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Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M
The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.
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The Talk Show: ‘A Scam Held Together With Patriotism and Golden Paint’
Quinn Nelson returns to the show to discuss OpenAI’s ChatGPT/Codex “native” app migration fiasco, Siri AI in Apple’s OS 27 betas, MacOS 27 Golden Gate, and the hottest new cell phone of the year, the Trump T1. Sponsored by: Notion: Try the powerful, all-in-one Notion AI today. F…
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Vietnam is looking to restrict social media for kids; here are the growing number of other countries doing the same
Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social media, including cyberbullying, social media addiction, and exposure to predators.
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Sixers Sign LeBron James
The betting odds for the Sixers to win the NBA championship went from 20-1 to 10-1. Here’s James on Twitter/X, explaining his decision: This is my last decision. I’m not going for money. I’m not going for family. What am I really playing for at this point? I still want to sacrifi…
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The quest to keep organs alive outside the body
This week, I covered a fascinating effort to preserve organs outside the body. There’s a huge shortage of donor organs, and one of the main reasons is time—they survive only a matter of hours outside the body, even when they’re kept on ice. Doctors dream of organ banks—stores of …
MIT Technology Review
The Biggest AI Talent Challenge Is Resilience, Not Speed
Engineering leaders should build highly adaptable, vendor-agnostic infrastructure instead of relying on expensive, unpredictable proprietary hyperscalers, advises guest columnist Sumeet Vaidya, who says the foundational flexibility allows enterprises to safely pair AI agents with…
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International tech
Tencent fires WeChat manager after 7-figure bonus leaks online, sparks uproar
Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings has fired a manager at its WeChat division after details of his multimillion-yuan bonus package leaked online, sparking animated discussion across social media. The employee, surnamed Ye, was dismissed for passing sensitive corporate informatio…
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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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Huawei’s Ren Zhengfei backs Tau Scaling Law to beat US sanctions
Huawei Technologies founder Ren Zhengfei has thrown his weight behind the Chinese tech giant’s Tau Scaling Law, framing the new chip-design principle as an existential necessity to survive tightening US sanctions. “The Tau Scaling Law is the only path forward for Huawei to break …
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UPI In June: Navi, super.money Gain Ground As PhonePe, Google Pay Slip Slightly
The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) race got more intense in the month of June as market share shifts indicate growing…
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Air Ambulance eVTOL Flies Into Shanghai: TCab Tech M1 Medical Evacuation Variant Debuts as Airworthiness Window Approaches and Low-Alt Economy Faces Commercial Reality Check
TCab Tech M1 air ambulance eVTOL debuts at Shanghai Low-Alt Economy Expo, reducing ground medical transport from 90 minutes to 15 minutes; Volant signs Indonesia deal; Shanghai airworthiness platform launches.
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Chinese Research Team Builds Molecular Bridge in Tandem Solar Cells: Indium-Free Composite Layer Breaks Efficiency and Stability Barriers for Next-Generation Photovoltaics
Soochow University and Hong Kong Poly research team develops indium-free composite layer using molecular bridge between perovskite and silicon to enhance tandem solar cell efficiency and long-term stability.
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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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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.
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Fast Volumetric Imaging of Seizures with Adaptive Optics Light Sheet Microscopy
Key to understanding something like epilepsy is to be able to record highly transient events in biological tissues. Generally this is done using light sheet microscopy, which provides effectively a …read more
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E-ink Writing Deck Rocks a Typewriter Aesthetic
[Myth Made] has a goal to get into writing. However, she likes to do things the aesthetic way, rather than the easy way. Thus, she has eschewed simple word processing on …read more
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Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey
Article URL: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/government-orders-github-to-remove-bluetooth-based-chat-app-bitchat-over-security-concerns-jack-dorsey/article71262049.ece Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49036433 Points: 438 # Comments: 322
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Claude Opus 5
https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-system-card Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49038433 Points: 1445 # Comments: 792
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Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/24/openai-rogue-hacker Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49038060 Points: 472 # Comments: 276
The Guardian
Hands-Free Mouse Uses Eyes And Muscles Instead
The standard computer mouse is a perfectly useful peripheral if your hands work. If you’ve got some trouble in that area, you might appreciate an alternative input solution. To that end, [Varun …read more
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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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