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Capital One releases VulnHunter, an open-source AI tool that finds software flaws before hackers do
Capital One on Thursday released VulnHunter, an open-source, agentic AI security tool that scans source code for exploitable vulnerabilities, maps out how an attacker would reach them, and proposes targeted fixes — all before a single line ships to production. The tool, built int…
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China’s Xi Jinping Wants AI to Be Open to the World—and Out of America’s Control
Beijing is building an AI coalition with 29 countries, including Russia.
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Roblox Set to Introduce AI Game-Building Feature, Including on iOS
Roblox executives Nick Tornow and Vlad Loktev, on the Roblox blog: Twenty years ago, Roblox launched with a simple idea: “You make the game.” At the time, that was a radical proposition — most games were made by studios and professionals, and the idea that anyone could be a creat…
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Where Argentina And Spain Are Scoring Startup Goals
We put together a snapshot of recent startup funding tallies and trends for World Cup finalists Spain and Argentina. While neither accounts for a particularly large share of global or even regional investment, both have an intriguing pipeline of recently funded companies. Here's …
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Obviously, Bethesda Is Remastering ‘Fallout: New Vegas’ and ‘Fallout 3’
The remasters have been an extremely poorly kept secret for months, but now, they're official.
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Intuit scrapped its own AI agent architecture twice in four months. At VB Transform 2026, its AI VP called that the fast path
Intuit was an early pioneer in the usage of agentic AI, but its path to success has hardly been a straight line. At VB Transform 2026, Intuit VP of AI Nhung Ho described how the company rebuilt its agent architecture twice in the span of about four months, first moving from a fle…
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Sociologist Arlie Hochschild coined the term ’emotional labor’ in 1983 to describe flight attendants — four decades on, the same unpaid work has migrated into friendships, families and Slack channels
Arlie Hochschild's 1983 concept described the paid smile in an airline cabin. Four decades later, the same unpaid work runs through friendships, families and Slack channels — and the people carrying it are the last to notice they're working.
siliconcanals.com
China Most Expensive Large Model Arrives: Kimi K3 Priced at 3-15x That of DeepSeek, But Real Value May Not Be the Model Alone
Moonshot AI prices Kimi K3 at $3-15 per million tokens, 3-4x K2.6 pricing, signaling a strategic shift from cost leadership to high-value complex task capability as domestic computing ecosystem matures.
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IPO-Bound Jio Platforms’ Q1 Profit Jumps 9% YoY To ₹7,764 Cr
IPO-bound Jio Platforms reported a consolidated profit after tax (PAT) of ₹7,764 Cr in the first quarter of FY27 (Q1…
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Can AI beat a goldfish at calling the World Cup?
As chatbots compete to forecast the tournament, an unlikely rival from a Toronto fish tank continues to outperform them.
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Reliance Retail’s EBITDA Erodes In Q1 Amid Q-Comm Expansion
Quick commerce expansion loomed heavily over Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd. (RRVL) as the retail giant’s EBITDA margin declined 80 basis…
inc42.com
The parents and partners we stay closest to aren’t the ones who demand constant updates — they’re the ones who made contact easy without requiring you to arrive as a polished, working version of yourself
Attachment research from Purdue's Susan South and others keeps finding the same quiet pattern: the parents and partners we stay closest to are not the ones who audit our lives or demand constant updates, but the ones who made contact so low-friction we could show up unpolished, t…
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A Guide to Multi-Tenancy: Benefits and Challenges
In this article, we will understand multi-tenant architecture from the basics, along with its various benefits and challenges.
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Hackaday Podcast Episode 378: C Coders, Ceramic Printers, and Shadow Archives
It’s a hot one at both microphones, as Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos wilt in the heat with ice lollies and freezer packs. But still, we persevered long enough to …read more
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How Octopuses Hacked their Ribosome to Become Smart
A fascinating aspect in evolutionary biology is that of convergent evolution — whereby similar structures and functions evolve independently from each other. The highly advanced nervous system of octopuses is …read more
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The BornHack 2026 Cyber Ægg Is A Badge With A Life Afterwards
A problem facing the designers of event badges is this: what happens to the badge after the event? It’s one that designers have tried to solve in many ways with …read more
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Using Solar Air Heating to Dry Clothes
About a month ago, [Greenhill Forge] built a few solar panels to collect energy from the sun. Unlike solar photovoltaics, which turn sunlight directly into electricity, these were designed to …read more
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MacSurf Hits 2.0 To Bring PowerPCs back Online
There’s an interesting thing about retrocomputing — the moment that you realize your 25-year-old machine can do almost everything your average person uses a computer for. The problem is that the …read more
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Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/16/kimi-k3/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947717 Points: 295 # Comments: 156
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Kaiser nurses say AI, workplace surveillance are making their jobs, care worse
Article URL: https://localnewsmatters.org/2026/07/15/kaiser-nurses-say-ai-workplace-surveillance-are-making-their-jobs-and-patient-care-worse/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48952880 Points: 382 # Comments: 261
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AI Customer Support at Scale: The Travel Industry’s $Billion Bet
In this article, we will look more closely at the different solutions by following the support pipeline from first principles, show why a tail of cases resists automation regardless of model quality, and use these three approaches to understand how these can be handled.
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