Microsoft’s 25th anniversary Xbox will cost $899
The special-edition translucent green Xbox finally has an official price. Preorders for the console start August 27th…
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Meta Will Pay Up to $16.7 Billion to Settle Its Social Media Harms Case—and That’s Not All
In addition to sending billions of dollars to states, Meta will make substantive changes to its platforms as part of a…
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15,000 years of solar wind in four hours? A Seattle company gives it a go.
"We're living in this world of scarcity with the Moon."
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Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model
Z.ai confirms it is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious open AI model topping benchmarks and leaderboards, and its weights…
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Orchestration is the new challenge for CX in the age of AI agents
Presented by Tata Communications Enterprises are deploying AI agents, voice AI, and automation across messaging, voice,…
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Hearing tech startup Legato emerges from stealth with $12M and a peek at its AI hearing glasses
The glasses, called Legato Frames, integrate the company’s patented hearing-assistance technology into the arms of…
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Arga is building a better way to train enterprise AI agents
Arga has raised $10 million in a seed funding round that was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Box…
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Ring says its new encryption limits what it can give police
Ring has a new way to protect your videos. It's developed an encryption method called TAKE, short for Throw Away the…
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PeopleFinders’ New Website Runs Background Checks on Your Dates
The site, called Stud or Dud, helps daters dig up dirt on potential paramours. It’s fueled by the same public data as…
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The Download: the Kids issue arrives, and Bill Gates reveals his AI fears
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going…
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How Universities Should Prepare Founders
Article URL: https://paulgraham.com/prepare.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428121 Points:…
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Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B)
Article URL: https://modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Comments URL:…
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Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026: The biggest announcements and trailers
It’s time for another Geoff Keighley-hosted blast of gaming news. Gamescom’s two-hour Opening Night Live event is…
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Bose’s smallest Bluetooth speaker is a great deal at 35 percent off
Bose may be best known for its QuietComfort headphones, but the brand’s Bluetooth speakers have earned a great…
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Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat
Anthropic is giving Claude a shared memory across chat and Cowork, so users no longer have to repeatedly brief the AI…
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Polestar claims it was blindsided by sales ban
Polestar said the Trump administration strung it along for months before finally rejecting its request to continue…
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Moon (2024)
Article URL: https://ciechanow.ski/moon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49426466 Points: 239 #…
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AI won’t replace radiologists, but it will dramatically change their jobs
A pioneering AI scientist once predicted computers would replace human radiologists. They haven't.
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New bootloader lets you take the "Meta" out of the original Meta Quest
Privilege escalation attack grants "full control" and freedom from Meta's servers/apps.
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The Supreme Court’s Mail-In Ballot Ruling Is a Step Toward Chaos in the Midterms
The Supreme Court has removed one roadblock from the Trump administration’s attempts to impose severe restrictions on…
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What's new in Emacs 31.1
Article URL: https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/whats-new-in-emacs-311 Comments URL:…
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GLM-5.3 (open-weight) beat Anthropic/OpenAI models – for 1/5 the cost
Article URL: https://reinvently.co.uk/tools/ed-o-meter/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49410097…
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Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive
Michael Polansky — better known publicly as Lady Gaga's partner and a former top deputy to Sean Parker — has quietly…