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Ryanair Literally Sucks
The AP: Fellow passengers pulled back a man who was partially sucked out of a dislodged airplane window on Friday, a few minutes after takeoff on a flight from northern Greece to Germany. The plane subsequently returned to the airport in Greece. The incident happened on a morning…
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‘No Interest’
Drew Pusateri, director of communications at OpenAI, on Twitter/X (or XCancel): Our statement in response to this suit: We have no interest in other companies’ trade secrets. We remain focused on building innovative technology that empowers people everywhere. Let’s say I think yo…
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IEEE Remembers Pioneering Computer Scientist Peter G. Neumann
The computing community recently lost one of its enduring voices: IEEE Fellow Peter G. Neumann. The renowned computer scientist and respected risk analyst died on 17 May at the age of 93. For almost 70 years, Neumann shaped the computing field through his pioneering work on risks…
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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: A Pair Of Billion-Dollar Deals For Cyber And AI Infrastructure Lead
AI once again dominated venture funding this week, claiming five of the 10 largest announced rounds, including a pair of billion-dollar financings for AI infrastructure and cybersecurity that led the pack.
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Enterprise AI is entering an evaluation gap: Agents are gaining autonomy faster than companies can verify them
Enterprise AI teams are giving agents more freedom at the same moment their confidence in automated testing is collapsing. Half of enterprises have deployed an AI agent or LLM feature that passed internal evaluations and yet still caused a customer-facing failure — one in four mo…
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What Is the Smartest Way to Power the AI Boom?
The power demand of AI data centers is only going to grow, so the U.S. energy grid needs to adapt—fast.
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International tech
From Elevate Education To Aukera — Indian Startups Raised $72 Mn This Week
Indian startup funding  remained largely flat in the second week of July. Between July 4 and July 10, Indian startups…
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Kimi Launches AI-Native Credit Card: Moonshot AI Partners With Agricultural Bank of China and American Express
Moonshot AI Kimi issues the world first AI-native credit card with Agricultural Bank of China and American Express, linking membership tiers to card levels and offering token-based rewards.
pandaily.com
Adults who prefer being early enough to sit in the parking lot for twenty minutes aren’t over-scheduled, they’ve discovered that the transition between somewhere and somewhere else is one of the few moments no one is asking anything of them
The twenty-minute parking lot pause looks like poor time management. It is actually a self-engineered threshold ritual — a small, defended pocket of autonomy in a day otherwise structured by other people's demands.
siliconcanals.com
OpenAI to shut down ‘ChatGPT Atlas’ browser less than a year after its launch
OpenAI has announced that it is shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its standalone… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Indian Listed New-Age Tech Company Tracker: Market Cap, Revenue & More
For years, we at Inc42 have tracked the Indian tech startup ecosystem and seen it grow from a kid to…
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Chinese chip start-up aims to build 5-nanometre equivalent chips without using EUV by 2029
A Chinese chip start-up has launched what it claims to be the world’s first 8-inch production line for two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, marking the country’s latest push to develop alternative chip technologies amid US curbs on its access to advanced chipmaking equipment. Sha…
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Fixing the Fix for a 3dfx Voodoo Card’s Overly Bright Picture
After previously fixing an overly bright picture from a Voodoo graphics card with a simple resistor on one of the RAMDAC’s pins to correct its faulty internal Vref, [Bits und …read more
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Documenting the IR Protocol of the PumpSaver Plus Device
Having a pump in a remote location where you aren’t constantly monitoring it is a common scenario, which can be unfortunate when said pump runs into problems like a dry …read more
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How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI
Article URL: https://casp.ac/reports/ai-enabled-terrorism Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48863707 Points: 211 # Comments: 180
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GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]
https://x.com/__eknight__/status/2075643450196971805, https://xcancel.com/__eknight__/status/2075643450196971805 Prompt: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/04d1d1e4-bc75-476a-97cf-49055cd98... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48863490 Points: 475 # Comments: 386
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Clay Extruder Enables Printable Pottery
Ceramic 3D printers, despite using the same fundamental mechanism as standard FDM printers, are much harder to find. Part of this comes down to the material properties of fired ceramics …read more
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Reject Modernity, Return to 80s, Learn C.
We’re not exactly sure how old [SnailMail] is, but he’s probably a member of Generation Alpha considering that to our wizened eyes the lad looks only slightly older than a …read more
hackaday.com
The Agent Loop: How AI Goes From Answering Questions to Doing Things
In this article, we will walk through that progression. We will also look at how an agent is structured, what choices the model makes on every turn, what scaffolding holds it together, and when an agent is actually the right pattern to reach for.
bytebytego.com
LAST CALL FOR ENROLLMENT: Become an AI Engineer - Cohort 7
Our 7th cohort of Becoming an AI Engineer starts tomorrow, Saturday, July 11. This is a live, cohort-based course created in collaboration with best-selling author Ali Aminian and published by ByteByteGo.
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A Look Inside a 1997 BBC Ceefax Generator
Ceefax was the BBC’s broadcast teletext service that ran until 2012, providing text and rudimentary graphics that were broadcast invisibly with the TV signal. In order to get this teletext …read more
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