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What Would You Have Done on the Season Finale of ‘Invincible’?
Mark has to make an impossible decision about the fate of billions. Would you have made the same choice?
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Drizzle on top: a new high-end dog food brand is coming for the 1%
Golden Child is launching with two "five-star" products: a fresh frozen meal system and, more intriguingly, a "drizzle." It has also raised $37 million in funding.
techcrunch.com
Engineering Collisions: How NYU Is Remaking Health Research
This sponsored article is brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. The traditional approach to academic research goes something like this: Assemble experts from a discipline, put them in a building, and hope something useful emerges. Biology departments do biology. Eng…
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Consumers lost $2.1B to social media scams in 2025, FTC reports
The agency reports that losses from social media scams have increased eightfold and that social media scams resulted in higher losses than any other method scammers used to contact consumers.
techcrunch.com
Yours Truly on The Vergecast
David Pierce: On this episode of The Vergecast, David and Nilay are joined by Daring Fireball’s John Gruber to talk about their reactions to the news, the (mostly) smooth transition Apple seems to have pulled off, and what we should really make of Tim Cook’s legacy as a product p…
The Verge
Rec League
My thanks to Rec League for sponsoring last week at DF. Rec League is a new app/social network for sharing what you’re into. (Get it? The “rec” in “Rec League” is for recommendations. It’s a damn clever name, and sometimes a clever name is half the battle.) It’s really well done,…
recleague.com
International tech
China rejects Meta’s $2Bn acquisition of AI startup Manus after security review by NDRC
China has blocked Meta’s planned $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Exclusive: Morphing Machines Raises ₹42 Cr To Close Series A Round At ₹80 Cr
Semiconductor startup Morphing Machines has raised about ₹42 Cr (about $4.4 Mn) as part of its Series A funding round…
inc42.com
The definitive sign of emotional maturity isn’t calm under pressure, it’s the willingness to say ‘I was wrong’ without immediately following it with a justification that quietly makes you right again
Composure is easy to fake. The real test of emotional maturity is whether you can admit you were wrong without the quiet renovation that makes you right again.
siliconcanals.com
China bars foreign investment in Manus AI project as scrutiny on AI exports grows
China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) today announced that, in accordance with laws and regulations, it has issued a decision prohibiting foreign investment in the acquisition of the general-purpose AI agent project Manus. It also requires the relevant transac…
technode.com
The people who plan every gathering, send every invite, and check in on everyone first aren’t controlling, they figured out early that being the one who initiates is the only reliable defense against being forgotten
The friend who plans every gathering isn't controlling — they learned early that initiating is the only reliable defense against the silence that follows when no one else does.
siliconcanals.com
UniX AI Advances Household Robotics Strategy with Growing Global Attention
Chinese robotics startup UniX AI is gaining global attention with its Wanda 2.0 humanoid robot, priced from around $12,000 and designed for household and service applications.
pandaily.com

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Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator
Article URL: https://zsnes.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47924877 Points: 262 # Comments: 73
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Sega Master System Controllers, Now With USB C
USB wasn’t even a gleam in an engineer’s eye when the Sega Master System hit the market in 1985. Today, we’re up to USB 4 or something, and the USB …read more
hackaday.com
Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
Article URL: https://talkie-lm.com/introducing-talkie Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927903 Points: 209 # Comments: 60
talkie-lm.com
How Amazon Uses LLMs to Recommend Products
In this article, we will look at how COSMO works and the challenges the engineering team faced.
bytebytego.com
Why Solid State Batteries Short
Solid state batteries, we are told, are the new hot battery technology that will replace lithium-ion batteries. Soon. Not that we haven’t heard that before. One reason it isn’t dominating …read more
hackaday.com
How Stripe Detects Fraudulent Transactions Within 100 ms
In this article, we will look at how Stripe’s Radar does this effectively and the architectural decisions the team took while building it.
bytebytego.com
A Different Kind of Ultrasonic Levitation
Ultrasonic levitation is by now a familiar trick: one or more ultrasonic transducers create a standing wave, and small objects can be held in the nodes of this standing wave. …read more
hackaday.com
Is my blue your blue?
Article URL: https://ismy.blue/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47926861 Points: 415 # Comments: 286
ismy.blue
The Challenges of 3D Printing Reliable Springs
Springs are great, but making them out of plastic tends to come with some downsides, for fairly obvious reasons. Creating a compliant mechanism that can be 3D printed and yet …read more
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