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Alexa Plus is getting an AI update to handle more complicated instructions

Amazon is launching an update to its Alexa Plus assistant that will allow it to connect to smart home devices in new ways. With the update, Alexa Plus can link up with tech from Bosch, Delta, Ecovacs,...

The Verge 3w ago Emma Roth
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Namecheap Gave My Account to an Unverified Third Party Just Because They Asked

I’ve been a NameCheap customer for 13 years. I’ve also helped out an old college club paying for a .com they use (t...

Technology 3w ago

Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for ~10B

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/stripe-in-talks-to-buy-buzzy-ai-model-marketplace-openrouter-decc6a74 Comments...

Technology 3w ago

Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died.

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-death-girl-chinese-gene-editing-trial-was-never-made-pub...

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Microsoft responds to LG monitors installing McAfee ads on Windows

App is installed through Windows Update when certain LG monitors connect to a PC. ...

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The Echo Show 21 is a great smart home hub that’s $80 off

Split between buying a smart calendar, a kitchen TV, a smart home hub, and a smart display? Amazon’s Echo Show 21 is a...

Technology 3w ago

AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack scale system

AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this yea...

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Patreon lays off 20% of its workforce

In a memo to staff that was posted online, Conte said the company's core business is strong, but the platform has to res...

Technology 3w ago

Big Tech Isn't Hiding $1.65T of Debt

Article URL: https://finterm.ai/blog/big-tech-hidden-debt-fact-check.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it...

Technology 3w ago

Insurance startup Corgi reportedly raised more money at $4B — its third round in eight weeks

Corgi had announced a B1 round of $106 million at a $2.6 billion valuation at the end of May.

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Tesla’s door handles may spur new US safety rules

The new rule-making process follows a series of incidents, including fatal ones, in which people have become stuck insid...

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Mourning Dan Williams

Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1084545/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49027052 Points: 19 #...

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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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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...

Technology 3w ago

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...

Technology 3w ago

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...

Technology 3w ago

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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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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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. ...

Technology 3w ago

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...

Technology 3w ago

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...

Technology 3w ago

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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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...

Technology 3w ago

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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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.

Technology 3w ago

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...

Technology 3w ago

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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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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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...

Technology 3w ago

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:...