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John Dvorak Drops Dead at 80
William Gallagher, AppleInsider: Legendary technology columnist, pundit, author and podcast host John C. Dvorak has died, age 80. He is survived by his wife Mimi Dvorak. Today Dvorak is best known for co-hosting the “No Agenda” podcast with Adam Curry, where he would critique mai…
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The AI context gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a trust problem, not a retrieval problem — and most are still building the fix
Across 101 enterprises, the infrastructure that feeds AI agents their business context is being built faster than it can be trusted. Retrieval-augmented generation is already the default context source, and provider-native retrieval has quietly overtaken the dedicated vector data…
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Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 capable of generating images and 20-second video with audio — but in limited release to start
Black Forest Labs (BFL) is expanding its FLUX family beyond image generation with today's launch of FLUX 3, a multimodal frontier model trained to understand and generate images, or combined audio/video clips up to 20 seconds from a single prompt — and to extend the same underlyi…
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★ The Ads on Apple News Continue to Suck, but at Least There Are a Lot of Them
Kirk McElhearn, back in February: I use Apple News to keep up on topics that I don’t find in sources I pay for (The Guardian and The New York Times). But there’s no way I’m going to pay the exorbitant price Apple wants for Apple News+ — £13 — because, while you get more publicati…
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Inevitably, Ads Have Come to Xbox Game Streaming
You can now suffer through a Mountain Dew commercial for a quick hour of cloud-based gaming.
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International tech
Beijing Releases Groundbreaking Agent AI Policy: 10 Measures That Signal a New Economic Framework for AI Agent Infrastructure and Token Economy
Beijing unveils comprehensive 10-measure Agent AI policy covering foundation model task completion, Harness Engineering, skill markets, AI OS, and Token economy infrastructure.
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Alibaba unit says 5-in-1 AI gives robots unified brain, body and limbs
Alibaba Group Holding’s mapping unit has unveiled an upgrade to what it calls the world’s first technology framework that unites a robot’s “feet, hands, brains, central nerves and motor nerves” into a single system. Amap’s ABot system marks the latest move in Chinese tech players…
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Security and AI Communities in Uproar as GPT Autonomously Hacks Hugging Face, Hugging Face Finally Rescued by Chinese Open-Source Model Zhipu GLM 5.2
OpenAI autonomous AI agent breached Hugging Face infrastructure during security testing, executing 17,000 operations; Hugging Face deployed Zhipu GLM 5.2 locally to complete incident forensics when commercial models refused.
pandaily.com
Commerce Ministry Exempts Exports From FDI Restrictions
After years of industry lobbying, the commerce ministry has now relaxed foreign direct investment (FDI) rules to enable online marketplaces…
inc42.com
After ZeroPe, Ashneer Grover Launches Employee-Focused Lending Platform Fund My Staff
BharatPe cofounder Ashneer Grover has launched a new fintech venture, ‘Fund My Staff’, a platform that enables employers to act…
inc42.com
The Chinese Dark Horse Filling ChatGPT Blind Spot: Tec-Do Navos 2.0 Agentic Workflow and Tec-Chi Model Master AI-Powered Global Marketing at Scale
Tec-Do Technology partners with OpenAI, launches Navos 2.0 multi-agent marketing workflow and 300B-parameter Tec-Chi model ranking first in SuperCLUE-Mkt for global ad optimization.
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Hackaday Europe 2026: Half Quad, Half Blimp: Test. Fly. Survive.
A great many drones out there, whether homebuilt or store-bought, follow the same basic format. Four motors, some kind of controller, and a lithium-polymer battery supplying the juice to keep …read more
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Inside Roblox’s Bet on World Models
We sat down with Anupam Singh, senior vice president of engineering at Roblox, to hear from him about the world model that Roblox is using to make its multiplayer games look photorealistic, the key insights that have come from taking that approach, and the next big thing that the…
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Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++
Article URL: https://haqr.eu/tinyrenderer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022038 Points: 209 # Comments: 38
haqr.eu
Encryption in the 1790s
For as long as humans have had writing, there’s been a need to send secret messages. It is easy to think that Enigma machines and their immediate predecessors are old …read more
hackaday.com
Mic Jammer Relies on Ultrasound
Today’s phone microphones are perfectly adept at picking up sound in all sorts of conditions, and they’re backed by all kinds of processing techniques to filter out noise and capture …read more
hackaday.com
Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/alphabets-cash-burn-raises-alarm-big-tech-ai-spending-climbs-2026-07-23/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49021006 Points: 250 # Comments: 259
reuters.com
Best Practices for Building AI Agents That Work in Production
In this article, we try to explore the collective thinking into a smaller set of practices and explain the reasoning behind each one, rather than asking anyone to memorize a numbered list.
bytebytego.com
A Train Departure Board For The Home
Trains are a great way to get around. You just have to make sure you’re across the schedule if you intend to get where you’re going in a timely manner. …read more
hackaday.com
Writing by hand is good for your brain
Article URL: https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/writing-by-hand-is-good-for-your Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022152 Points: 809 # Comments: 408
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