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Hackers Steal Funds From Polymarket Users, Potentially Millions

"We're contacting impacted users & refunding them in full."

What Europe’s heat wave means for the power grid

It’s been hard to look away from headlines about the European heat wave this week. Temperatures are breaking records across the continent, and the weather is threatening lives, shutting down schools, and in one particularly ironic case, forcing the cancellation of a London Climat…

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The Download: Europe’s heat wave hits the grid, and IBM’s chip targets Moore’s Law

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Europe’s extreme heat is shutting down power plants Europe is in the middle of a record-breaking heat wave, and the grid is being pushed to it…

MIT Technology Review

Cursor Deal Puts US On Track For Record Startup M&A Year

While SpaceX’s $60 billion acquisition of Anysphere dominates the headlines, a number of other multibillion-dollar transactions have also closed this year. We take a look at the 10 largest M&A deals so far in 2026.

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OpenAI's updated GPT-5.5 Instant is better at shopping, complex constraints, and understanding user intent — and it's already in the API

OpenAI has made a significant update to its most widely used language model, GPT-5.5 Instant, which is the default in the free version of ChatGPT. The company announced the upgraded version of GPT-5.5 Instant yesterday on X, calling it "much more fun to talk to" and saying it is…

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‘Barbarian’ Gets First Physical Media Release 4 Years After Its Premiere

Zach Cregger's first horror film will be available as a 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray SteelBook.

International tech

China’s cybersecurity industry needs its own Mythos model, 360 founder warns

China must develop its own equivalent to Anthropic’s Mythos model to counter the cybersecurity risks posed by the artificial intelligence era, according to 360 Security Technology founder Zhou Hongyi, who likened the powerful US technology to a “cyber nuclear weapon”. Released in…

DeepSeek hiring spree: Chinese AI firm seeks newcomers as it pursues AGI

DeepSeek is looking to “at least double the size of every department” in a new hiring spree, according to an announcement made by the Chinese AI champion on Thursday. The firm announced openings in 33 positions across seven major categories, including full-stack development and a…

Sofina Ventures Offloads Honasa Consumer’s Shares Via ₹177 Cr Bulk Deal

Honasa Consumer’s investor Sofina Ventures has parsed its stake in the BPC major via a bulk deal worth about ₹177.2…

Volcano Engine Is Mass-Producing Opus 4.6-Level Models as ByteDance's AI Factory Goes Into Overdrive

ByteDance's Volcano Engine AI platform has achieved the capability to mass-produce models competitive with Anthropic's Opus 4.6 at a fraction of the cost, marki...

IRDAI’s Reform Push That Can Upend Insurance Startups

When someone buys car insurance in India, it’s generally assumed that most of the premium goes towards insurance coverage. However,…

RoboScience Unveils Visics, a General-Purpose Embodied AI Model

Beijing-based embodied intelligence company RoboScience officially unveiled its general-purpose embodied AI model Visics on June 24, complete with a full techni...

Xbox follows Apple with price increases

The company says the increases are being driven by rising memory and console storage prices, with costs more than 2.5x higher than previous levels.

Why Does a Bank Need a Chief Scientist?

This article is brought to you by Capital One. After five years leading natural language understanding and eventually the entire Alexa AI organization at Amazon, Prem Natarajan made a nontraditional move: He became Chief Scientist at a bank. Not just any bank: Capital One, a fina…

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Apple Raises Prices on Most Products by 15–25 Percent, but Not iPhones, Watches, or AirPods

Rolfe Winkler, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): The company briefly took down its Apple Online Store early this morning as it typically does when announcing new products. When it came back online, the price tags for Mac computers rose roughly 15% to 20% and iPad…

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Increasing Local GPS Accuracy for a Small Robot

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Top Anti-Patterns to Avoid in Service Architecture

In this article, we will look at some of the most important anti-patterns in service architecture, how they happen, and how they can be avoided.

Cheap 80s Keyboard Gets Modern Brain Upgrade

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Flying Cell Towers Are A Thing

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Large Language Models vs Small Language Models

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Fixing a Warped Paperback Spine With Gentle Heating

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An Ex-Meta L8’s Agentic Engineering Setup

If you’re on the same journey of making your work with agents more productive and enjoyable, I hope this gives you a head start and shortcuts some of your own exploration.

CSS On The ESP32

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