After unexpectedly showing up on a wall-mounting compatibility chart on Sony's site back in June, the company has announced the Sony Bravia 6 OLED TV. The TV sits below its other OLED TVs - the Bravia 8 and Bravia 8 II - as well as its Bravia 9 II and Bravia 7 II RGB LED [β¦]
The updates indicate that Google is looking position to AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it's moving beyond simply helping users find information to actually handling parts of the trip-planning and booking process itself.
OpenClaw is the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Peter Steinberger and several maintainers share what they learned in the project's first six months. The post OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it. appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Americans have declared war on Flock cameras. They've protested them, damaged them, and destroyed them. This is only the beginning. The spontaneous and decentralized nature of the vigilante protests is also what makes them difficult to suppress. There isn't a uniform method of disruption; people have done everything from unplugging, smashing, stealing, and spray-painting the [β¦]
Nvidia to start employee-funded US political action committee Β Β Reuters
Aston Villa complete the signing of former Bayern Munich midfielder Leon Goretzka on a free transfer.
Study: Land use is the biggest factor in determining decomposition rates of organic cotton underpants.
The NFL's long-standing partnership with Twitter (and now X) is continuing this season.
European football's governing body considering βcriminal complaint βagainst Infantino over World Cup selloff plans.
Verizon tempts new customers with "free" iPhone deals, but do you really save compared to Apple's own Upgrade program?
A Labour lawmaker tells Al Jazeera sanctions would uphold British morals and legal obligations.
Sony's Reon Pocket Pro Plus looks like an alien is attached to your spine, but it works.
US Justice Department investigating the breach
Sally-Anne Bowen, 65, was convicted at Harrow Crown Court of seven counts of indecent assault.
Hi folks, Alex here from ThunderPhone. Today we're launching v2. Voice AI has been a hot topic for the past year or two, both for automating phone calls and for adding voice features to apps. Most of the voice agents deployed have been using a "3 step pipeline": a transcription model to turn user speech into text, an LLM to generate a response in text, and a TTS model to turn the response text into audio. But the performance of these 3-step voice agents has often been so-so, largely for 3 reasons: 1) Voice agents have to be fast, usually requiring non-thinking LLMs to handle the conversation.β¦
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Deal includes an obligation to make the move permanent next year, reportedly for a β guaranteed $68m.
I've spent most of my career leading GTM teams, and there's one blind spot that I've watched repeat at every company usage sit in one tool, deals sit in a second, support sit in a third and none of them tell the whole truth about customers. So we built Rimplo to close that gap set of revenue agents that runs across CRM, billing, support and product data and watch for three important moments customers about to churn, deals ready to expand and deals going quite in the pipeline. Also we have very powerful ai assistant that replies on anything from the GTM data sources connected powered with theβ¦
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Drop or paste a file locally, copy one curl command, run it remotely. Works best with agents running on servers! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466038 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
From night curfew to two-hour limit, Instagram and Facebook will introduce new features for children in the US.
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The UK has legalized plug-in solar, but experts warn you shouldn't just set it up without getting your home checked first.
SPONSORED FEATURE: Verify and survive: your backup isn't real 'til you test it
The startup just raised a $26 million Series A to grow its customer base and help reduce red tape for utility and construction work.
The latest special-edition of Google's Fitbit Air is inspired by the PokΓ©mon Sleep game, with a "Sleepy Blue" band emblazoned with a snoozing Pikachu. It's not exactly Snorlax blue, but matches the classic blue and gold of a PokΓ©mon card pretty closely. The special-edition is available to preorder now for $129 and starts shipping September [β¦]
Hugging Face is taking orders for the Microduck, a $399 tiny open-source duck robot that developers can train at home out of the box.
As Tesla gears up for the official launch of its steering wheel and pedal-less Cybercabs, Waymo is issuing a stark warning about Elon Musk's approach autonomous driving. Srikanth Thirumalai, Waymo's VP of Onboard Software, doesn't specifically call out Musk or Tesla in a blog post, published Wednesday, entitled "10 AI Lessons from Driving 200+ Million [β¦]
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"It just felt like the right thing to do"
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It is the second consecutive year that jellyfish has forced the closure of the Gravelines power station in northern France.
How UniCredit CEO outmanoeuvred Germany on Commerzbank Β Β Reuters
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Trump talks to Al Jazeera, Qatarβs Prime Minister visits Tehran and a temporary route is agreed in the Strait of Hormuz.
I launched a new website, bAIseball.org. Think of it as Google for baseball stats: it answers just about any freeform question you might have about baseball statistical history from pre-1900 through the current season, using free data sources like the Sean Lahman database, Retrosheet.org, and MLB.com. Questions it can answer include (but are certainly not limited to): - Who are the top players who hit the most all-time doubles on Thursdays? - List the top 25 team seasons by the number of consecutive games in which they hit a home run - Who is the heaviest player to ever hit a triple? - What iβ¦
Uefa is pursuing criminal proceedings against Fifa and its president Gianni Infantino over the failed plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup.
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You read that right. There is a new social network called βTwitter.nowβ on the block, and itβs being operated by a startup called Operation Bluebird, whose founding team includes former Twitter trademark counsel Stephen Coates. As ArsTechnica reported, X sued the company last year and asked a Delaware judge to issue an injunction to stop [β¦]
The UK government now wants time limits for teens on Facebook and Instagram.
Twitter.now aims to fill the bird-shaped hole left by X. For a fee
Test drivers for Waymo and Zoox sustained more than two dozen injuries in 2024 and 2025 from hard braking or other sudden movements made by the autonomous vehicles, according to a TechCrunch review of data submitted to OSHA.
Tottenham sign Manchester City forward Omar Marmoush on loan until the end of the season, with an obligation to make the deal permanent for Β£60m next summer.
Qatarβs Prime Minister met Iranβs foreign minister in Tehran as the US vowed to intensify economic pressure on Iran.
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The arrests come after a wave of cyberattacks earlier this year targeting tech companies that rely on high-profile and widely used open source software.
Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could leave lower-cost phones with less memory.
If you've ever wanted a robotic duck as a companion, now's your chance.
Meta might be on the hook for $17.1 billion and a host of app changes under a new kids safety settlement, but it's already spinning the deal to its advantage. After years of being the national punching bag for social media harms, Meta has reached a settlement with 47 US states and several districts and [β¦]
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"We built this city on good cacao" does have a nice ring to it.
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Julian Alvarez has not attended Atletico Madrid training since being told privately that the club would not sell him to Barcelona.
A judge awards less than Lively requested to cover her legal fees to fight a defamation case he filed.
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Hey Hacker News! I'd like to showcase Vertex. Vertex is a browser extension [1] (currently only Chrome) and a web app [2] for saving bookmarks (vertices) along with the source documents. You can save optional notes along with (almost) everything you can save on Vertex. You can organise your vertices into sets [3] or connect them together as you see fit. Your vertices can hold snapshot(s) of the source. These are self-contained, parseable MHTML documents which stay immutable independently of the source. Additionally, the Vertex extension will highlight your saved links (along with notes) as yoβ¦
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The social networking giant projected it could spend $10 billion annually on Anthropicβs tools, illustrating the friend-foe relationships underlying the A.I. race.
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A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and individuals on the internet.
First robot-assisted outlet opens in Liverpool to take on Shein and supermarkets in clothing, shoes and homewares Business live β latest updates The owner of Zara is taking on Primark, Shein and the supermarkets with the launch of its cut-price chain Lefties in Britain, backed by an army of robots. The Spanish fashion brand opened its first UK store in Liverpool on Thursday, a few weeks after quietly launching its UK website. Continue reading...
Today on Decoder, Iβm talking to Verge senior AI reporter Hayden Field about some pure Decoder bait: the seemingly-endless org chart changes at OpenAI, and how all of them seem to consolidate power under cofounder Greg Brockman, the companyβs president. While Sam Altman is the CEO and still OpenAIβs most public face, Brockman has amassed [β¦]
Encrypted Client Hello rolls out on Android 17 to make the web more secure.
Teams across Europe discover their opponents at the 2026-27 UEFA Champions League draw in Monaco.
#news #world #middleeast #league #202627 #champions #draw #fixtures
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As SaaS giant gets a boost from Claudeforce, users might want to know how their AI use will be monetized
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I find LLM interpretability extremely interesting and wanted to create a minimal repo for: - SAE training - Automatic feature interpretation - Visualizing features and running interventions through a GUI You can try it here: https://nanointerpret.pages.dev/ Or check the repo: https://github.com/Belluxx/nanointerpret Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464942 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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The Bosnian Serb commander led a campaign of ethnic cleansing during the Bosnian conflict.
Six months after a US missile strike on an Iranian school killed at least 170 people, most of them children.
He was jailed for life in 2017 for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the wars in the ex-Yugoslavia in 1992-95.
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Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics has launched its second cute AI robot, the Microduck, a one-eyed biped standing just under 10 inches tall. It's available to preorder now for $399 in cream, graphite, lavender, and sky blue, and Pollen Robotics says it plans to start shipping the little robot "before Christmas 2026." Video demos of the [β¦]
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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in Amazon Kiro, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered, agentic integrated development environment (IDE), that could facilitate data exfiltration via prompt injection and Kiro Powers. The security flaw, which does not have a CVE identifier, works against Kiro IDE 0.7.45 on Windows, according to Mindguard. The latest version of
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After winning the toss, Pakistan take full advantage of the conditions at Lord's, reducing England to 80-4 at lunch on day one of the second Test.
