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X relaunches a rebuilt Android app after year-long effort
X says the rebuilt version of its Android app is now available globally.
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We’re Squandering LEDs’ Potential to Save Our Night Skies
In the chill of a London spring night, under overcast skies, iconic Trafalgar Square opens around me. Admiral Nelson rises on his pedestal, the National Gallery rests behind, the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields sits nearby. From the 13th century, the site served as the Royal Me…
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AI’s most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use
Under the new system, the protocol will take a looser, "stateless" approach to session IDs on the server side, similar to how most ordinary websites already work.
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Mexico Extends Its Venture Lead Over Brazil As More Global VCs Enter Latin America
Mexico’s startups led the LatAm pack in Q2 — by a wide margin. The country’s startups raised $944 million in the second quarter, up 131% compared to $409 million in last year’s Q2, and up 136% from the $401 million raised in this year’s first quarter, per Crunchbase data. For com…
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Safety guardrails blocked Hugging Face's defenders, not the attacker, when an AI agent breached its systems
Hugging Face’s incident response team first turned to frontier AI models to analyze a breach of the company’s production infrastructure, and the models refused to help. Commercial safety guardrails built to stop attackers blocked every forensic query because they treated the IR t…
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Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient
Alphabet, Google's parent company, is reportedly working on a new chip designed to make its Gemini models run much more efficiently.
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International tech
China’s daily AI token calls reach 140 trillion, up more than 1,000-fold since early 2024
China’s daily AI token calls reached 140 trillion by March 2026, up more than 1,000-fold from roughly 100 billion in early 2024, according to figures cited by China Academy of Information and Communications Technology deputy head Wei Liang in a CCTV Finance program preview publis…
technode.com
China develops more than 400 humanoid robot products, accounting for over half of the global total
China has developed more than 400 humanoid robot products, accounting for more than half of the global total, according to data released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on July 20. The ministry also said Chinese quadruped robots accounted for close to 70% o…
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Yimu Tech raises over RMB1 billion for robot tactile sensing and production
Yimu Tech, a Chinese developer of tactile sensing hardware and software for embodied-intelligence systems, has completed a Series E financing round of more than RMB1 billion, bringing its valuation above RMB10 billion. The financing was jointly backed by multiple leading RMB fund…
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The Atacama Desert in northern Chile has weather stations that have recorded no rainfall for centuries, and yet a fog rolls in from the Pacific most mornings carrying just enough moisture to keep entire colonies of lichen alive on rocks that never see rain
In the driest desert on Earth, weather stations have recorded no rainfall for centuries — yet a Pacific fog called camanchaca sustains lichen colonies that drink from mist alone.
siliconcanals.com
Kimi K3 Investment Research Capability Benchmarked: Moonshot AI Top Model Now Powers AlphaEngine With First-Tier IRB Scores
AlphaEngine tests Kimi K3 on proprietary IRB investment research benchmark: K3 beats GPT-5.5 and OPUS-4.8 in temporal judgment, evidence boundary control, and premise correction, already deployed on platform.
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Wealthtech Startup Veriqus Raises ₹387 Cr To Build AI-Led Investment Platform
Wealthtech startup Veriqus Group has raised ₹387 Cr (about $40.1 Mn) in a funding round led by global VC firm…
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Firefox 153 available with support for Vulkan video decoding, JPEG-XL
Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-153-Downloads Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978835 Points: 226 # Comments: 52
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A Feature-Rich Drum Machine
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Echolocation for Drones
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