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The Download: Claude’s inner workings and OpenAI’s “super app”
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. Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts The AI firm Anthropic has got the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really goin…
MIT Technology Review
Enterprises using multiple AI models are underestimating failure rates by 2.25x
A team routing queries across a coding specialist, a logic specialist, and a generalist model assumes each will cover the others' blind spots. A new study evaluating 67 frontier models from 21 providers shows that assumption is mathematically flawed — and the flaw has a name: the…
venturebeat.com
A new app, HyperTexting, turns the open web into a scrollable social media-like feed
HyperTexting's new app aims to make the open web feel more like social media by turning websites, blogs, newsletters, and podcasts into a scrollable feed, while also making it easier to post to your own website.
techcrunch.com
Today’s the Day OpenAI Fucked Up the ChatGPT Mac App
Zac Hall, writing at 9to5Mac about OpenAI’s sprawling product announcements today: To summarize today’s desktop app changes: The existing ChatGPT app is now ChatGPT Classic. Codex is now the new ChatGPT desktop app. It still looks like Codex and includes the Codex icon as an op…
9to5mac.com
‘Backrooms’ Seeps Into Your Home Starting Next Week
The eerie horror hit will arrive on digital Tuesday, July 14.
gizmodo.com
Google's TabFM skips per-dataset training and still predicts on tables it's never seen
The vast majority of business data is tabular — living in data warehouses, CRMs, and financial ledgers — yet building a reliable model from it still means training a new one from scratch for every dataset, then maintaining hyperparameter tuning loops, feature engineering, and ret…
venturebeat.com
International tech
Exclusive: Lab-Grown Diamond Brand Jewelbox In Talks To Raise ₹50 Cr
D2C lab-grown diamond jewellery brand Jewelbox is in talks to raise ₹50 Cr (about $5.2 Mn) in a new funding…
inc42.com
Wisson Unveils Flexible Charge Universal Service Engine: Zero-Lag Adaptive EV Charging Robot
Wisson introduces the Flexible Charge automatic charging service engine with zero-second adaptive tolerance, covering public, dedicated, and home EV charging across 130+ vehicle models.
pandaily.com
SK Hynix debuts on Nasdaq at $170, shares surge 14% in largest-ever foreign US listing
SK Hynix made a strong debut on the Nasdaq, with its American… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Psychology says people who reach their 40s and 50s feeling lonely aren’t socially broken — they’re often the ones who poured the most into careers, caregiving, and keeping others afloat, and simply ran out of room for themselves
The loneliness that arrives in midlife is often not a sign of failing at relationships. It tends to fall on the people who spent two decades being the reliable one, and left no room for themselves.
siliconcanals.com
Shein receives approval for Hong Kong IPO from Chinese regulators
Online retail giant Shein Global Holdings has secured approval from the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) to seek an initial public offering in Hong Kong, a long-awaited step for the firm after its attempts to list in New York or London stalled. The firm plans to issu…
scmp.com
CXMT sets July 16 subscription date for STAR Market IPO
ChangXin Memory Technologies, or CXMT, has started the issuance process for its STAR Market IPO, with subscriptions scheduled for July 16. The Chinese DRAM maker plans to raise RMB29.5 billion. CXMT is China’s largest DRAM producer and one of the country’s most important memory c…
technode.com
Apple’s Classic Mac Era Forays Into ‘Apps as Tiled Buttons’ Simplified Computing: At Ease and Launcher
Some historical follow-up regarding just-click-it launching and apps as tiled buttons with a uniform square shape. Back in the System 7 era in the 1990s, Apple sold (sold!) a product called At Ease (via Nathan Lineback’s venerable GUI Galley): I don’t recall ever using At Ea…
daringfireball.net
IEEE Remembers Pioneering Computer Scientist Peter G. Neumann
The computing community recently lost one of its enduring voices: IEEE Fellow Peter G. Neumann. The renowned computer scientist and respected risk analyst died on 17 May at the age of 93. For almost 70 years, Neumann shaped the computing field through his pioneering work on risks…
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Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts
The AI firm Anthropic has developed a technique that has given it the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on inside large language models as they answer questions or carry out tasks. What they found ranges from the mundane to the unnerving. Researchers at the company buil…
MIT Technology Review

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Browser-Based Image Inpainting Runs Locally, If One Doesn’t Mind A Big Download
[Simon Willison] ported the Moebuis 0.2B image inpainting model to run locally in a web browser.  The web tool simply requires a user to provide an image, mark a section …read more
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3D Printed Scooter Fits in Your Luggage, Some Assembly Required
Though [Ivan Miranda] calls the 3D printed vehicle in his recent video a motorbike, what he ultimately pulls out of his suitcase is clearly a scooter. Linguistic confusion aside, the …read more
hackaday.com
Write code like a human will maintain it
Article URL: https://unstack.io/write-code-like-a-human-will-maintain-it Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859701 Points: 250 # Comments: 202
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This Week in Security: Escaping Linux VMs, Vulnerable Solar, Confusing AI (Again), and Confusing NPM Malware
The Januscape vulnerability allows a user in a guest VM managed by the Linux Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) to corrupt memory in the host system and break out of isolation. …read more
hackaday.com
The Agent Loop: How AI Goes From Answering Questions to Doing Things
In this article, we will walk through that progression. We will also look at how an agent is structured, what choices the model makes on every turn, what scaffolding holds it together, and when an agent is actually the right pattern to reach for.
bytebytego.com
A Super Cheap Desk Toy Becomes a Hackable Desktop Notifier
The GeekMagic SmallTV is as its name suggests, a tiny, vaguely TV-styled, device with a screen, that’s sold as a desktop notifier. Depending on the firmware running on the device …read more
hackaday.com
Why American ambulance rides are so expensive
Article URL: https://davidoks.blog/p/why-american-ambulance-rides-are Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48853091 Points: 286 # Comments: 411
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LAST CALL FOR ENROLLMENT: Become an AI Engineer - Cohort 7
Our 7th cohort of Becoming an AI Engineer starts tomorrow, Saturday, July 11. This is a live, cohort-based course created in collaboration with best-selling author Ali Aminian and published by ByteByteGo.
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Hackaday Podcast Episode Ep 377: Parallel Pixels, Wiggly Consoles, and Seven Segments
This week’s podcast sees Elliot joined by Jenny List, as both suffer silently in the European summer heat because the sound of a desk fan would come over on the …read more
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