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IEEE’s Global Museum Brings Engineering History to You

Many IEEE members who collect historical engineering artifacts often offer them to the IEEE History and Heritage group, which includes the IEEE History Center, to display. To bring these artifacts to the public, the group created the IEEE Global Museum, which curates traveling ex…

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Introducing the Safari MCP Server for Web Developers

Saron Yitbarek, writing on the WebKit blog, with a nice post-WWDC surprise: In Safari Technology Preview 247, we’re introducing the Safari MCP server — a Model Context Protocol server for web developers that makes your web development and debugging workflow faster and more powerf…

Enterprises lost Claude Fable 5 for a few weeks. New data shows two-thirds had already built their hedge

Two-thirds of enterprises have hedged their AI model strategy, and the past few weeks of controversy around Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 model showed why that posture has gone mainstream. On June 12, a U.S. export-control order pulled Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 — the most capable …

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Get Ready for Liftoff: Space Shuttle Endeavour’s New Exhibit Opens to the Public This Year

The retired space shuttle will look launch-ready at its new home in California.

I Repeat Myself (5G vs. LTE Edition)

Back in March 2022, Nicole Nguyen of The Wall Street Journal compared the battery life effects of 5G vs. LTE by streaming videos on several iPhone and iPad models. She found that using LTE saved significant battery life. (It would be nice if someone re-ran similar tests on more r…

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The browser wars aren’t about search anymore — here are the best alternatives to Chrome and Safari

We’ve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari.

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Tencent joins reported $3 billion funding round for Kuaishou’s Kling AI

Kuaishou’s AI video generation platform, Kling AI, is reportedly close to completing a $3 billion funding round, with Tencent participating in the investment. Upon completion, Kling AI is expected to be valued at $18 billion. In May, foreign media reported that Kuaishou was plann…

GoDaddy Challenges HC Order Targeting Fake Domain Names: Report

Internet domain name registrar GoDaddy, along with domain registrars Namecheap and Hosting Concepts, has reportedly challenged a Delhi High Court…

Ant Group and HKUST(GZ) Propose Skill-MAS, Turning Multi-Agent Orchestration into Evolvable Meta-Skills

Ant Group and HKUST(GZ) introduce Skill-MAS, a framework that evolves multi-agent system design experience into reusable meta-skills, validated on DeepSeek-V4-Flash and other models.

An American pays a $969 list price for the same insulin-class weight-loss pen a German gets for around €59 — and the reason traces back to a century-old Danish rescue mission

Ozempic lists for roughly $969 in the United States and around €59 in Germany — the same pen, the same molecule, made in the same Danish factory. The reason winds back to a Nobel laureate's 1922 trip to Toronto.

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Indian AI Startup Funding Soars Over 4X YoY In H1 2026, But Is It Enough To Compete Globally?

AI emerged as the defining theme of the Indian startup ecosystem in H1 2026. As conversations around the nascent technology…

Inside Huaqiangbei's AI Hardware Boom: Four Kings and Budget Products Conquering the Mass Market

Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei electronics market sees an AI hardware boom with four categories dominating: AI glasses, watches, companion toys, and rings, at prices as low as 100 yuan.

‘The End of Oak Street’ Could Be the Suburban You-Know-What

If you want a dinosaur movie different from the standard 'Jurassic' affair, J.J. Abrams says 'The End of Oak Street' is for you.

Trunk Tools' stack cut document review from 60 days to 10 by ditching general-purpose models

Most verticals aren’t clean, well-oiled SaaS databases; the reality is ugly documents, proprietary schemas, implicit workflows, and long‑running tasks that most general-purpose models struggle with. This prompted construction project management company Trunk Tools to build a spe…

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Chevy built an all-American EV truck — why is nobody buying it?

The Chevy Silverado EV is a solid first draft of an EV pickup truck. Here's what could make it better.

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Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/alibaba-ban-claude-code-workplace-over-alleged-backdoor-risks-source-says-2026-07-03/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772443 Points: 290 # Comments: 254

Settling the Debate on Soldered versus Crimped High-Current Connectors

For some reason there’s heated debate around the topic of whether high current carrying wiring ought to use crimped or soldered connections, even though the industry standard is to crimp …read more

Half-Baked Product

Article URL: https://weli.dev/blog/half-baked-product/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772388 Points: 1076 # Comments: 326

Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own

Article URL: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-open-source-the-steam-machine-e-ink-screen-so-you-can-make-your-own/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48774518 Points: 394 # Comments: 68

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Godot’s New Contributing Policy Adds Barriers for AI Slop

Like so many large and popular open source projects these days, the Godot game engine struggles with an influx of pull requests. The situation has become increasingly dire due to …read more

The Organ That Forgot To Use Transistors

When we think of 1960s synthesizers it’s usual to imagine instruments with vast arrays of controls and patch cables for configuring their many filters, oscillators, and other parameters. They created …read more

Please stop the AI confidence theater

Article URL: https://www.elenaverna.com/p/please-stop-the-ai-confidence-theater Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48774414 Points: 206 # Comments: 216

How OpenAI Delivers Low-Latency Voice AI for 900M Users

In this article, we will look at the entire journey in detail and challenges the OpenAI engineering team faced.

This Week in Security: Windows 10 Gets Another Year, SmartTV Botnets, Hiding Payloads, and LastPass Customer Leak

Unsurprisingly to many of us, app stores for smart televisions are also trash. Perhaps even more full of trash than other app stores due to the smaller ecosystem and fewer …read more