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Criterion Collection: The Complete Kubrick
30-disc set includes: 4K restorations of Kubrick’s thirteen features and three shorts, with their original soundtracks alongside the 5.1 mixes, restored and remastered Over twenty-five hours of interviews, documentaries, and behind-the-scenes materials Kubrick’s international ver…
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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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Tesla pushes back on Autopilot narrative after fatal Texas crash
Whether the Autopilot system was truly active, overridden, or malfunctioning likely won't be resolved until investigators finish combing through the vehicle's data logs.
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The AI world is getting ‘loopy’
The loop takes agentic AI a step further by authorizing a swarm of agents to work continuously in the background, endlessly.
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Alibaba's AI video model rises to No. 2 in global rankings, as OpenAI's Sora and ByteDance's Seedance fall away
Alibaba Cloud on Sunday released HappyHorse 1.1, a major upgrade to its AI video generation model that the company says delivers production-ready video synthesis across core content creation scenarios. The model is now live on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio with full API access for e…
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No Claude Fable 5? No problem: Sakana achieves frontier performance with new Fugu multi-model, auto synthesis system
Last night, the increasingly enterprise-focused AI startup Sakana launched Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration system that delivers frontier-level AI performance through a single, OpenAI-compatible API. Designed for developers, enterprises, and nations seeking resilience against v…
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International tech
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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Manufacturing Startups To Watch: 5 Startups That Caught Our Eye In June
India’s manufacturing ambitions continue to gather pace as industrial growth increasingly shifts towards advanced technologies, localisation and high-value production. Over…
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Chinese universities are cutting language majors to make way for AI
Universities are dropping programs in translation and foreign languages while adding degrees in embodied intelligence, AI, and robotics.
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Kunal Shah Quits CRED, Turtlemint IPO Day 2 & More
CRED Steps Into A New Era Fintech major CRED has raised a mega $900 Mn round led by Meta, and…
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Apple faces fresh antitrust complaint from Chinese developers over ‘unfair’ App Store fees
A group of Chinese developers has filed a complaint against Apple over its allegedly “unfair” App Store commission rates to China’s market watchdog, in a fresh challenge to the US tech giant’s lucrative smartphone ecosystem. The 48 iOS developers claimed that Apple failed to fulf…
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China's Synthetic Diamond Finds Its Biggest Opportunity Yet: Cooling AI Chips
As AI chips surpass 1,000W thermal design power, synthetic diamond emerges as the ultimate thermal solution. China, which produces 95 percent of the world's synthetic diamonds, stands to become a critical supplier.
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The running list: major tech layoffs in 2026 where employers cited AI
A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.
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AppsFlyer Reportedly Lands $1B At $2.7B Valuation To Help Companies Track Digital Ads
Data analytics company AppsFlyer is eyeing the public markets after reportedly securing more than $1 billion in a Series E funding round.
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Gurman Says Second-Gen iPhone Air, Coming in Early 2027, Will Sport a 0.5× Ultra-Wide Second Camera
Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg: Apple Inc. is preparing a second-generation iPhone Air for spring 2027, aiming to boost the appeal of the slimmed-down device, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Current prototypes of the new model, code-named V62, add a second…
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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
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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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Rickrolling the World Cup
Sometimes, hacking requires a certain amount of restraint, especially when you find a system woefully unsecured. It would be so easy to play some pranks, but [bobdahacker] chose not to …read more
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Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs
Article URL: https://spur.us/blog/smart-tv-apps-residential-proxy-sdks Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48635954 Points: 224 # Comments: 144
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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
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GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally
Article URL: https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/glm-5.2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636377 Points: 324 # Comments: 141
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Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed
Article URL: https://ipvm.com/reports/police-chiefs-track Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634694 Points: 482 # Comments: 198
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Dynamic RAM from First Principles
Before the past year, many of us took computer memory for granted. It was one of the lower-cost parts of a PC build and was usually available in whatever quantity …read more
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Jobs and Software Is Fucked
Article URL: https://urflow.bearblog.dev/jobs-and-software-is-fucked/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48635112 Points: 293 # Comments: 259
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