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TikTok maker ByteDance pulls the plug on AI companion services in China, as users grieve (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: bytedance, tiktok, ai companions

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This font looks perfectly normal to humans but wreaks havoc on AI (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: shieldfont, seneda & abruccio, playtype

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ByteDance Is Training a 10-Trillion-Parameter Model To Chase the Frontier (slashdot.org)

2026-08-07 | tags: bytedance, chinese, model

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ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: advanced, anthropic, bytedance

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This 100-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals a Brutal Chain of Cretaceous Violence (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: fossil, cretaceous, dinosaur

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Seedance 2.5 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: seedance, multimodal referencing, video creation

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This free font can trick AI scrapers into swallowing gibberish instead of your content (techspot.com)

2026-07-31 | by Zo Ahmed | tags: shieldfont, opentype, seneda & abruccio

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This amazing ‘Akira’ bike is the latest entry in the wonderful shadow industry of banned Lego sets (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: akira, lego, katsuhiro otomo

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Shark Sightings Surge This Summer as They Seek Relief From the Heat (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-27 | tags: alter, alter migration, apex

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Three Theses on the Literacy Crisis (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-25 | by Trevor Aleo | tags: atlantic, literacy, reading

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Teenage Engineering’s unique music machines are 30 percent off (theverge.com)

2026-07-25 | by Brad Bourque | tags: teenage engineering, op-xy, synthesizers

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Apple won't let me show my app (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-24 | tags: app store, vibe coding, apple

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TikTok is violating EU regulations on kids’ privacy rights, according to an investigation (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-24 | tags: tiktok, european commission, digital services act

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Scientists develop handheld device for measuring when your body is burning fat (engadget.com)

2026-07-23 | by Ian Carlos Campbell | tags: bioelectrical impedance, andreas güntner, breathalyzer

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Four Young Mathematicians Awarded the 2026 Fields Medals (slashdot.org)

2026-07-23 | tags: fields medals, hong wang, kakeya conjecture

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Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-23 | tags: palmier pro, swift, seedance

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Show HN: Palmier Pro – open-source macOS video editor built for AI (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-23 | tags: palmier pro, swift, seedance

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Fields Medals 2026 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-23 | tags: fields medals, 2026, mathematics

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Neill Blomkamp Is Making It Look Like AI Is the Last Resort for Filmmakers With Failing Careers (futurism.com)

2026-07-23 | by Frank Landymore | tags: neill blomkamp, district 9, seedan

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The sci-fi movie that imagines AI isn’t so dystopian after all (theverge.com)

2026-07-23 | by Robyn Kanner | tags: hirokore-eda, sheep in the box, ai company

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Rising stars of mathematics awarded prestigious 2026 Fields Medal (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-23 | by Castelvecchi | tags: fields medal, shing-tung yau, princeton university

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Rising stars of mathematics awarded 2026 Fields Medal (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-23 | by Castelvecchi | tags: fields medal, shing-tung yau, princeton university

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Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over (theverge.com)

2026-07-21 | by Charles Pulliam-Moore | tags: neill blomkamp, seedance 2.0, barley studios

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What Makes a Killer Meta Ad, According to Experts (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-21 | by Liz Brody | tags: meta, andromeda, nove8

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Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-19 | by Zak Killian | tags: esp32, pi-hole, dns filtering

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Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a tiny $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle — firmware uses only around 50KB of RAM and can answer blocked lookups in 10 milliseconds (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-19 | by Zak Killian | tags: esp32, pi-hole, dns filtering

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Federal employees can download TikTok on their work phones again (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-18 | by Anthony Ha | tags: tiktok, oracle, bytedance

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A material in Spanish World Cup star Pedri’s cleats could also repair your colon (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-18 | tags: pedri, adidas predator, nanostrike+

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TikTok is no longer banned on US government devices (engadget.com)

2026-07-18 | by Mariella Moon | tags: tiktok, bytedance, oracle

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Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-14 | tags: chinese, deng, fields