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Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS

Article URL: https://en.help.roblox.com/hc/en-us/articles/49648939984916-Android-Remote-Attestation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48994716 Points: 88 # Comments: 12
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OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation

https://www.axios.com/2026/07/21/openai-says-hugging-face-br... See also Security incident disclosure – July 2026 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956248 (9 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997548 Points: 565 # Comments: 373
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A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample

Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/a-digestion-of-the-jacobian-conjecture-counterexample/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998362 Points: 115 # Comments: 28
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Show HN: Computable – Buy, sell, and redeem GPU for the exact weeks you want

Hey we are Computable. We spent years building trading infrastructure at Jump Trading and Coinbase. From that point of view, compute looks like energy markets before 2000: everything trades through private bilateral leases, there’s no visible price, and nothing can be resold. The same H100 rents at a 2x spread depending on who’s asking, and once you sign a 24-month lease, it can never change hands. So we built a market for GPU nodes, sold by the calendar week. Here are three things you can do on...
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An Engineer's Guide to USB Type-C [pdf]

Article URL: https://www.ti.com/lit/eb/slyy228/slyy228.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48999376 Points: 15 # Comments: 2
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Tesla Robotaxis go to Florida

It must be earnings day, because Tesla is making a Robotaxi announcement. The company said in a post on X that it was launching its Robotaxi service in Orlando and Tampa, attaching a pair of maps that show each city's service area. No word on fleet size or whether interested customers would be able to […]
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Instagram will let users endlessly swap the audio on old posts

There's a symbiotic - and sometimes frustrating - relationship between social media sites and the creators that depend on them. Platforms need influencers' and creators' content to keep consumers on their apps; the creators, in turn, need to be able to reach those audiences to justify creating their content in the first place. Creators want […]
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Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge

A federal judge has signed off on Anthropic's $1.5 billion class action settlement with authors who accused the company of training its AI models on copyrighted books, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an order on Monday, Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín writes that the settlement will provide "meaningful relief," offering authors around $3,000 for each book […]
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Twitch will let parents stop their teens going live

Twitch is giving parents more control over how their children are using the streaming platform, including the ability to block them from broadcasting entirely. Parental controls are now available that allow guardians to link Twitch accounts with their 13- to 17-year-old children, providing account management features and a weekly email summarizing their teen's activity, including […]
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Nearly every Kindle is steeply discounted at Best Buy

If you’ve been thinking about picking up a Kindle before school starts, or for your next vacation, now’s a good time to do it. As part of its Black Friday in July sale, Best Buy has brought the Kindle Paperwhite back down to its all-time low of $124.99 ($35 off). It’s the Kindle we recommend […]
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Peak Design’s modular Field Bracket has a finder tag built-in

I am a very clumsy man. So clumsy, that I have AirTags hanging off practically every camera I own. Have I left my camera in an Uber? Yes. Have I left it on an airplane? Also yes. For me, finder tags are essential for my cameras. The problem is, strapping a finder tag to a […]
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Substack adds an AI detector to help spot blogs written by no one

Substack will now help users determine whether what they're reading may have been written by AI. A new tool coming to the platform can scan posts, notes, replies, and comments to provide an estimate of how much text could be AI-generated or written with AI assistance, according to a blog post published on Tuesday. The […]
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AI and the rise of the universal entertainment app

Over the past decade, streaming platforms competed by dominating individual formats like music, video, podcasts, or audiobooks. Now, as AI makes it easier to create, organize, and recommend content, those distinctions are fading, pushing companies like Spotify, Netflix, YouTube, and TikTok to become all-purpose entertainment destinations instead.