Year: 2026

AMD is competing with Nvidia with its rack-scale Helios AI system

AMD is competing with Nvidia with its rack-scale Helios AI system

🚀 Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,amd,Anthropic,OpenAI 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Chipmaker AMD is targeting rival Nvidia with its latest hardware release: a large-scale system designed to meet the computing needs of the world's largest artificial intelligence labs. At the company's Advancing AI conference in San Francisco on Thursday, AMD President and CEO Dr. Lisa Su touted a new AI rack system known as Helios — along with its growing list of customers, including Microsoft — as the company prepares to ship it later this year. Su also presented the company's latest chipset designed to…
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Police Removed Prominent Scientists from the ADA Meeting. Researchers Respond

Police Removed Prominent Scientists from the ADA Meeting. Researchers Respond

💥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A video from the American Diabetes Association (ADA) 2026 conference made headlines over the weekend, but it wasn’t about a scientific advance. The ADA conference organizers had the police escort five researchers out of the meeting for handing out an editorial that was published in one of their journals, Diabetes Care. The event gained attention on social media where scientists from different disciplines expressed their thoughts on the topic.Reflecting on this incident in an interview, Justin Ryder, an obesity and diabetes researcher at Northwestern University…
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Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua is stepping aside as the company moves toward robots and robotics

Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua is stepping aside as the company moves toward robots and robotics

💥 Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Transportation,In Brief,Mobileye ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Mobileye founder and CEO Amnon Shashua plans to step down from the top leadership role after nearly three decades, just as the company moves toward taxis and humanoid robots. Shashua will remain CEO until Mobileye appoints a replacement, according to a regulatory filing on Thursday. Mobileye began manufacturing computer vision chips based on academic research conducted by Shashua at Hebrew University in Israel, and has grown into a major supplier of chips that support automotive safety and driver-assistance features. It had the largest…
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The Corporate Creep of Plex vs. The Jellyfin Dilemma

The Corporate Creep of Plex vs. The Jellyfin Dilemma

✨ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Starting this week we're beginning a new series I'd like to call the Thursday Thinkpiece. Some things that have been noodling around in my brain for some time with some of it fit to print. For over a decade, Plex was the main gateway into home media servers for tech enthusiasts, DIYers, and homelabbers alike. If you're unfamiliar with it, think of Plex as your own private, self-hosted Netflix or Spotify. You don't need an expensive server rack or a dedicated lab to run it:…
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Meet the judges who will crown Australia’s next emerging startup

Meet the judges who will crown Australia’s next emerging startup

✨ Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Startups,TechCrunch Disrupt ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The TechCrunch Startup Battlefield is coming to Australia – and we're partnering with Stripe to find the country's most exciting early-stage startups. On August 19, eight Australian startups will take the stage at Stripe Tour Sydney to pitch live to investors, press and the tech community. Three will win prizes. One will receive an automatic ticket to attend TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, which will be held in San Francisco from October 13-15. The secret to finding the next breakthrough founder? Judges. Startup Battlefield has…
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A cleaner route to purifying rare earth elements | PME

✨ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Rare earth elements like lanthanum, neodymium, and dysprosium are used to build the electric motor in your car, the LED lights in your house, and the MRI machine at your doctor’s office. But first, they have to be mined and separated from each other. Historically, that purification has been a difficult, costly, process, relying on huge amounts of toxic chemicals.Now, researchers in the lab of Assoc. Prof. Chong Liu at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME), working with colleagues at…
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How AI guardrails hinder the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers

How AI guardrails hinder the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers

💥 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,AI,hackers,hacking,bugs,cybersecurity,Zero-days ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: For months, AI giants have created special vetted software and strict guardrails to limit the use of their models by malicious hackers. But these limitations now hamper the work of legitimate network defenders, as well as the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers. In June, the US government imposed export restrictions on Anthropic's highly publicized AI models, such as Mythos and Fable. The move was prompted at least in part by a report that claimed it was possible to bypass template firewalls designed to prevent…
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Luke Kanies | Building on ATProto

🔥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Posted 7/20/26Bluesky’s Atmosphere Protocol has the chance to become the base for a whole generation of applications. But it’s developing in surprising and disappointing ways.I spent part of last week at the Local First Conference in Berlin. I was not surprised to find that AI coding was on everyone’s minds. Less expected was how pervasive ATProto was.I’ve been considering trying to build on ATProto for a few months, so this was a great chance to ask a bunch of questions from both people building on…
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Premier League: Hull FC 20-34 Hull KR – Robins fighting to continue their derby dominance

Premier League: Hull FC 20-34 Hull KR – Robins fighting to continue their derby dominance

🚀 Check out this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Hull FC interim coach Andy Last told BBC Radio Humberside:“I was really disappointed, it would have been great to get two points. Unbelievable fans have come after a season in which we have really struggled. The loyalty of the fans is second to none.“We got off to a great start. We felt the start was important for us to get that interaction with the fans and we thought Rovers had been a bit shaky after the last two games, so things couldn't have gone…
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Visual 6502 in JavaScript

Visual 6502 in JavaScript

🔥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Visual 6502 in JavaScript The Visual 6502 FAQ  Blog  Links&nbsp This simulator uses HTML5 features only found on the latest versions of browsers and needs lots of RAM. If you have trouble, please check compatibility. Keyboard controls: 'z' to zoom in, 'x' to zoom out, 'n' to step the simulation. Mouse controls: Left-click and drag to scroll around (when you're zoomed in.) More information in the User Guide. x: 0y: 0 Source code is available on github visual6502. Use the online emulator and assembler from…
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