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Another One for the ‘Sorry, We Used to Be Crap’ Truth-in-Advertising File: Carlsberg Beer

Ben Chapman, reporting for The Independent in 2019: After 40 years of advertising its lager as “Probably the best beer in the world”, Danish brewer Carlsberg has confessed that the famous slogan may not be true. Reacting to falling sales and increasingly harsh comments from drink…

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Everyday Robovac Champions—Roborock Qrevo S Pro & QV 35A Head to Head

Two robovacs worthy of your consideration this Prime Day.

Norway Says AI Ain’t for Education

The country is cutting back on tech in classrooms.

Fine-tuning forgets. RAG leaks context. Hypernetworks build the model your agent needs on demand.

Enterprise teams keep watching the same thing happen. An AI agent demos beautifully, goes to production, and stalls: it runs for a short stretch, then needs a human to top up its context and check its output, and the promised efficiency drains into supervision. The agent did the …

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‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’ TV Series Greenlit by Peacock

Peacock has given 'Dungeon Crawler Carl' a straight-to-series order.

He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he’s doing that for robots.

French serial entrepreneur and open-source legend Jean-Baptiste Kempf has been building Kyber, an infrastructure layer to control remote devices in real time.

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The line ‘A diamond is forever’ was written in 1947 by a copywriter named Frances Gerety, who worked late one night, scribbled it down — and never married in her entire life

Frances Gerety scribbled 'A Diamond Is Forever' late one night in 1947 at a Philadelphia ad agency. The four-word line reshaped marriage across 40 countries. She never married.

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Humanoid Robot Climbs 6,000-Meter Peak for the First Time, Next Stop: Everest

A modified Unitree G1 humanoid robot named Pemba summited Ecuador's Chimborazo volcano at 6,310 meters, demonstrating the potential of legged robots for environmental monitoring.

SGLang × MUSA Meetup Concludes, Marking a New Era of Native GPU Support in China's Open-Source Ecosystem

Moore Threads and the SGLang community hosted the first offline meetup following the MUSA backend merge into SGLang mainline, marking native GPU support for China's open-source AI ecosystem.

From Sarvam To INFLUISH — Indian Startups Raised $426 Mn This Week

Indian startups cumulatively raised $426 Mn across 19 deals between June 15 and June 19, marking a significant jump from…

China Makes Progress in High-Energy All-Solid-State Battery Key Materials Research

DICP researchers developed a novel organic-inorganic composite solid electrolyte, achieving 84.2% capacity retention after 350 cycles in NCA solid-state batteries.

Meta could invest in Indian fintech firm ‘Cred’ at a $4Bn valuation

Meta is said to be in talks to invest in Kunal Shah-led… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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7,000 Langflow servers are under attack. LangGraph and LangChain have the same holes

Your AI agent did exactly what it was designed to do. The framework underneath it just handed an attacker a shell on the box that holds your OpenAI key, your database credentials, and your CRM tokens. That is not a hypothetical. In a few months, three of the most widely deployed …

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From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn’t stop anyone

For the last 30 years, stopping the flow of cybersecurity-related software has proven to be ineffective. It's unclear why it would work now with Anthropic’s cybersecurity model Mythos.

Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M

Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies.

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The Repair Nightmare that are Smart Rings

In the quest to make every wearable device ‘smart’, a lot of electronics along have to be crammed in very small spaces, along with ways to make them resistant to …read more

Think of the children: How to force real ID for all internet traffic (2023)

Article URL: https://nochan.net/b/Internet-Crap/20230829-Think-Of-The-Children/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602817 Points: 208 # Comments: 142

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01947-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48601286 Points: 227 # Comments: 295

How LLMs can be Assisted to do Arithmetic Correctly

One of the most hilarious things you can do with an LLM-based chatbot is to ask it to do calculations. If it’s a well-written chatbot frontend, it can detect requests …read more

Epson HX-20 Gets A Drive Upgrade

The Epson HX-20 is sometimes referred to as an early laptop computer. It’s a little odd in its form factor, and in its storage, relying on a microcassette drive to …read more

Making Old Computers Count To A Million

How fast can you count to a million? It would probably take you a while. A computer could certainly do it faster. Indeed, the The National Museum of Computing figured …read more

Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You

Article URL: https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/where-to-find-the-colors-your-screen-cant-show-you/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48606140 Points: 229 # Comments: 54

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A General Purpose Pi Zero Device for IoT

By now we’re all used to single board computers such as the Raspberry Pi Zero, but it’s likely we’ve all been frustrated at times by the number of support components …read more

Observability for Beginners: Logs, Metrics, Traces, and Everything Around Them

In this article, we will look at the basics of observability in detail with concepts like logs, metrics, and traces explained in detail.