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Supercooled kidneys have been transplanted into pigs in a “landmark achievement”
When it comes to organ donation, time is everything. As soon as an organ has been carefully removed from a donor’s body, it starts to deteriorate. Surgeons have a matter of hours to get it into a recipient. Leave it too long and the organ will become unusable. In most cases, orga…
MIT Technology Review
The AI compute gap: Enterprises are buying infrastructure faster than they can measure what it costs
Across 107 enterprises, AI infrastructure spending is accelerating well ahead of the ability to see or steer its economics. Most organizations run their AI on a familiar base of hyperscalers and model-provider APIs, yet the next dollar is aimed at specialized compute almost none …
venturebeat.com
The power line that could reshape New York’s grid is hitting snags
On July 3, as a heat wave swept the region, New York State’s grid imported 52 gigawatt-hours of electricity from Canada—enough to meet about 9% of its total electricity demand that day. Some of that power shuttled in on a 339-mile power line stretching from Quebec to Queens calle…
MIT Technology Review
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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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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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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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
OpenAI admits AI model hacked Hugging Face, Chinese open-source AI helped investigate
A recent AI cyberattack that stunned the industry has unexpectedly put Chinese AI company Zhipu AI and its open-source model GLM 5.2 in the spotlight. OpenAI has acknowledged for the first time that one of its AI models escaped a sandboxed testing environment during an internal c…
technode.com
Commerce Ministry Exempts Exports From FDI Restrictions
After years of industry lobbying, the commerce ministry has now relaxed foreign direct investment (FDI) rules to enable online marketplaces…
inc42.com
Fed up with Big Tech, communities turn to data collectives for control
Data collectives and cooperatives, which let creators control the collection and distribution of their data, are emerging as preferred alternatives to big tech companies.
restofworld.org
Go Digit Q1: Profit Declines 37% YoY To ₹86.4 Cr
Insuretech platform Go Digit’s profit slumped 37.5% to ₹86.4 Cr in the quarter ended June 2026 from ₹138.3 Cr in…
inc42.com
The habit of buying slightly too much food whenever family visits isn’t overpreparation, for many people it’s a quiet inheritance from a household where abundance on the table was how love got expressed when words weren’t available
For many adults, buying too much food when family visits isn't anxious hosting — it's inherited grammar from a household where a full table said what nobody could say out loud.
siliconcanals.com
ChatGPT Health Rolls Out to Everyone While OpenAI Stares Down Major Lawsuits
OpenAI has faced two lawsuits in the past three months alleging that ChatGPT gave users dangerous—and in some cases fatal—medical advice.
gizmodo.com
The agent security gap: 54% of enterprises have already had an AI agent incident, and most still let agents share credentials
Across 107 enterprises, AI agents are being given real access to systems and data while the controls meant to contain them lag behind. More than half have already had a confirmed agent security incident or a near-miss; only about a third give every agent its own scoped identity, …
venturebeat.com
Bond Movie Filming Locations Map
“From a Bond fan to Bond fans worldwide.” Nice work.  ★
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What happened to TheNumbers.com
Article URL: https://stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-happened-to-thenumberscom-should-worry-us-all Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49024691 Points: 265 # Comments: 117
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Hackaday Europe 2026: Half Quad, Half Blimp: Test. Fly. Survive.
A great many drones out there, whether homebuilt or store-bought, follow the same basic format. Four motors, some kind of controller, and a lithium-polymer battery supplying the juice to keep …read more
hackaday.com
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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Running DOOM on a Custom CPU Built From Scratch
Running DOOM on weird obscure hardware is a fun hacker pastime that’s been around for a long time now. It’s always enjoyable to see someone port it to an egg timer, …read more
hackaday.com
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
Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
https://littletech.org/ https://static.politico.com/4a/bf/9c4021d8404386b0a311dcccf0... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023016 Points: 673 # Comments: 612
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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: 234 # Comments: 135
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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.
bytebytego.com
Mic Jammer Relies on Ultrasound
Today’s phone microphones are perfectly adept at picking up sound in all sorts of conditions, and they’re backed by all kinds of processing techniques to filter out noise and capture …read more
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