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I. Meet cute Barnabas and Mainspring grew up near at hand, about an hour apart with good traffic, but for a long time they weren’t close. They traded glimpses and occasional hellos and then went about their business. Both of them carried on livelier conversations with farther-flu…
MIT Technology Review
IEEE Offers More Services to Cities That Want to Be Smarter
More and more city governments are using advanced technologies to improve livability for their residents. Municipalities use data from smartphones and sensors for traffic enforcement, traffic control, and waste management. They also have implemented artificial intelligence and de…
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Porsche’s electric Macan Turbo is an automotive existential crisis
The 2026 Porsche Macan Turbo EV is a two-row crossover with 630 horsepower and a 100-kilowatt-hour battery.
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This implant can restore sight for patients with macular degeneration
More than 5 million people around the world with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) experience atrophy in their retinas. And until now, no treatment could restore their vision. The PRIMA system, which was approved in Europe in July and is awaiting FDA clearance in the US, cha…
MIT Technology Review
Asia’s Startup Funding At Near Record High In Q3, Driven By AI
Overall, investors put $38.5 billion into reported seed- through growth-stage financings for Asian startups in Q3, per Crunchbase data. Of that, a majority went to AI-focused companies, echoing the trends we’ve seen globally.
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After Muse Launch, U.S. Banks Are Saying Hell No to AI Agents Moving Money
Fortunately, Charles Schwab CEO Rick Wurster says only a relative handful of dummies are trying to.
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Ant Group open-sources 560-billion-parameter Ling-3.1-flash AI model
Ant Group has released the weights of Ling-3.1-flash, making its AI model available for developers to deploy on their own infrastructure. The model has approximately 560 billion total parameters, activates about 25 billion per token and supports a context window of up to one mill…
technode.com
Unitree Releases UniUni Swarm Control Software, Free for Its Users, Starting With H2 and G1
The Windows and macOS app lets users draw paths, arrange timelines, sync motion to music and monitor a fleet of humanoids, with a one-tap emergency stop.
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Cult.fit Gets SEBI Clearance For ₹950 Cr+ IPO
Markets regulator SEBI has given its go-ahead to gym chain Cult.fit’s ₹950 Cr IPO about three months after it filed…
inc42.com
Internal Meta messages appear to back Lula’s claims of account being held back
Internal Meta messages obtained by Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo show engineers scrambling over a bug that throttled Lula's Instagram reach while boosting Bolsonaro's, days before Brazil's runoff. Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, la…
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DeepSeek Adds Standalone Search and Fetch APIs for Agents, Priced at 5 Yuan per 1,000 Calls
The new endpoints return structured web results or a page as Markdown. Each costs 5 yuan per 1,000 successful requests and is capped at 5 queries per second per account.
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Rokid and Tencent Mobility Bring Voice Ride-Hailing to AI Glasses via Agent-to-Agent Link
Users say a destination and the glasses handle pickup points, fare comparison, booking and password-free payment, with car details shown in view while they wait.
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The Trials And Tribulations Of Your First Badge
On the face of it, making an event badge should be an easy process. After all, most of us can hand-assemble a microcontroller, some buttons, a battery, and a screen. …read more
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Llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console
Article URL: https://github.com/cobanov/PS5LM Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122431 Points: 208 # Comments: 54
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The Terminator Problem: How Teaching an LLM One Bad Habit Can Change Its Behavior
To understand why this happens, we need to connect three ideas: how models learn, how they generalize beyond their examples, and how they exhibit different kinds of behavior.
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90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks
Article URL: https://www.mercor.com/research/labor-index/benchmark-map/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50121179 Points: 411 # Comments: 349
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Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins
https://words.filippo.io/seeds-solved/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122800 Points: 697 # Comments: 274
anthropic.com
How to Design for Failures
In this article, we’ll look at the various strategies that can help developers deal with failures in their systems.
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Simplifying Slide Rule Calculations with Trig
[Bob the Science Guy] remembers how to use a slide rule. Even after all these years, it is pretty easy to remember how to multiply and divide. If you can’t …read more
hackaday.com
The 10€ Gamepad
We aren’t sure what [Lazy_Duck] is doing with video games, but it must require a lot of controllers. Dismayed at the cost and complexity of commercial gamepads, they started soldering …read more
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Hackaday Podcast Episode 391: Tuned in to ESP32 SDR, New Old Pagers, and Bugs on Mars
Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start this episode off with a discussion about Philadelphia’s budding hacker conference and the imminent retirement of the EZ80. After considering the parallels …read more
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