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AI startup Hark unveils first product: an affordable, fast computer use agent Hark Handoff
Hark, the secretive AI startup founded earlier this year by serial entrepreneur and roboticist Brett Adcock, today announced Handoff, a "computer use agent" (CUA) that it says is among the top-performing in the world at navigating the open web on a user's behalf — ordering dinner…
venturebeat.com
Meta enters the AI coding wars with Muse Spark 1.2 and Muse Code with persistent async background agents
Meta today released Muse Code, a terminal-based AI coding agent now in beta, alongside Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused update to its Muse Spark family of frontier models — a one-two punch that puts the company in direct competition with Anthropic's Claude Code, OpenAI's Codex, a…
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Uh, I’m Pretty Sure People Would Know
New York Times Magazine story editor Willy Staley tried Sean O’Mara’s “Living Diet” (nothing but steak and fermented foods like sauerkraut) for a week: To O’Mara, the diet is not just a temporary means of losing weight but a way to eat for good. He has been doing it for 10 years,…
New York Times
The Shai-Hulud npm worm didn't fake its security check — it earned a legitimate one
An attacker on Tuesday took over the GitHub account of the developer who maintains keyv, a small key-value storage library that npm serves roughly 127 million times a week. Within hours, poisoned versions of keyv and its sibling caching packages were live on npm, carrying a crede…
venturebeat.com
Nikita Bier Is Leaving His Job as X’s Head of Product
If you use X, you've seen his posts.
gizmodo.com
Travis Kalanick’s robotics startup Atoms taps former Uber finance chief as CFO
Kalanick continues to get the band back together, after acquiring Anthony Levandowski's autonomy startup, and even soliciting investment from Uber.
techcrunch.com
International tech
Swiggy Bets On Toing, Instamart To Achieve ₹10,000 Cr Adjusted EBITDA By FY31
Swiggy is banking on its affordable meals platform Toing and quick commerce business Instamart to achieve a consolidated adjusted EBITDA…
inc42.com
The hardest part of watching your parents age isn’t the caretaking, it’s the strange reversal of finally becoming the person they turn to for reassurance and realising nobody warned either of you that this handover would happen without a conversation
The reversal from cared-for child to trusted reassurer happens quietly, without ceremony or warning. Both generations grieve a role neither realised they were about to lose.
siliconcanals.com
Ola Electric Shifts To Dealer-Led Sales Model To Expand Reach
Electric two-wheeler maker Ola Electric is shifting to a dealer-led sales and service model across India as it looks to…
inc42.com
Every card payment appears instant, but the money can travel through several companies and decades-old settlement systems before it actually reaches the merchant
The approval at a card terminal is a fast message, not the merchant receiving money. Clearing, net settlement and a separate bank payout can still follow.
siliconcanals.com
People who hum quietly while doing dishes or folding laundry may not be filling silence, the sound can slow the breath, steady attention, and make an ordinary task feel easier to move through
The absentminded hum while doing dishes isn't filler. It's one of the oldest nervous system regulation tools humans have, working through the vagus nerve to shift the body out of stress, and it predates language itself.
siliconcanals.com
StepFun Reportedly Separates Its Model and Agent-Device Businesses
StepFun, a Chinese AI company, is reportedly reorganizing around two strategic lines: foundation models and agent devices. Its phone business is being moved into a separate company, while the original entity continues to operate the model business; the plan has not been officiall…
technode.com

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Why An LLM’s Memory Gets Expensive and How to Fix It
In this article, we will learn how LLMs use memory, how it gets expensive, and how to fix it.
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Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo
Article URL: https://www.costar.com/article/970809918/nashville-council-approves-eminent-domain-action-to-halt-data-center-project Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49191624 Points: 237 # Comments: 300
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Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't
Article URL: https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/reading-list Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192566 Points: 217 # Comments: 86
crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com
I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
Article URL: https://runarcn.no/android-to-linux/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49188022 Points: 337 # Comments: 344
runarcn.no
Hacking a Tenda AC1200 Wi-Fi Router with a CVE Combo
It’s rather awkward when you buy a piece of hardware like a sketchy router to make a video about its hidden admin password backdoor – known as CVE-2026-11405 – only …read more
hackaday.com
3D Printing A Usable Airless Tire
For decades now, companies like Michelin have been teasing us with futuristic-looking automobile tires that don’t use air. Instead, they use a polymer mesh of sorts which maintains the same …read more
hackaday.com
Road to Staff+ TPM: The Mindset
2026.05 — Part of the Road to Staff+ TPM series, examining the gap between succeeding as a mid-level TPM and thriving as a Staff+ TPM.
artoftpm on Substack
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ran-ads-that-contained-ai-generated-child-sexual-abuse-imagery/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187977 Points: 298 # Comments: 229
wired.com
LLM Security Basics: The Full Threat Model
In this article, we try to build a map of the full attack surface that threatens an LLM’s security.
bytebytego.com