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Capital One releases VulnHunter, an open-source AI tool that finds software flaws before hackers do
Capital One on Thursday released VulnHunter, an open-source, agentic AI security tool that scans source code for exploitable vulnerabilities, maps out how an attacker would reach them, and proposes targeted fixes — all before a single line ships to production. The tool, built int…
venturebeat.com
The Zoom hack that says, ‘Don’t record me’
If every meeting, watercooler conversation, and date gets transcribed and summarized, who's actually reading any of it?
techcrunch.com
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: No Summer Doldrums As Dollars Still Flow To AI
It was not a holiday week on the funding front, as a raft of largely AI-focused companies closed big rounds. The largest of these was a $1.5 billion financing to enterprise AI startup Fireworks AI, and a Series D for meal and delivery provider Wonder.
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Applications close in 48 hours — here’s everything Australian founders need to know about Stripe x Startup Battlefield
The window is almost shut. On August 19, eight startups will take the stage at Stripe Tour Sydney in front of investors, global press, and the Australian tech community. One startup walks away with automatic entry into TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco — no application, no furt…
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Roblox Set to Introduce AI Game-Building Feature, Including on iOS
Roblox executives Nick Tornow and Vlad Loktev, on the Roblox blog: Twenty years ago, Roblox launched with a simple idea: “You make the game.” At the time, that was a radical proposition — most games were made by studios and professionals, and the idea that anyone could be a creat…
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There’s a lot of hype around perimenopause. Don’t buy it.
Perimenopause has entered the chat. Perimenopause—and its better-known relative, menopause—used to be considered taboo. Not anymore, thanks at least in part to TV doctors and social media influencers. Perhaps it’s my age, but these days, both my algorithm and my conversations wit…
MIT Technology Review
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MakeMyTrip Files Confidentially For India IPO
Travel tech giant MakeMyTrip has confidentially filed its draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) with the SEBI for the India IPO…
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CXMT Targets Trillion-Yuan Market Cap: China DRAM Leader Carries the Flag for Memory Chip Localization Against Samsung and SK Hynix
CXMT ChangXin Memory Technologies launches 66.6B RMB IPO as world fourth-largest DRAM maker with 7.67% share, charting a path to challenge Korean memory dominance by 2030.
pandaily.com
Reliance Retail’s EBITDA Erodes In Q1 Amid Q-Comm Expansion
Quick commerce expansion loomed heavily over Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd. (RRVL) as the retail giant’s EBITDA margin declined 80 basis…
inc42.com
Skyroot Creates History With India’s First Private Orbital Rocket Launch
Spacetech unicorn Skyroot created history by becoming the first private Indian company to place a rocket into orbit. Its Vikram-1…
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The EU’s AI Act starts requiring chatbot and deepfake labels on August 2 — while its tougher rules on hiring, biometrics and migration are pushed back to December 2027
The transparency obligations are the cheap ones to meet. The expensive, rights-protective rules are the ones that just got more time.
siliconcanals.com
When psychologists asked people to log what they were doing hour by hour, roughly 43 percent of daily behaviour turned out to be habit — done in the same place while the mind was somewhere else entirely
In the late 1990s, psychologist Wendy Wood paged undergraduates every hour and asked them to log what they were doing. About 43 percent of their behaviour turned out to be habit — performed in the same place while their minds wandered somewhere else.
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AI Customer Support at Scale: The Travel Industry’s $Billion Bet
In this article, we will look more closely at the different solutions by following the support pipeline from first principles, show why a tail of cases resists automation regardless of model quality, and use these three approaches to understand how these can be handled.
bytebytego.com
How Octopuses Hacked their Ribosome to Become Smart
A fascinating aspect in evolutionary biology is that of convergent evolution — whereby similar structures and functions evolve independently from each other. The highly advanced nervous system of octopuses is …read more
hackaday.com
The BornHack 2026 Cyber Ægg Is A Badge With A Life Afterwards
A problem facing the designers of event badges is this: what happens to the badge after the event? It’s one that designers have tried to solve in many ways with …read more
hackaday.com
Using Solar Air Heating to Dry Clothes
About a month ago, [Greenhill Forge] built a few solar panels to collect energy from the sun. Unlike solar photovoltaics, which turn sunlight directly into electricity, these were designed to …read more
hackaday.com
Regressive JPEGs
Article URL: https://maurycyz.com/projects/bad_jpeg/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48954851 Points: 262 # Comments: 17
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Learning a few things about running SQLite
Article URL: https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/07/17/learning-about-running-sqlite/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950122 Points: 241 # Comments: 63
jvns.ca
Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse
Article URL: https://localnewsmatters.org/2026/07/15/kaiser-nurses-say-ai-workplace-surveillance-are-making-their-jobs-and-patient-care-worse/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48952880 Points: 495 # Comments: 315
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Cross-Sectioning Crickets with a Femtosecond Laser
Unlike most cutting lasers, femtosecond lasers don’t vaporize materials; rather, they produce such short, intense bursts of light that the affected region is ablated without having the chance to heat …read more
hackaday.com
Flex Filament Stuck To Your Build Platform? Reach For The Isopropanol
3D printing has been around long enough that everyone’s heard at least one weird trick regarding 3D prints. [Angus] of [Maker’s Muse] puts a few to the test, and came …read more
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