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Meta just launched a new AI generator, Muse Image, and users are already pushing back over use of their photos
The new image-generating model has numerous use cases, including advertising and decorating, and creator-based opportunities.
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Discord Goes Ban-Happy, Suspends People for Benign Images
The auto-mod is out of control.
gizmodo.com
Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models
Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending.
techcrunch.com
Why the rise of open source AI isn’t hurting Anthropic … yet
Open source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life cycle.
techcrunch.com
OS 27 Developer Beta 3 Enables New ‘Pace’ and ‘Expressivity’ Sliders for Siri’s New Voices
Sarah Perez, writing for TechCrunch: With the latest iOS 27 developer beta, Apple is giving testers an early look at one of the upcoming improvements to its AI-powered Siri: the ability to adjust how quickly and expressively the AI assistant speaks. In iOS 27 beta 3, out today, A…
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Digital-native startups are ditching rigid databases for their agentic stacks     
Presented by MongoDB The gap between what AI models and agents can produce and what legacy infrastructure can reliably support is known as architectural drag, and it is the defining bottleneck of the agentic era.  The data layer underneath an agentic system must handle variable …
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International tech
I spent years reaching for my phone the moment anxiety hit, and then I found out sound therapists engineered an eight-minute song to slow your heart rate down to 50 beats per minute, and it works better than anything else I tried
For years, the moment anxiety hit, my hand went to my phone before my brain had finished registering what was happening. Not to call anyone. Not even to look anything up. Just to hold it, unlock it, scroll it, as if the object itself were a stress ball with a battery in it. It ne…
siliconcanals.com
Tencent HY Poaches OpenAI Researcher Tian Yonglong to Lead Multimodal AI
Tencent HY hires OpenAI research scientist Tian Yonglong as new multimodal model lead, reporting to chief AI scientist Yao Shunyu in the latest high-profile AI talent raid.
pandaily.com
Counterpoint: China’s 618 smartphone sales fall 13% year-on-year
According to market research firm Counterpoint Research, smartphone sales in China fell 13% year over year during the month-long 618 shopping festival, as major brands raised prices to offset higher memory costs. Between May 26 and June 21, all major Chinese smartphone brands exc…
technode.com
CCI Clears upGrad’s Unacademy Acquisition
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approved edtech major upGrad’s proposed acquisition of Unacademy. The competition watchdog approved the…
inc42.com
Glass crashes slashed? Ant Group embodied AI unit claims breakthrough in robot sensing
Robbyant, the embodied artificial intelligence arm of Chinese fintech giant Ant Group, launched a new vision model that it claims can help robots overcome a long-standing challenge: accurately perceiving glass, mirrors and transparent objects. The unit of Hangzhou-based Ant Group…
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AI Computing Reaches for Space: Nayuta Space Targets Orbital Data Center Constellation
China's Nayuta Space unveils Alaya orbital computing constellation, planning 12,500 AI compute satellites in sun-synchronous orbit with aerodynamic rocket recovery.
pandaily.com

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We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code
Article URL: https://odra.dev/slopfix/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48823359 Points: 248 # Comments: 152
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It’s Now Imperative That You Copy That Floppy
In the early 1990s, Don’t Copy That Floppy was an anti-piracy campaign that attempted to connect with computer-savvy youth through the power of hip-hop. While somewhat difficult to imagine given …read more
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The Atari Jaguar Runs Linux
Among the many forgotten might-have-beens of the games console world, the Atari Jaguar occupies a special place. It was the final gasp of Atari Corporation, the Jack Tramiel-era incarnation of …read more
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LAST CALL FOR ENROLLMENT: Become an AI Engineer - Cohort 7
Our 7th cohort of Becoming an AI Engineer starts in less than a week. This is a live, cohort-based course created in collaboration with best-selling author Ali Aminian and published by ByteByteGo.
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Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro
Article URL: https://ariya.io/2026/03/local-cpu-friendly-high-quality-tts-text-to-speech-with-kokoro/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48821576 Points: 352 # Comments: 72
ariya.io
Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI
Mostly vibe-coded Apple Containers front-end that I'd like to use myself. But if others want to use it, here's the source code. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48821848 Points: 250 # Comments: 52
davit.app
Reverse Engineering and Self-Hosting the OBI Smart Energy Tracker
Sold by German DIY store OBI, the OBI Energy Tracker is a €15 set of two devices, one of which you essentially stick on top of your existing electricity meter. …read more
hackaday.com
It’s Full Steam Ahead for This Motorized Canoe
In some parts of Canada, you’ll rarely hear someone use the phrase “whatever paddles your canoe” instead of the more usual “whatever floats your boat”– and apparently, at least for …read more
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Good Judgment Beats Good Prompts
2026.04 - "Judgement is the last human skill AI can't replace". Everyone is saying it. I am trying to understand it. I want you to get good at it. Let's get philosophical and practical.
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