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Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps

Microsoft is simplifying Copilot by combining its consumer and business apps, and dropping AI-generated podcasts, Group Chats, Deep Research, and its Mico character.

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Nvidia’s new $500B plan is risky but brilliant, especially for aging GPUs

Nvidia has a plan to make sure its GPUs won't lose value. It wants to convince a new crop of financiers to keep lending for AI buildouts.

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Who really needs a cocktail robot?

Bartesian's cocktail makers would be best described like a Keurig or Nespresso machine, but for alcoholic drinks.

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Apple in talks to pay publishers to provide Siri with current news: report

The tech giant has considered a nine-figure budget for the payments, according to the WSJ.

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Rivian's 2027 changes include its No. 1 most-requested feature

Pricing hasn't changed, and now you can get captain's chairs for the R1S.

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Anthropic could be worth $2 trillion when it goes public

Rapid revenue growth fuels hope Claude maker's IPO is the biggest listing in history

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We've flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked

Let's shield the astronauts instead of the spacecraft.

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Claude's new Scarlet Letter watermark is invisible—for now

The mark flags anything Claude processed, even human writing it only edited.

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Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove

Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/text-ai-watermarks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287153 Points: 19 # Comments: 16

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I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-built-a-515-page-dossier-on-me-it-says-ill-never-leave/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286662 Points: 58 # Comments: 51

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Flock Safety changes system defaults in response to criticisms

Article URL: https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/flock-guardrails-address-lpr-privacy-concerns-and-police-transparency Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286654 Points: 19 # Comments: 24

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Kubernetes on Oxide: How Customer Needs Shaped Our Integrations

Article URL: https://oxide.computer/blog/kubernetes-on-oxide Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286485 Points: 45 # Comments: 6

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Graduate Student Proves a Quantum Uncertainty Principle for Fractals

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/graduate-student-proves-the-fractal-uncertainty-principle-20260812/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286424 Points: 15 # Comments: 0

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We eliminated 1,400 CVEs in NanoClaw's container images

Article URL: https://www.echo.ai/blog/echo-xnanoclaw-under-the-hood Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286357 Points: 24 # Comments: 7

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Spaghettifying DRAM

Article URL: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/skitter-creek-bath-salts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286341 Points: 163 # Comments: 39