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Authorities Investigating Mysterious Deaths of 15 Elephants at Kenyan National Park

The animals may have been poisoned from pesticides on nearby farms.

★ Temu Is a Comically Bad App

Cabel Sasser on Mastodon: the temu app will be studied for generations. i opened the app, and recorded this unedited, nearly two minute, launch sequence. it somehow just gets funnier and more absurd I agree with this sentiment, right down to the fact that Temu doesn’t deserve cap…

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The Download: Montana’s new experimental drug rules

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. Montana’s plan to become an experimental medical hub just pushed forward As of this week in Montana, biotech companies whose drugs have been …

MIT Technology Review

Sam Raimi to Produce New Stephen King Adaptation From ‘Final Destination’ Directors

Raimi and King will team up for the first time on an adaptation of King's 1996 novel 'Desperation.'

India is starting to pay for apps, not just download them

India's app market generated a record $345 million in Q2.

How is your enterprise tracking AI agent telemetry? Groundcover thinks it should never leave your cloud

The AI agent observability space is taking off — but how can enterprises be sure what observability products and solutions they need? Observability startup groudcover (lower case "g" intentional) announced this week that it raised $100 million in a round led by One Peak, bringing…

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International tech

Psychology says people who are the first to check on everyone else but the last to be checked on aren’t unlucky in their friendships — they’ve built a role in every relationship that quietly disqualifies them from ever being the one who needs something

The care you give becomes a cage: the more you show up for others, the less they can imagine you falling apart.

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The 5am morning routine gets sold as the habit that separates successful people from everyone else, but a genetic study of nearly 700,000 people suggests whether you are a morning person is largely written into your biology

Your chronotype might matter more than your willpower—new genetic research suggests the early-bird advantage is largely inherited, not earned.

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Can we train AI to choose safety over speed?

Delivery platforms use sophisticated weather algorithms to profit from storm demand, while shifting all the physical risk onto workers trapped by pay incentives.

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After A Stellar Q1, Shadowfax Elevates FY27 Revenue Guidance

Fresh off a record Q1 FY27, Shadowfax is now setting the stage for a standout fiscal year. Fuelled by a…

ByteDance Grows More Adaptable: Feishu Product Team Merges Into Doubao and GTM Shifts to Volcano Engine as ByteDance Reorganizes Around AI

ByteDance restructures its B-end AI business: Feishu product and Doubao teams merge under Zhao Qi, GTM consolidates into Volcano Engine, ending Feishu independent BU status.

Kissht’s Next Growth Play: Better Borrowers, Lower Costs & Loan Against Property

Recently listed NBFC Kissht is entering its “quality over quantity” phase, as it looks to build a more sustainable lending…

Google nixes its Earth AI feature one day after launch, amid criticism it would spread misinformation

A tool that allowed anyone to generate fake AI-generated imagery and superimpose it over real Google Earth maps quickly spurred backlash.

Silicon Valley loves young founders. Until it doesn’t.

AI tools have democratized the opportunity to build, shortening the timelines of success and enabling more young people to start successful companies without stepping foot inside a Big Tech company.

Rivian spinoff Also to start delivering e-bikes after months of delays

Also has big plans beyond the TM-B. The startup mostly refers to itself as a "vehicle" company and has plans to make four-wheel pedal-assist cargo vehicles for Amazon.

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Tiny Desktop Robot Has Radar

One thing our futuristic world is largely lacking in is droids and robot companions and the like. [solitary dev] is helping to rectify that problem by building a little robot …read more

Casual Repair and Maintenance on an Amiga 1000

Recently [Drygol] had an Amiga 1000 system over for some repairs as well as maintenance and general TLC. This is a Motorola 68000-based home computer from 1985 that also has …read more

How ChatGPT Optimizes its Agent Loop: Harness, API, and Inference

To understand what techniques are adopted in frontier labs to make AI applications more efficient, we met with the OpenAI engineers who developed and shipped various efficiency techniques into the systems behind Codex and ChatGPT Work.

Hiring: Part Time Instructor, Write Production Grade Code with AI

We’re hiring a part-time instructor for “𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐈”.

A Compact Game Controller For Your Phone

[Gil Yankovitch] noted that playing games on a touchscreen phone gave up a certain something in terms of the tactile feedback one gets from real buttons. To that end, he …read more

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Turning Glass Into a Touch-Sensitive Button

Although generally glass isn’t associated with touch-sensitive surfaces, the addition of an ITO (indium tin oxygen) coating adds the exciting property of not only being transparent to the visible light …read more

Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion

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