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Asteroid Bennu Came From an Unexpected Corner of the Solar System
A new study pinpoints Bennu's birthplace to a specific zone between the inner and outer solar system.
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Netflix Wanted ‘Obsession’ and Wouldn’t Have Released It in Theaters
Instead of becoming a theatrical smash, Curry Barker's horror breakthrough could have been a straight-to-streaming release.
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When can we say AI made a scientific discovery?
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Wednesday, Anthropic announced that earlier this year it had launched a molecular biology lab, where Claude agents read and conjecture ab…
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A New IEEE STEM Book Series for Tweens from TryEngineering
IEEE TryEngineering is dedicated to inspiring intellectual curiosity in children. The technologies shaping our world, including in the realms of artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, and ocean exploration, are evolving rapidly. Helping young learners understand the concepts…
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Roundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall
Listen to the session or watch below The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will help detect and apprehend border crossers and save lives. But a groundbreaking investigation by MI…
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Protego Ventures closes debut $125 million fund for Israeli defense tech
Protego Ventures, the first and largest dedicated defense tech VC in Israel, just completed its final $125 million closing, TechCrunch learned exclusively.
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Meet The Startups From Peak XV’s ‘Surge 12’
VC firm Peak XV Partners has launched the twelfth cohort of its accelerator and incubation programme, Surge.  The cohort features…
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Alibaba's 27B XekRung Model Tops CyberGym Model Leaderboard at 88.9%
Alibaba Security AGI Lab's XekRung-1.5-27B-Preview, fine-tuned from Qwen3.8-27B, reached an 88.9% success rate on UC Berkeley's CyberGym Level 1 and now ranks first on the benchmark's model leaderboard.
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smart Details Engineering Behind Sub-3-Metre smart #2 EV Ahead of Paris Debut
smart's two-seat #2 rides on a dedicated sub-3-metre EV platform with a 35.8 kWh CATL-cell battery, a roughly 300 km WLTP range target and a reworked Tridion safety cell.
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Xiaomi HyperOS 4 Stable Rollout Starts October 15 With Xiaomi 17 and REDMI K100 Pro
Xiaomi will start pushing stable Xiaomi HyperOS 4 in China on October 15, beginning with the Xiaomi 17 series, REDMI K100 Pro and K90 models and Xiaomi Pad 8 tablets, before expanding in waves through January 2027.
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Nvidia and AMD chiefs join Tsinghua advisory board as US-China chip tensions persist
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang and AMD chief Lisa Su have joined an influential advisory board at a prestigious Chinese university, placing the two key American AI tech leaders in a high-level forum known for connecting global executives with senior Chinese officials. Huang …
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Alibaba deepens sports tech push with new Brooklyn Nets partnership
Alibaba Group Holding has become an official technology and cloud partner of NBA team Brooklyn Nets, as the tech giant pushes for a deeper presence in the sports industry. The collaboration was announced on Monday under a multi-year strategic partnership between Alibaba and Brook…
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You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner
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World Labs is Joining AMD
Article URL: https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/amd-announcement Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883760 Points: 290 # Comments: 111
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Two-Dimensional Material Now Easier to Manufacture
We often see scientific breakthroughs in journals or other media that’s reported on as if it’s a revolutionary technology guaranteed to reshape human existence, only to never hear about it …read more
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California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
Article URL: https://www.kqed.org/news/12101534/california-farmers-are-struggling-to-sell-grapes-as-demand-for-wine-drops Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883539 Points: 281 # Comments: 701
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This PICO-8 Handheld is No Fantasy
The PICO-8 is what is known as a ‘fantasy console’– you can program it, and there are oodles of games, but it’s not actually the 8-bit console it pretends to …read more
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AI Agents Can Think. Now They Can Pay.
I attended a MPP event at Stripe HQ, where I spoke with Emily Sands and Matt Schulman from Stripe, along with Brendan Ryan from Tempo.
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AI companies leak data to advertisers [pdf]
Article URL: https://jorgegarciaherrero.com/wp-content/interactivos/20260916-Prompt-like-a-butterfly-sting-like-a-tracker-(clean).pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49890226 Points: 234 # Comments: 60
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Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms
Article URL: https://github.com/firelex/jeff Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883844 Points: 535 # Comments: 202
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Metal Gear Solid Moves From PlayStation to ESP32
If you haven’t heard of Metal Gear, you probably haven’t played video games these last few decades. The original Metal Gear dates back to 1987 and launched on the MSX, …read more
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