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- OpenAI wants California to toughen the AI law it once fought
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- The biggest question about AI is what humans will do next
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- MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
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- Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence
- Show HN: I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines
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- Ask HN: Good large format (>20 inches) touchscreen E-Paper display options?
- Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model
- Show HN: A Modern GUI Library for Ada: CSS Styling, XML UI, SDL3
- LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines
- Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study
- Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation
- One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed
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- Could we dredge the Netherlands without fossil fuels? (2018)
- Show HN: How to mentally calculate the day of the week for any date
Ars Technica
- AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds
- Data centers become "killer application" for new power transformer tech
- RFK Jr. may upend how vaccine recommendations are categorized
- Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they're coming for monitors.
- GM vehicles under federal scrutiny after hundreds of reports
- Inaudible sounds used to fingerprint browsers catch AliExpress red-handed
- Buyer beware: Those mummified remains might carry toxic spores
- Nvidia senior manager linked to Supermicro scheme smuggling AI servers to China
- F1 in the Netherlands: The driver you most want to beat is your teammate
- Trump tried to curb clean energy. It’s booming anyway.
- Review: Chuwi's $449 Unibook laptop is a funhouse-mirror MacBook Neo
- Due to need for "absolute success," China delays critical Moon launch to 2027
- Volcanoes that made history
- Putting mice into hibernation causes a major loss of synapses
- Dismantling the Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife and water in US
- Trump's space transportation policy calls for new spaceport on federal land
- Thunder + fiber-optic cabling used for seismic imaging
- Hidden Zillow listings created fake supply shock, raising NYC rents, lawsuit says
- Motorola's GrapheneOS phones will launch in 2027 priced higher than Pixels
- Lawsuit demands Logitech hand tariff refunds over to customers
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Slashdot
- World's Oceans Hit Highest Temperature On Record As El Nino Grows
- Amazon Hikes Hardware Prices By 60%, Blaming Memory Shortage
- SEC Investigating Near-Implosion of AI Hedge Fund
- Trump Admin Moves to Impose More Than $100K Fee For H-1B Worker Visas
- Raspberry Pi Shares Its Official Tutorial For Making a Cyberdeck
- Nvidia Senior Manager Linked To Supermicro Scheme Smuggling AI Servers To China
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- Humanoid Robots Run 100 Meters Faster Than Usain Bolt's Record Pace
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- One-Third of Web Pages are Now Written With AI, Says Pew Research
- Could Mecha Comet's Linux PC-Phone Hybrid Be the Future of Linux Smartphones?
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BoingBoing
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- Sources: Nvidia-backed neocloud Lambda is in talks to raise up to $3B at a $12B+ valuation; its revenue this year is estimated to reach $1.5B+ (Bloomberg)
- Sources: Apple is about to launch a new Mac mini, potentially before its September iPhone event; Apple has tested versions with M5 and M6 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users, after weeks without the restriction, saying it would smoothen the load on its compute (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
- Researchers detail the growing use of AI in cyberattacks across many Chinese state-linked groups, primarily using open-weight models like Kimi K3 and DeepSeek (Mark Anderson/Bloomberg)
- Quintessent, a startup making optical interconnects for data centers, raised a $40M Series A led by Cycle Capital, following its $11.4M seed round in 2024 (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
- Docs: Meta plans to launch its version of OpenClaw, codenamed Hatch, in late August or early September and its latest AI model, Watermelon, in October (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
- Apple reverses its plan to move iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses to private.icloud.com after user backlash; the feature will continue using the icloud.com domain (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
- Sources: smart ring maker Oura and some of its backers seek to raise up to $3B in a US IPO that could take place as soon as September and value it at over $16B (Bloomberg)
- Source: robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete physical tasks in April, raised ~$200M led by 8VC, after raising $400M in June (Dan Primack/Axios)
- Canada-based logistics software company Descartes acquires Tai, a California-based transportation management system provider, for $100M in cash (Colin Campbell/Axios)
- At his first Cursor all-hands, Musk said Grok needs to catch up, AI will become impossible for humans to control, Anthropic is leading the AI race, and more (Grace Kay/The Information)
- Mercury Research: AMD's share of x86 client CPU shipments tops 30% for the first time, hitting 30.3% in Q2, up from 21.1% two years earlier, vs. Intel's 69.7% (Michael Kan/PCMag)
- The UK backs Ofcom to take "tough action" under the OSA against social media sites failing to remove dangerous driving videos, after a crash killed seven people (Raphael Boyd/The Guardian)
- Alabama AG Steve Marshall launches an investigation into OpenAI's security procedures following the Hugging Face breach in July (Cassandre Coyer/Bloomberg Law)
- The UK becomes the first foreign nation to gain access to Ukrainian combat data used to train AI models to strike Russian targets, as part of an AI partnership (Financial Times)