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The Download: a useful quantum machine and a record-breaking subsea tunnel

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. PsiQuantum has a plan to make a massive quantum computer out of light The machine that could change the world will be housed in a room that lo…

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Corporate Venture Capital Is Splitting In Two

The wind-downs at PayPal and Fidelity International may look like a retreat, but the data points to a concentration of power at the top of the market that smaller funds will feel first, writes guest author Steve Brotman of Alpha Partners.

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An Unholy Union of Smart Glasses and Wireless Earbuds Is Upon Us

Wireless earbuds and headphones are getting smart glasses features like tiny cameras.

Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not models

Anthropic-backed Ode launches as AI labs bet that embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises is the key to accelerating enterprise AI adoption.

The House Just Passed Another Permanent Daylight Saving Time Bill

Last time this happened the Senate passed it. It never became law.

Vint Cerf is working on a plan to unleash AI agents on the open internet

The guy behind TCP/IP is working on a standard for identifying AI agents in the wild.

International tech

Alibaba’s Qwen to be integrated into Apple Intelligence

Alibaba’s Qwen AI model will be integrated into Apple Intelligence, bringing AI-powered experiences to users in China across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS. Without switching between apps, users will be able to access Qwen’s capabilities—including text and image understanding, …

Nearly every plant on your plate is quietly chemically defended against being eaten — and a growing line of research suggests that faint, low-dose sting may be one of the underrated reasons a vegetable-heavy diet keeps you healthy

The bitter compounds in kale, broccoli and green tea are plant defence weapons — and the reason vegetables extend human life. A look at hormesis, the gut bacteria that decide who benefits, and why the vegetables engineered to taste mild may deliver less of what makes them medicin…

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Hangzhou Xunsun Intelligence CEO: AI Software Factory Redefines Software Production From Requirements to Running Systems

Xunsun Intelligence CEO Xiong Jibin at AgenticAICon 2026 unveils AI-Ready requirements modeler and software factory, enabling natural language to full system generation with multi-agent collaboration.

Xiaomi Open-Sources Robotics-U0: A 38B-Parameter Embodied Generative Model That Unifies Four Robot Tasks

Xiaomi releases Robotics-U0 with 38 billion parameters, the first embodied generative model handling scene generation, embodied transfer, video generation, and text-to-image in a single unified architecture.

High-Purity PFA Becomes Critical Semiconductor Material as Chinese Suppliers Advance Batch Verification for Process Node Localization

High-purity PFA, a fluoropolymer essential for advanced semiconductor wet processing equipment, sees batch verification by Chinese suppliers as the semiconductor supply chain localization push deepens.

From Computing Power to Intelligence: How Data Is Reshaping the AI Era in 2026

As compute race matures, industry focus shifts to data as the fuel of AI intelligence — covering data asset monetization, security governance, and AI-driven scientific research paradigm changes.

You’ll Need to Rob the Iron Bank of Braavos to Buy This Limited Edition ‘A Game of Thrones’

George R.R. Martin himself signed each of these extra-fancy renditions of his blockbuster fantasy novel.

Rime picks up $24M Series A to help enterprises field customer calls

Rime is handling over 100 million calls each month across multiple companies

How I Turned AI to the Dark Side

Summary Researcher Dave Kuszmar discovered multiple systemic vulnerabilities that let him bypass LLM safety and obtain dangerous instructions. These exploits worked across nearly all major LLMs revealing an industry-wide security problem. Kuszmar calls for slowing deployment…

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How LLMs Learn to Be Helpful (RLHF vs DPO)

In this article, we will look at how that learning actually happens, starting with why instruction-following alone falls short, then walking through the two main methods for teaching preferences (RLHF and DPO).

Full Body VR Tracking Is Just Some Recycled Hardware Away

Full body tracking in VR applications involves attaching sensors to one’s body, and [Jaki] has a DIY method to do it on the cheap: the Vive Tracker Lite project repurposes …read more

Benchmarking Repairability Scores with an Asus Tablet

A few years ago, France introduced a mandatory repairability score for consumer goods like laptops and tablets. It involves five criteria that range from documentation and availability of spare parts …read more

Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail

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How Microsoft Ships AI Agents at Enterprise Scale

To understand what it actually takes to ship agents at that scale, we spoke with Marco Casalaina, VP of Products for Microsoft Core AI.

Hacking Around the Financial Pain of New 3DS XL Top Screens

With Nintendo’s 3DS experiencing a bit of a renaissance lately, prices for functioning systems have shot through the roof. Getting a busted one with a broken screen is a lot …read more

I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets

Article URL: https://www.ayush.digital/blog/the-memory-heist Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48916975 Points: 457 # Comments: 216

AIM-ing For a More Open Platform Than Discord

Do you remember AIM? It may suprize you to hear that AOL’s instant messanger was actually supported all the way up to 2017– two years after Discord launched. Unlike Discord, …read more

How I use HTMX with Go

Article URL: https://www.alexedwards.net/blog/how-i-use-htmx-with-go Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48912175 Points: 286 # Comments: 87

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