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The Crunchbase Tech Layoffs Tracker
Over 127,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies were laid off in mass job cuts in 2025, per a Crunchbase News tally, and the layoffs have continued into 2026. See the latest companies to cut roles.
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Meta enters the AI coding wars with Muse Spark 1.2 and Muse Code with persistent async background agents
Meta today released Muse Code, a terminal-based AI coding agent now in beta, alongside Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused update to its Muse Spark family of frontier models — a one-two punch that puts the company in direct competition with Anthropic's Claude Code, OpenAI's Codex, a…
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Nikita Bier steps down as X’s head of product
The serial entrepreneur is stepping down a little over a year after taking the "24/7 job" of overseeing X.
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Google Maps adds agentic features, including food ordering and hotel bookings
The launch of these new features reflects Google’s ambitions to transform Google Maps from a navigation tool into an assistant that's capable of helping users complete real-world tasks.
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IEEE Course Teaches How to Use AI to Modernize Power Grids
Today’s U.S. electrical grid, among the largest, most complex systems ever built, is operating at its limit. The combination of rapid industrial growth, more frequent extreme weather, and a record surge in electricity use has pushed the grid to its breaking point, according to th…
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These Are the Only AI Chips Anyone Should Care About
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The internet doesn’t need more content. It needs more people who lived something first and wrote about it second.
As social media drowns in derivative takes, the most compelling voices are those shaped by lived experience rather than algorithmic incentive.
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Huawei-Backed Maextro Launches V800 and V680 Flagship MPVs
Huawei-backed luxury-car brand Maextro has launched the V800 and V680, its first flagship minivans, expanding the brand’s lineup beyond the S800 sedan. The V680 starts at RMB648,000, while V800 versions are priced from RMB766,000 to RMB1.016 million. Both range-extended models of…
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BYD’s Racco Tops 700 Orders in Japan
BYD said its Japan-specific small electric car built for the kei-car segment, Racco, had received more than 700 orders after its July 28 launch. Japanese industry data counted only 125 sales during Racco’s first four days, but BYD said most were dealer-registered test-drive vehic…
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StepFun Reportedly Separates Its Model and Agent-Device Businesses
StepFun, a Chinese AI company, is reportedly reorganizing around two strategic lines: foundation models and agent devices. Its phone business is being moved into a separate company, while the original entity continues to operate the model business; the plan has not been officiall…
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The hardest part of watching your parents age isn’t the caretaking, it’s the strange reversal of finally becoming the person they turn to for reassurance and realising nobody warned either of you that this handover would happen without a conversation
The reversal from cared-for child to trusted reassurer happens quietly, without ceremony or warning. Both generations grieve a role neither realised they were about to lose.
siliconcanals.com
For decades, happiness research showed a U-shape across a lifetime — high in youth, bottoming out at around 50, then rising again after 70. A new study across 44 countries finds that curve has flipped: young adults are now the least happy group, and despair declines steadily with age
A 44-country study finds that mental ill-being now declines with age, largely because younger adults have deteriorated. The data are striking, but more specific than the headline suggests.
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Claude Mythos 5 made sock puppet accounts to socially engineer developers: here's what enterprises should know
The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) disclosed last night that the leading two frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI took 19 unsanctioned actions against the live internet during cybersecurity tests the agency was running, including a sustained campaign by Anthropic's Claud…
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Sam Altman, Definitely Not a Ghoul
Sam Altman, on Twitter/X: cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night: connect your family calendars and explain your kids’ interests. every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid’s soccer game that afternoon, one kid’s upcoming birt…
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The Shai-Hulud npm worm didn't fake its security check — it earned a legitimate one
An attacker on Tuesday took over the GitHub account of the developer who maintains keyv, a small key-value storage library that npm serves roughly 127 million times a week. Within hours, poisoned versions of keyv and its sibling caching packages were live on npm, carrying a crede…
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LLM Security Basics: The Full Threat Model
In this article, we try to build a map of the full attack surface that threatens an LLM’s security.
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Amiga and Commodore, Back Together (Sort Of)
The story of Commodore, the famous manufacturer of home computers, is a murky one at best. Commodore fans will decry their woeful marketing and dismal product roadmap, while former employees …read more
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Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't
Article URL: https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/reading-list Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192566 Points: 327 # Comments: 113
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Full Teardown of a 2026 Amazon Fire Stick HD
After the release of Google’s Chromecast so-called ‘streaming sticks’ have remained a popular form factor, even though such technology is these days part of ‘smart’ TVs. Being curious as to …read more
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I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
Article URL: https://runarcn.no/android-to-linux/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49188022 Points: 368 # Comments: 375
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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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The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
Article URL: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/blade-runner-title-cards/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189287 Points: 313 # Comments: 151
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3D Printing A Usable Airless Tire
For decades now, companies like Michelin have been teasing us with futuristic-looking automobile tires that don’t use air. Instead, they use a polymer mesh of sorts which maintains the same …read more
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Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ran-ads-that-contained-ai-generated-child-sexual-abuse-imagery/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187977 Points: 302 # Comments: 234
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