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Auth.md — an Open Protocol for Agent Registration From WorkOS
My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week to promote Auth.md, their new open protocol for AI agent registration. (Who’d have thunk that I’d be getting paid to promote new uses for Markdown 22 years after releasing it?) Sign-up forms were built for humans in browsers, so how…
workos.com
Robot hand company settles Tesla trade secret suit and announces $11M raise
The startup, Proception, is taking a unique approach to collecting training data to tackle one of the hardest problems in robotics: hands.
techcrunch.com
Omen AI’s plan to optimize data centers is all wet
Omen AI raised a $31 million Series A to monitor chip coolant and stop bacterial outbreaks in data centers.
techcrunch.com
The New York Times: ‘Om Malik, Whose Blog Shaped How Silicon Valley Saw Itself, Dies at 59’
Clay Risen, writing for The New York Times (gift link): Mr. Malik started his blog just as the dot-com bubble burst, leading to a recession that also took down many of the journalism start-ups that wrote about tech, like The Industry Standard and Inside.com. He was among the most…
New York Times
The Lab Mistake That Might Revolutionize Computing
Today, you probably asked a question of a large language model, or accepted a connection suggestion on LinkedIn, or watched a recommended video on YouTube, or took a different route to work based on a traffic prediction from Google Maps. In other words, you probably used artifici…
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Daniel Agee: ‘Remembering Om’
Daniel Agee, an early member of the team at Glass, writing on the Glass blog: It’s not lost on us that Om’s photography, often taken in frozen lands in or around the arctic circle, was the polar opposite of his personality. While he focused on subtle shapes and hidden landscapes,…
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International tech
How AI Is Rewiring The Consumer Growth Stack Across India’s B2C Economy
John Wanamaker, one of the biggest retailers of the 1900s, once said, “Half the money I spend on advertising is…
inc42.com
The generation that grew up with one shared phone in the hallway learned something their children never had to: how to be bored in front of other people without reaching for an escape
Picture a narrow hallway in a small apartment. A single phone is bolted to the wall, and a teenager twists the cord around her finger while her whole family pretends not to listen. If the call went quiet, she had nowhere to hide. She stood there, in full view of everyone, and wai…
siliconcanals.com
[Update] Turtlemint Shares End First Trading Session 11% Below Issue Price
Update | June 29, 17:00 IST Shares of insurtech startup Turtlemint failed to breach their issue price on the first…
inc42.com
China's AI Large Model API Calls Lead Globally for Nine Consecutive Weeks as US Share Plunges from 72% to 33%
Chinese AI large models have maintained the global lead in API call volume for nine straight weeks, with DeepSeek-V4-Flash, MiMo-V2.5, and MiniMax M3 topping the charts.
pandaily.com
Zhipingfang Hits $2.8B Valuation as Brain-Like AI Era Dawns, Greater Bay Area's First Embodied AI Unicorn
Embodied AI company Zhipingfang completes approximately 5 billion yuan in new funding, pushing total valuation past 20 billion yuan with its brain-inspired NeuroVLA architecture.
pandaily.com
A landmark Psychological Bulletin review found that happiness doesn’t simply follow success. Across hundreds of studies, happier people were more likely to go on to succeed in work, relationships, income, and health — suggesting we may have been taught the formula backwards.
There is a familiar workplace story that runs quietly underneath a lot of ambition: first you succeed, then you get to be happy. The promotion comes first. The money comes first. The stable relationship, the recognition, the healthier routine, the sense of arrival. Happiness is t…
siliconcanals.com

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Custom Hybrid Drivetrain Powers Boat
Offloading acceleration and braking to an electric motor in a hybrid configuration allows the less efficient combustion engine run in a more narrow set of RPM and torque ranges. In …read more
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It’s Linux, on a Sega Megadrive
If you were in the market for a games console in 1990, the chances are that the object of your desire was either a Super Nintendo with its 16-bit 6502 …read more
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HamsterOS Crams Complete Graphical Desktop onto 1.44 MB Floppy
It’s not every day that there’s a new OS in the works for 386 and 486-era hardware, but [John Swiderski] let us know he working hard to bring HamsterOS to retrocomputing …read more
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Phone Stand Aims To Fight Addiction
Sometimes, it’s hard to stop picking up your phone every few minutes to check on notifications and scroll endlessly through the slop of the day. [PushpendraC2] has been working on …read more
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The Teenage Angst of 3D Printing: Solidoodle, Printrbot, and Bridges
Bridges are a part of our constructed landscape that we take for granted. And bridges by themselves aren’t especially important. What is important is that bridges let you get from …read more
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EP220: RAG vs Graph RAG vs Agentic RAG
RAG connects LLMs to your data and there are three different ways to do it.
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