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Google adds Nano Banana-powered image generation to Gemini’s Personal Intelligence
The feature will be initially available to paid users in the U.S.
techcrunch.com
So Close to Getting It
David Pierce, last week in his Installer column/newsletter for The Verge, singing the praises of the version 5.0 update to Sofa (the praises of which I just sang): Sofa 5. A huge update to an Installerverse favorite, this app is now a great way to manage everything you want to wa…
The Verge
Microsoft patched a Copilot Studio prompt injection. The data exfiltrated anyway.
Microsoft assigned CVE-2026-21520, a CVSS 7.5 indirect prompt injection vulnerability, to Copilot Studio. Capsule Security discovered the flaw, coordinated disclosure with Microsoft, and the patch was deployed on January 15. Public disclosure went live on Wednesday. That CVE matt…
venturebeat.com
Rory Goss’s Accessibility Story
Feature story and short film, well worth watching, from Apple: One winter day in January 2024, 16‑year‑old Rory Goss experienced something jarring while in construction class at Abbey Christian Brothers’ Grammar School in Newry, Northern Ireland. He could no longer see the whiteb…
apple.com
Could This AI-Simulated Brain Lead to Human Mind-Uploading?
We’re not holding our breath.
gizmodo.com
Google Makes Image Generation a Little Creepier With Personal Intelligence
Solving a problem no one had.
gizmodo.com
International tech
Decoding Agnikul’s Cosmos Race With SpaceX On 3D-Printed Rocket Engine
Fourth country to achieve a soft-landing on the Moon. First to reach the lunar south pole. First to reach Mars…
inc42.com
The Mexican security company with a $1.27 billion surveillance empire
Founded as a home alarm business in 1995, Grupo Seguritech now operates 188 command centers across Mexico and has at least 31 subsidiaries. Now it's coming to the U.S.
restofworld.org
TSMC targets over 30% revenue surge in 2026, ramps up capex amid booming AI demand
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) expects a revenue surge of more than 30 per cent in 2026 as the world’s largest contract chipmaker “pulls in all equipment” to ramp up supply, as management downplayed the impact of memory price hikes and Middle East tensions. During i…
scmp.com
The reason I’m still mentally sharp has nothing to do with puzzles or brain games — it’s that I refused to stop being curious
I discovered that while my retired friends are shrinking into their routines and doing crossword puzzles, I'm crawling through attics, restoring vintage radios, and staying up until 2 AM watching documentaries—not because I have to, but because genuine curiosity about how the wor…
siliconcanals.com
Alibaba Unveils Happy Oyster Model for 3D Interactive Video Generation
AlibabaGroup launched Happy Oyster, an AI model that generates interactive 3D video environments, expanding from 2D video into immersive content creation.
pandaily.com
MOVA Launches V70 Ultra Robot Vacuum Featuring Extendable Robotic Arm Design
MOVA launched the V70 Ultra robot vacuum featuring a 16 cm extendable robotic arm to improve cleaning in tight and hard-to-reach spaces.
pandaily.com

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Cooking a Raspberry Pi FireWire HAT With Backfeeding
Recently [Jeff Geerling] has been tinkering with FireWire in order to use some older gear, which includes the use of a Raspberry Pi HAT called the Firehat. This provides a …read more
hackaday.com
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All
Article URL: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-35b-a3b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792764 Points: 407 # Comments: 208
qwen.ai
Optocam Zero’s Pictures Look One Hundred
Yeah, we know, there’s a camera on your phone that does this and that. But these days its become trendy to turn towards older digital cameras in place of smartphones, …read more
hackaday.com
Claude Opus 4.7
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47793411 Points: 550 # Comments: 440
anthropic.com
Figma Design to Code, Code to Design: Clearly Explained
This article covers how Figma’s design-to-code and code-to-design workflows actually work, starting with why the obvious approaches fail, how MCP solves them, and the engineering challenges that remain.
bytebytego.com
A Guide to Relational Database Design
In this article, we cover the core concepts that inform those decisions. We’ll look at tables, keys, relationships, normalization, and joins, with each concept building on the last.
bytebytego.com
Robot Bird Decoys Work for Good
Usually, you think of bird decoys as being a tool to lure birds to an untimely encounter with a hunter. However, [Interesting Engineering] has a story about robotic bird decoys …read more
hackaday.com
The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?
Article URL: https://aphyr.com/posts/420-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-where-do-we-go-from-here Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792718 Points: 205 # Comments: 194
aphyr.com
Emergency Bolt-Action Launcher for EpiPens
Imagine you and your friend are enjoying a nice sunny day, and BAM — they start to have a severe allergic reaction to who knows what. You have an EpiPen, …read more
hackaday.com