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Gurman on Tang Tan and Paul Meade
Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg (paywalled, alas): Apple was quickly alarmed by OpenAI’s recruiting drive, which included poaching senior hardware and design leaders and ravaging several teams across its engineering organizations. The practice continued as recently as June, …
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Forget typosquatting; slopsquatting is the software supply chain threat created by AI coding tools
Slopsquatting represents an emerging supply chain threat made possible by AI hallucinations. As developers increasingly rely on AI coding assistants, they unknowingly grant cybercriminals access to their software from day one.  Understanding what slopsquatting is Slopsquatting is…
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Reed Jobs would rather talk about curing cancer than his last name
When we last sat down with Jobs at TechCrunch Disrupt nearly three years ago, his firm Yosemite was brand new and biotech was still reeling from its post-pandemic crash. Now, the venture outfit has a team of 17; a cluster of blockbuster drugs are all losing patent protection in r…
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Christopher Nolan Has No Time for ‘The Odyssey’ Backlash or GenAI
All Nolan wants is for people to see 'The Odyssey' with an open mind and recognize the sincere effort on display.
gizmodo.com
You Know What Your Bathroom Needs? A Smart Mirror With Party Lighting
Lifx’s fancy light-up mirror is a one-of-a-kind device, for now.
gizmodo.com
Oh, There’s the ‘Ghost of Tsushima: Legends’ Trailer
Crunchyroll and Kamikaze Douga hope you like 'Ghost of Tsushima' enough to watch its co-op mode adapted into anime form.
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International tech
PHANES AI Writes Touch Into Robot Foundation Models: TouchWorld Tactile Model Enables Dexterous Manipulation
Founded by 28-year-old HIT professor Yang Shuo, PHANES AI publishes TouchWorld, a predictive and reactive tactile foundation model that gives robots a sense of touch to complete precise physical tasks.
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CSC Financial: Semiconductor Equipment Supply Chain Faces Dual Localization Trend and Major Investment Opportunity
CSC Financial identifies dual localization trend in semiconductor equipment and components, forecasting 23.5% equipment market growth in 2026 to $152.2 billion amid AI-driven cycle.
pandaily.com
Every 48 Hours, a New Embodied AI Model Is Born: From BAAI World Model to Alibaba Qwen-Robot
June 2026 saw 13 new embodied AI models and world models released, tracking the shift from hardware benchmarks to software intelligence competition in embodied AI.
pandaily.com
We’re taught that failure is the price of ambition, but psychologists studying explanatory style found that what happens after a setback depends partly on the story a person tells themselves about it: those who see failure as permanent and personal are more likely to become helpless, while those who treat it as temporary and specific are more likely to keep going.
Ambition has a standard story about failure. You take the hit, learn the lesson, and keep moving. It is clean, motivational, and not quite true. Some setbacks become information. Others become identity. The difference is not only the size of the loss. It is also the explanation a…
siliconcanals.com
Ant Group Robotics Subsidiary Lingbo Takes a New Approach to Building Robot Brains
Ant Group robotics unit Lingbo develops robot intelligence platform leveraging Ant's massive payment ecosystem data, taking an unconventional approach to embodied AI development.
pandaily.com
Adults who spent years being the funny one, the capable one, or the strong one in a group often arrive at a moment when the role has kept them so thoroughly in character that they are no longer sure there is anyone left underneath it
There are roles a person chooses, and roles that quietly choose them back. At first, being the funny one, the capable one or the strong one can feel like social fluency. It gives the group a shape. It gives the person a place. Everyone knows what to expect, which is one of the si…
siliconcanals.com

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Software-Defined Vehicles Loom Closer Every Year
Vehicles long ago began to incorporate electronics and software, to the point that modern vehicles increasingly have a sort of architecture problem. The software end of things evolves ever more …read more
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Printing Fungal Art with Laser Control
Preservationists usually take great care to prevent fungi from appearing the world of art, but in the case of [Kexin Wang]’s Funguy project, the fungus itself is the art. It …read more
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What xAI's Grok Build CLI Actually Sends to xAI
Article URL: https://gist.github.com/cereblab/dc9a40bc26120f4540e4e09b75ffb547 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877371 Points: 305 # Comments: 139
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AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence
Article URL: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/07/11/ai-2040.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48874200 Points: 207 # Comments: 251
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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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How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)
Article URL: https://archive.cancerworld.net/featured/how-doctors-die/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876741 Points: 214 # Comments: 124
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Speak Silently With An Ultrasound Probe
Speaking is much faster than typing, and while it’s an increasingly convenient way to interact with computers, it’s hardly private. Providing speech privacy in a way we haven’t seen before …read more
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Porting DOOM to the Casio Loopy
Targeted towards refined female gamers unlike the savagery of the mainstream game consoles of the era, 1995’s Casio Loopy was a bit of an oddity of a game console. Despite …read more
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Trying to Use a 2007 Samsung UMPC as Wii U Gamepad
As unique the Nintendo Wii U Gamepad may appear to be, at its core it’s pretty much just a tablet with game controls stuck on it. Now that the communication …read more
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