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Flighty New Connection Assistant Feature
Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: Flighty’s new Connection Assistant feature includes step-by-step information for your specific connection. This includes things like terminal changes, security checkpoints, passport control, and more. Connection Assistant also gives you estimates of how lo…
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Agentic coding goes hands-free as OpenAI brings GPT-Live's full duplex voice control to Codex and ChatGPT on the desktop
Two weeks after debuting its more naturalistic GPT-Live audio AI model with full-duplex capabilities (listening and speaking at the same time), OpenAI is bringing it directly into developer workflows. The company announced that GPT-Live now powers the ChatGPT desktop application…
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Microsoft launches new in-house AI models it says cut costs up to 89% versus OpenAI
Microsoft AI released two new in-house models into public preview on Wednesday — MAI-Image-2.5-Pro, its highest-fidelity image generator to date, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, a speech model built for high-volume enterprise workloads — while publishing production data that amounts to th…
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Patreon lays off 20% of its workforce
In a memo to staff that was posted online, Conte said the company's core business is strong, but the platform has to respond to market changes and adjust its cost structure to remain stable.
techcrunch.com
Live Updates From San Diego Comic-Con 2026 🔴
Join io9 as we bring you news and updates from the biggest pop culture convention of the year.
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Bond Movie Filming Locations Map
“From a Bond fan to Bond fans worldwide.” Nice work.  ★
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International tech
Alibaba reportedly tests standalone Qwen Office product
Alibaba is reportedly testing a product called Qwen Office internally, positioning it as a workplace AI product separate from Tongyi Qianwen. The product is focused on intelligent collaboration for office workflows and may be released in the near term. Alibaba is also hiring solu…
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Turning Celebrity Endorsements From One-Time Announcements Into Long-Term Operations: Yaowang Technology AI-Driven Marketing Platform Builds Continuous Brand Assets
Yaowang Technology, China first listed live-streaming e-commerce company, transforms celebrity endorsements into continuous brand operations through content production, livestream conversion, and asset management systems.
pandaily.com
Fractal, Meesho Slide Over 6% Each After Q1 Results
Post the announcement of their financial results for the first quarter of FY27, shares of new-age technology companies Fractal and…
inc42.com
Token Factories Emerge as WAIC 2026 Theme: Is Selling Token the Next Big Business Model for the AI Economy?
Token factories proliferate at WAIC 2026 as computing shifts from card-rental to token-delivery; soft and hard infrastructure models compete to standardize AI productivity measurement.
pandaily.com
People who reply to trivial texts within seconds but go quiet for days when a message actually matters have often built two separate systems: one automated and always open, one with a gate they can only open slowly, and only for themselves
The gap between your instant "haha ok" and your week-long silence on harder questions isn't rudeness—it's the architecture of how you've learned to survive.
siliconcanals.com
Delhi HC Rejects ANI’s Plea For Interim Injunction Against OpenAI In Copyright Suit
The Delhi High Court has dismissed ANI’s plea seeking an interim injunction against OpenAI in the news agency’s copyright infringement…
inc42.com
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 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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Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua to step aside as company pushes into robotaxis, robotics
Shashua has been invited to take the chairman of the board seat.
techcrunch.com

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New Method Accelerates Color 3D Printing
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BASICally, Its Retro Machine Language
We enjoyed [Beej’s] trip down memory lane looking at a BASIC game, The Wizard’s Castle, written for the Exidy Sorcerer. It appeared in a 1980 magazine that included the title …read more
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Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died.
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-death-girl-chinese-gene-editing-trial-was-never-made-public Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49027892 Points: 339 # Comments: 208
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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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Targeting Allele-Specific Faulty mRNA in SCNA2 Mutation Patients
When an individual is born with genetic defects, there are a few ways to deal with the impact of the faulty genes. The most extreme solution is direct DNA editing …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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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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