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The Download: reward hacking explained, and suspected Iranian cyberattacks
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. Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals When two OpenAI models hacked into Hugging Face last month, they weren’t trying to mak…
MIT Technology Review
‘A Rare Land-Grab Moment’: Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy On The Next Wave of AI And Putting $3B In New Capital To Work
We speak with Menlo Ventures' Matt Murphy about why AI is pushing the firm toward larger deals, what it has learned from its Anthropic relationship, and where he sees the next big opportunities.
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Stop graphing everything: When GraphRAG actually beats vector RAG
If you have built anything with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in the last two years, you have lived its central frustration: You chop your documents into chunks, embed them, retrieve the top few that look similar to the question, and hand them to the model. For “What was o…
venturebeat.com
‘House of the Dragon’ Star Gayle Rankin on What It’s Like Being a Freaky Westeros Witch
Harrenhal's own Alys Rivers weighs in on the wild events of 'The Dragon in Winter.'
gizmodo.com
The System That Turned Paper Charts Into Digital Medical Records
Most hospitals and health care providers use electronic health records instead of paper charts to note patient vaccinations, diagnoses, and procedures. AthenaOne, Epic, and Oracle Health are some of the systems employed around the world. Many patients can access their electronic …
spectrum.ieee.org
The Tariff Refunds Are Rolling in—but Gadget Prices Aren’t Dropping
Amazon is promising you can get some refund back in a 'limited set of circumstances.'
gizmodo.com
International tech
[Update] Klassroom IPO: Issue Subscribed 98% On Day 2
Update | August 03, 20:25 IST The public issue of edtech company Klassroom ended the second day with a subscription…
inc42.com
China tightens chip-design protection and clarifies rights to spur innovation
China has revised regulations on the protection of chip design, a critical move to push for tech self-sufficiency amid US export controls. Premier Li Qiang signed a State Council decree to promulgate the revised rules on the protection of layout designs of integrated circuits, Xi…
scmp.com
Alibaba launches Qwen3.8 with 2.4 trillion parameters
Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8, a new foundation model with 2.4 trillion total parameters. The model is focused on coding and professional office tasks, with its API already available on Alibaba’s Qwen AI platform. Qwen3.8 has also been integrated into Alibaba’s newly launched Qwen…
technode.com
Spinny Converts Parent Into Public Entity Ahead Of IPO Plans
Used-car marketplace Spinny has converted its parent company, Valuedrive Technologies Private Ltd, into a public entity by dropping the “Private”…
inc42.com
People who are genuinely kind but have nobody to call in an emergency usually didn’t choose solitude — they often built a life of being counted on, never noticing that being counted on and being cared for had quietly become two different things
The kindest people often build lives where they're indispensable to everyone but dispensable to no one.
siliconcanals.com
Chinese Agent Tops OSWorld With 90.2% Success Rate: InAgent Crosses the 90% Threshold for Computer-Use Agents, Surpassing OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic Records
InAgent achieves 90.2% task success on OSWorld, the first Computer-Use Agent above 90%, with 100% on system-level tasks, as Harness engineering becomes the new AI competition frontier.
pandaily.com

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The 16K Display that Ate Las Vegas
You may have a 4K television. Perhaps you have even bought an 8K screen, despite the shortage of things worth watching in 8K. A 16K display is, today, a rarity. …read more
hackaday.com
New File Manager is C64’s Answer to Norton Commander
Norton was always a PC company — Norton Commander, the file manager that launched a thousand clones, was only ever available for DOS, like the rest of the company’s offerings …read more
hackaday.com
Congratulations to the Frikkin Laser Winners!
Apparently you all love lasers just as much as we do. We put out a challenge to use, build, or otherwise abuse our favorite coherent light sources, and you responded. …read more
hackaday.com
Devtools must be open source
Article URL: https://blog.exe.dev/devtools-must-be-open-source Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156111 Points: 305 # Comments: 105
exe.dev
LLM Security Basics: The Full Threat Model
In this article, we try to build a map of the full attack surface that threatens an LLM’s security.
bytebytego.com
Child-Friendly Music Player Uses RFID
[David] has a young child who is clever enough to use a computer to play music, but he doesn’t quite want to hand over the mouse just yet. Thus, he …read more
hackaday.com
Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days
Article URL: https://www.marlerblog.com/case-news/taylor-farms-has-rewritten-its-cyclospora-statement-four-times-in-sixteen-days-it-still-has-not-said-what-changed-at-that-plant-after-2013-or-why-two-thousand-negative-tests-should-mean-an/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c…
marlercom
Get a Remote Terminal With One Binary, One URL, and Zero Config
Launch a single static binary executable, send someone a QR code or URL (or failing that, text a numerical code or shout it across a room), and they’ll get an …read more
hackaday.com
ICE Collected Nearly 1M People's DNA Last Year–Including Young Children
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/ice-dna-collection-fbi-codis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49154237 Points: 222 # Comments: 100
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