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We Finally Know What Mike Flanagan’s New ‘Exorcist’ Is About

'The Exorcist: Martyrs,' starring Scarlett Johansson, opens March 12, 2027.

OpenAI Dumps 377 New Math Results on GitHub, Publishes Hand-Wringing Blog Post

If you're a professional mathematician, you might not be thrilled.

How to find out if Amazon thinks you have ‘flat buttocks’

"I stumbled upon a page of assumptions that Amazon has made about me based on my purchases and I’m literally speechless," one shopper wrote on Threads.

The Young Star of ‘Crystal Lake’ Teases His Look for Little Jason

The future killer's appearance is being kept under wraps before the show hits Peacock next week.

Steve Jobs, Walking Through a Mockup for Apple Park in 2010

What an apt photo, today of all days. What a gift Make Something Wonderful is. ★

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Silicon Valley’s AI wunderkind launches Underdog, the most private Instinct/Muse competitor yet

Sigil Wen, backed by a Silicon Valley who's who, has built an on-device AI assistant that promises to be free, fully private, and capable for everyday tasks.

International tech

ServiceNow’s India Bet: Can It Put AI To Work Inside Enterprises?

Enterprise software major ServiceNow is betting that its next leg of growth in India will come not just from digitisation…

openJiuwen's DigitalMate Turns One Sentence Into a Native Task Screen on HarmonyOS

openJiuwen's DigitalMate, a HarmonyOS task-center agent, merges travel, local services, email and media from one request, builds native screens with A2UI, and asks before acting.

Facebook Tests Reels-First UX In India

Meta has started testing a new video-first feed for Facebook in India, where users will now encounter a full-screen, Reels-centric…

Go All-Electric By July 2027: Maharashtra Govt To Bike Taxi Aggregators

The Maharashtra government has reportedly directed all bike taxi aggregators, including Rapido, Uber and Ola, to transition to an all-electric…

Huawei Mate 90 Pools Networks of Up to Four Phones, Cutting Video-Call Stutter 90% in Rail Test

Huawei's Mate 90 can pool the cellular connections of up to four nearby Huawei devices; Richard Yu said a Beijing-Shanghai rail test cut video-call stutter by 90%.

JioHotstar expands to Middle East with Starzplay partnership

JioHotstar is now live in the Middle East and North Africa through Starzplay — no standalone app, no infrastructure build. Five weeks after its international debut, Reliance's streaming platform is scaling fast and light. Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global t…

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Meta Wants to Write the Industry Standards for Safe Agentic Commerce, Report Says

Meta's Muse agent has been implicated in several privacy and security issues since it launched less than a month ago.

We Asked Starbucks Why Their ‘Sugar-Free’ Drinks Have Sugar and Now We’re Just More Confused

There's a big difference between "sugar free" and "no added sugar."

Happy IEEE Day!

Happy IEEE Day 2026! IEEE Day is an annual event that celebrates the first time in history when engineers worldwide gathered to share their technical ideas in 1884. One of the IEEE Day’s objectives is to show the ways IEEE members, in local communities, join together to collabora…

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A Headset Fit For A Hackaday Writer

I started writing this from a commuter train passing at speed through the outskirts of London, and my headset had just broken. The flexible joint that attaches one earpiece to …read more

DIY Algae Biodiesel is Harder Than You Think

There’s one thing [Silent H] wants you to know before you watch his video about making biodiesel, embedded below: he started this project before he’d even heard of the Strait …read more

The LLM Blindspot: Why Models Forget What’s in the Middle of Your Prompt

In this article, we’ll look at why LLMs have this bias against middle information.

Last 3 days: AI Evals, October cohort

Secure your spot in AI Evals in Practice. Enrollment closes in just 3 days! If you’ve been thinking about joining, now’s the time.

The EDG C++ Compiler Frontend has been Open Sourced

Recently [John Spicer] of the EDG C++ compiler front-end project announced that the project will be made open source, from now on managed by the non-profit C++ Alliance. Related source …read more

OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI

Article URL: https://github.com/FeSens/openTPU Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49980715 Points: 234 # Comments: 300

Sharing AI progress in mathematics

https://github.com/openai/math https://github.com/openai/math/tree/main/preprints Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49984923 Points: 422 # Comments: 352

Scientists Create Hexagonal Packed Ice at Extreme Pressures

One of the problems with planetary science is that you generally cannot easily investigate the exact conditions in their interior, so you’re left to extrapolate what is happening inside them …read more

Why LLMs Agree With You Even When You’re Wrong

When LLMs sometimes agree with incorrect claims, it is mostly because their training rewards such behaviour. This reward system is built on several things at once, such as accuracy, helpfulness, politeness, and responses that people like.