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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
Montana’s new “right to try” law can’t come soon enough for some
Kris DeVault is desperate. His son, Brody, was born in March 2023. It wasn’t long before he started to show signs of developmental delay, says DeVault. As time went on, Brody started missing key milestones in speech, movement, and coordination, he says. When Brody was around two …
MIT Technology Review
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
Graphics Cards Could Get Even More Expensive, and It’s Not Just Nvidia
At this point, PC gaming is becoming a pure luxury.
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…
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The Films and Shows You Should Be Streaming in August 2026
We've picked out the best horror, sci-fi, and genre titles coming to Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and beyond.
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International tech
CRED After Kunal Shah: Can The ‘Walled Garden’ Business Model Pay For Itself?
For the first five years of CRED’s existence, the question on everyone’s minds was: how will CRED even make money.…
inc42.com
DeepSeek puts V4-Flash API into public beta
DeepSeek has put the formal version of its V4-Flash API into public beta, with an upgrade focused on agent tasks. The company says the model scored 82.7 on Terminal Bench 2.1 and 54.4 on DeepSWE, among other benchmarks. The release adds support for the Responses API and is adapte…
technode.com
ChinaJoy 2026: where cars, characters and games collide
ChinaJoy 2026 opened today at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. On the first day of the event, TechNode completed its first-round tour of the exhibition halls, exploring multiple areas covering automotive technology, gaming entertainment, and IP collaborations. This yea…
technode.com
Kimi K3 Revealed Many Secrets, but Its Most Important Infra Is Hard to Copy: Moonshot AI Infrastructure Engineering as the Real Moat in Open-Source Model Economics
Kimi K3 technical report discloses MoonEP, KDA, and AttnRes infrastructure details, but the engineering experience behind MFU, expert parallelism, and shared experts remains the true differentiator.
pandaily.com
A federal judge is about to decide whether Washington can punish AI vendors for saying no
A federal judge signaled deep skepticism this week that the Trump administration has produced enough evidence to justify designating Anthropic a supply-chain risk and barring the federal government from using its AI technology.
siliconcanals.com
Psychology says the weird little habits that people have quietly judged you for your entire life may actually turn out to be the clearest signs of a highly intelligent mind
You know the ones. The muttering under your breath while you work. The chronic doodling in the margin of every notebook you have ever owned. The tendency to overthink a two-line email for the better part of an afternoon. The occasional swear word that arrives, fully formed, in th…
siliconcanals.com
Samsung expects memory shortage to worsen through 2027 and last until 2028
AI data center demand is fueling a multi-year chip shortage, pushing up component costs and retail device prices.
techcrunch.com
GM and Ford are talking less and less about EVs
The leading U.S. automakers are mentioning EVs on their investor calls at pre-pandemic rates, according to new data from TechCrunch and Hudson Labs.
techcrunch.com
Not just OpenAI: Now Anthropic says its internal models got online and cyberattacked 3 other organizations
Days after OpenAI disclosed that two frontier AI models escaped containment measures and autonomously cyberattacked the AI code sharing platform Hugging Face, OpenAI's top U.S. rival Anthropic tonight revealed that — lo and behold — it has also had models surreptitiously access t…
venturebeat.com

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Hiring: Part Time Instructor, Write Production Grade Code with AI
We’re hiring a part-time instructor for “𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐈”.
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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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Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
Article URL: https://blog.google/security/chrome-stronger-with-every-update/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120097 Points: 358 # Comments: 317
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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
Using the Chimney Effect to Drop Passively Cooled PC Temperatures
The stack effect — also known as the chimney effect — is the basic principle that hot air not only rises, but if guided through a tube, the rising hot …read more
hackaday.com
JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) merged to OpenJDK master
Article URL: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/31120 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119063 Points: 206 # Comments: 131
github.com
DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update
Article URL: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/updates/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119559 Points: 498 # Comments: 246
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This Week in Security: What’s in a name, the AI Bugpocalypse Hits Everyone, OpenWRT flaws, and Duress Passwords
The great thing about standards is there’s so many to pick from, right?. (Insert obligatory XKCD #927 here.) Several companies have developed naming schemes to refer to groups of attacks, …read more
hackaday.com
Hacking a Commercial Colorimeter to add RAL Color Code Support
When you need to match paint colors, one of the tools you’ll reach for is a deck of reference colors. Another might be a colorimeter. But what if you want …read more
hackaday.com