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VentureBeat Research: Where enterprise AI agent governance hasn't caught up
Enterprises deployed AI agents ahead of the controls needed to manage them — and they did it knowingly. That is the central finding across the five parallel surveys VentureBeat Research fielded in June, spanning every layer of the agentic stack. Now those enterprises are retrofit…
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SpaceX launches new V3 Starlink satellites but suffers another booster failure
The company ticked off a few more boxes on the second Starship V3 flight, but appears to have had another issue relighting the booster's rocket engines.
techcrunch.com
The Download: an organ transplant breakthrough, and homegrown Chinese chips
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. Supercooled kidneys have been transplanted into pigs in a “landmark achievement”  When it comes to organ donation, time is everything. As soon…
MIT Technology Review
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Physical AI Startup Atoms Leads In Varied Week For Large Deals
Startup investors poured capital into a varied lineup of large rounds this week, targeting sectors including physical AI, biotech, cybersecurity, AI infrastructure and fintech.
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Dickover of the Week: Tomtoc
Here’s a real gem that a reader sent me. Tomtoc is a maker of laptop bags and sleeves. Visit their homepage and, of course, you’ll get a dickover asking you to join their mailing list “for exclusive updates and get a chance to win a free tech pouch every month.” But here’s the ge…
daringfireball.net
The Talk Show: ‘A Scam Held Together With Patriotism and Golden Paint’
Quinn Nelson returns to the show to discuss OpenAI’s ChatGPT/Codex “native” app migration fiasco, Siri AI in Apple’s OS 27 betas, MacOS 27 Golden Gate, and the hottest new cell phone of the year, the Trump T1. Sponsored by: Notion: Try the powerful, all-in-one Notion AI today. F…
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International tech
Zhuhai Semiconductor Veterans Pioneer Space Solar Cells: Hongjun New Energy HJT Modules Pass In-Orbit Verification on Computing Satellite Mission
Hongjun New Energy, founded by SMIC veterans, achieves space-grade P-type heterojunction solar cell validation aboard a computing satellite, demonstrating semiconductor-DNA approach to next-generation photovoltaics.
pandaily.com
From Zetwerk To Veriqus — Indian Startups Raised $209 Mn This Week
Indian startup funding slowed in the fourth week of July. Between July 18 and July 24, Indian startups cumulatively raised…
inc42.com
Why state-owned AI won’t solve inequality
Government ownership of AI companies may promise shared wealth, but it risks weakening oversight and accountability.
restofworld.org
The company behind Singha beer removed one of its heirs from every executive role days after an abuse allegation went public — a reckoning Asian family dynasties usually avoid
When Boonrawd Brewery cut ties with Sunit Scott, it did in public what family conglomerates in the region almost always handle in private. The speed and visibility of that decision is its own story.
siliconcanals.com
Can Parliamentary Panel’s Latest Recommendations Break Crypto Policy Deadlock?
For years, India’s approach towards cryptocurrencies has largely revolved around taxation, anti-money laundering (AML) compliance and transaction reporting, while a…
inc42.com
Indian Listed New-Age Tech Company Tracker: Market Cap, Revenue & More
For years, we at Inc42 have tracked the Indian tech startup ecosystem and seen it grow from a kid to…
inc42.com

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Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall
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Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB
Article URL: https://kitsumed.github.io/blog/posts/android-may-soon-restrict-on-device-adb/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49045159 Points: 336 # Comments: 156
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3D Printed Go Kart Designed to Fit in a Suitcase
[Ivan Miranda] is famous for his large-scale 3D printed vehicles. They’re pretty fun, but they’re also pretty big and heavy—which can make transporting them around rather impractical. Hence, when he …read more
hackaday.com
Fast Volumetric Imaging of Seizures with Adaptive Optics Light Sheet Microscopy
Key to understanding something like epilepsy is to be able to record highly transient events in biological tissues. Generally this is done using light sheet microscopy, which provides effectively a …read more
hackaday.com
A Beginner’s Guide to Clocks, Causality, and Ordering in Distributed Systems
Why does something as simple as reading the time become a hard problem for distributed systems?
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ICCU Monitor Logs Data in E-GMP EV Failures
EVs are less mechanically complicated than their combustion kin, but that doesn’t mean they’re immune to component failure. The Integrated Charge Control Unit (ICCU) has been the main failure point …read more
hackaday.com
Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040741 Points: 310 # Comments: 177
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Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach
Article URL: https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/features/professor-hannah-fry-wins-leelavati-prize Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49043724 Points: 293 # Comments: 49
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Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales
Article URL: https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-listen-notify-scalability Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040296 Points: 323 # Comments: 60
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