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CareCloud begins to notify hundreds of thousands after hackers stole medical records

The health tech data giant, which handles vast amounts of patients' medical data, said hackers struck one of its protected health data stores.

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Friend, the lonely AI wearable, returns with a new voice and a much bigger price tag

Friend, the AI wearable, can now talk to its users — for an enhanced price.

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Google says it fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

As experts have warned for the last two years, some companies — like Microsoft and now Google — are finding and patching an exponential number of bugs in their products, thanks to the use of LLMs and AI tools.

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Florida plans to build air taxi pads using $200M intended for EV chargers

Florida wants to use federal EV charger funds to build an air taxi network connecting golf courses, luxury apartment buildings, and airports.

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Spotify launches ‘User Notes’ to let users add memories to songs

Spotify says the new feature is designed to let users add personal captions to their favorite songs, such as noting why a track was added to a playlist or when they first discovered it

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Okta buys AI security startup Permiso — source says for about $200M

The deal gives Okta identity threat detection capabilities as enterprises seek to secure AI agents and other non-human identities across cloud environments.

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UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions

Article URL: https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/02a7-213a92896eb0-54dfbf454e3b-1000--statement-on-behalf-of-uefa-and-its-55-national-associations/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113929 Points: 314 # Comments: 201

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Making Postgres queues scale

Article URL: https://www.dbos.dev/blog/making-postgres-queues-scale Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113913 Points: 55 # Comments: 4

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What would it mean to see a new color?

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/03/what-would-it-mean-to-see-a-new-color Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113864 Points: 9 # Comments: 2

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So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂

Article URL: https://dynomight.net/plants/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113801 Points: 48 # Comments: 22

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Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it

We recently used DeepSeek V4 Flash as a teacher for finance tasks with GPT-OSS-120B. Distillation works well on this problem. At a constrained 8k token budget, our self-distilled 120B scores 83.61% on FinanceReasoning, above Kimi K3 (81.93%) and Inkl

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Show HN: Noisegate – a differential-privacy gateway for untrusted AI agents

Article URL: https://github.com/yashmahajan10/llm-differential-privacy-gateway Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113543 Points: 8 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Tally – check a spreadsheet's numbers against their source, in-browser

Article URL: https://tally.jiegou.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113381 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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CodePen 2.0

Article URL: https://chriscoyier.net/2026/07/30/codepen-2-0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113338 Points: 55 # Comments: 13

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Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick

Article URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/read-this-before-you-buy-that-tv-streaming-stick/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112744 Points: 261 # Comments: 115