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Coiner of ‘Enshittification’ Endorses ‘Dickover’

Speaking of dickovers, here’s Cory Doctorow, writing this week at Pluralistic: Seizing the means of computation isn’t theft, it’s bargaining. Commercial surveillance companies will tell you that by spying on you, they are simply engaged in a marketplace exchange in which you swap…

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Sixers Sign LeBron James

The betting odds for the Sixers to win the NBA championship went from 20-1 to 10-1. Here’s James on Twitter/X, explaining his decision: This is my last decision. I’m not going for money. I’m not going for family. What am I really playing for at this point? I still want to sacrifi…

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Physical AI Startup Atoms Leads In Varied Week For Large Deals

Startup investors poured capital into a varied lineup of large rounds this week, targeting sectors including physical AI, biotech, cybersecurity, AI infrastructure and fintech.

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Volkswagen engineers charged with insider trading tied to Rivian joint venture

The indictment, which was unsealed Friday, alleges the Volkswagen engineers used confidential insider information to buy stock in Rivian.

Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage

AI coding startup Cognition has acquired Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, in a deal valuing the startup in the low nine figures. The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief t…

General Catalyst Takes The Lead Over Y Combinator In Backing $5M+ Fintech Deals

For the first time in several quarters, General Catalyst in Q2 overtook Y Combinator when it came to participating in the most fintech deals of $5 million or more, per Crunchbase data. The quarter also marked the busiest one for General Catalyst since 2021 in terms of investing i…

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AutoFlight Moves Beyond Concept Racing to Offshore Operations: Low-Altitude Commercialization Enters the Practical Combat Phase With SF Express Partnership and Overseas Certification

AutoFlight accelerates low-altitude logistics commercialization through SF Express offshore wind partnership, Indonesia type certification, and cargo-first aircraft strategy targeting real operational routes by 2027.

Turning Celebrity Endorsements From One-Time Announcements Into Long-Term Operations: Yaowang Technology AI-Driven Marketing Platform Builds Continuous Brand Assets

Yaowang Technology, China first listed live-streaming e-commerce company, transforms celebrity endorsements into continuous brand operations through content production, livestream conversion, and asset management systems.

Singapore’s millionaire density hit 1 in 6 households — and the mental health data is telling a very different story about what that wealth is buying

Singapore now has the highest millionaire density in Asia, with roughly one in six households holding at least US$1 million in investable assets. The country's mental health and burnout data suggests the wealth is buying something real — but not what the skyline advertises.

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Chinese robot co-workers on the rise. Say hello to AI cobots

While China’s humanoid robots and automated “dark factories” have made headlines, another form of automation has been advancing: the collaborative robot, or cobot. Designed to operate alongside human employees, cobots have been transformed by machine learning and artificial intel…

Honor confirms August launch for Robot Phone with 4DoF gimbal

Honor has confirmed that its Robot Phone will launch in August, bringing a four-degree-of-freedom mechanical gimbal to the top of a smartphone. The titanium-alloy gimbal uses miniature motors, with a volume that is 70% smaller than mainstream solutions, according to the company. …

China Embodied Intelligence Enters Early Commercialization: PwC White Paper and Morgan Stanley Forecast $15 Billion Market by 2030

PwC China AI Research Institute inaugural report forecasts three-robot-form division by 2030; Morgan Stanley projects 446,000 humanoid units shipped annually with $15B market size.

Anduril reportedly in talks to raise funding at $100B valuation, more than 3x last year’s mark

Anduril is said to be raising a new round of funding that may push its valuation up to about $100 billion, per Reuters.

PlayStation’s Day-Long Outage Has Gamers Asking What’s So Wrong with Discs

PlayStation Network has been on the fritz for the past eight hours, and Sony isn't helping by keeping quiet.

2022 IEEE President K.J. Ray Liu Honored for His Leadership

Unlike many budding engineers, K.J. Ray Liu wasn’t inspired to enter the field by tinkering with electronics or following in the footsteps of a family member. Growing up in Taichung, Taiwan, he answered his government’s call for students to become electrical engineers to help man…

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Best Practices for Building AI Agents That Work in Production

In this article, we try to explore the collective thinking into a smaller set of practices and explain the reasoning behind each one, rather than asking anyone to memorize a numbered list.

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-system-card Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49038433 Points: 847 # Comments: 473

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models

Letter: https://images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-Weights-and-American-AI-L... [pdf] https://x.com/JensenHuang/status/2080643682408321103, https://xcancel.com/JensenHuang/status/2080643682408321103 https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valley-is-completely-div..., https://archive.ph/LAkVI…

Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS

Article URL: https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/haiku-nvidia-porting-nvidia-driver-for-turing-gpus/16520?page=18 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49034868 Points: 207 # Comments: 32

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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?

This Week in Security: AI is a Mess, Hacking Car Chargers, an OpenSSL DoS, and Factories Under Attack

[Ayush Paul] posts about extracting data from Claude agents while it accesses web data to fulfill user requests. But it wasn’t that easy. [Ayush] discovered that Anthropic anticipated many of …read more

Hackaday Podcast Episode 379: Driving E-ink DIY, NES on ESP, and the Other IRC

On this episode, Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi discuss their love of electronic paper, clunky cartridges, and keeping old games alive by any means possible. You’ll also hear …read more

Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency and LLM-Generated Code Projects

Community-led open source project hosting site Codeberg has formally announced that projects whose code is largely or fully machine-generated through LLMs and other ‘AI’ tools will no longer be welcome. …read more

Keeping Mosquitoes Away with Catnip-Based Repellent

Despite their small size, mosquitoes are one of the deadliest creatures on Earth, and keeping them away from you is one of the best ways to stay safe. DEET has …read more