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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…
writethatsubstack.com
The Download: a censorship conspiracy theory and the first virus created by AI
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. How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy For years, narratives about a “censorship-industrial compl…
MIT Technology Review
‘Lynx’ Is a Sapphic Neo-Noir Thriller About a Damaged Detective and Her Snarky Cat Battling Angels [Exclusive]
Viz Media's upcoming original series throws readers into a post-climate-collapsed city where a bio-enchanced detective contends with the cosmic horror of biblically accurate angels and the ghost of her ex.
gizmodo.com
Stanford is running 37,000 AI agents as a virtual biotech — and one of its drug designs got independently confirmed by Merck
For developers, the operating assumption has been one engineer, one agent — the model Claude Code and similar tools. At VB Transform 2026, James Zou, associate professor of biomedical data science at Stanford University, argued that assumption is about to break: the next frontier…
venturebeat.com
Tencent's Team Memory shares AI agent memory across a team — with no governance yet for when it's wrong
A VB Pulse survey this June found that 57% of enterprises had traced a confidently wrong agent answer back to missing or inconsistent context — the latest sign of how central context has become to whether AI agents can be trusted to act on their own. Most of the fixes so far have…
venturebeat.com
Navigating the Pivot From Tech Expert to Organizational Leader
The transition from a purely technical expert or individual contributor position to a broader leadership role is one of the most challenging phases in a STEM career. It requires moving away from relying solely on technical excellence toward mastering systems thinking, adaptive le…
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Centre Seeks Technical Changes From Meta To Tackle Deepfakes, Child Abuse Material
The Centre’s discussions with Meta have moved into a technical phase after two days of intensive questioning over deepfakes, child…
inc42.com
China Pushes AI Compute Into Orbit, and the Satellites Start Doing Their Own Thinking
In late July, a satellite called Chenguang-1 carried an eight-card server into orbit from the Dongfeng commercial space innovation test zone, marking a new step in China's space-based compute push. Industry experts say the country now sits in the global first tier for orbital com…
pandaily.com
There is no pill that fixes brain fog: it is a symptom, not a diagnosis, often traceable to poor sleep or a treatable medical cause, and the best-known memory supplement, ginkgo, failed to prevent decline in the largest trial ever run
Billions spent yearly on supplements and apps claim to clear the fog, but the evidence suggests a more mundane reality: sleep better, see a doctor, and skip the ginkgo.
siliconcanals.com
The self-improvement industry sells becoming your best self through grit and mindset, but the large meta-analyses are deflating: grit turns out to be mostly conscientiousness renamed, and growth-mindset programmes move academic results only slightly
Decades of research deflate two pillars of the self-help empire: grit and growth mindset deliver far less transformation than their billion-dollar marketing suggests.
siliconcanals.com
Knya FY26: Revenue Crosses ₹100 Cr Mark, PAT Jumps 3X YoY
Omnichannel medical apparel brand Knya saw its profit after tax (PAT) more than triple to ₹10 Cr in the fiscal…
inc42.com
Cambricon posts 108% surge in first-half revenue amid China’s massive AI chip drive
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) chip giant Cambricon Technologies reported a 108 per cent surge in first-half revenue on Friday, as the firm capitalises on a massive domestic push to replace foreign AI hardware. The chipmaker’s revenue for the first six months of the year re…
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This Filesystem is Born to Fail
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The BBC Tetris Companion
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How Big Models Teach Small Models to Be Smart
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The Read Path versus the Write Path: Strategies and Techniques
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The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
Article URL: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixpkgs-core-team-has-disbanded/79413 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49217993 Points: 267 # Comments: 124
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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: 202 # Comments: 35
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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.
artoftpm on Substack
Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale
Article URL: https://www.databricks.com/blog/managing-ai-coding-costs-scale Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214468 Points: 219 # Comments: 195
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U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative
Article URL: https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216946 Points: 207 # Comments: 68
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