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PSA: Apple’s Private Relay can leak your real IP address
A bug in how Apple implements its Private Relay feature, which in theory masks users’ IP addresses from the sites they visit, can reveal users’ real IP addresses.
techcrunch.com
A Mystery Object in the Milky Way Is Blasting Out Particles 100 Times More Powerful Than the LHC
The cosmic accelerator can push protons beyond one quadrillion electric volts.
gizmodo.com
Your AI Strategy May Be Destroying Your Exit Value
While integrating AI into a startup's product strategy is often viewed as a way to enhance valuation, it can inadvertently reduce exit value, argues tech strategic adviser Itay Sagie. In this guest commentary he shares three ways your AI strategy can provide a positive impact on …
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The Shai-Hulud npm worm didn't fake its security check — it earned a legitimate one
An attacker on Tuesday took over the GitHub account of the developer who maintains keyv, a small key-value storage library that npm serves roughly 127 million times a week. Within hours, poisoned versions of keyv and its sibling caching packages were live on npm, carrying a crede…
venturebeat.com
‘The Apothecary Diaries’ Stars Break Down the Mystery, Romance, and Frog Between Jinshi and Maomao
The smash-hit period piece drama anime's Japanese voice actors also wondered how far they should take the internet-breaking "frog scene."
gizmodo.com
‘Nobody Wanted to Give A Former Principal Money’: How An Educator Built An Edtech AI Startup With $63M From VCs
Founded by an educator fascinated by the educational potential of ChatGPT, MagicSchool AI leads off a series of articles featuring startup founders from non-technical backgrounds who have launched successful venture-backed companies.
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International tech
China’s AI revenue projected to reach US$13b on breakthroughs, adoption: Goldman Sachs
Rising cost efficiency and rapidly advancing capabilities from players like DeepSeek and MiniMax have prompted Goldman Sachs to raise its run-rate revenue forecast for China’s artificial intelligence model market by 30 per cent to US$13 billion. In a research note published on Mo…
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Chinese commercial rocket company i-Space completes first tranche of nearly RMB1 billion Series E funding
Chinese commercial rocket company Beijing Interstellar Glory, also known as i-Space, has completed the first tranche of a Series E funding round worth nearly RMB1 billion. The investors are mainly bank-affiliated asset-management institutions, while the broader round remains unde…
technode.com
China’s Moonshot AI aims for US$50b round as year-end Hong Kong IPO targeted: sources
Chinese unicorn Moonshot AI has started and is expected to close its latest financing round by the end of this month, as it dismantles its offshore structure to pave the way for a potential Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) as early as the end of the year, according to two …
scmp.com
Growth without work: The human cost of the AI revolution
In an excerpt from his book “The New Divide: Power, Control & the Cost of AI,” writer Jibu Elias examines the technology’s impact on jobs.
restofworld.org
The Dunning-Kruger effect isn’t what everyone thinks it is: the original 1999 study found bottom-quartile performers overestimated their standing by about 50 percentile points, not that confident people are stupid
The pop version of Dunning-Kruger — confident people are stupid, smart people are humble — bears almost no resemblance to what the 1999 paper actually found, and the misreading has become the internet's favourite rhetorical weapon.
siliconcanals.com
When Quantum Meets AI: Six Academicians Chart a New Blueprint for Smart Computing
At the 5th CCF Quantum Computing Conference in Shenzhen, six CAS and CAE academicians outlined a national road map for AI-enabled quantum error correction and a unified quantum-supercomputing-AI infrastructure.
pandaily.com

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Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet
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Cell Broadcast: The Modern Emergency Alert System
Once upon a time, telephones were primarily point-to-point communications systems. There were options for three-way and conference calls out there, but by and large the plain old telephone system was …read more
hackaday.com
How Big Models Teach Small Models to Be Smart
In this article, we will walk through the idea from the ground up.
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Demis Hassabis is moving from CEO to Chairman at Google DeepMind
Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/08/05/google-deepmind-demis-hassabis-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184757 Points: 369 # Comments: 1
axios.com
Why An LLM’s Memory Gets Expensive and How to Fix It
In this article, we will learn how LLMs use memory, how it gets expensive, and how to fix it.
bytebytego.com
FLOSS Weekly Episode 878: A Tool With Opinions
This week Jonathan chats with Jonathan Pallant about embedded Rust! Learn about the growing Rust driver library, the different ways to build a Rust stack on an embedded device, and …read more
hackaday.com
Discovery Loop
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Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
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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.
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