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Why NIST Researchers Spent 10 Years Measuring Gravity

Physicists have been trying to measure the fundamental gravitational constant for well over two centuries. The current accepted value of big G, as it’s known, is 6.67430 × 10-11 cubic meters per kilogram per square second. It also has an uncertainty of ±0.00015 × 10-11 m3/(kg s2)…

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Samsung’s chip workers are jumping ship to rival SK Hynix

Lee, an engineer at Samsung’s semiconductor division, clocks out when his shift ends. He used to work longer hours, going the extra mile to excel at his projects. But lately, he’s been coming straight home to work on his job application for the chipmaker’s South Korean rival SK H…

MIT Technology Review

Egg-Linked Salmonella Outbreak Has Sickened 98 People, With Many Cases Still Unexplained

More than 1.5 million eggs linked to the outbreak have been recalled so far, yet there may be other potential sources, health officials say.

The Download: OpenAI’s predictable hack, and an AI stock sell-off

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. OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before. —Will Douglas Heaven, senior AI editor Reading OpenAI’s acco…

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MCP just got its biggest update ever — here’s what changes for AI agents

The Model Context Protocol, the open standard that has quietly become the connective tissue between AI agents and the world's software, is getting its largest update since Anthropic released it twenty months ago — a sweeping architectural revision that its maintainers and backers…

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Snowflake launches Cortex AI Gateway to control AI agents and prevent runaway enterprise costs

Snowflake announced Cortex AI Gateway on Tuesday, a centralized control layer designed to govern how AI agents — including those built by competitors like Anthropic's Claude Code and Cursor — access enterprise data, tools, and models. Alongside the gateway, the company unveiled a…

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Hualong One and Linglong One: China Nuclear Power Technology Takes Flight With 41 Reactors Deployed and Modular Small Reactor Pioneering Global Standards

CNNC Hualong One reaches 41 units deployed or under construction, Linglong One small modular reactor reaches 90% installation as first SMR passing IAEA safety review globally.

Four US tech giants spent roughly $410 billion on capital expenditure last year, much of it tied to AI, and are steering toward roughly $725 billion in 2026

The four tech giants betting their futures on AI are doubling down: nearly three-quarters of a trillion dollars in infrastructure spending by 2026, but the payoff remains stubbornly unclear.

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Honor Robot Phone Partners With ARRI to Bring Hollywood-Grade Cinematography to Mobile: AI-Three-Axis Gimbal, Leica-Level Color Science and End-to-End Cinema Workflow

Honor reveals AiMAGE imaging with ARRI collaboration, 8-axis CPA stabilization, 3-axis gimbal, custom Yuguang H1 ISP at 18.8TOPS/W, and master shot video generation on Robot Phone.

Deconstructing the Kimi K3 Technical Report: Moonshot AI Starts Setting Problems for DeepSeek as Two Scaling Axes Redefine the Frontier

Moonshot AI 47-page K3 report reveals KDA+Gated MLA hybrid attention, AttnRes cross-layer retrieval, Stable LatentMoE with 896 experts, and 51.2M RL sandboxes.

The 10,000-hour rule was never what Anders Ericsson actually found — his own research showed hours matter far less than the specific kind of feedback you get inside them

Malcolm Gladwell turned Anders Ericsson's research into a story about hours. Ericsson spent the rest of his career explaining that the hours were never the point — the feedback inside them was.

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Delhi HC Orders Winding Up Of Paytm Payments Bank

Months after getting its banking licence revoked, Paytm Payments Bank (PPBL) has been served an order by the Delhi High…

PayPal leaves the door open to a higher takeover offer following earnings beat

After reporting better-than-expected Q2 results, PayPal said it remains focused on its AI-driven turnaround, but would consider a deal that creates more value for shareholders.

[Sponsor] Introducing Agent Fone

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Data centers may face temporary power cuts to prevent blackouts on largest US grid

The decision arrives as the breakneck pace of data center construction has grid operators scrambling to generate power.

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Samsung’s SmartThings API Terminates Free Access

If there’s one constant in the world of commercial home automation solutions, it is that of decreasing availability and higher costs as time goes on. So too with Samsung’s SmartThings, …read more

Breaking the Parental Lock on an XBox 360 is Very Much an Inconvenience

There are many ways to soft-brick a device to the point where it cannot easily be used again, and “Cloud locks” or parental locks are probably at the top of …read more

Using an open model feels surprisingly good

Article URL: https://matthewsaltz.com/blog/using-an-open-model-feels-surprisingly-good/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49078583 Points: 308 # Comments: 130

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How NVIDIA Builds Open Models for the Age of AI

Bryan Catanzaro, VP of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA, walked us through how his team builds the company’s open models, the reasoning behind their architecture, and why NVIDIA open-sources so much of it.

Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise

https://www.inc.com/amaya-nichole/netflix-company-retreat-sp... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076923 Points: 401 # Comments: 447

The Orphaned Sources At The Hacker Camp: What Happened Next

At the 2024 Electromagnetic Field event in the UK, some awkward items turned up at the swap meet: radioactive sources. Fortunately there was [Tryst] at hand, who works in the …read more

FreeBSD Just Removed the Last of its GPL-Licensed Code

With a recent change that removed dialog in favor of bsddialog, FreeBSD has now retired the last piece of GPL-licensed code in its base system. Although the impact of this …read more

7.1 Earthquake in Japan

Article URL: https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/quake_detail.html?eventID=20260728163528&lang=en Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49080664 Points: 691 # Comments: 159

A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review

Article URL: https://fermisense.com/when-machines-take-the-wheel/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49078454 Points: 290 # Comments: 100