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Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns

A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.

TikTok Permabans ‘Musk’ Film Account

TikTok cites its policy on political content.

‘We’ve Heard You’: Meta Tweaks Controversial Website-Scraping Terms Slightly

Still, it appears Meta will be gobbling up plenty of data.

Mike Flanagan’s ‘Dark Tower’ Plan Is to Be Faithful

'Dark Tower' plans can maybe sigh in relief as Flanagan sketches out his approach to the upcoming show.

Ember’s new temperature-controlled mug makes my nightly tea ritual even better

The biggest change about Ember's new mug is that you no longer have to open the app to adjust your drink’s temperature.

Whatever You Say Bounces Off Me and Sticks to You

Stephen Nellis and Deepa Seetharaman, reporting Wednesday for Reuters: An OpenAI employee who left the ChatGPT maker for Apple sent more than 100 files about an unreleased product to a personal account and later made a presentation about the unreleased product to senior Apple le…

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Decoding Urban Company’s ₹2,500 Cr Fundraise Proposal

Listed home services major Urban Company’s board approved a proposal to raise up to ₹2,500 Cr yesterday, seeking to shore…

Nazara, Groww Gain Among New-Age Tech Stocks This Week, AceVector Falls 18%

Fewer than half of the 67 new-age tech stocks under Inc42’s coverage advanced this week despite a broader market recovery.…

Zhejiang University's EMem-Bench Tests Whether Embodied Agents Remember What They Saw and Tried

The benchmark's 2,554 executable episodes test whether agents can recall, update and reuse memories in simulated homes. The top model averages 64.2%; the team's EMem memory system adds large gains.

Starlink, Jio & OneWeb: Untangling The Satcom Queue

The irony was not lost on many. Around the same time as the internet in India’s national capital Delhi was…

WeChat for HarmonyOS Adds A2A Link With Huawei's Celia for Voice Messages and Calls

Version 8.0.22 lets users ask Celia to text a WeChat friend or start a voice or video call. Group chats, stickers and WeChat's cloned accounts are not supported yet.

Burma Burma Parent’s FY26 Loss Surges 31X YoY To ₹15 Cr

Restaurant chain Burma Burma’s parent entity, Hunger Pangs Limited, saw its net loss skyrocket nearly 31X to ₹15.4 Cr in…

Anthropic says its workforce has become less junior and is spending more time in meetings

The composition of Anthropic’s workforce and the type of work getting done have changed significantly in the past year.

TikTok permanently bans ‘Musk’ documentary advertising account

A four-hour documentary about Elon Musk continues to meet resistance from social media platforms.

‘Red Rising’ Will Continue the Sci-Fi Book-to-Film Pipeline

Once he's done with the next 'Hunger Games' movie, Francis Lawrence will try his hand at adapting 'Red Rising.'

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EP229: 8 Chunking strategies for RAG-based agents

Which chunking strategy are you running in production?

DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests

Article URL: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50138531 Points: 269 # Comments: 121

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Turning a Wi-Fi Adapter into an SDR

Since the discovery of an undocumented I/Q sampling feature in ESP32 chips about two weeks ago, there’s been a flood of similar features being found in other wireless chips, including …read more

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.

I Became a Citizen of Japan

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NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/new-york-rep-announces-game-ownership-bill-that-would-require-consumer-ownership-rather-than-sale-of-licenses-would-also-require-publishers-to-keep-the-game-functional-after-support-ends Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.…

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2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Dollhouse Arcade Cabinet Runs Remote DOS Games

Classic DOS games never ran from within stand-up arcade cabinets in dollhouses, but [Juha Lilja] imagines a world in which they did. His Micro DOS arcade cabinet is described as …read more

Evolving RC circuits

We are surrounded by evolving algorithms and AI models, and it feels like we have to evolve to them as well. Of course, the world itself is always evolving, and …read more

Making a New Mechanism for a Reciprocating Pencil Sharpener

An engineer’s greatest tool is the writing utensil. Be it pen or pencil, we use them for everything from making diagrams to marking out cuts. But as with any practitioner …read more