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‘My Soul Left My Body’: Amazon Accidentally Bills Users Billions of Times What They Owe

If your AWS bill was $200 last month, and this month it's $1,499,659,180,107, that's probably an error.

Federal employees can download TikTok on their work phones again

The Department of Justice says that federal employees can now download TikTok on their government devices.

Waymo says San Francisco service has resumed after one-hour pause

This isn’t the first time power outages have caused issues for Waymo.

All the EVs that were discontinued or killed off in the U.S. this year

Th Honda Prologue will no longer be sold in the U.S., joining a growing list of EV models to exit the market this year.

Apple Books and Amazon Are Lousy With AI-Generated Books Ripping Off Legitimate Authors

Joanna Stern at New Things, last month: Last month, just days after my book went on sale, AI knockoffs of the ebook version flooded Apple Books. There was Joanna Stern On I Am Not A Robot by Sophie Mercer. I AM NOT A ROBOT by Finn Tech. I AM NOT A ROBOT by Joana Stern — with one …

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A 600-mile road trip (and data) proves EV charging doesn’t suck anymore

A recent road trip in an EV revealed just how much faster and more reliable DC Fast charging has become in the U.S.

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CXMT Targets Trillion-Yuan Market Cap: China DRAM Leader Carries the Flag for Memory Chip Localization Against Samsung and SK Hynix

CXMT ChangXin Memory Technologies launches 66.6B RMB IPO as world fourth-largest DRAM maker with 7.67% share, charting a path to challenge Korean memory dominance by 2030.

New-Age Tech Stocks: Fino Payments Bank Surges 29%, Go Digit Leads Weekly Losers

As the June quarter earnings season gathered pace, investors remained largely cautious on listed new-age tech stocks this week despite…

People who find it physically uncomfortable to look someone in the eye during a compliment aren’t insecure or evasive — they’re often the ones who take in emotional information so directly that full eye contact during something kind becomes almost too much to hold

The last time I paid someone a proper compliment, they looked at the floor like I’d dropped a twenty and were deciding whether to tell me. Not a “nice jacket.” The kind that names something true about who a person actually is. For years I read that gesture the lazy way. Shy. Awkw…

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Tencent WorkBuddy APP Launches on HarmonyOS, iOS, and Android Simultaneously: Cross-Platform AI Work Agent Goes Mobile

Tencent WorkBuddy agent desktop app launches on all three major mobile platforms with HarmonyOS as first native agent application, bridging phone and PC for workplace AI tasks.

WAIC 2026: Six Trends We Observed at the World AI Conference as Industry Shifts From Models to Systems

From supernode computing to working robots, WAIC 2026 reveals six defining AI trends: model competition shifts to system efficiency, robots enter real factories, and domestic chips reach tipping point.

Alibaba targets Nvidia’s dominant software ecosystem with open-source AI stack

Alibaba Group Holding’s chip design unit, T-Head, has announced that it will open-source its proprietary software stack, marking its latest effort to streamline developer operations and challenge the dominance of American chip giant Nvidia’s CUDA ecosystem. At the World AI Confer…

‘Magic: The Gathering’ Will Embrace the Multiverse in 2027

Mechs, monsters, the deep blue sea, and afrofantasy await 'Magic: The Gathering' players when next year rolls around.

‘Backrooms’ Almost Got Trapped In Copyright Hell

A24 and Kane Parsons nearly stepped in it in a way that would've hurt the film's goodwill and their current creative partnership.

Someone Paid Almost $1 Million For Jensen Huang’s Leather Jacket, Should Be Executed by Swirlie

No, I don’t mean they should literally die.

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Cross-Sectioning Crickets with a Femtosecond Laser

Unlike most cutting lasers, femtosecond lasers don’t vaporize materials; rather, they produce such short, intense bursts of light that the affected region is ablated without having the chance to heat …read more

A Guide to Multi-Tenancy: Benefits and Challenges

In this article, we will understand multi-tenant architecture from the basics, along with its various benefits and challenges.

ESP32-driven Roulette Wheel Could Have Used a 555, but That Didn’t have WiFi

Sometimes you see a project and immediately, before going into the details, your mind throws up the old refrain: “coulda used a 555” — well, [Hulk] actually agrees when it …read more

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)

Article URL: https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956924 Points: 408 # Comments: 138

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Simple Games from a Simpler Time

Modern video games are nothing short of amazing. My son and I were playing through the one of the latest Zeldas, which involve a mix of combat and puzzle-solving that’s …read more

MCP vs A2A vs ACP: How AI Agents Actually Talk to Each Other

Agents are capable on their own. Combined with tools and other agents, their capabilities compound.

EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application

Article URL: https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/ban-destruction-unsold-clothes-and-shoes-enters-application-2026-07-17_en Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48958269 Points: 259 # Comments: 255

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GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1uxj3cy/after_openais_cdc_proof_announcement_gpt56_used_a/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48957779 Points: 472 # Comments: 302

Calculator UI Is More Complex Than You Might Think

Calculators are so ubiquitous and so familiar that they are easy to take for granted in many different ways. [lcamtuf] points out one that has probably never occurred to many …read more