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Apple Says iOS 27 ‘Restricted Mode’ Isn’t for Users Who Miss Payments in New Apple Upgrade Program
Last week 9to5Mac reported on code in the latest iOS 27 developer beta seemingly meant to restrict leased devices after the user had missed one or more payments. When engaged, Restricted Mode limits the device to the following apps: Accessibility Reader App Store Health Magnifier…
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How an overlooked geothermal plant got a second chance
In June 2024, a small company called Zanskar purchased a geothermal power plant in New Mexico that was failing fast. The water coming from the underground reservoir was getting colder by the day, making the plant uneconomical to run. Now, two years later, that plant is running at…
MIT Technology Review
Siobahn Day Grady Wants Everyone to Be AI Literate
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the skills employers expect from new graduates. In response, universities are scrambling to launch new courses, research centers, and industry partnerships that prepare students for today’s workforce. But building a cutting-edge AI curriculum …
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Exclusive: Former Meta And Slack Engineers Raise $15M For New Startup Centralize To Build A ‘Deal GPS’ For Enterprise Sales
Centralize, an enterprise sales platform, emerges from stealth and shares exclusive news of its $15 million Series A funding round with Crunchbase News.
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At Waymo, an AI project isn't ready until its evals are — not when the model performs well
Few companies face higher stakes when deploying AI than Waymo, the self-driving car company under Alphabet that spun out of Google. Its models do not merely generate text or automate back-office tasks: They help vehicles navigate unpredictable streets, respond to human drivers an…
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‘eBay’s Bizarre Cyberstalking Saga Ends With a $56 Million Settlement’
Emma Roth, The Verge: eBay and three former executives will pay $55.7 million as part of a settlement with a Massachusetts couple targeted with a bizarre harassment and cyberstalking campaign in 2019, as reported earlier by CNBC. The settlement will resolve a lengthy legal saga t…
The Verge
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Psychology says older parents who insist they’re fine when they aren’t aren’t being stoic, they worked out long ago that the honest answer costs one of their children a day off work
The small lie older parents tell themselves about why they're lying to their children.
siliconcanals.com
Why did an oil-producing country pumping about two million barrels a day make electric cars 96 percent of new sales in 2025 while building the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund?
Norway pumps two million barrels a day, exports almost all of it, banks the proceeds in a $1.8 trillion sovereign fund — and buys electric cars at a rate no other country has ever matched. Inside the policy machinery that holds the contradiction together.
siliconcanals.com
Sarvam Ropes In Mistral AI Founding Team Member Devendra Chaplot As Advisor
AI unicorn Sarvam has appointed Devendra Singh Chaplot, a founding team member at France-based Mistral AI and former OpenAI executive…
inc42.com
China’s top court finds patent lawsuits against Unitree Robotics malicious
China’s Supreme People’s Court has found that two patent lawsuits brought against Unitree Robotics over its Go2 and A2 robot dogs constituted malicious litigation. The cases concerned a patent titled “An Electronic Dog,” with the court ultimately rejecting the plaintiff’s infring…
technode.com
Swiggy’s Instamart Hits Contribution Margin Breakeven In Q1 FY27
Swiggy’s quick commerce arm Instamart achieved contribution margin breakeven in the first quarter of FY27, with contribution margin turning positive…
inc42.com
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 reaches enterprise users through Fireworks on Microsoft Foundry
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 is now available through Fireworks AI on Microsoft’s Foundry platform, giving Azure customers a managed route to run the model through OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions and Responses APIs. Fireworks lists Kimi among more than 20 open models served through F…
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RC Telemetry Board Lets Virtual Crewmember Help You Race Better
Logging and telemetry in remote controlled racing is a great thing, and not only does [jwachlin]’s Open RC Spotter do a fantastic job of that, it has quite a few …read more
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AI's top startups are barely publishing their research
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-s-top-startups-are-barely-publishing-their-research Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49103285 Points: 523 # Comments: 266
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Why DoorDash, Instacart, and Uber Eats Integrated LLMs Into Search Three Different Ways
In this article, we will walk through their differing solutions and try to make sense of their choices and understand the pattern behind them.
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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.
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The Cold Email
Article URL: https://zachholman.com/posts/cold-email Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49103089 Points: 237 # Comments: 93
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The coolest use for the Vision Pro
Article URL: https://christianselig.com/2026/07/vision-pro-house/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102774 Points: 726 # Comments: 281
christianselig.com
LLM Honeypot
Article URL: https://llm2human.pages.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49104117 Points: 300 # Comments: 89
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Using Video Glasses As a Camera Viewfinder Is Harder Than It Looks
[John Dingley] has a Sony ZV-E10 camera that is excellent, but the design lacks a built-in electronic viewfinder. This means it relies entirely on its rear-mounted touchscreen for framing shots. …read more
hackaday.com
The Productivity Mirage
Article URL: https://frantic.im/mirage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49104335 Points: 281 # Comments: 123
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