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Simon Willison on Blogging
Simon Willison, with Cynthia Dunlop for her tech blogger interview series (from back in January, but he just got around to linking to it so I just got around to seeing it): Any lessons learned that you want to share with the community? My number one tip for blogging is to lower y…
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OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns
OpenAI said this model, which is still in development, reached its "critical cybersecurity threshold," meaning it could independently identify and carry out cyberattacks against traditionally well-protected real-world systems.
techcrunch.com
X replaces ‘misaligned’ revenue sharing program with Original Content Rewards
X is winding down its existing Revenue Sharing program.
techcrunch.com
Before ‘Lanterns,’ Check Out the ‘Green Lantern’ Cartoon
Green Lantern has had a short solo life on TV, and it wouldn't hurt to see what his animated show was all about.
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The X-Men Casting Rumors Just Keep on Coming
All eyes are on the next 'X-Men' movie and what actors Marvel will enlist to help fill out its cast.
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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: A Big Week For Big Checks
Startups raised funding rounds with a lot of zeroes at the end this week, with three companies securing financings of $1 billion or more. Additionally, a robust lineup of companies in sectors including AI, e-commerce, cybersecurity, biotech and even mining also announced sizable …
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International tech
[Update] Now, Finance Ministry Rules Out Consumer UPI Charges Amid MDR Debate
Update | August 8, 21:16 ISST Addressing concerns over merchant discount rates (MDR) on UPI, the finance ministry categorically clarified…
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Some only children report greater happiness than children with siblings, but decades of research do not blame sharing too early — parental attention and relationship quality matter more than sibling count
Only children are not consistently happier than children with siblings, and research does not show that sharing early causes harm. Attention and relationship quality matter more.
siliconcanals.com
Alibaba Ships Qwen App Update and Puts Wan 3.0 Into Public Test, With One Eye on Enterprise Buyers
Alibaba released five new features on the Qwen App on August 7, all powered by the new Qwen3.8-MAX flagship model and all free for now. The next day, Alibaba Cloud opened Wan 3.0 to public testing, with the first document-input video model in the family and a price list aimed str…
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Ather Jumps 17% To Lead Weekly Rally In New-Age Tech Stocks, MapmyIndia Biggest Loser
With the Q1 earnings season in full swing, investors actively traded new-age tech stocks based on the latest financial disclosures,…
inc42.com
L3 Is Just the Starting Line for China's AI-Agent Phones
Eleven mobile devices cleared the first batch of China's national AI-terminal intelligence grading tests in July, including nine smartphones from Huawei, Motorola, Honor, vivo, OPPO, Xiaomi and Stepfun. Vendors are calling L3 the highest level, but the real bottleneck for L4 is n…
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Psychology says the person who appears totally fine after a devastating loss and the person who falls apart are not as different as you’d think, and the truly resilient one is rarely who you’d guess.
Our culture has it backwards: the person who breaks down at a funeral and the one who stays composed may both be processing loss in equally valid ways, and the stoic response isn't necessarily denial.
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The Read Path versus the Write Path: Strategies and Techniques
In this article, we will look at read path and write path operations and techniques in detail.
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DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones
Article URL: https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220126 Points: 310 # Comments: 98
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The BBC Tetris Companion
[Leaded Solder] took on an interesting challenge. The BBC, apparently, produced a game console known as the BBC Bridge Companion that connected to your TV and helped you learn to …read more
hackaday.com
Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220609 Points: 229 # Comments: 237
simonwillison.net
Want Energy Efficiency? Dude, You’re Getting a Dell!
With a title like “Intel Just Matched Apple Silicon. Seriously.“, the latest video from [Jeff Geerling] makes some pretty bold claims. But as we’d expect from [Jeff], he’s got the …read more
hackaday.com
NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year
Article URL: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/voyager/nasa-figured-out-how-to-keep-its-48-year-old-voyager-2-probe-running-for-yet-another-year Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218179 Points: 337 # Comments: 76
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A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS
Article URL: https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221668 Points: 239 # Comments: 109
specification.website
Junkbin, a Way to Efficiently Reuse Your Old Electronics
We all have that bin in the corner of our shops — the one with all the circuit boards or broken electronics that we are totally gonna do something with. …read more
hackaday.com
Road to Staff+ TPM: The Mindset
2026.05 — Part of the Road to Staff+ TPM series, examining the gap between succeeding as a mid-level TPM and thriving as a Staff+ TPM.
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