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How I Learned That Some Startup Problems Are Too Big For A Minimum Viable Product
Complex, interconnected problems like compliance require a comprehensive product from the outset, argues guest columnist Daniel Kjellén, CEO and co-founder of Freda. Drawing on his experience selling Tink, he explains how repeat founders can combine capital, credibility and hard-…
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Los Angeles Officials Haven’t Plugged in USB Drive That DOJ Insists Is Full of Noncitizens Who Were Sent Ballots
Connecting the drive would violate "established data privacy and information security protocols," the Los Angeles County clerk said.
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The Download: faking blood and the future of batteries
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The US military’s race to make fake blood In February 2007, a US military helicopter carrying blood to a field hospital was shot down in Iraq,…
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IEEE Continues Preparations for the Realignment of Its Regions
Progress continues in restructuring IEEE’s geographic regions, as outlined in The Institute’s February 2023 article “IEEE Is Realigning Its Geographic Regions.” The “Region 1” designation will no longer be used. The new Region 2 will merge what is currently Region 1 (Northeaste…
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Flock CEO defends surveillance technology amid national backlash: ‘We shouldn’t pause progress’
At TechCrunch Disrupt, Flock CEO Garrett Langley defended his company's surveillance technology despite growing privacy concerns, arguing that its crime-fighting benefits outweigh the risks of abuse.
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Figma announces new features to define how agents work on its platform
Figma is also releasing its code layers feature in open beta.
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International tech
Apple reportedly plans December China launch for Apple Intelligence using Alibaba models
Apple plans to launch Apple Intelligence in mainland China in December through its iOS 27.3 update, Bloomberg reported. The rollout would bring an initial set of AI features to Chinese users after an extended regulatory approval process. The China version will incorporate Alibaba…
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Nature Will Unveils Natura-1, a 50B Model Trained on Human Video to Drive 20-DoF Dexterous Hands
Nature Will's Natura-1 is a 50-billion-parameter MoE pretrained on one million hours of first-person human video, then adapted with limited robot data to control 20-DoF robot hands.
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Ambani’s Jio set to open India’s biggest IPO from Oct 21, valued at nearly $108Bn
Jio Platforms opens bidding October 21 for India's biggest-ever IPO, valuing the company around the $107-$108Bn mark, putting it just behind Airtel's $128Bn market-cap. Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech …
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Chinese memory giant YMTC to grow revenue 6 times faster than peers as IPO nears: report
Yangtze Memory Technologies Corporation (YMTC), China’s leading flash-memory maker, is set to grow revenue six times faster than its industry peers this year as it expands into server-related business ahead of a planned initial public offering (IPO), according to Counterpoint Res…
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Kunlun Tech releases open-source AI game system that runs on a single RTX 5090
Kunlun Tech released Matrix-Game 4.0 on October 15, an open-source system that combines a game engine with real-time AI video rendering on a single consumer graphics card. The company says it delivers 480p gameplay at 60 frames per second on an Nvidia RTX 5090, with input-to-resp…
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Scientific simulation and AI-data startup SciVisual raises tens of millions of RMB
Chinese scientific simulation and AI-data startup SciVisual has completed angel and angel-plus funding rounds totaling tens of millions of RMB, ChinaVenture reported on October 15. Investors include Shanghai Future Industry Fund, Houxue Capital and Pudong Venture Capital. Founded…
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Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots moved
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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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Tiny Little Office
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OpenCode 2.0
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Tiny e-Paper Display Delivers 30 FPS of Game Boy Fun
Slow refresh, ghosting and low-contrast — wait, are we talking about passive matrix LCDs, or e-paper displays? That might be why e-paper Game Boy emulators are a thing: the limitations …read more
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We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers
Article URL: https://typesafe.ai/blog/jev-1-14 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50095353 Points: 261 # Comments: 85
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AI Controls iPhone Via ESP32
Do you want to get an AI agent to do something to an iPhone? You could try and jailbreak the device and do some heavy software hacking, or… you could …read more
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Using an ESP32-C3’s RF Hardware for DVB-S2 Video Transmission
Generally the DVB-S and -S2 standards require a satellite somewhere in Earth orbit to provide a signal to receive, but you can also transmit your own DVB-S2 stream with any …read more
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Pager Converted to Meshtastic Node
Text messaging has been around on cellular networks en masse for around three decades now. It’s so common that it’s difficult to remember a time without it. Its two-way quick …read more
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