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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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This Deadly Fungus Keeps Learning How to Beat Every Drug We Throw at It
Scientists in Kenya have documented a case of C. auris completely resistant to all major types of antifungals.
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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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Nvidia’s RTX Spark PCs Aren’t a Revolution, but They May Change Laptops Forever
Get ready for the MacBook Pro-ification of PCs. The real test will be how they perform with all the emulation and AI running inside.
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Cybersecurity Investors Put $6.8B To Work In The Third Quarter, Mostly In Larger Rounds
For the third quarter of 2026, global cybersecurity- and privacy-focused startups pulled in a total of $6.8 billion, per Crunchbase data. That’s up about 50% from the prior quarter and tied for the highest quarterly tally in years.
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Six wild ideas for perpetuating your mind
Have you ever thought about what makes you you? Science assures us it has everything to do with the three-pound organ between our ears, with its billions of neurons and trillions of delicate connections. But it’s a lot trickier to explain why we have a sense of self-awareness or …
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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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ASML’s chip equipment sales to China soar 109% despite US export curb push
Dutch semiconductor equipment giant ASML expects China to account for about 20 per cent of its total sales this year, after seeing shipments to the market more than double during the previous quarter despite mounting US pressure for tighter export restrictions on less advanced ch…
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More Than a Market: UK Biotechs Look to China for R&D, Trials and Capital
Editor’s note: This article was written by Lucia, a TechNode reporter. The big picture: Nine UK life sciences companies participated in a business matchmaking event in Shanghai on October 12, as part of a three-day China trade mission organized by London & Partners through Grow L…
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How Ubiqedge Is Giving Old Industrial Machines An AIoT Upgrade
Nobody on a factory floor wakes up wanting AI, Internet of Things (IoT) systems or a smarter dashboard. Their job…
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Start-up unveils prototype ‘heart’ of EUV lithography amid China chipmaking push
A Chinese start-up has unveiled a prototype extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light-source machine – a component often described as the “heart” of advanced lithography systems – marking an early but critical step in Beijing’s drive for self-reliance in chipmaking equipment. At the China …
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Inspire Robots Launches RH37D1, a Direct-Drive Three-Finger Hand That Lifts Up to 43kg
Inspire Robots introduced the RH37D1 series at CIIF 2026: a fully direct-drive three-finger hand with seven active degrees of freedom, 40N fingertip force and a 43kg maximum pulling load.
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We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers
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Tiny Little Office
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Building An M7 Pan Tilt Head Controller
The Soonpho M7 Pan Tilt Head is a useful photography tool for remotely aiming a decently-sized camera. Only, [Kyle Housley] wanted a little more control than was available out of …read more
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How to Build Models Without Language, with Logical Intelligence
Something unusual happened in a public Sudoku experiment early this year.
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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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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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Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke
Article URL: https://sunshowers.io/posts/anthropic-mononoke/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50094694 Points: 382 # Comments: 140
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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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LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for fast on-device agents
Article URL: https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50097369 Points: 233 # Comments: 56
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