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Mourning Dan Williams
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Jul 23, 2026
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s war on the First Amendment
As the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr has authority over the nation’s TV, radio, and ...
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Jul 23, 2026
Meta drops out of a major clean energy pact as its natural gas buildout accelerates
Meta has made significant investments in natural gas over the past year. Now, it's dropping out of an industry renewable...
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Jul 23, 2026
Fil-C: Garbage In, Memory Safety Out [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F-2Y1LPRek Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49026933 Po...
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Jul 23, 2026
Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models
I’ve been building Echo (https://echo.tracerml.ai/), an experiment in making one AI system out of a pool of open-weig...
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Jul 23, 2026
FDA reports new outbreak of explosive diarrhea with 72 cases identified
The FDA hasn't said where the cases are or how they're linked.
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Jul 23, 2026
Forgot your Google password? Now you can log in with a selfie.
Google's selfie videos can be used for account access, AI Avatars, and age verification. ...
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Jul 23, 2026
AI Kill Switch Act would let Trump admin order shutdown of rogue AI systems
Bill would let Homeland Security chief decide when an AI should be shut down. ...
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Jul 23, 2026
Selfie for sign-in: a new, easy way to access your Google Account
Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/selfie-video-sign-in/ Comments URL: https...
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Jul 23, 2026
Claude’s voice mode is now available for Opus and Sonnet
Until now, voice mode has only been available on Claude Haiku, Anthropic's faster but less powerful model. Now the compa...
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Jul 23, 2026
Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models
Claude's new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email
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Jul 23, 2026
ICE Illegally Scooped Up Medicaid Data, Then Shared It with Palantir
Article URL: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/23/ice-illegally-scooped-up-medicaid-data-then-shared-it-with-palantir/ C...
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Jul 23, 2026
Meta’s New Feel-Good AI Ad Uses a Song About the World Ending
The clip features the David Bowie track “Five Years,” which includes lyrics such as “Earth was really dying (dying...
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Jul 23, 2026
AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing
The Series A was led by Battery Ventures, bringing AegisAI total funding to $49 million.
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Jul 23, 2026
From Evaluation to Guardrails: What We Brought to ACM FAccT 2026
Article URL: https://blog.mozilla.ai/from-evaluation-to-guardrails-what-we-brought-to-acm-facct-2026/ Comments URL: htt...
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Jul 23, 2026
Building on ATProto
Article URL: https://lukekanies.com/writing/building-on-atproto/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=490...
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Jul 23, 2026
Patreon is laying off 20 percent of workers
Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its workers, or around 93 employees, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a memo to ...
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Jul 23, 2026
For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark
MSG’s sprawling surveillance system can monitor guests down to the second. Its owners made an exception for the pop st...
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Jul 23, 2026
A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements
Article URL: https://pme.uchicago.edu/news-events/news/cleaner-route-purifying-rare-earth-elements Comments URL: https:...
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Jul 23, 2026
Geekbench 7
Article URL: https://www.geekbench.com/blog/2026/07/geekbench-7/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=490...
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Jul 23, 2026
Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models
Article URL: https://obsoletesony.substack.com/p/why-sony-cant-bring-back-classic-walkman Comments URL: https://news.yc...
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Jul 23, 2026
Final Coyote vs. Acme trailer drops at SDCC
Also, the full trailer for Zach Cregger's Resident Evil features a likable everyman. ...
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Jul 23, 2026
US government says Iran-linked hackers are disrupting American water and energy providers
An updated government advisory warns that Iranian hackers are exploiting systems used by water and energy providers.
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Jul 23, 2026
Corsair’s PC case with a panoramic glass design is $70 off
On the hunt for a PC case that’s loaded with features and has a unique look? Amazon, Best Buy, and Corsair are selling...
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Jul 23, 2026
Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server
https://xcancel.com/fried_rice/status/2080059356322918777 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49024938 ...
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Jul 23, 2026
Tesla’s robotaxi promises are clashing with reality
In an earnings call yesterday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk did his best to paint a positive portrait of the company's robotaxi p...
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Jul 23, 2026
Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded
Runway no longer wants to be just another AI model company. It wants to become the infrastructure layer for generative m...
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Jul 23, 2026
Show HN: Claude-thermos – keeps your Claude session warm for you
Article URL: https://github.com/izeigerman/claude-thermos Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49024882 P...
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Jul 23, 2026
OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all U.S. users
Users can also integrate their personal data from services like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal.
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Jul 23, 2026
Geekbench 7 will push your computer or phone even harder for better benchmarking
Primate Labs is releasing Geekbench 7, the latest generation of its popular benchmarking tool. Geekbench 7 features new ...