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Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 capable of generating images and 20-second video with audio — but in limited release to start
Black Forest Labs (BFL) is expanding its FLUX family beyond image generation with today's launch of FLUX 3, a multimodal frontier model trained to understand and generate images, or combined audio/video clips up to 20 seconds from a single prompt — and to extend the same underlyi…
venturebeat.com
The Download: energy transmission and US threats against Chinese AI
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. The power line that could reshape New York’s grid is hitting snags  During a heat wave on July 3, New York State’s grid imported enough electr…
MIT Technology Review
Multi-turn attacks broke AI models 88% of the time — single-turn testing missed it, Cisco AI security lead warns at VB Transform 2026
When Cisco ran 6,986 multi-turn attacks against 15 flagship models, attackers who adapted across the conversation broke through as often as 88.3% of the time. Amy Chang, Cisco's head of AI threat intelligence and security research, brought that finding to the agentic security pan…
venturebeat.com
Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua to step aside as company pushes into robotaxis, robotics
Shashua has been invited to take the chairman of the board seat.
techcrunch.com
‘Millennium Actress’ Will Always Be My Favorite Satoshi Kon Film
Kon's follow up to 'Perfect Blue' about an actress confronting her illustrious career and her greatest regret stands the test of time as the legendary auteur's most elegiac and inspiring anime.
gizmodo.com
Is On-Prem Making A Comeback?
While cloud migration previously offered unmatched speed and cost efficiency, decision-makers now perceive localized systems as offering superior long-term security. In this guest commentary, strategic adviser Itay Sagie shares three trends he believes are pushing on-prem back in…
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International tech
CAS Space Lijian-1 Y15 Deploys 5 Satellites With Intelligent Computing Payloads as Monthly Launch Cadence Accelerates
CAS Space Lijian-1 rocket completes 15th flight with 110 satellites launched; payload includes MUSA GPU-powered AI computing satellite and first commercial space debris monitoring satellite.
pandaily.com
The habit of buying slightly too much food whenever family visits isn’t overpreparation, for many people it’s a quiet inheritance from a household where abundance on the table was how love got expressed when words weren’t available
For many adults, buying too much food when family visits isn't anxious hosting — it's inherited grammar from a household where a full table said what nobody could say out loud.
siliconcanals.com
The hidden cost of Myanmar’s rare earth mines
As the U.S. races to bypass China, the global hunger for critical minerals is financing warlords and poisoning Myanmar's borderlands.
restofworld.org
AutoFlight Signs SF Express for Offshore eVTOL Operations, Accelerates Global Expansion With Indonesia Type Certification and Sea-to-Air Logistics Vision
AutoFlight partners with SF Express for offshore wind farm logistics using 2-ton eVTOL aircraft, achieves first overseas eVTOL type certificate in Indonesia, targets 300+ aircraft for marine energy market.
pandaily.com
Computing Power Becomes the Lifeline: Tech Giants Scramble for AI Supernodes as Model Parameter Competitions Drive Unprecedented Infrastructure Demand
Huawei, ZTE, H3C, Sugon, and others race to build and deploy AI supernodes from 1024 to 100K GPU scale, as Kimi K3 and GLM-5 demand drives computing capacity to the breaking point.
pandaily.com
The generation that grew up with rotary phones, party lines, and having to knock on a neighbour’s door isn’t nostalgic for inconvenience, they remember when reaching another person required just enough effort to make the contact feel intentional
The generation raised on rotary phones and knocked-on doors isn't longing for inconvenience. They're describing something the friction produced: a signal that contact was chosen, not idle — a quality digital life has quietly stripped away.
siliconcanals.com

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Targeting Allele-Specific Faulty mRNA in SCNA2 Mutation Patients
When an individual is born with genetic defects, there are a few ways to deal with the impact of the faulty genes. The most extreme solution is direct DNA editing …read more
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98.css
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Inside Roblox’s Bet on World Models
We sat down with Anupam Singh, senior vice president of engineering at Roblox, to hear from him about the world model that Roblox is using to make its multiplayer games look photorealistic, the key insights that have come from taking that approach, and the next big thing that the…
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Best Practices for Building AI Agents That Work in Production
In this article, we try to explore the collective thinking into a smaller set of practices and explain the reasoning behind each one, rather than asking anyone to memorize a numbered list.
bytebytego.com
What happened to TheNumbers.com
Article URL: https://stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-happened-to-thenumberscom-should-worry-us-all Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49024691 Points: 299 # Comments: 129
stephenfollows.com
A Beginner’s Guide to Clocks, Causality, and Ordering in Distributed Systems
Why does something as simple as reading the time become a hard problem for distributed systems?
bytebytego.com
Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died.
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-death-girl-chinese-gene-editing-trial-was-never-made-public Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49027892 Points: 267 # Comments: 158
science.org
Mic Jammer Relies on Ultrasound
Today’s phone microphones are perfectly adept at picking up sound in all sorts of conditions, and they’re backed by all kinds of processing techniques to filter out noise and capture …read more
hackaday.com
Hackaday Europe 2026: Half Quad, Half Blimp: Test. Fly. Survive.
A great many drones out there, whether homebuilt or store-bought, follow the same basic format. Four motors, some kind of controller, and a lithium-polymer battery supplying the juice to keep …read more
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