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Sri Lanka discloses another missing payment, days after hackers stole $2.5M from its finance ministry

The government of Sri Lanka has lost more than $3 million in two recent, separate cybersecurity incidents as the country continues to recover from its 2022 debt crisis.

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Firestorm Labs raises $82M to take drone factories into the field

A defense startup just raised $82 million to put drone factories inside shipping containers and bring manufacturing to the front lines.

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BMW i Ventures has a new $300M fund and AI is riding shotgun

BMW i Ventures is interested in startups working on agentic AI and physical AI, as well as industrial software, advanced materials, and manufacturing and supply chain technologies.

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Meet Shapes, the app bringing humans and AI into the same group chats

Think Discord chats, but with AI characters in addition to humans.

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Google Translate now lets you practice pronunciation

The feature is rolling out in the U.S. and India with support for English, Spanish, and Hindi.

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Colby Adcock’s Scout AI raises $100M to train its models for war. We visited its bootcamp

We visited Scout AI's training ground where it's working on AI agents that can help individual soldiers control fleets of autonomous vehicles.

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A Falcon 9 rocket will hit the Moon this summer at seven times the speed of sound

The object will be traveling at 2.43 km a second, or 5,400 mph, upon impact.

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Sam Altman is “the face of evil” for not reporting school shooter, says lawyer

Lawsuits: OpenAI didn't report ChatGPT user to cops to protect Altman, IPO.

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Tangled – We need a federation of forges

Article URL: https://blog.tangled.org/federation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47948603 Points: 15 # Comments: 0

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Improving ICU handovers by learning from Scuderia Ferrari F1 team

Article URL: https://healthmanagement.org/c/icu/IssueArticle/improving-handovers-by-learning-from-scuderia-ferrari Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947834 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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Letting AI play my game – building an agentic test harness to help play-testing

Article URL: https://blog.jeffschomay.com/letting-ai-play-my-game Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947525 Points: 18 # Comments: 1

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He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice

Article URL: https://www.diabettech.com/i-asked-ai-to-count-my-carbs-27000-times-it-couldnt-give-me-the-same-answer-twice/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947490 Points: 154 # Comments: 181

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Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker

Firefox 149 ships adblock-rust (Brave's Rust engine, MPL-2.0) completely disabled with no UI. It's controlled by two about:config prefs with no WebExtension API, so you can't touch them programmatically from a standard extension. This extension gives

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Coffee with a splash of physics: how to make the most out of your brew

Article URL: https://physicsworld.com/a/coffee-with-a-splash-of-physics-how-to-make-the-most-out-of-your-brew/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947318 Points: 28 # Comments: 8

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GitHub – DOS 1.0: Transcription of Tim Paterson's DOS Printouts

Article URL: https://github.com/DOS-History/Paterson-Listings Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47946813 Points: 16 # Comments: 0