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Upcoming Hack to Keep NASA’s Voyager 1 Alive Exploits a Quirk in Its 1970s Hardware
After a successful trial on Voyager 2, NASA plans to execute its “big bang” power diversion on humanity’s most distant space probe.
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The Team Behind ‘Paddington 2’ Could’ve Made a ‘Star Wars’ Movie
Paul King and Simon Farnaby tried to make a movie about a droid, but it didn't happen.
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Cars Communicating Badly Is an Already-Solved Problem
The history of networking is full of tools that repurposed solutions to very different kinds of problems first. Wi-Fi’s origins trace back, in part, to a team of Australian radio astronomers trying to detect signals from evaporating black holes. But the data-processing tools they…
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Tencent's Team Memory shares AI agent memory across a team — with no governance yet for when it's wrong
A VB Pulse survey this June found that 57% of enterprises had traced a confidently wrong agent answer back to missing or inconsistent context — the latest sign of how central context has become to whether AI agents can be trusted to act on their own. Most of the fixes so far have…
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App Store Review Times Are Failing to Meet the AI-Driven Influx of Submissions
Joe Fabisevich, on Mastodon: I submitted Plinky 6.0.4 for review last week. The macOS app was approved in 4 hours, the iOS app is still waiting for review. Sure do love to distribute software distribution this way. He’s not an outlier; I see comments like this from App Store deve…
macaw.social
See the Original Character Sketches for Next Week’s ‘Futurama’ Episode [Exclusive]
'Futurama' spoofs the pirate genre in 'Our Flag Means Medical Coverage.'
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CASIA's PhiZero Gives World Models a 'Physical Language' and Cuts Tokens 175x
Researchers at the Institute of Automation under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA) published PhiZero, a world model that reasons in a learned discrete 'physical language' before rendering video. The approach collapses the number of tokens needed to represent a four-second c…
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China's "New New Three" Exports Are Robots, AI Models and Innovative Drugs
From wall-climbing cleaning robots in Australia to Chinese LLMs running Brazilian grids, a new export trio is rewriting what "Made in China" looks like abroad.
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China Pushes AI Compute Into Orbit, and the Satellites Start Doing Their Own Thinking
In late July, a satellite called Chenguang-1 carried an eight-card server into orbit from the Dongfeng commercial space innovation test zone, marking a new step in China's space-based compute push. Industry experts say the country now sits in the global first tier for orbital com…
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Arizona wants Taiwan’s investors to think beyond chips
As Arizona’s economic fortunes have become increasingly tied to TSMC and its chip supply chain, it’s been keen to diversify the roster of investors beyond tech companies.
restofworld.org
An elderly man in London lost his wife and then his son, and didn’t know what to do with the grief, so he started running. Eleven years later, at 100, he crossed the finish line of a full marathon in just over eight hours.
When grief hollowed him out, running became his only answer—and a hundred-year-old man became the first of his age to cross a marathon finish line.
siliconcanals.com
Alibaba's Qwen App Tests Paid Features as It Tries to Follow Doubao's Office Playbook
Alibaba's Qwen App pushed a major update this week that finally moves it beyond pure free chatbot territory. Office assistant, scheduled tasks and flagship Qwen3.8-MAX model access are now bundled into the new release, with a clear signal that productivity use cases will soon shi…
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The Read Path versus the Write Path: Strategies and Techniques
In this article, we will look at read path and write path operations and techniques in detail.
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New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
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Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned
Article URL: https://www.troyhunt.com/welcoming-the-nepalese-government-to-have-i-been-pwned/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49203105 Points: 202 # Comments: 33
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US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e1vg0gjl5o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208314 Points: 812 # Comments: 765
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FlipBuddy is Borg, You Will Be Assimilated
When you think about it, time is all we’ve really got. Where to go from there is ultimately up to you. Maybe you use an app to track every task, …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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This Week in Security: Claude Gets Hacking, Hotel WiFi, and NPM Compromised Again
kMaybe feeling left out from the questionable hype train of “Our AI models can’t be trusted”, Anthropic has released reports that their Claude model has “reached the Internet” and accessed …read more
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Hackaday Podcast Episode 381: Airless Tires, Full-color Prints, and 28 MW of LEDs
This week’s Hackaday podcast is a European affair again, as Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List on a summer evening to review the week. And we have a feast …read more
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Music is Back on Optical Disk in This Plex Server
Given that the no doubt totally sustainable build-out of data centers has sent both solid state and magnetic hard drive prices soaring, though, [WNY Over The Air] decided to take …read more
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