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The Download: tricking LLMs, and reviving geothermal plants
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. A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack  It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks beca…
MIT Technology Review
Apple Posts Record June Quarter, Warns Supply Constraints Are Coming
Memory prices will continue to increase, Tim Cook said.
gizmodo.com
IEEE Publishing Ethics Team Upholds Research Integrity
Given a rising number of publishing misconduct allegations, IEEE in 2022 created the Publishing Ethics Team as a centralized department to assist in handling claims. The group also works to increase the organization’s visibility in the broader publishing ethics area and helps IEE…
spectrum.ieee.org
The Pentagon’s Case Against Anthropic Isn’t Going Well
Shocking this administration isn't a reliable narrator.
gizmodo.com
Looking for the Catch in Apple Upgrade
Damon Beres, writing for The Atlantic under the hed/subhed: “The New iPhone Underclass: Apple’s rental program is a trap”: The Klarna plan — “Apple Upgrade,” which replaces the iPhone Upgrade Program — is truly, legally, a lease. This is confusing! And it’s confusing in part beca…
theatlantic.com
AI hedge fund Situational Awareness may have sold its public portfolio, but it still has its Anthropic shares
The former OpenAI researcher’s fund was forced to unwind public equities after leveraged public bets plummeted. But he still has cards to play.
techcrunch.com
International tech
US scientist Elsa Reichmanis defends global collaboration amid scrutiny of science exchange
American materials scientist Elsa Reichmanis, whose pioneering work helped lay part of the foundation for modern semiconductor manufacturing, said scientific collaboration should transcend rivalry after receiving one of China’s highest honours for foreign experts, describing scie…
scmp.com
Swiggy’s Q1 Snapshot, Sarvam Widens AI Horizon & More
Swiggy Marches Closer To Profitability In Q1 Swiggy inched closer to profitability in Q1. During the quarter, its core food…
inc42.com
In 2022, only 10 percent of American marriages had a wife three or more years older than her husband, down slightly from an 11 percent peak in 2000, complicating the popular idea that reverse age-gap relationships are suddenly on the rise
The viral narrative of older women dating younger men masks a stubborn reality: these marriages remain rare and are actually declining, not surging.
siliconcanals.com
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 reaches enterprise users through Fireworks on Microsoft Foundry
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 is now available through Fireworks AI on Microsoft’s Foundry platform, giving Azure customers a managed route to run the model through OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions and Responses APIs. Fireworks lists Kimi among more than 20 open models served through F…
technode.com
Hundreds of Billions in Capital Chase the Artificial Sun: Post-90s Scientist Wang Teng Says China Aims to Light the First Lamp of Fusion Power Generation
Global fusion industry cumulative funding reaches $14.24B, 7x 2021 levels, as Chinese scientist Wang Teng outlines EAST CRAFT and BEST progress toward igniting Chinas first fusion power plant.
pandaily.com
Research suggests that planning on paper and planning through a phone can engage the mind differently: paper may encourage a broader, internally organised view of the day, while apps make it easier to rely on external reminders and prompts.
The tools we use to organize our days may be quietly reshaping how we think about time itself.
siliconcanals.com
Thinking Machines debuts Inkling Small open source AI model nearing performance of predecessor at about 1/4 size
Just two weeks after Thinking Machines released Inkling, its first open source AI language model, the well-funded startup led by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati today introduced Inkling-Small without sacrificing much of any performance — and in fact, the new mo…
venturebeat.com
Apple Releases iOS and MacOS 26.6, MacOS 15.7.8, and More
Samuel Axon, Ars Technica: Apple has released iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS 26.6. Apart from potential security hotfixes, these are likely the last updates before the arrival of iOS 27, macOS 27, and so on. All of today’s releases include minor bug fixes, and there are nu…
arstechnica.com
LinkedIn Adds New ‘Seems Like AI Slop’ Button to Report All the AI Slop
Start clicking, people. This slop's not gonna delete itself.
gizmodo.com

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Pizza Eye Surgery Saves Hemispherical Projector
If you ever make it to DNA Pizza in San Francisco, you may feel as though you’re being watched. The Eye of the Pizza is Upon You. Or, it was, …read more
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A Detailed Guide to Idempotency, Delivery Semantics, and Deduplication
What happens when a service sends a request to charge a customer, but the request times out with no response?
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Fixing a JMicron-Based M.2 USB Enclosure That Stopped Working
As useful as USB-to-M.2 SSD adapters are, sometimes you come across a bit of a dud. A case in point is the Orico-branded TCM2-C3 that features both an attractive clear …read more
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Why DoorDash, Instacart, and Uber Eats Integrated LLMs Into Search Three Different Ways
In this article, we will walk through their differing solutions and try to make sense of their choices and understand the pattern behind them.
bytebytego.com
Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-frontier-with-gpt-5-6/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112867 Points: 540 # Comments: 352
openai.com
The AI Aesthetic
Article URL: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/ai-aesthetic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49117099 Points: 246 # Comments: 115
jim-nielsen.com
Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English
Article URL: https://github.com/AminBlg/SimpleEnglish Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49114639 Points: 264 # Comments: 95
github.com
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.
bytebytego.com
Rebuilding an Obsolete IC to Save a Betacam SP Tapedeck
Betacam is not the Betamax you may have had at home– it was a professional format that lived on into the 21st century, in the “SP” form. In many places, …read more
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