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A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack
It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a team of researchers argue in a paper presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning, a top AI conference, this month. The claim has huge impl…
MIT Technology Review
IEEE Publishing Ethics Team Upholds Research Integrity
Given a rising number of publishing misconduct allegations, IEEE in 2022 created the Publishing Ethics Team as a centralized department to assist in handling claims. The group also works to increase the organization’s visibility in the broader publishing ethics area and helps IEE…
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The Download: tricking LLMs, and reviving geothermal plants
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack  It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks beca…
MIT Technology Review
Florida plans to build air taxi pads using $200M intended for EV chargers
Florida wants to use federal EV charger funds to build an air taxi network connecting golf courses, luxury apartment buildings, and airports.
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Apple Releases iOS and MacOS 26.6, MacOS 15.7.8, and More
Samuel Axon, Ars Technica: Apple has released iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS 26.6. Apart from potential security hotfixes, these are likely the last updates before the arrival of iOS 27, macOS 27, and so on. All of today’s releases include minor bug fixes, and there are nu…
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Google says it fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
As experts have warned for the last two years, some companies — like Microsoft and now Google — are finding and patching an exponential number of bugs in their products, thanks to the use of LLMs and AI tools.
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International tech
Chinese Tech Companies Used to Benchmark Against America, but the World Model Field Has Broken That Pattern: WAIC Panel Says China Now Leads Without a US Counterpart to Follow
At WAIC 2026, Muka Robotics, Shengshu Technology, EvoPhys.ai, and Chengwei Capital discuss how Chinas world model startups now operate without US analogs, turning the conventional catch-up narrative.
pandaily.com
Now, Zee Moves Delhi HC Against Blinkit Over Alleged Copyright Violation
Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) has moved the Delhi High Court against quick commerce major Blinkit, alleging content uploaded on…
inc42.com
Zhongji Innolight raises $6.8 billion in Hong Kong IPO amid strong retail demand
Zhongji Innolight has priced its Hong Kong H-share offering at HK$980 per share and raised HK$53.41 billion, or about $6.81 billion. Trading is scheduled to begin on July 30, making the deal one of Hong Kong’s largest listings in years. Demand was already visible before the debut…
technode.com
The most quoted line in self-help is attributed to Viktor Frankl — “between stimulus and response there is a space, and in that space is our power to choose our response” — and almost everyone misreads what it is actually asking of them
Viktor Frankl's most quoted sentence is usually read as a motivational line. Read carefully, it is something harder: a field report from the concentration camps about the one freedom no circumstance can remove.
siliconcanals.com
China reportedly moves to bar blue ADAS lights on newly certified vehicle models
China is reportedly moving to bar newly certified passenger-car models from using blue exterior lights that signal when an assisted-driving system is active. Starting with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s 410th batch of vehicle product applications, testing a…
technode.com
The men who become gentler after sixty aren’t the ones who mellowed, they’re the ones who quietly gave up three things, the need to be the most competent person in the room, the scorekeeping, and the belief that softness would cost them respect
What transforms a man's capacity for gentleness isn't softening—it's abandoning the exhausting performance of dominance.
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Fixing a JMicron-Based M.2 USB Enclosure That Stopped Working
As useful as USB-to-M.2 SSD adapters are, sometimes you come across a bit of a dud. A case in point is the Orico-branded TCM2-C3 that features both an attractive clear …read more
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We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447
Article URL: https://www.bottlenecklabs.com/blog/autonomously-run-businesses Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113059 Points: 241 # Comments: 141
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A Capable KVM Built With The ESP32
[Evgenij Spitsyn] spotted a KVM build on these very pages some time ago. That inspired their own build, leveraging the versatility of the ESP32-P4 microcontroller. The concept is straightforward. Named …read more
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Why DoorDash, Instacart, and Uber Eats Integrated LLMs Into Search Three Different Ways
In this article, we will walk through their differing solutions and try to make sense of their choices and understand the pattern behind them.
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Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub
Article URL: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-stacked-pull-requests-are-now-in-public-preview/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112232 Points: 323 # Comments: 107
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RC Telemetry Board Lets Virtual Crewmember Help You Race Better
Logging and telemetry in remote controlled racing is a great thing, and not only does [jwachlin]’s Open RC Spotter do a fantastic job of that, it has quite a few …read more
hackaday.com
Wrangling Datacenter GPUs Into a Desktop
As we’ve seen many times before, there’s usually some way wrangle a bit more life out of what would otherwise be considered old and obsolete technology. Perhaps one thing that …read more
hackaday.com
Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-frontier-with-gpt-5-6/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112867 Points: 417 # Comments: 273
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How ChatGPT Optimizes its Agent Loop: Harness, API, and Inference
To understand what techniques are adopted in frontier labs to make AI applications more efficient, we met with the OpenAI engineers who developed and shipped various efficiency techniques into the systems behind Codex and ChatGPT Work.
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