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From Ballet To Breach Prevention: How A Magician’s Son Raised $4.2M In Seed Funding For His Cybersecurity Startup
The latest in our series of articles on venture funding to non-tech founders features a former magician's assistant and ballet dancer who's building cybersecurity software with $4.2 million in seed funding.
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Google experiments with an AI-powered gaming platform
Google Labs is working on a new AI-powered game-creation platform called Playground for users to build browser-based games using simple text prompts.
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HiPHI: A Large-Scale Benchmark for High-Precision Human Motion and Object Interaction
This White Paper gives robotics researchers and engineers an overview of a new large-scale motion capture dataset built to close the data gap limiting humanoid robot learning. It also shows how policies trained on the dataset transfer to a real humanoid robot. What you will learn…
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There Was Never An Easy AI Era, And Investors Are Raising The Bar
As AI IPOs bring greater scrutiny, argues guest author Maor Farid, founder and CEO of Leo AI, investors will increasingly prioritize customer spending growth, sustainable margins and deployment efficiency over rapid revenue growth alone.
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Bloom raises $3.6M to become the ‘Alibaba’ of American manufacturing
The Detroit startup has widened its scope beyond mobility to help drone and robotics companies find U.S. based manufacturers, shippers, and more.
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Weight-loss drugs show signs of slowing biological aging, say drugmakers
Popular weight-loss drugs may do more than help people shed pounds. They might also melt away the years. Drug giants Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk say patients taking their drugs age less quickly, according to readouts from molecular “aging clocks.” Such clocks assess a person’s bio…
MIT Technology Review
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Why Growth Stage Startup Funding Outpaced Late Stage Investments In Q3
While the funding trends in the Indian startup ecosystem have been showing signs of stability over the past few months,…
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China SatNet's GW Constellation Links Arctic Ships and Antarctic Station in First Polar Test
In its first polar test, China SatNet's GW constellation connected Arctic research vessels with Antarctica's Qinling Station by video call, with under one second of delay.
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Conflict in the Red Sea is forcing cloud giants to find a new route for the internet
Google, Meta, and Microsoft are said to be securing expensive land routes as fighting around Yemen threatens the submarine cables connecting Europe and Asia.
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Shanghai AI Lab Open-Sources Intern-Decision, Small Models That Output Decisions, Not Text
Shanghai AI Lab's Intern-Decision comes in 0.8B, 2B and 4B sizes and returns choices, scores and yes/no answers with probabilities; MetaX shipped Day-0 support.
pandaily.com
Tencent Rolls Out a Wave of Vertical AI Agents, From CraftBuddy to MusicBuddy, Inside Its Own Apps
Between July and September Tencent launched around eight vertical AI agents, each built into an existing business, from game creation and music to meetings and freelance matching.
pandaily.com
BAQIS and CAS Physics Ship 2000 uW Modular Dilution Fridge Below 10 mK for Quantum Chips
BAQIS and the CAS Institute of Physics report a modular cryogen-free dilution refrigerator prototype that holds dual modules below 10 mK with roughly doubled cooling power.
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A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps
Article URL: https://github.com/szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49990224 Points: 235 # Comments: 43
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Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome
Article URL: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/jpeg-xl-in-chrome Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49991227 Points: 258 # Comments: 133
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Why LLMs Agree With You Even When You’re Wrong
When LLMs sometimes agree with incorrect claims, it is mostly because their training rewards such behaviour. This reward system is built on several things at once, such as accuracy, helpfulness, politeness, and responses that people like.
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The Commodore 64 Keyboard Font, For Everyone
There are some classic fonts which appeared in one place and became almost iconic, yet never made it into the digital age. The font on the Commodore 64 keyboard for …read more
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Upgrading An iPhone Lens To The Max
The camera in a typical mobile phone is now at a standard at which it can be considered a serious device rather than a toy, such has been the effort …read more
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State of Devs 2026
Article URL: https://2026.stateofdevs.com/en-US/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49985643 Points: 223 # Comments: 139
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AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)
Article URL: https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49985664 Points: 315 # Comments: 278
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Don’t Worry, This R/C Airship is Supposed To Be On Fire
We’ve had a lot of flying hacks here over the years, and that includes just about any way to get airborne you can think of — but very few of …read more
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Last 3 days: AI Evals, October cohort
Secure your spot in AI Evals in Practice. Enrollment closes in just 3 days! If you’ve been thinking about joining, now’s the time.
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