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Notable Blogs · Seth Godin

The generic headline and the lazy slogan

If you can swap your slogan with a competitor’s without changing the meaning of either brand, then your slogan is meaningless. For example, “You belong here” is not a positioning statement for a college seeking new students. It’s just noise. It also doesn’t help to mix weasel words with more weasel words and then add […]

AI · The Decoder

Sina's open model VibeThinker-3B aims to show reasoning compresses well but factual knowledge doesn't

Sina Weibo's VibeThinker-3B has just three billion parameters but matches models like DeepSeek V3.2 and Kimi K2.5 on math and coding benchmarks. Those models are up to 333 times larger. The secret isn't size but multi-stage post-training. The researchers propose a hypothesis based on their findings: logical reasoning compresses well into small models, but broad world knowledge does not. The article Sina's open model VibeThinker-3B aims to show reasoning compresses well but factual knowledge doesn't appeared first on The Decoder .

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

TMD’s keyless bike lock is a $280 solution to a $60 problem

I've seen lots of so-called "smart" bike locks over the years, but none so far could justify the added cost. A newcomer that got its start securing ATMs for banks is trying to change that. There's nothing wholly unique about the TMD Chain Lock, but the combination of materials, performance, and insurance-friendly ART-2 certification makes […]

World · BBC Middle East

US and Iran exchange strikes and accuse each other of violating ceasefire

Iran says it has launched retaliatory attacks at US infrastructure in Kuwait and Bahrain after the US said it hit multiple targets across Iran.

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

PMB

Stop re-explaining your project to AI coding agents Discussion | Link

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly

Article URL: https://www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai-automation-human-workers-b3003787.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48703968 Points: 210 # Comments: 150

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

Dotient

Your local semantic search app Discussion | Link

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

Article URL: https://www.marfapublicradio.org/podcast/marfa-public-radio-puts-you-to-sleep Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48703759 Points: 292 # Comments: 78

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

The best response to AI slop and online noise is from Robin Williams

Article URL: https://jayacunzo.com/blog/your-move-chief Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48703452 Points: 288 # Comments: 154

Society · BBC Technology

Tech firms are blaming AI for mega device and console price rises

Xbox consoles, Nintendo's new Switch 2 and Valve's Steam Deck are just some of the gadgets seeing price hikes in recent months.

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

Outlook Google Calendar Sync for Mac

Sync Outlook calendars to Google on your Mac Discussion | Link

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

Oakamo

Your quiet space for reading articles later. Discussion | Link

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Choosing a Public DNS Resolver

Article URL: https://evilbit.de/dns-resolver-guide.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48702273 Points: 196 # Comments: 75

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Teenage Engineering adds lo-fi mode, USB audio, and more to its KO II sampler

Teenage Engineering has already issued multiple substantial updates for its surprisingly capable $329 EP-133 KO II sampler. Its latest is one of the biggest yet. OS 2.5 adds audio over USB, selectable sample rates for lo-fi fun, sample reverse, an arpeggiator, equal-length autochopping, and it extends the maximum length of a sample from 20 seconds […]

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

'Careless People' author claims Meta surveilled her for 12mos to enforce silence

https://archive.ph/LqnaQ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701822 Points: 187 # Comments: 77

AI · TechCrunch AI

SoftBank’s CEO isn’t the only one with questions about Elon Musk’s orbital data center hype

Not everyone is buying Elon Musk’s vision for orbital data centers.

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet

Article URL: https://ipcrawl.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48700834 Points: 309 # Comments: 155

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Margaret Atwood says the problem with AI is ‘garbage in, garbage out’

Maraget Atwood, the storied author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Blind Assassin, was interviewed as part of the Babell Literary and Cultural Festival in Porto, Portugal. As it usually does at these things, the issue of AI came up, and Atwood didn't mince words. According to Deadline's recap, Atwood said she'd used an AI […]

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Apple wants permission to buy memory from a blacklisted Chinese supplier

Apple is looking to alleviate some of the pressure on its supply chain by seeking an exception from the Trump administration to buy RAM chips from CXMT, a company blacklisted by the Pentagon over ties to the People's Liberation Army, according to the Financial Times. The skyrocketing prices of RAM and storage have driven Apple […]

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

Ukraine Says Russian Intelligence Used Fake Support Texts to Steal Messaging Credentials

The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) said it, together with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), uncovered a long-running campaign orchestrated by Russian intelligence services to break into the messaging accounts of government officials, military personnel, politicians, and activists in Ukraine, Europe, and the U.S. The systematic cyber attacks aimed at stealing sensitive

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

Related: Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608570 - June 2026 (166 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48699928 Points: 240 # Comments: 102

AI · The Decoder

Anthropic's Fable 5 could return within days as Trump administration prepares to lift restrictions

Anthropic's AI model, Fable 5, could be available again within days. According to Axios, the Trump administration is close to lifting the restrictions imposed on June 12 over safety concerns. The Pentagon and NSA still need to sign off. The article Anthropic's Fable 5 could return within days as Trump administration prepares to lift restrictions appeared first on The Decoder .

AI · TechCrunch AI

Apple Vision Pro exec is reportedly leaving for OpenAI

Paul Meade, the Apple vice president in charge of the Vision Pro headset, is reportedly leaving the company to join OpenAI’s hardware team.

Business · CNBC Technology

The AI trade cooled and oil sank. A closer look at Wall Street's volatile week

Micron finished the week in the red despite a blockbuster earnings report. But falling oil prices was good news for the fight against inflation.