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Authorities Investigating Mysterious Deaths of 15 Elephants at Kenyan National Park
The animals may have been poisoned from pesticides on nearby farms.
gizmodo.com
★ Temu Is a Comically Bad App
Cabel Sasser on Mastodon: the temu app will be studied for generations. i opened the app, and recorded this unedited, nearly two minute, launch sequence. it somehow just gets funnier and more absurd I agree with this sentiment, right down to the fact that Temu doesn’t deserve cap…
daringfireball.net
The Download: Montana’s new experimental drug rules
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. Montana’s plan to become an experimental medical hub just pushed forward  As of this week in Montana, biotech companies whose drugs have been …
MIT Technology Review
Sam Raimi to Produce New Stephen King Adaptation From ‘Final Destination’ Directors
Raimi and King will team up for the first time on an adaptation of King's 1996 novel 'Desperation.'
gizmodo.com
India is starting to pay for apps, not just download them
India's app market generated a record $345 million in Q2.
techcrunch.com
How is your enterprise tracking AI agent telemetry? Groundcover thinks it should never leave your cloud
The AI agent observability space is taking off — but how can enterprises be sure what observability products and solutions they need? Observability startup groudcover (lower case "g" intentional) announced this week that it raised $100 million in a round led by One Peak, bringing…
venturebeat.com
International tech
Psychology says people who are the first to check on everyone else but the last to be checked on aren’t unlucky in their friendships — they’ve built a role in every relationship that quietly disqualifies them from ever being the one who needs something
The care you give becomes a cage: the more you show up for others, the less they can imagine you falling apart.
siliconcanals.com
The 5am morning routine gets sold as the habit that separates successful people from everyone else, but a genetic study of nearly 700,000 people suggests whether you are a morning person is largely written into your biology
Your chronotype might matter more than your willpower—new genetic research suggests the early-bird advantage is largely inherited, not earned.
siliconcanals.com
Can we train AI to choose safety over speed?
Delivery platforms use sophisticated weather algorithms to profit from storm demand, while shifting all the physical risk onto workers trapped by pay incentives.
restofworld.org
After A Stellar Q1, Shadowfax Elevates FY27 Revenue Guidance
Fresh off a record Q1 FY27, Shadowfax is now setting the stage for a standout fiscal year. Fuelled by a…
inc42.com
ByteDance Grows More Adaptable: Feishu Product Team Merges Into Doubao and GTM Shifts to Volcano Engine as ByteDance Reorganizes Around AI
ByteDance restructures its B-end AI business: Feishu product and Doubao teams merge under Zhao Qi, GTM consolidates into Volcano Engine, ending Feishu independent BU status.
pandaily.com
Kissht’s Next Growth Play: Better Borrowers, Lower Costs & Loan Against Property
Recently listed NBFC Kissht is entering its “quality over quantity” phase, as it looks to build a more sustainable lending…
inc42.com

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Elevators
Article URL: https://john.fun/elevators Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124218 Points: 1224 # Comments: 289
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Tiny Desktop Robot Has Radar
One thing our futuristic world is largely lacking in is droids and robot companions and the like. [solitary dev] is helping to rectify that problem by building a little robot …read more
hackaday.com
Casual Repair and Maintenance on an Amiga 1000
Recently [Drygol] had an Amiga 1000 system over for some repairs as well as maintenance and general TLC. This is a Motorola 68000-based home computer from 1985 that also has …read more
hackaday.com
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.
bytebytego.com
Hiring: Part Time Instructor, Write Production Grade Code with AI
We’re hiring a part-time instructor for “𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐈”.
bytebytego.com
A Compact Game Controller For Your Phone
[Gil Yankovitch] noted that playing games on a touchscreen phone gave up a certain something in terms of the tactile feedback one gets from real buttons. To that end, he …read more
hackaday.com
Severance
Article URL: https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/severance Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49125971 Points: 238 # Comments: 77
lcamtuf on Substack
Turning Glass Into a Touch-Sensitive Button
Although generally glass isn’t associated with touch-sensitive surfaces, the addition of an ITO (indium tin oxygen) coating adds the exciting property of not only being transparent to the visible light …read more
hackaday.com
Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion
Article URL: https://tailscale.com/blog/hugging-face-intrusion Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127306 Points: 537 # Comments: 197
tailscale.com