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‘The X-Files: I Want to Believe – Vrach Frankenshteyn’ Has a Perfectly Creepy Trailer

Chris Carter's R-rated director's cut of the 2008 'X-Files' film hits Disney+ and Hulu August 14.

Bending Spoons to Buy Airtable for $1.3 Billion

Ivan Mehta, reporting for TechCrunch: In its first acquisition since going public last month, Bending Spoons on Tuesday said that it has agreed to buy spreadsheet and database startup Airtable for $1.28 billion in cash. Founded in 2013, Airtable has so far raised over $1.4 billio…

Spotify Execs Bet People Will Pay for AI Music. Stock Price Plunges

The company is going all in on AI features, including AI-generated songs, to turn free users to paid.

SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year

The purchase illustrates just how interconnected Elon Musk's universe of companies are.

Why R&D Waste Persists Despite Widespread AI Adoption

This report examines R&D waste and how AI adoption has outpaced the intelligence needed to make consequential decisions well. What Attendees will Learn Where R&D budget is lost. More than a third of organizations spend 25 to 40 percent of their R&D budget on projects that never …

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Yours Truly on TBPN Yesterday

TBPN seems like a show I wouldn’t enjoy guesting on, but I actually enjoy it quite a bit. ★

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Elevation Capital Offloads Paytm Shares Worth ₹2,038 Cr

Venture capital firm Elevation Capital today offloaded Paytm shares worth ₹2,038 Cr via multiple bulk and block deals. As per…

Shanghai-based AI-chip startup reportedly completes A1 round at valuation above RMB10 billion

Fangqing Technology (our translation of 昉擎科技) has reportedly completed an A1 financing round at a valuation above RMB10 billion, according to a report published on Aug. 4. The available information does not establish the round size, investor lineup or use of proceeds, so the deve…

Meet The 20 Startups Selected For Google Play Accelerator India

Alphabet-owned Google has picked 20 homegrown startups for the 2026 cohort of its “Google Play Accelerator India” programme. This is…

A meta-analysis of 136 samples and more than 23,000 workers found that adapting behaviour to the social situation, not acting the same way in every room, predicted better leadership and performance ratings, complicating advice to just be yourself.

The most effective leaders aren't the most authentic—they're the most adaptable, reading each room and shifting their style accordingly.

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Between Kimi K3 and DeepSeek V4: Why Native Multimodal Capability Defines the Next Phase of Chinese Frontier Models

Moonshot AI Kimi K3, Alibaba Qwen3.8-Max, and ByteDance Doubao-Seed-2.1 commit to native multimodal training while DeepSeek, Zhipu, and Tencent Hunyuan stay text-only as vision-in-the-loop becomes decisive for long agent tasks.

WorkBuddy Security Center Goes Live: Tencent Brings OS-API Layer Sandboxing, Recoverable File Deletion, and Version Rollback as Default Agent Safety Defaults

Tencent WorkBuddy 5.0 ships default security sandbox, recycle-bin file deletion, and version-restorable edits at the OS API layer, addressing the agent safety crisis without slowing agent efficiency.

The White House’s New AI Safety Framework Is None of Your Business

How's that for transparency?

Lucid’s turnaround plan hinges on $1.4B in cash savings, robotaxis

Lucid's new CEO Silvio Napoli listed four must-win priorities, including the successful launch of its midsize EV, finishing a factory in Saudi Arabia, cutting expenses, and robotaxis.

SpaceX doubles revenue on Anthropic and Google compute deals, Starlink growth

SpaceX doubled its revenue compared to last year, according to its first quarterly earnings since going public in June.

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Tearing Down Aircraft Weather Radar Avionics

If you’re flying high in the sky, it’s useful to know if there’s turbulence, heavy rain, or other nasty weather ahead. Onboard weather radar is a useful tool that pilots …read more

Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/apple-says-more-ex-employees-may-have-taken-confidential-data-to-openai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170479 Points: 325 # Comments: 249

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.

All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen

Article URL: https://www.valleynewslive.com/2026/08/04/every-flock-camera-winona-minnesota-cut-down-stolen-coordinated-theft/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171656 Points: 342 # Comments: 205

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Un Ordinateur Pour Le Minitel-1 (A Computer For The Minitel-1)

In the 1980s, France was the stage for one of the boldest public computing projects of the era. Minitel was the French take on viewdata, and instead of making it …read more

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.

In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years

Article URL: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/08/in-memory-of-my-wife-elise-cawley-1961-2026-with-thanks-for-36-wonderful-years/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173165 Points: 785 # Comments: 43

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Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation

Article URL: https://mistral.ai/news/shieldstral/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171268 Points: 283 # Comments: 69

BornHack Radio 102.8 FM, Playing Radio At A Hacker Camp

Over the years I have been to many hacker camps and done a lot of very cool things, but BornHack 2026 brought me something entirely new: Radio. By which I …read more