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How Chinese short dramas became AI content machines
In a dimly lit bedroom, a frightened young woman is thrown onto a bed by a tall, muscular man. He grabs her hand, and flame-like vines crawl across her body, fusing with her flesh. She levitates, then drops. A dragon-shaped tattoo appears across her chest. “Two months,” the man s…
MIT Technology Review
Samuel L. Jackson Is Just a Huge Fan of ‘The Boys,’ Apparently
Showrunner Eric Kripke expressed his disbelief in a recent interview.
gizmodo.com
Striking New Views of the First Atomic Bomb Test
Editor’s note: If you’d like to pinpoint the instant when the world entered the nuclear age, 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain War Time on 16 July 1945, is an excellent choice. That was the moment when human beings first unleashed the power of the nucleus in an immense, blinding ball of fire…
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Claude’s next enterprise battle is not models: it’s the agent control plane
New VB Pulse data shows Microsoft and OpenAI leading enterprise agent orchestration, but Anthropic’s first measurable foothold points to a larger fight over who controls the infrastructure where AI agents run. For the last two years, the enterprise AI race has mostly been framed …
venturebeat.com
Agent authorization is broken — and authentication passing makes it worse
Anthony Grieco, Cisco’s SVP and chief security and trust officer, did not hesitate when VentureBeat asked whether rogue agent incidents are reaching Cisco’s customer base. "A hundred percent. We see them regularly," Grieco told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview at RSAC 2026. …
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Cerebras stock nearly doubles on day one as AI chipmaker hits $100 billion — what it means for AI infrastructure
Cerebras Systems, the Silicon Valley chipmaker that built the world's largest commercial AI processor, erupted onto the Nasdaq on Wednesday, opening at $350 per share — nearly double its $185 IPO price — and rocketing past a $100 billion market capitalization in its first hours o…
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Oppo and Vivo gear up for year-end gimbal camera launches to take on DJI’s Pocket series
Oppo and Vivo are also reportedly developing their own Pocket-style handheld gimbal cameras, with launches expected before the end of this year, according to China Star Market. The report said both companies aim to leverage their strengths in imaging algorithms, AI features, and …
technode.com
India’s VCs are beating Silicon Valley at home
A decade after U.S. venture capital firms fueled India’s startup boom, local investors are now dominating deals.
restofworld.org
Rapido secures $240Mn in fresh funding led by Prosus at $3Bn valuation
Indian ride-hailing startup Rapido has raised $240 million in a fresh funding… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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The Data Cage: Why Your 360-Degree Customer Profile Is Dead on Arrival
On Monday, a customer calls support to flag a billing issue. By Wednesday, they receive a promotional email pushing an…
inc42.com
DeepCybo: Beijing Startup Betting on First-Person Human Data for Embodied AGI
Beijing AI startup DeepCybo, founded by Chen Kai, has raised hundreds of millions of RMB pursuing embodied AGI through first-person human video data—now validated by Tesla, NVIDIA, and Figure AI pivoting to the same approach.
pandaily.com
SMIC: AI Boom Drives Power Management Chip Demand, Automotive BCD Platform in High Demand
SMIC (中芯国际) co-CEO Zhao Haijun reports AI boom is boosting demand for power management and data transmission chips, tightening memory supply chains and driving strong orders for the company's automotive-grade analog BCD platform.
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Mix Your Own ECN-2 Development Chemicals
After the digital camera rose to prominence, it became a cool hobby to keep taking photos on film. It was even cooler if you did the same with an old …read more
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High Performance Rate Limiting at Databricks
In this article, we look at how Databricks implemented rate limiting at scale, how they shrank the critical path, and the accuracy tradeoff that shrinking usually requires.
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We are retiring our bug bounty program
Article URL: https://turso.tech/blog/the-wonders-of-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148391 Points: 308 # Comments: 230
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An E-Bike Motor From First Principles
Many of us have made electric transport of some form, whether a Hacky Racer, and e-bike, a go-kart, or whatever. We have invariably bought a motor, or if we are …read more
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Details of the Daring Airdrop at Tristan Da Cunha
Article URL: https://www.tristandc.com/government/news-2026-05-11-airdrop.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48144380 Points: 225 # Comments: 87
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How Claude Code works in large codebases
Article URL: https://claude.com/blog/how-claude-code-works-in-large-codebases-best-practices-and-where-to-start Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48144494 Points: 215 # Comments: 146
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Show HN: Find the best local LLM for your hardware, ranked by benchmarks
Article URL: https://github.com/Andyyyy64/whichllm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146369 Points: 271 # Comments: 63
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Hacking Hard Drive Firmware
You probably flash new firmware on a variety of devices regularly, even though that’s rare for non-technical types. But what about your hard drive firmware? Most of us don’t want …read more
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Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop
Article URL: https://explorer.samismith.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146129 Points: 370 # Comments: 98
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