Hong Kong Tiananmen activists found guilty of national security charges
Activist group says the 'twisted' Hong Kong judicial system had long ago decided that the pair were guilty.
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Project SKY
Your ambient AI companion for Windows. Discussion | Link
Pocket by Meta
Vibe-code games, then share them like TikToks Discussion | Link
Guatemala says it received nearly 2,300 US-deported Mexicans
US President Donald Trump's administration is ramping up third country deportations, with Mexican deportees being sent to Guatemala and reportedly Honduras in the past year.
Pakistan: Former PM Khan briefly moved to private hospital
Khan's supporters say his health has deteriorated during more than three years in prison since being removed from office in 2022.
Pakistan’s Imran Khan moved to hospital after Supreme Court order
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has been moved to a private hospital for medical treatment.
Hong Kong convicts activists in national security trial
The two pro-democracy Tiananmen activists were found guilty of inciting subversion. The high profile case has been widely criticized for highlighting the deterioration of freedom of expression.
AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
Article URL: https://annas-archive.gl/blog/physical-destruction.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49383026 Points: 366 # Comments: 276
After GERD, can Egypt shape Ethiopia’s next Nile dams?
Three projects mark a new test for Egypt after it failed to prevent construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
Genki’s new customizable controller has a big screen and adjustable buttons
After collaborating with 8BitDo on a gamepad two years ago, Genki launched the first controller the company designed from the ground up today. With an unorthodox design that positions its thumbsticks and buttons above a large 2.9-inch LCD screen, the Manta looks a lot chunkier than competing controllers. But what really sets it apart is […]
Brazil launches AI supercomputer push while balancing US and Chinese tech
The government has announced investments of about 2.3 billion reais ($444.2m) to bolster its AI ecosystem.
Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv protest organiser disowns Mykhailo Fedorov’s call for elections
Demonstrations in support of sacked defence minister reportedly die down as supporters and experts say he went too far. What we know on day 1,640 Continue reading...
Panama Canal to limit shipping ahead of extreme weather during El Nino
The El Nino weather phenomenon is expected to increase the likelihood of drought and excess heat across the region.
Antigovernment protesters take to Tunisia’s streets for second month
Tunisia has seen an uptick in protests as economic conditions in the country have deteriorated.
Claude Academy
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Taliban release two detained UN staff members in Afghanistan
The two men, detained in the western city of Herat on August 9, were released on Thursday morning.
AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom
Surging demand for AI training data is driving rapid growth for the startup and its rivals.
US deports nearly 2,300 Mexicans to Guatemala over Mexico’s objections
The Trump administration has ramped up deportations to third countries in an apparent bid to deter immigration.
Measuring benchmark optimization in speech recognition
Hugging Face Blog published: Measuring benchmark optimization in speech recognition
Iran war live: US vows toughest Iran sanctions, urges China support
US Treasury Secretary Bessent says new economic measures will 'collapse' Iranian government.
ChatGPT search now uses the site:operator at scale
ChatGPT search now uses the site:operator at scale Promptwatch is part of the emerging "GEO" space, for Generative Engine Optimization - the chatbot version of SEO, where companies offer tools and consulting to help your site increase its presence in replies to prompts inside tools like ChatGPT. The Promptwatch product uses automation to track responses to prompts across end-user chat products like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. They publish aggregate reports on this as part of their own content marketing strategy, which do seem to provide credible hints as to otherwise invisible design changes to those products. Their own tracking shows a notable change aligned with the GPT-5.6 rollout earlier this month: The percentage of all ChatGPT Search fanout queries that contain the site:operator, per day. The share hovered between 0.3% and 0.5% for weeks, dipped briefly to 0.15% on August 3 to 5 (consistent with a staged rollout or pre-launch experiment), then jumped to 16-17% on August 8. It's important to note that these figures only reflect the prompts for which they have automated tracking enabled. This corresponds to OpenAI's somewhat vague August 6th announcement : For Plus and Pro users, we’re updating GPT‑5.6 Sol in Chat to be more reliable with facts and provide more focused answers. Once again I am hampered by OpenAI's decision to actively obscure their system prompts, but from poking at ChatGPT I believe their latest search tool has a shape like search(query, recency, domains) rather than encouraging a site: operator directly. In a follow-up on August 18th Promptwatch reported that ChatGPT appeared to have greatly reduced the likelihood of Reddit being used in those searches. My own attempts to ascertain if the system prompt has been updated to discourage Reddit sourcing have been unsuccessful - the most thorough leaked system prompt collection I know of doesn't yet show any relevant changes. Tags: reddit , seo , openai , chatgpt , ai-assisted-search , system-prompts
Learn what VCs actually want, from a founder who’s raised $1B
Investors want founders who understand the financial reality of their business. Messy data, misunderstood metrics, or waiting until you’re nearly out of cash to start fundraising can cost founders leverage, valuation, and even a term sheet. In this episode of Build Mode, host Isabelle Johannessen sits down with Sasha Orloff, founder and CEO of Puzzle […]
Pinning saved views to the repository issues sidebar is generally available and more
Pinning saved views to the repository issues sidebar You can now pin saved views to the repository issues sidebar, making the views you use most just one click away, even… The post Pinning saved views to the repository issues sidebar is generally available and more appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
v16.3.1-canary.26
Misc Changes docs: document deploymentId build ID override and Pages Router skew in 16.2: #97645 Upgrade React from eb8feb71-20260814 to eafeac09-20260819 : #97636 Turbopack: rename to use turbopack: no side effects: #94427 refactor: move useDynamic{Route,Search}Params to reduce snapshot churn: #97360 [PPF] unstable_navigation(): #96908 [PPF] Scaffold unstable_navigation(): #97236 docs: Explicit cache output description: #97548 Improve Cache Components sync IO migration guidance: #97572 [test] Use a non-native stub for the server externals list test: #97614 Avoid GitHub API rate limits for create-next-app examples: #97612 [test] Cover the prerender worker-thread backend with an addon we control: #97543 [test] Convert the prerender-native-module suite to local fixture packages: #97542 [test] Replace the turbopack-reports sqlite3 dependency with a local addon fixture: #97541 [test] Drop the dead sqlite3 build approval from the sharp-basic suite: #97540 [ci] Authenticate Turborepo remote caching with OIDC instead of a static PAT: #97590 Remove HmrTarget: #97253 Keep HMR instructions typed until serialization: #96569 Serialize frozen collections by value only: #96686 Credits Huge thanks to @icyJoseph , @mischnic , @lubieowoce , @aurorascharff , @eps1lon , @sokra , and @wbinnssmith for helping!