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‘AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making’
Fascinating essay by Nikhil Suresh: On a trip overseas, I had the privilege of a meeting with one of the Fortune 500 executives mentioned at the beginning of the post, who will remain anonymous so that they are not executed by firing squad by their board. As we were chatting, it …
ludic.mataroa.blog
Kalshi demands Netflix take down trailer for ‘Prediction Games’ documentary
Kalshi claims the trailer is “defamatory” and contains “both fabricated documents and false and misleading statements.”
techcrunch.com
Apple Maps to Power Navigation Experience for Ford’s New EVs
Apple Newsroom: Apple and Ford today announced that Apple Maps will be integrated directly into Ford’s upcoming Universal Electric Vehicle (UEV) Platform through Apple’s new MapKit for Automotive SDK. Coming to Ford’s UEV Platform in 2027, this integration will deliver a beautifu…
apple.com
Ryan Gosling Joins the MCU as Ghost Rider in New Film
'Ghost Rider' is due out in 2028.
gizmodo.com
Measles Cases Hit New Record in U.S., as Stupid-Americans Reject Vaccines
Teddy Rosenbluth, reporting for The New York Times: On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that there have been 2,318 confirmed cases of measles so far this year. The case count toppled the record set last year, when measles infected more than 2,200 A…
New York Times
EU Fines Google $1 Billion for DMA Competition Violations, Including Making Search Results More Useful
The European Commission on Thursday: The Commission found that Google gives preferential treatment to its own services, including shopping, hotels, transport and sports results, over those of third parties in Google Search, thereby breaching its obligations under the DMA. Google …
digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu
International tech
Indian Listed New-Age Tech Company Tracker: Market Cap, Revenue & More
For years, we at Inc42 have tracked the Indian tech startup ecosystem and seen it grow from a kid to…
inc42.com
The company behind Singha beer removed one of its heirs from every executive role days after an abuse allegation went public — a reckoning Asian family dynasties usually avoid
When Boonrawd Brewery cut ties with Sunit Scott, it did in public what family conglomerates in the region almost always handle in private. The speed and visibility of that decision is its own story.
siliconcanals.com
Apple’s biggest-ever leak happened in India. Will firms rethink their China relocations?
When Apple set its sights on India as its next promising market, CEO Tim Cook planned to take a leaf out of the company’s China playbook – a retail and manufacturing strategy that had paid hefty dividends to the US tech giant. “We are, in essence, taking what we learned in China …
scmp.com
149 Pages Mapping the Long-Horizon Agent Frontier: Multi-University Survey Proposes Harness Engineering and Model Optimization as Two Main Evolution Lines for Next-Generation AI Agents
Renmin University GAIR leads multi-institution 149-page survey on long-horizon agents, proposing H1-H3 task difficulty hierarchy and C1-C3 capability tiers, with task span doubling every 4-7 months.
pandaily.com
The West is debating AI’s future with half the world absent
On July 13, more than 200 leading economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates, signed an open letter organised by the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. Its warning was stark: artificial intelligence may drive an economic transformation “larger than the Industrial Revo…
scmp.com
Four Filters on a Wrist: Newsonic Semiconductor RF Duplexers in Children Smartwatch Signal the Acceleration of Domestic Filter Localization
Teardown of Xiaoxun D9 children smartwatch reveals four Newsonic Semiconductor duplexers covering FDD-LTE bands, marking RF filter domestic substitution reaching cost-sensitive wearable terminals.
pandaily.com
‘Carrie’ Shows Off Its New Take on the Hell of High School in First Teaser Trailer
Mike Flanagan made his San Diego Comic-Con debut with his Prime Video Stephen King adaptation.
gizmodo.com
Court Grants SerpApi’s Motion to Dismiss Google Lawsuit
Julien Khaleghy, CEO of SerpApi: The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted our motion to dismiss Google’s lawsuit, marking a win not just for SerpApi, but for all who depend on an open internet. We’re pleased that the court rejected Google’s attempts…
serpapi.com
The hacker who humiliated spyware makers and was never caught
An awe-inspiring hacktivist who hacked two controversial government spyware makers may be the most prolific hacker to have never gotten caught. What do we know about Phineas Fisher?
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Building A Fencing Scoring Box
The sport of fencing requires keeping score, just like so many other similar pastimes. When their club’s existing scoring rig broke, [jc0025] stepped up to build a scoring box of …read more
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Bitchat is now on Radicle
Article URL: https://radicle.network/nodes/rosa.radicle.network/rad%3Az2v9tRJz1oknFAqCSY5W5c76nVvm6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49047365 Points: 227 # Comments: 128
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How Film Industry Data Website The-Numbers.com got Mauled by Bots
A lot has been made about the increase of automated traffic on the Internet, with the past years LLM-related crawlers having quite literally swarmed the picture here. Not only does …read more
hackaday.com
A Beginner’s Guide to Clocks, Causality, and Ordering in Distributed Systems
Why does something as simple as reading the time become a hard problem for distributed systems?
bytebytego.com
Team Repair Breaks Things to Teach People How to Fix Them
Would you buy a broken device, fix it, then return the repaired item? [Team Repair] hopes you will. Many people would rather repair what they have than have to get …read more
hackaday.com
The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models
Article URL: https://claude.com/blog/the-new-rules-of-context-engineering-for-claude-5-generation-models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051361 Points: 248 # Comments: 158
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3D On The Playdate Handheld
The Playdate is a small handheld console with a dedicated fanbase. Among them is [Cristina Ramos], who recently decided to try and push the limits of the hardware by implementing …read more
hackaday.com
The growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/25/flock-surveillance-cameras Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49050538 Points: 220 # Comments: 128
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Did They Ghost You?
Article URL: https://didtheyghostyou.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051120 Points: 349 # Comments: 158
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