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Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Watch Valve set up the Steam Frame in its own leaked videos

Valve just leaked several new videos showing the Steam Frame's unboxing, setup process, and various accessories. The videos apparently appeared on the ARM Steam client following an update, but they were "quickly pulled after that," according to the Steam Hardware Updates account on X. The Steam Frame is Valve's virtual-reality headset that can stream games […]

Notable Blogs · Martin Fowler

Practitioner Voice: The Writing Category Nobody has Named Yet

Jim Highsmith recognizes that effective writing from a practitioner is a style distinct from academic writing or thought-leadership content. It's a style that I advocate, and my contributors mostly follow. Jim decided it was important to give it a name, and identify what makes it distinctive. more…

World · Al Jazeera

Canada pledges $50m aid to Lebanon and condemns Israeli ‘unlawful invasion’

Canada official condemns Israel's 'invasion' of Lebanon, calls for sovereignty as aid pledged to the crisis-hit nation.

World · Al Jazeera

Kennedy Center board says it won’t try to immediately restore Trump’s name

Opponents argue the venue seems 'intent on defying' a court order to remove the president's name from the building.

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

OpenAI Pauses Frontier RL Training as It Tightens Defenses Against Unsafe AI Behavior

OpenAI on Tuesday revealed that it paused reinforcement learning (RL) training for its latest artificial intelligence (AI) models for two weeks while it shored up additional defenses and increased the scope of its monitoring to avert another Hugging Face-like incident. "As models become more capable, the risks associated with developing and testing them internally also grow," the AI company

Society · NPR Top Stories

In new filings, Kennedy Center says it won't try to put Trump's name on facade until Sept. 8

Lawyers for Rep. Joyce Beatty asked a judge to rule speedily on the complex's renovation and entrance tarp. The National Symphony Orchestra also announced its new season, away from the Kennedy Center.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

The wearable future is stuck in weird, experimental, existential limbo

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. For the past week, I've been testing the Google Pixel Watch 5. In many ways, it's a typical, modern smartwatch. […]

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Grab an iPad Air M4 for its lowest price since the June increase

Almost everything with high-end memory or storage is more expensive these days, and tablets are no exception, so we’re glad to see that Amazon and Best Buy have the most recent 11-inch iPad Air with the M4 chip on sale for $649. That’s $100 lower than the new retail price that went into effect (alongside […]

World · Al Jazeera

Brazil bus crash kills at least 23 and injures five in Parana state

The bus was travelling to hospitals near Curitiba when the accident occurred.

World · Al Jazeera

NATO ‘prepared’ to defend allies amid report of Iranian strike plans

NATO says it will 'do what is necessary' amid media report Iran considered strikes against US targets in Europe.

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code

Article URL: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117057099753905023 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49364745 Points: 565 # Comments: 231

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Codex can now keep coding while it waits for your answer

Long-running coding agents face an awkward choice when they need a developer’s input. They can stop and wait or make The post Codex can now keep coding while it waits for your answer appeared first on The New Stack .

Developers & Open Source · JetBrains Blog

New in Air: Claude Subscriptions, Multiproject View, and Improved Markdown

You can now use Air with your existing Claude Pro, Max, or Team subscription. Usage counts against your subscription quota – there’s no need to purchase API credits and no per-token Console billing. Login goes through Anthropic’s own authentication flow. Air never sees or stores your credentials. This was our most-requested feature and it took […]

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

OpenRouter is joining Stripe

Previously: Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323381 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49364559 Points: 603 # Comments: 321

World · Al Jazeera

North Korea leader’s sister denies talks with ‘hostile’ US

US President Donald Trump claimed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had responded positively to his proposal for talks.

Startups & Funding · TechCrunch Startups

Meet the startup helping Wall Street put a price on AI compute

The AI buildout shows no signs of slowing. And with hundreds of billions of dollars a year going into data centers and GPUs, compute has become the single biggest cost for anyone building AI products. But for all that spending, there still isn’t a straightforward way to put a price on compute — or for firms to hedge their exposure when the price changes. Silicon Data […]

AI · OpenAI News

Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models

OpenAI reaffirms Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers and previews Private Safety Processing for advanced AI safety without compromising data privacy.

World · Al Jazeera

Hamas condemns ‘new war crime’ as Israel kills 10 in crowded Gaza hubs

Israeli air strikes on Gaza kill 10 Palestinians, targeting police headquarters and a refugee camp in separate attacks.

World · The Guardian Ukraine

Volodymyr Zelenskyy sacks senior aide amid Ukraine corruption crisis

Presidential deputy chief of staff Iryna Mudra dismissed day after former defence minister called for wartime election Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired a senior aide amid a fresh corruption investigation – one day after a former defence minister warned the country was facing “a crisis of governance” and needed to hold a wartime presidential election . Iryna Mudra, a presidential deputy chief of staff, was dismissed by decree after multiple reports in Ukrainian media that her house was being searched by officials investigating an alleged money-laundering scheme. Continue reading...

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what?

With a looming IPO, intense competition from Anthropic, and Chinese and open-weight rivals nipping at its heels, OpenAI has plenty of reasons to move fast. Instead, it hit the brakes. On Tuesday, the company said it had slowed the pace of some AI development while it tightened security and safeguards. That included a two-week pause […]

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

A fantastical journey unfolds in gorgeous Wildwood trailer

"I will tear apart this forest and bring back what it took from me."

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Your coding agent got the onboarding your developers never did

Steve Yegge thinks your AI has feelings. His new two-part essay, “The Shape of Things to Come,” argues that agentic The post Your coding agent got the onboarding your developers never did appeared first on The New Stack .

Society · NPR Top Stories

Why Aitana's 'Superestrella' is the surprise Latin hit song of the summer

There's a reason why the escapist hit from singer Aitana has swept most of the Spanish-language world.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

GTA VI keeps leaking ahead of its gameplay premiere

Clips of what appears to be Grand Theft Auto VI have hit the internet, possibly spoiling aspects of the game ahead of Rockstar Games' deep dive debuting on Netflix next week and its long-awaited launch in November. I've seen three clips seemingly showing off the game, though two have been pulled from the site I […]