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Europa’s Hidden Ocean May Be Even Harder to Reach Than We Thought
For a long time, scientists assumed that the tiny water pools at Europa's surface came from the moon's deep, icy oceans. But is that physically possible?
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The Biggest AI Talent Challenge Is Resilience, Not Speed
Engineering leaders should build highly adaptable, vendor-agnostic infrastructure instead of relying on expensive, unpredictable proprietary hyperscalers, advises guest columnist Sumeet Vaidya, who says the foundational flexibility allows enterprises to safely pair AI agents with…
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★ Regarding Ad Blockers and Daring Fireball
Following up on the previous item today, re: content blockers and ad-blocking, I ran into a weird situation a few weeks ago with my column “John Ternus Should Reverse Apple’s Slide Down the Advertising Slippery Slope”. That article contains this sentence, in Markdown: And -- at t…
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Sixers Sign LeBron James
The betting odds for the Sixers to win the NBA championship went from 20-1 to 10-1. Here’s James on Twitter/X, explaining his decision: This is my last decision. I’m not going for money. I’m not going for family. What am I really playing for at this point? I still want to sacrifi…
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Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, a cheaper AI model for coding, agents and enterprise workflows
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on Friday, a model the company says delivers nearly all the intelligence of its top-of-the-line Claude Fable 5 at half the cost — a launch that signals how the AI race is shifting from raw capability to the economics of daily use. The model, avail…
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2022 IEEE President K.J. Ray Liu Honored for His Leadership
Unlike many budding engineers, K.J. Ray Liu wasn’t inspired to enter the field by tinkering with electronics or following in the footsteps of a family member. Growing up in Taichung, Taiwan, he answered his government’s call for students to become electrical engineers to help man…
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Why state-owned AI won’t solve inequality
Government ownership of AI companies may promise shared wealth, but it risks weakening oversight and accountability.
restofworld.org
China Embodied Intelligence Enters Early Commercialization: PwC White Paper and Morgan Stanley Forecast $15 Billion Market by 2030
PwC China AI Research Institute inaugural report forecasts three-robot-form division by 2030; Morgan Stanley projects 446,000 humanoid units shipped annually with $15B market size.
pandaily.com
UPI In June: Navi, super.money Gain Ground As PhonePe, Google Pay Slip Slightly
The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) race got more intense in the month of June as market share shifts indicate growing…
inc42.com
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…
technode.com
Huawei’s Ren Zhengfei backs Tau Scaling Law to beat US sanctions
Huawei Technologies founder Ren Zhengfei has thrown his weight behind the Chinese tech giant’s Tau Scaling Law, framing the new chip-design principle as an existential necessity to survive tightening US sanctions. “The Tau Scaling Law is the only path forward for Huawei to break …
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Intel and AMD sign longer-term server CPU deals with Chinese customers as prices rise
Intel and AMD are signing longer-term purchase commitments with Chinese server customers for data-center processors as prices rise. Some agreements cover about one year, while the two companies have discussed commitments of two years or longer with some customers, according to pe…
technode.com

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Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/24/openai-rogue-hacker Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49038060 Points: 385 # Comments: 210
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Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models
Letter: https://images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-Weights-and-American-AI-L... [pdf] https://x.com/JensenHuang/status/2080643682408321103, https://xcancel.com/JensenHuang/status/2080643682408321103 https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valley-is-completely-div..., https://archive.ph/LAkVI…
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Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS
Article URL: https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/haiku-nvidia-porting-nvidia-driver-for-turing-gpus/16520?page=18 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49034868 Points: 249 # Comments: 45
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Claude Opus 5
https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-system-card Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49038433 Points: 1213 # Comments: 660
anthropic.com
Keeping Mosquitoes Away with Catnip-Based Repellent
Despite their small size, mosquitoes are one of the deadliest creatures on Earth, and keeping them away from you is one of the best ways to stay safe. DEET has …read more
hackaday.com
E-ink Writing Deck Rocks a Typewriter Aesthetic
[Myth Made] has a goal to get into writing. However, she likes to do things the aesthetic way, rather than the easy way. Thus, she has eschewed simple word processing on …read more
hackaday.com
Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey
Article URL: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/government-orders-github-to-remove-bluetooth-based-chat-app-bitchat-over-security-concerns-jack-dorsey/article71262049.ece Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49036433 Points: 352 # Comments: 263
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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?
bytebytego.com
Hackaday Podcast Episode 379: Driving E-ink DIY, NES on ESP, and the Other IRC
On this episode, Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi discuss their love of electronic paper, clunky cartridges, and keeping old games alive by any means possible. You’ll also hear …read more
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