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Librarians are hosting viral ‘Avoiding AI’ workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
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We Got a First Look at ‘Common Side Effects’ Season 2
The Adult Swim series returns in early 2027 for more high-stakes animated intrigue involving medical miracles and magic mushrooms.
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VentureBeat Research: Where enterprise AI agent governance hasn't caught up
Enterprises deployed AI agents ahead of the controls needed to manage them — and they did it knowingly. That is the central finding across the five parallel surveys VentureBeat Research fielded in June, spanning every layer of the agentic stack. Now those enterprises are retrofit…
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SpaceX launches new V3 Starlink satellites but suffers another booster failure
The company ticked off a few more boxes on the second Starship V3 flight, but appears to have had another issue relighting the booster's rocket engines.
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One fallen power line exposed a growing AI data center problem. Here’s how to fix it.
A close call in Northern Virginia revealed just how poorly data centers respond to grid disruptions. Here's how to fix the problem.
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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Physical AI Startup Atoms Leads In Varied Week For Large Deals
Startup investors poured capital into a varied lineup of large rounds this week, targeting sectors including physical AI, biotech, cybersecurity, AI infrastructure and fintech.
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International tech
The company behind Singha beer removed one of its heirs from every executive role days after an abuse allegation went public — a reckoning Asian family dynasties usually avoid
When Boonrawd Brewery cut ties with Sunit Scott, it did in public what family conglomerates in the region almost always handle in private. The speed and visibility of that decision is its own story.
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Swiggy Plummets, BlueStone Soars Amid Bearish Week For New-Age Tech Stocks
It was a bearish week for India’s new-age tech stocks as renewed geopolitical tensions and a broad-based market selloff weighed…
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3 Days, 3 Rockets, 15 Satellites: Computing Satellites Enter Orbit as China Commercial Space Enters Scaled Commercial Cycle
Orienspace Gravity-1, CZ-3B, and CAS Space Lijian-1 launch three missions in three days carrying 15 satellites including AI computing payloads and space debris monitoring.
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From Zetwerk To Veriqus — Indian Startups Raised $209 Mn This Week
Indian startup funding slowed in the fourth week of July. Between July 18 and July 24, Indian startups cumulatively raised…
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FY26 Financial Tracker: Tracking The Financial Performance Of Indian Startups
The Indian startup ecosystem continued to mature in FY26, with 22 new-age tech companies making their public market debut as…
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Can Parliamentary Panel’s Latest Recommendations Break Crypto Policy Deadlock?
For years, India’s approach towards cryptocurrencies has largely revolved around taxation, anti-money laundering (AML) compliance and transaction reporting, while a…
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Court Grants SerpApi’s Motion to Dismiss Google Lawsuit
Julien Khaleghy, CEO of SerpApi: The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted our motion to dismiss Google’s lawsuit, marking a win not just for SerpApi, but for all who depend on an open internet. We’re pleased that the court rejected Google’s attempts…
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A Feature That Makes Your Phone Data Self-Destruct in Authorities’ Hands May Soon Have Its Day in Court
The defendant, an Atlanta area activist, denies having done it. But is it even illegal?
gizmodo.com
Kalshi demands Netflix take down trailer for ‘Prediction Games’ documentary
Kalshi claims the trailer is “defamatory” and contains “both fabricated documents and false and misleading statements.”
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ICCU Monitor Logs Data in E-GMP EV Failures
EVs are less mechanically complicated than their combustion kin, but that doesn’t mean they’re immune to component failure. The Integrated Charge Control Unit (ICCU) has been the main failure point …read more
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Add Sensors to Everything!
“You can’t control what you can’t measure” goes the old chestnut. But that’s a little bit negative, in my opinion. Instead, think of the benefits of sprinkling sensors around everywhere: …read more
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Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach
Article URL: https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/features/professor-hannah-fry-wins-leelavati-prize Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49043724 Points: 534 # Comments: 88
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3D Printed Go Kart Designed to Fit in a Suitcase
[Ivan Miranda] is famous for his large-scale 3D printed vehicles. They’re pretty fun, but they’re also pretty big and heavy—which can make transporting them around rather impractical. Hence, when he …read more
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Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB
Article URL: https://kitsumed.github.io/blog/posts/android-may-soon-restrict-on-device-adb/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49045159 Points: 737 # Comments: 336
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Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040741 Points: 363 # Comments: 212
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Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales
Article URL: https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-listen-notify-scalability Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040296 Points: 357 # Comments: 75
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A Beginner’s Guide to Clocks, Causality, and Ordering in Distributed Systems
Why does something as simple as reading the time become a hard problem for distributed systems?
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3D On The Playdate Handheld
The Playdate is a small handheld console with a dedicated fanbase. Among them is [Cristina Ramos], who recently decided to try and push the limits of the hardware by implementing …read more
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