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Phia accused of ‘cookie stuffing,’ taking affiliate credit on purchases it didn’t earn
Phia, the shopping startup founded by Bill Gates’ daughter, Phoebe, and her friend, Sophia Kianni, is under fire for a practice known as “cookie stuffing,” which helped the product receive commissions and credit for sales it did not actually generate, per a Bloomberg investigatio…
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Insta360’s Next Action Cam Could Be a Real GoPro Competitor
The new X6 360 camera has leaked.
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Google's TabFM skips per-dataset training and still predicts on tables it's never seen
The vast majority of business data is tabular — living in data warehouses, CRMs, and financial ledgers — yet building a reliable model from it still means training a new one from scratch for every dataset, then maintaining hyperparameter tuning loops, feature engineering, and ret…
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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: AI That Dispatches The Plumber, Underground Warfare And Cutting Down Private-Market Paperwork
The five most intriguing startup deals from the past month include one that’s simultaneously developing AI models for biology, a company that wants to prevent modern day private markets from the kind of paperwork crisis that shut down Wall Street in the ‘60s, and AI agents that c…
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Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft
Apple alleges the misconduct was directed by OpenAI's senior leadership, including a longtime former employee.
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US cyber agency CISA had to build its incident playbook during the incident, agency reveals
CISA said it "missed" an opportunity to get ahead of the security incident by not creating a response plan ahead of time.
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Researchers from Penn State and Duke tracked more than 700 children for 20 years and found that a kindergartner’s social skills — sharing, listening, cooperating — were stronger predictors of adult employment and college graduation than their reading level or academic scores
A 20-year study of more than 700 children found that how a five-year-old got on with others predicted adult employment and college graduation, holding up even after early reading level was taken into account.
siliconcanals.com
Jiying Technology Releases World First Zero-Shot Generalizable Solid Mechanics Physics Foundation Model
Jiying 2.0-s physics foundation model achieves zero-shot generalization across unseen geometries, materials, and boundary conditions, marking a milestone in physics AI for engineering simulation.
pandaily.com
[Update] WhatsApp & Telegram Submit Response To Centre’s Notice On Username Feature
Update | July 11, 02:30 IST After WhatsApp, Telegram has also reportedly submitted its reply to the IT ministry over…
inc42.com
Wisson Unveils Flexible Charge Universal Service Engine: Zero-Lag Adaptive EV Charging Robot
Wisson introduces the Flexible Charge automatic charging service engine with zero-second adaptive tolerance, covering public, dedicated, and home EV charging across 130+ vehicle models.
pandaily.com
The quiet grief of outgrowing a friendship neither of you did anything to break
Some friendships don't end in conflict — they simply thin until neither of you is quite sure when the last real conversation happened. Psychologists call this ambiguous loss, and it may be one of the most under-grieved experiences of adult life.
siliconcanals.com
Xiaomi opens reservations for SkyNomad SUV series
Xiaomi EV has opened reservation consultations for SkyNomad, known in Chinese as Xiaomi Pengcheng, its new smart SUV series focused on flexible in-car space. The product line is positioned separately from Xiaomi’s SU7 and YU7 series. The first SkyNomad model is expected to use a …
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Write code like a human will maintain it
Article URL: https://unstack.io/write-code-like-a-human-will-maintain-it Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859701 Points: 325 # Comments: 269
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Robot Dog in Browser
You’ve doubtlessly seen the current crop of robot dogs and, if you are like us, thought about getting one to play with. The problem is that the cheap ones are …read more
hackaday.com
The Agent Loop: How AI Goes From Answering Questions to Doing Things
In this article, we will walk through that progression. We will also look at how an agent is structured, what choices the model makes on every turn, what scaffolding holds it together, and when an agent is actually the right pattern to reach for.
bytebytego.com
GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]
https://x.com/__eknight__/status/2075643450196971805, https://xcancel.com/__eknight__/status/2075643450196971805 Prompt: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/04d1d1e4-bc75-476a-97cf-49055cd98... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48863490 Points: 345 # Comments: 280
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Documenting the IR Protocol of the PumpSaver Plus Device
Having a pump in a remote location where you aren’t constantly monitoring it is a common scenario, which can be unfortunate when said pump runs into problems like a dry …read more
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New York City to to ban deceptive subscription practices
https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/07/mayor-mamdani... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48863464 Points: 414 # Comments: 215
The Guardian
Hackaday Podcast Episode Ep 377: Parallel Pixels, Wiggly Consoles, and Seven Segments
This week’s podcast sees Elliot joined by Jenny List, as both suffer silently in the European summer heat because the sound of a desk fan would come over on the …read more
hackaday.com
3D Printed Scooter Fits in Your Luggage, Some Assembly Required
Though [Ivan Miranda] calls the 3D printed vehicle in his recent video a motorbike, what he ultimately pulls out of his suitcase is clearly a scooter. Linguistic confusion aside, the …read more
hackaday.com
Streaming vs Batch: Two Philosophies of Data Processing
When is the data complete enough to be moved to the compute stage?
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