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Simulation App Speeds Up Electric Truck Battery Design

This article is brought to you by COMSOL. These days, no one blinks an eye at two-day, one-day, and even same-day package deliveries. Despite the plethora of localized fulfillment and distribution centers that have cropped up to meet the demand, delivery trucks still need to make…

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The DEA Is Cracking Down on Kratom. This Time, Some Advocates Are on Board

The federal government is set to enact new regulations that will reshape the kratom industry.

Apple TV Started at $69 in 2015

Joe Rossignol, reporting for MacRumors back on 9 March 2015: Apple CEO Tim Cook on Monday at the “Spring Forward” media event in San Francisco announced that Apple TV will now cost $69, discounted from its regular price of $99. The new price for the set-top box arrives on the hee…

India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity

The agents got in through credentials and connection settings left exposed in app configurations, public code repositories, and overly permissive cloud roles.

Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses

Listen to the session or watch below Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. It isn’t yet an example of AI-genera…

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Elizabeth Holmes’s Social Media Feed Hits Different After Watching ‘You Can See Everything’

Is this the best film of all time?

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While Software Ate the World, This Company Ate Its Own Software Business

Editor’s note: This article is republished from Jumpstart, a TechNode Group publication. In 2023, AI software was DataCanvas’s business. By the first half of 2026, it was almost absent from its sales. The change is unusually stark. AI foundational software services generated 76.5…

Rapido Booked By Pune Police Over Alleged Unauthorised Bike-Taxi Operations

Pune Police has booked Rapido parent Roppen Transportation Services Pvt Ltd for allegedly running bike-taxi services without the required licence…

Cleartrip’s FY26 Loss Widens 28% YoY To ₹805 Cr, Revenue Up 21%

Flipkart-owned travel platform Cleartrip’s net loss widened 28.1% YoY to ₹805 Cr in FY26 from ₹628.4 Cr in FY25, as…

Purple Mountain Laboratories and China Mobile Launch AXP Agent Interconnection Platform

Built on deterministic networking, AXP is designed to register a million AI agents and run 100,000 at once, with cross-region agent addressing over 4,000 kilometers on the CENI testbed.

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.

China’s proposed AI tech export bans may create short-term costs, long-term gains: analysts

China’s proposed export bans and controls of artificial intelligence technologies aim to tighten Beijing’s grip in the strategically vital sector, casting a cloud over the commercial prospects of domestic model developers in the global AI race, analysts say. The new measures come…

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Spending Contracts For Latest AI-Driven Startup Batch

Startup investors aren’t exactly hitting pause, but they did scale back on giant rounds this past week, with just two startup financings in the multiple hundreds of millions.

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Mark Wahlberg wants to take on the longevity-startup crowd with an affordable gym concept

Mark Wahlberg, who once sank money into a gym chain that got kicked off the NYSE, is now building his own, and he promises you’ll get a cold plunge, a blood panel and a protein muffin without needing a trust fund.

Strange Times Make for Strange Bedfellows

Mark Zuckerberg, on X: Muse Spark Open — weights releasing today — runs great on new Mac Studios thanks to work with @johnternus and Apple. John Ternus, replying: Congrats to the team! Amazing to run a model of Muse Spark Open’s caliber and scale this efficiently, right from your…

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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.

Making One Fender From Another

There’s a tendency among cherished brands to licence their name and logo onto all sorts of novelty items in order to make a quick buck. Joining this trend is the …read more

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.

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

DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017

Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50129121 Points: 399 # Comments: 185

TAKTO, Open Source Hand-Tracking Built Like LEGO

Hand tracking in VR/AR can add a substantial amount of immersion and added interactivity. Unfortunately, most camera based tracking suffers when fingers get covered, intertwined, or simply out of view …read more

Discovering SDRs Everywhere

To quote commenter [douyarou], “It’s like our little version of a Precambrian explosion”. A bunch of hackers have discovered, independently and building on each other’s work, software-defined radio (SDR) capabilities …read more

DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50129045 Points: 301 # Comments: 115

I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets

Article URL: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io/issues/49314 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50124251 Points: 232 # Comments: 205