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AI is exposing the limits of traditional network architecture
Presented by Tata Communications Continuous inference, agent-to-agent communication, and real-time data pipelines are generating unpredictable, always-on traffic that legacy architectures were never built to support. As AI moves from pilot project to operational backbone, the n…
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Puzzle Corner
Ready for a fresh set of puzzles? Click here for the September/October 2026 Puzzle Corner, brought to you by Michael S. Branicky, ScD ’95, of the Puzzle Corner Puzzle Crew (aka PC2), which also includes Edward Faulkner ’03, MEng ’04, and Abe Kunin ’03. This column includes soluti…
MIT Technology Review
Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google
Shopify says AI isn’t cannibalizing search traffic the way it has for publishers. Instead, AI-driven traffic and orders to Shopify stores tripled year over year in Q2.
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The Download: NASA’s new telescope and Chinese tech import curbs
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. NASA’s new dark energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids   At the end of August, NASA is set to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Sp…
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NASA’s new dark-energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids
At the end of August, NASA is set to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Its goal is to help us better understand how the universe works, from the glue-like dark matter that keeps galaxies together to the elusive dark energy that dri…
MIT Technology Review
Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks
Hark claims that its browser use agent is faster and cheaper than competition.
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International tech
Chinese commercial rocket company i-Space completes first tranche of nearly RMB1 billion Series E funding
Chinese commercial rocket company Beijing Interstellar Glory, also known as i-Space, has completed the first tranche of a Series E funding round worth nearly RMB1 billion. The investors are mainly bank-affiliated asset-management institutions, while the broader round remains unde…
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The people who remember every song lyric from their teenage years but can’t remember what they did last Tuesday aren’t losing their memory, they’re revealing which decade of their life their brain decided was worth encoding in the highest resolution
Our brains aren't failing us in old age—they're revealing which chapters of our lives we deemed worth preserving in crystalline detail.
siliconcanals.com
China’s Moonshot AI aims for US$50b round as year-end Hong Kong IPO targeted: sources
Chinese unicorn Moonshot AI has started and is expected to close its latest financing round by the end of this month, as it dismantles its offshore structure to pave the way for a potential Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) as early as the end of the year, according to two …
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ArisInfra Q1 Profit Surges 4X YoY To ₹20 Cr, Revenue Grows By 37%
B2B ecommerce company ArisInfra Solutions recorded a consolidated profit of ₹20 Cr in Q1 FY27, nearly 4X of ₹5.1 Cr…
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Psychology says if you forget people’s names shortly after meeting them, it’s not because you weren’t paying attention — you were paying attention to their face, and the brain has never learned how to hold a name and a face in the same hand
The brain treats names like strangers at a party—it recognizes the face but never quite gets introduced to the label attached to it.
siliconcanals.com
Psychology says people who say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ without thinking twice usually learned it so early and so thoroughly that politeness stopped being manners and became something closer to instinct, like breathing out before breathing in
The politeness reflex reveals something surprising: the manners we think we choose are actually hardwired from childhood, automatic as breathing.
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Why An LLM’s Memory Gets Expensive and How to Fix It
In this article, we will learn how LLMs use memory, how it gets expensive, and how to fix it.
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Could Camera Hardware Be The Physical Equivalent to USB-C?
[Mansour] presents an interesting idea in his essay A Common Thread — just as USB-C has become the “One Connector To Rule Them All” in the world of electronics, so …read more
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How Big Models Teach Small Models to Be Smart
In this article, we will walk through the idea from the ground up.
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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down
Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/08/05/google-deepmind-demis-hassabis-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184757 Points: 246 # Comments: 141
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Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/a-civilian-plane-crashed-in-new-mexico-was-the-militarys-tech-to-blame/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181099 Points: 342 # Comments: 163
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Train Simulator Controller: July 2026 Progress Roundup
For the past three years [Christopher Mitchell] has been working on his replica of a British Rail Class 800 control cab for a physical train simulator, with the July blog …read more
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Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI
Article URL: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3807963 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176830 Points: 264 # Comments: 233
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Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-os/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182996 Points: 295 # Comments: 163
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Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/cops-used-flock-to-track-a-man-across-state-lines-to-create-pretext-to-search-his-car-for-weed/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184190 Points: 210 # Comments: 102
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