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Apple launches ‘Upgrade’ device leasing program in partnership with Klarna
Leasing prices start at $17.99 per month for iPhone, $11.99 for Apple Watch, $24.99 for Mac, and $11.99 for iPad.
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Why AI-Driven Cognitive Systems Are Redefining Radar and Electronic Warfare
An overview of how mode-agile threats challenge static library radar/EW systems, and how AI/ML cognitive architectures enable adaptive, real-time countermeasures. What Attendees will Learn Why mode-agile threats render static library systems ineffective — Explore how wartime res…
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The Download: OpenAI’s predictable hack, and an AI stock sell-off
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. OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before.  —Will Douglas Heaven, senior AI editor Reading OpenAI’s acco…
MIT Technology Review
PayPal leaves the door open to a higher takeover offer following earnings beat
After reporting better-than-expected Q2 results, PayPal said it remains focused on its AI-driven turnaround, but would consider a deal that creates more value for shareholders.
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Kimi K3's full weights are here, but they're 'open' with a caveat: What enterprises should know
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI, creators of the increasingly famous "Kimi K" family of powerful, open AI models, today released the full weights for its largest and most performant version yet — Kimi K3. But enterprises evaluating the model should read the attached custom Kimi K3…
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AI Seed Investors Flock To Cybersecurity
Startups at the intersection of AI and security have raised $855 million across more than 150 reported seed-stage rounds this year, per Crunchbase data.
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International tech
China Telecom Deploys First Domestic TPU Cluster in Hangzhou: Zhonghao Xinying Chana TPU With 400 PFLOPS, National-Grade Computing Chain From Chip to Platform
China Telecom Hangzhou branch, ZTE, and Zhonghao Xinying deploy 1024-chip domestic TPU cluster with 400 PFLOPS, planned expansion to 10K PFLOPS using second-gen Xuyu TPU.
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The 10,000-hour rule was never what Anders Ericsson actually found — his own research showed hours matter far less than the specific kind of feedback you get inside them
Malcolm Gladwell turned Anders Ericsson's research into a story about hours. Ericsson spent the rest of his career explaining that the hours were never the point — the feedback inside them was.
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Flipkart’s Ekart Opens Logistics Network To D2C Brands Via Franchise Model
Flipkart Group’s supply chain arm Ekart has opened its pan-India logistics network to MSMEs, D2C brands, FMCG companies, and enterprises,…
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Indian EV makers beat Tesla and BYD on energy efficiency
Tata Motors and Mahindra topped a global ranking of battery efficiency, showing India's strength in building frugal electric cars — even as they lag on charging speed and driving range.
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China Surpasses US With Two-Thirds of Global LLM Calls as Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 Ranks First in Weekly and Monthly Token Usage Worldwide
Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 leads OpenRouter global call volume at 10.5T tokens/week and 31.2T/month, as Chinese models collectively claim 63.5% share vs US 35.5% as of July 2026.
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Inflexor Ventures Marks First Close of Fund III At ₹400 Cr
Tech-focused VC firm Inflexor Ventures has marked the first close of its ₹1,250 Cr Inflexor Technology Discovery Fund at ₹400…
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WorkOS MCP
My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last week at DF to promote their MCP server. Debugging SSO, managing users, adjusting auth policies, configuring branding: every configuration task has lived behind a UI that only a human can drive. The WorkOS MCP server gives agents the same ac…
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★ Ads in Software Are Like Stickers on Laptops
Regarding my recent pieces regarding Apple’s shitty ads in the App Store and Apple News (and, perhaps soon, Apple Maps), a friend sent me this pithy take: The ads Apple is happy to inflict on us in its apps are the equivalent of the stickers it would never allow on its physical p…
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Exclusive: Co-Founded By Former Whoop CTO, Throne Science Raises $10M To Track Gut Health From The Toilet
Throne Science, a startup that makes an AI-powered toilet camera to track gut health and hydration, has raised $10 million in a Series A round led by Will Ventures, it told Crunchbase News exclusively. Emerson Collective, Workshop, LEAD VC, Salt VC, Accomplice, Moxxie Ventures, a…
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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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Breaking the Parental Lock on an XBox 360 is Very Much an Inconvenience
There are many ways to soft-brick a device to the point where it cannot easily be used again, and “Cloud locks” or parental locks are probably at the top of …read more
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FreeBSD Just Removed the Last of its GPL-Licensed Code
With a recent change that removed dialog in favor of bsddialog, FreeBSD has now retired the last piece of GPL-licensed code in its base system. Although the impact of this …read more
hackaday.com
A Labour Of Love Brings A Kids Book To The Spectrum
Back in the early 1980s when 8-bit home computers became affordable educational toys for children, the traditional paper publishing industry did its best to keep up. For a few brief …read more
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Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench
Article URL: https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/benchmarking-opus-5-on-slop-code-bench.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076391 Points: 356 # Comments: 98
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De-Aging Human Tissue Using Special Enzyme to Remove AGEs
With human bodies being bags of mostly salty water and countless messy biochemical processes, it’s little wonder that over time some residues tend to collect in these systems. Although evolution …read more
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Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise
https://www.inc.com/amaya-nichole/netflix-company-retreat-sp... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076923 Points: 386 # Comments: 415
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A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review
Article URL: https://fermisense.com/when-machines-take-the-wheel/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49078454 Points: 262 # Comments: 88
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7.1 Earthquake in Japan
Article URL: https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/quake_detail.html?eventID=20260728163528&lang=en Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49080664 Points: 551 # Comments: 110
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