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Measles Cases Hit New Record in U.S., as Stupid-Americans Reject Vaccines
Teddy Rosenbluth, reporting for The New York Times: On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that there have been 2,318 confirmed cases of measles so far this year. The case count toppled the record set last year, when measles infected more than 2,200 A…
New York Times
Poetry for Engineers: A Martian Rover Sends a Postcard Home
Already, I’ve almost forgotten rain; I know I will never know that again. I move forward with the powers you gave me to live up to my name, Curiosity. This is a land without leaves, fronds, or spines. If there are plants, they are small and supine, dust hidden, like light here, f…
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‘AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making’
Fascinating essay by Nikhil Suresh: On a trip overseas, I had the privilege of a meeting with one of the Fortune 500 executives mentioned at the beginning of the post, who will remain anonymous so that they are not executed by firing squad by their board. As we were chatting, it …
ludic.mataroa.blog
Warner Bros. lawsuit accuses Amazon of illegally poaching executives
The lawsuit will likely renew debates about whether term employment agreements are enforceable under California. law
techcrunch.com
EU Fines Google $1 Billion for DMA Competition Violations, Including Making Search Results More Useful
The European Commission on Thursday: The Commission found that Google gives preferential treatment to its own services, including shopping, hotels, transport and sports results, over those of third parties in Google Search, thereby breaching its obligations under the DMA. Google …
digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu
‘Neuromancer’ Teaser Trailer Brings William Gibson’s Novel to Life
Apple surprised the crowd at San Diego Comic-Con with the first teaser for 'Neuromancer.'
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International tech
Chengdu Emerges as China Digital Economy Top Contender: APEC Digital Week Spotlights Western City AI Infrastructure, Green Computing, and Open Innovation Ecosystem
Chengdu hosts APEC Digital Week 2026 with 29,000 P computing capacity, green hydro-solar power advantage, 315 Fortune 500 companies, and unique cultural-creative AI ecosystem as Western China digital hub.
pandaily.com
FY26 Financial Tracker: Tracking The Financial Performance Of Indian Startups
The Indian startup ecosystem continued to mature in FY26, with 22 new-age tech companies making their public market debut as…
inc42.com
Air Ambulance eVTOL Flies Into Shanghai: TCab Tech M1 Medical Evacuation Variant Debuts as Airworthiness Window Approaches and Low-Alt Economy Faces Commercial Reality Check
TCab Tech M1 air ambulance eVTOL debuts at Shanghai Low-Alt Economy Expo, reducing ground medical transport from 90 minutes to 15 minutes; Volant signs Indonesia deal; Shanghai airworthiness platform launches.
pandaily.com
The West is debating AI’s future with half the world absent
On July 13, more than 200 leading economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates, signed an open letter organised by the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. Its warning was stark: artificial intelligence may drive an economic transformation “larger than the Industrial Revo…
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Apple’s biggest-ever leak happened in India. Will firms rethink their China relocations?
When Apple set its sights on India as its next promising market, CEO Tim Cook planned to take a leaf out of the company’s China playbook – a retail and manufacturing strategy that had paid hefty dividends to the US tech giant. “We are, in essence, taking what we learned in China …
scmp.com
3 Days, 3 Rockets, 15 Satellites: Computing Satellites Enter Orbit as China Commercial Space Enters Scaled Commercial Cycle
Orienspace Gravity-1, CZ-3B, and CAS Space Lijian-1 launch three missions in three days carrying 15 satellites including AI computing payloads and space debris monitoring.
pandaily.com

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Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach
Article URL: https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/features/professor-hannah-fry-wins-leelavati-prize Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49043724 Points: 558 # Comments: 99
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Team Repair Breaks Things to Teach People How to Fix Them
Would you buy a broken device, fix it, then return the repaired item? [Team Repair] hopes you will. Many people would rather repair what they have than have to get …read more
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Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment
Article URL: https://tobi.knaup.me/2026-07-25-open-weight-ai-is-having-its-kubernetes-moment/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49048034 Points: 291 # Comments: 236
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Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040741 Points: 364 # Comments: 216
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Taking Tri-Camera True-Color Infrared Videos
Silicon-based CMOS camera sensors are cheap and plentiful, but they’re rarely used to their full potential: they can detect a greater range of wavelengths in the infrared spectrum than they …read more
hackaday.com
A Beginner’s Guide to Clocks, Causality, and Ordering in Distributed Systems
Why does something as simple as reading the time become a hard problem for distributed systems?
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Add Sensors to Everything!
“You can’t control what you can’t measure” goes the old chestnut. But that’s a little bit negative, in my opinion. Instead, think of the benefits of sprinkling sensors around everywhere: …read more
hackaday.com
Repairing a RED Cinema Camera On The Cheap
[ALT CINE] took a punt recently when purchasing a damaged RED Komodo camera online. In functional form, the 6K-capable camera sells for several thousand pounds (or dollars, or euros), whether …read more
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Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/health/taylor-farms-cyclospora-recall-delay-call-41fef0bc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49044074 Points: 313 # Comments: 205
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