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Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents
The deal is Cyera's third acquisition this year.
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AI Hyper-Scaling Digital Inequality
Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of everyday infrastructure–in some places. It helps write emails and software code, filters job applications, powers recommendation systems, and is increasingly being integrated into education, healthcare, finance, and public admin…
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Steve Jobs in 2011: ‘We Build Products That We Want for Ourselves, Too, and We Just Don’t Want Ads’
Dan Frommer, writing for Business Insider in 2011 about that year’s WWDC (Jobs’s last): While discussing Apple’s free, new iCloud email service, he took an apparent jab at Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and the others, which stuff ads in their free email services. “No ads,” he boasted. “We b…
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As AI content floods the internet, Pangram raises $9M to detect it
Pangram has raised $9 million to scale its AI detection software. The startup has also released a new AI text detection model, Pangram 4, and an AI image detection model in research preview.
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Snowflake launches Cortex AI Gateway to control AI agents and prevent runaway enterprise costs
Snowflake announced Cortex AI Gateway on Tuesday, a centralized control layer designed to govern how AI agents — including those built by competitors like Anthropic's Claude Code and Cursor — access enterprise data, tools, and models. Alongside the gateway, the company unveiled a…
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Dan Harmon Shares His Hopes for the ‘Rick and Morty’ Movie
It's still in very early stages, but the co-creator's ultimate goal is "to make it the greatest movie ever to exist."
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International tech
From CXMT to Zhipu: How Alibaba’s investment pays off with a growing AI and chip portfolio
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) and Zhipu AI have not only seen their share prices skyrocket, but they have also handed a windfall to their common backer: Alibaba Group Holding. Before the listing of China’s memory-chip giant on Monday, Alibaba owned nearly 5 per cent of CXMT…
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Chinese AI chip giant Cambricon sets US$14.8b revenue goal tied to staff incentive plan
Chinese artificial intelligence chip champion Cambricon Technologies has set a target of more than 100 billion yuan (US$14.8 billion) in revenue over the next three years as the prerequisite for a newly proposed employee stock incentive plan. The goal marked a nearly 20-fold incr…
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China’s Robotaxi enters London for first time as Baidu’s Apollo Go begins UK road tests with Uber and Lyft
FREENOW, the European mobility platform owned by Lyft, announced on Tuesday that it has partnered with Baidu’s Apollo Go to begin testing robotaxis in London, UK. Uber also said Apollo Go vehicles are now operating on public roads in the British capital. Baidu said the deployment…
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At the peak of Zimbabwe’s 2008 meltdown, prices doubled roughly every day. The central bank answered by printing a hundred-trillion-dollar note worth only about US$30 when it appeared.
When a government prints money faster than prices can rise, the only winner is the black market.
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IPO-Bound OfBusiness’ FY26 Profit Jumps 21% YoY To ₹724 Cr
IPO-bound B2B ecommerce startup OfBusiness reported a 21% jump in its consolidated profit to ₹724 Cr in FY26 from ₹597…
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Researchers studying what people miss most after retiring have found that it is rarely the work, the money, or the status — it is the small daily proof that somebody was expecting them to turn up
The unexpected grief of retirement isn't losing a paycheck—it's losing the moment someone notices you're no longer there.
siliconcanals.com
Sam Altman is ready to decelerate
His change of position comes after "the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally."
techcrunch.com
Laboratoria’s Mariana Costa Empowers Women in Tech
In shaping her career, Peru native Mariana Costa has asked herself a question: What can I do to make life better for women in Latin America? The answer she landed on was training them for tech jobs. Mariana Costa Employer Laboratoria Title Co-founder and president Alma Maters …
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GM redesigned its engineering workflows around AI agents — and tripled its merged pull requests
Software engineers at General Motors' (GM's) autonomous driving division spend only 15% of their time writing code, according to Rashed Haq, GM's VP of autonomous vehicles, in a recent onstage interview at VB Transform 2026. GM is now using AI agents to accelerate much of the oth…
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Building a Portable Weather Radar
If you run a large meteorology bureau, then you probably have access to a wonderful weather radar for scrying the heavens. The rest of us aren’t so lucky. If you …read more
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User Interfaces of the Demo Scene
Article URL: https://www.datagubbe.se/scenegui/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093434 Points: 233 # Comments: 37
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Behold The Most Beautifully Ambitious Starship Simulator Yet
[Kevin Kelm] created something wondrous: Halcyon Dawn, an utterly unique and desperately challenging game that is equal parts intricate starship simulator, imposing hardware console, video game, and love letter to …read more
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How the Vagus Nerve Promotes Healthy Cognition via Acetylcholine Signaling
It’s been said for centuries that you cannot think on an empty stomach, and that love goes through the stomach. Although these may seem like merely cute jabs at the …read more
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Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript
HN is great for the links people share, but a big part of the value I get comes from reading the discussion around them. I realized I was always opening the article in one tab and the comments in another, constantly switching back and forth. I figured there was probably a simpler…
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Why DoorDash, Instacart, and Uber Eats Integrated LLMs Into Search Three Different Ways
In this article, we will walk through their differing solutions and try to make sense of their choices and understand the pattern behind them.
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Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9
Article URL: https://mac-classic.com/news/half-life-ported-to-mac-os-9/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089814 Points: 257 # Comments: 118
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Improving the Microcontroller Gaming Performance with PicoGame
The ability to write Python on microcontrollers with the likes of MicroPython and later CiruitPython has made them much more accessible. [MakerClassCZ] brings that to game development with PicoGame. Like …read more
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More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle
Article URL: https://tailscale.com/blog/jailbroken-kindle-proxy-tun-modes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093569 Points: 228 # Comments: 73
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