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The world is on track to miss its health targets
Every year the World Health Organization publishes a global health statistics report. It features the numbers behind world health trends and, importantly, assesses whether we’re on track to reach ambitious goals set in 2015. It’s a bit like a health grade. The 2026 report was pub…
MIT Technology Review
Bryan Johnson’s New List of Adorably Obvious Longevity Tips Shows He’s Come a Long Way
The 48-year-old longevity influencer, notorious for spending millions on biohacking trends and weighing his poops, is offering much simpler health tips today.
gizmodo.com
Runway started by helping filmmakers. Now it wants to beat Google at AI.
AI video generation startup Runway is betting that video generation is the path to world models. And that being an AI outsider is an advantage, not a liability.
techcrunch.com
Agent authorization is broken — and authentication passing makes it worse
Anthony Grieco, Cisco’s SVP and chief security and trust officer, did not hesitate when VentureBeat asked whether rogue agent incidents are reaching Cisco’s customer base. "A hundred percent. We see them regularly," Grieco told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview at RSAC 2026. …
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How Chinese short dramas became AI content machines
In a dimly lit bedroom, a frightened young woman is thrown onto a bed by a tall, muscular man. He grabs her hand, and flame-like vines crawl across her body, fusing with her flesh. She levitates, then drops. A dragon-shaped tattoo appears across her chest. “Two months,” the man s…
MIT Technology Review
5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: A Law Firm Operating System, Building Defense Tech Near The Battlefield, And Cell-Based Milk
Most of the interesting companies that caught our eye in the past month were working on problems in the physical world, often far from the glow of a laptop screen. They include a supplier of cell-based milk, a startup that bills itself as the operating system for modern law firms…
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International tech
BYD in talks with automakers over European factory takeovers
BYD, which has expanded its new energy vehicle exports over the past two years, is considering acquiring factories in Europe from other automakers and has been in talks with several companies, according to sources. An executive in charge of overseas market expansion at BYD reveal…
technode.com
Ola Electric To Infuse ₹2,000 Cr In EV, Cell Manufacturing Units
Days ahead of its Q4 financial disclosures, EV major Ola Electric’s board has cleared a cumulative investment of ₹2,000 Cr…
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Oppo and Vivo gear up for year-end gimbal camera launches to take on DJI’s Pocket series
Oppo and Vivo are also reportedly developing their own Pocket-style handheld gimbal cameras, with launches expected before the end of this year, according to China Star Market. The report said both companies aim to leverage their strengths in imaging algorithms, AI features, and …
technode.com
The freedom of not chasing
There was a Tuesday in Dublin, sometime in my early twenties, when I watched a senior colleague walk back from a meeting and thought, very clearly, that I did not want his Tuesday. Nothing was wrong with him. He was good at the work, well-paid, well-regarded. He had the suit, the…
siliconcanals.com
India’s VCs are beating Silicon Valley at home
A decade after U.S. venture capital firms fueled India’s startup boom, local investors are now dominating deals.
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IPO-bound Anthropic reportedly agrees on terms for $30Bn funding at massive $900Bn valuation
Anthropic has reportedly agreed terms for a massive $30 billion funding round… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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preFlight Slicer Brings Added Part Strength Feature, and Many More
Interested in taking some wild new 3D printing features for a test drive? preFlight is free and open source slicer that brings a host of processing improvements as well as …read more
hackaday.com
High Performance Rate Limiting at Databricks
In this article, we look at how Databricks implemented rate limiting at scale, how they shrank the critical path, and the accuracy tradeoff that shrinking usually requires.
bytebytego.com
Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying
Article URL: https://tmctmt.com/posts/mullvad-exit-ips-as-a-fingerprinting-vector/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143880 Points: 479 # Comments: 291
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Controlling a Vibrobot with Only One Motor
The vibrobot – a vibrating motor and battery attached to the head of a brush – isn’t truly a robot, since its movement can’t be controlled, but it’s whetted the …read more
hackaday.com
A Guide To Event-Driven Architectural Patterns
Distributed systems are built out of services that need to communicate, and the simplest way to do that is for one service to call another directly and wait for a response.
bytebytego.com
How Figma Upgraded Data Pipeline from Multi-Day Latency to Real-Time
In this article, we will learn what happened as Figma grew and how its engineering team handled the growth in terms of the data pipeline issues.
bytebytego.com
Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop
Article URL: https://explorer.samismith.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146129 Points: 290 # Comments: 69
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Show HN: Find the best local LLM for your hardware, ranked by benchmarks
Article URL: https://github.com/Andyyyy64/whichllm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146369 Points: 247 # Comments: 42
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Mix Your Own ECN-2 Development Chemicals
After the digital camera rose to prominence, it became a cool hobby to keep taking photos on film. It was even cooler if you did the same with an old …read more
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