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Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

AI is cursing renters with the promise of impossible homes

Joyce, a native New Yorker, didn't think finding her first solo apartment in the city would be easy. But she also didn't think it'd be "hell." After looking at a lot of tiny, overpriced places she described as "shitholes," Joyce found her dream apartment: a reasonably priced studio in Manhattan. "It was big and airy, […]

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Cursor quietly acquires Continue, an open-source alternative to GitHub Copilot

The AI developer tools consolidation continues apace, with news that Cursor has snapped up open-source coding assistant Continue — its The post Cursor quietly acquires Continue, an open-source alternative to GitHub Copilot appeared first on The New Stack .

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Jobs and Software Is Fucked

Article URL: https://urflow.bearblog.dev/jobs-and-software-is-fucked/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48635112 Points: 305 # Comments: 276

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

Mindstone Rebel

AI workspace for agents that know your work and ask first Discussion | Link

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Qodo just shipped cross-repo review. Here’s why it matters for AI-flooded teams.

Late-night debugging sessions aren’t a rare edge case anymore. They are what happens when reviews can’t keep up with volume. The post Qodo just shipped cross-repo review. Here’s why it matters for AI-flooded teams. appeared first on The New Stack .

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

Customer Relationship Agents by Clarify

The M in CRM shouldn't be you Discussion | Link

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

Following user outcry, AMD reinstates memory encryption in consumer CPUs

Critics saw the move as an underhanded way to steer them toward more costly chips.

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed

Article URL: https://ipvm.com/reports/police-chiefs-track Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634694 Points: 525 # Comments: 235

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040

Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-nuclear-strategy-9.7244509 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634585 Points: 450 # Comments: 300

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

Valve's Steam Machine ships June 29 for $1,049, but you probably won't be able to buy one yet

Valve says it's using a randomized purchase queue to make the experience "less frustrating and more fair."

AI · TechCrunch AI

Google DeepMind bets $75M on AI’s future in Hollywood with A24 deal

Google DeepMind and A24 are teaming up to build AI filmmaking tools.

Notable Blogs · Seth Godin

Blogs, traffic, and Google

I asked Google Gemini about the last decade of Google’s relentless push to make blogs less popular. It wrote: Your timeline is spot on. The systematic destruction of the independent web’s infrastructure didn’t start with modern AI; it began directly with the death of Google Reader in 2013, which fractured the RSS ecosystem that allowed […]

AI · The Decoder

Google makes Interactions API the default interface for Gemini models and agents

Google Deepmind has made the Interactions API the default interface for Gemini models and agents. It replaces the old generateContent API and uses a simplified schema with typed steps instead of role-based structures. New agent features will only ship through this API going forward. The article Google makes Interactions API the default interface for Gemini models and agents appeared first on The Decoder .

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

ShapedPlugin WordPress Pro Plugins Backdoored in Supply Chain Attack

Multiple WordPress plugins from ShapedPlugin were compromised in a supply chain attack after unknown threat actors managed to tamper with the official release channels and push backdoor code. "Attackers compromised the vendor's build and distribution pipeline, injecting backdoor code into Pro plugin releases distributed through official licensed update channels," Wordfence said in an analysis

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

The Apple Watch SE 3 is just $199 for Prime Day

The Apple Watch SE 3 is at an all-time low of $199, making the sleeper hit of last year’s Apple Watches an even better value. While the Series 11 and Ultra 3 were iterative updates, the SE 3 was a wide-ranging glow-up that added an always-on display, gestures like double tap and wrist flick, a […]

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

The Steam Machine is the start of an even more expensive future for game consoles

It's no secret that just about every aspect of video games is getting more expensive. Game consoles are getting regular price hikes, PC components are spiking in cost, and the golden age of affordable handhelds is over, all largely due to the global RAM shortage, which has had a similarly costly impact on PC gaming, […]

AI · MIT Technology Review AI

Three things to watch amid Anthropic’s latest feud with the government

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. For those of you enjoying your summer unaware of Anthropic’s latest feud with the US government, here’s a recap: In April the company said it had built an AI model called Mythos…

Cloud & Infrastructure · Cloudflare Blog

How we found a bug in the hyper HTTP library

By rearchitecting the Images binding, we accidentally uncovered a bug that existed in the open-source hyper library across multiple major versions.

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

LogStitch

Find AWS Lambda failures fast, right on your Mac Discussion | Link

Cybersecurity · BleepingComputer

Microsoft says Windows 11 26H2 is coming soon, details upgrade process

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 version 26H2 will be the next feature update and that devices running Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 will be able to upgrade using a small enablement package. [...]

AI · TechCrunch AI

Amazon is testing Alexa+ in India with Hindi support

Amazon is planning to increase the footprint of its new conversational AI assistant Alexa+ to India and is inviting users in the country to test out a Hindi-language version.

Cybersecurity · BleepingComputer

Microsoft fixes AutoGen Studio flaw that enabled code execution

A vulnerability chain dubbed AutoJack in Microsoft's AutoGen Studio interface for prototyping AI agents could let attackers manipulate an agent into executing arbitrary commands on its host system simply by visiting a malicious webpage. [...]

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

Rosply

AI agent that controls your computer autonomously Discussion | Link

AI · The Decoder

Anthropic and Micron want to co-design AI memory architecture

Micron is investing in Anthropic's Series H round and getting a multi-year deal to supply memory for Claude's infrastructure. Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown calls memory critical to training and running Claude. Critics say circular deals like this are inflating a bubble. Micron's stock has surged more than tenfold in a single year. The article Anthropic and Micron want to co-design AI memory architecture appeared first on The Decoder .