its artificial intelligence strategies. “The laws of the…
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We give people a few days and expect them back as themselves, when the science of loss says grief takes no days off at all, and the shame around admitting that is its own quiet cruelty
The average bereavement policy in Europe gives employees somewhere between three and five days for the death of an immediate family member. In many organisations, less for extended family. The logic underneath these numbers is not stated explicitly — it rarely is — but it is not …
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Graphics Upgrade for Nintendo Entertainment System
Modern video game consoles rarely have expansion ports, but in the 80s and 90s it was practically guaranteed. With the speed that hardware was advancing it made sense to build …read more
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Investigating Annealing as Fix for Poor CF Adhesion in 3D Prints
After recently publishing a few videos covering research into the poor adhesion between chopped carbon fiber (CCF) and the thermoplastic filaments as used with FDM 3D printing, some of the …read more
hackaday.com
Breaking Into a Prison Tablet
Usually the term ‘jailbreaking’ isn’t meant to be taken quite that literally, but in the case of the US prison tablet that [Hugh Jeffreys] got sent, it’s really quite apt. …read more
hackaday.com
MSYS2 and the No-Fuss Way to Get More GNU Into Your Windows
As great and streamlined as the Windows desktop experience is, one area where it’s at best disappointing and at worst rage-inducing is when it comes to its command line interface …read more
hackaday.com
EP219: 12 Open-source LLMs
Twelve models worth knowing in 2026, each with one standout strength.
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LightComposer – Reach Out and Touch Your Lighting
While there is a time and place for wirelessly controlled devices, sometimes you want something you can just reach out and touch to interact with, no apps to install or …read more
hackaday.com
Lost confidence
RICE and other confidence-based frameworks are mostly noise. Here's how to make decisions without pretending to know the unknowable.
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AI-Native Leaders: The Organizational Playbook for Engineering Transformation at Scale
Individual gains do not become organizational gains on their own. This is the playbook for making that leap. Let’s dive in.
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