iPhone Duo

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The iPhone Duo offers a spacious display, multitasking capabilities, and compact design. It features essential controls on the side for easy access and comes with various accessories like a 100% fiber-based box for packaging.

AirPods 5

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Apple has announced AirPods 5 with improved Active Noise Cancellation and sound quality, starting at $129. The new model features a multiport acoustic architecture and Adaptive EQ for immersive sound.

Shopify acquires Tailwind

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The Tailwind CSS framework is being joined by Shopify to provide a stable long-term home for its development and maintenance. This partnership will enable the creation of complex applications solving real-world problems, while maintaining open-source licensing and community support.

What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks

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Visa and Mastercard are card networks that facilitate transactions between cardholders, issuers, and merchants. They don't issue cards or manage point-of-sale systems, but instead connect these parties to enable secure transactions.

Apple Watch Series 12

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Apple introduced the Apple Watch Series 12 with advanced health sensors and a new chip for accurate heart rate monitoring, offering features like readiness scores and audio intelligence. The watch is available in various finishes and sizes, including ceramic options, with up to 10 hours of battery life during an outdoor workout.

iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Apple has announced iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max with improved cameras, battery life, and performance. The new models feature a 48MP Fusion Main camera with variable aperture and AI-powered improvements to cellular quality and reliability.

No Man's Sky Cosmos

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New features have been added to No Man's Sky, including a star system map, deep-space points of interest, and the ability to mine resources from asteroids. The game also includes new player titles and rewards for accomplishments at these points of interest.

Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills

GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning

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The author discusses OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra model, highlighting its exceptional performance in 3D rendering and animation tasks. The model uses a looped transformer architecture, which allows it to reuse transformer blocks multiple times without adding more weights. This technique improves modeling performance at a fixed compute budget but may not significantly impact the reasoning trace or ...

Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives

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Researchers found that self-driving cars crash significantly less often than human drivers, with evidence showing a 27% reduction in pedestrian crashes and up to 39% fewer property-damage claims. Studies also show that Waymo's robotaxis have given millions of paid rides with a 92% reduction in fatal or serious-injury crashes compared to human drivers.

GNU Radio in the browser

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A browser-based GNU Radio flowgraph editor and runtime is available, allowing users to build and run software-defined radio flowgraphs without Python or installation. It supports WebUSB devices like RTL-SDR, PlutoSDR, or HackRF for live spectrum analysis.

Understanding the recent DDoS attack against Read the Docs

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Read the Docs experienced a massive DDoS attack in June 2026, with over 5.5 million requests per minute, lasting nearly ten days and testing their infrastructure and incident response processes. The attackers used adaptive behavior, cache evasion, and randomized HTTP request headers to evade signature-based filters.

Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device

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Desert Ant Labs launches a European frontier AI lab building on-device intelligence models for audio, vision, and text. The first 18 models are live today, offering fast and cost-free inference for various tasks.

Planet Labs' open satellite feed

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Planet Labs is a 15-year-old satellite manufacturer and constellation operator that captures imagery of the entire Earth's landmasses every day. They have operated or are operating four different constellations, including Tanager, which has recently deployed its latest Pelican-11 satellite. Planet Labs' Ephemerides service lists 97 satellites still in orbit.

How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

Procedural Graphs: Self-Evolving Execution Structures for LLM Agents

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A Procedural Graph framework helps large language models plan over long horizons by organizing procedural knowledge into structured triplets. This framework improves performance and reduces repetition, outperforming memory-based baselines across multiple datasets and task types.

Bespoke: A programming language for people who say please

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A new programming language called Bespoke is proposed, emphasizing good manners and etiquette in machine execution. It prioritizes clarity, politeness, and formal introductions over speed and efficiency.

Why Emacs Consult async searches feel slow and how to speed them up

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Consult Emacs package uses configurable debounce and throttle delays to control asynchronous search commands, balancing input latency and resource usage. The default values are conservative by design, reducing CPU overhead while providing responsive feedback.

Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling

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ASCII smuggling uses invisible Unicode characters to hide malicious prompts in emails, evading spam filters. Spammers exploit this technique to bypass ML-based detection by altering text tokens undetectable to humans.

Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue

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Make one button blue. Change nothing else. A short interactive comedy about agentic AI assistants that can never just do the thing.

Generating the P3 Tiling

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The article describes Penrose tilings, a type of aperiodic tiling of the plane using two prototiles. It explains how to generate these tilings using term rewriting rules and provides code for generating images of P3 tilings.

Show HN: Self-hosted company OS, Claude Code and Codex agents in departments

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OtoDock is a self-hosted platform that uses Claude Code and Codex to create powerful agents for various tasks, running on Anthropic and OpenAI subscriptions. It offers multi-tenant design, departmental organization, and endless tools integration.

Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Viral Content Editor

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Roame is hiring a Content Editor to build and run the machine that produces video content for their platform, focusing on speed, systems, and audience growth. The ideal candidate has strong editing skills, AI fluency, and experience with short-form content creation.

We accidentally built a synthetic cell factory

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A company developed an open synthetic cell system called Cytosol, which is a core substrate for building synthetic cells. The project took several years to overcome foundational challenges in infrastructure and supply chains, but ultimately led to the creation of pre-manufactured Cytosol kits that can be used by researchers worldwide.

What will our economic future look like?

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AI is reshaping the economy, and its impact will vary depending on how capable it becomes and how widely used it is. The scenarios predict that AI could lead to significant economic growth, but also potentially uneven distribution of benefits, with some workers facing lower wages or unemployment.

Apple Watch Ultra 4

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Apple introduced the Apple Watch Ultra 4, featuring advanced health and fitness features, longer battery life, and a new Health Sensing System. The watch offers accurate heart rate sensing, GPS tracking, and safety capabilities like satellite communications.

Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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Ancient cave art suggests first known humans in Ireland walked over from Wales

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Researchers found ancient cave art in Ireland dating back 15,000 years, contradicting previous evidence of human presence. The discovery suggests early humans from Wales crossed a "lost land bridge" between modern-day Pembrokeshire and Ireland during the last Ice Age.

Coyote v. Acme (1990)

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Mr. Wile E. Coyote sues the Acme Company for damages due to personal injuries and loss of business income caused by defective products, including a rocket sled, rocket skates, explosives, and spring-powered shoes.

Better AI code comment detector

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The author rebuilt an AI comment classifier using public data and a better foundation, achieving balanced accuracy of 77% in distinguishing human-written from robot-generated comments. The classifier can be used to identify the source of a comment with high accuracy.