Syria says it foiled Hezbollah weapons shipment
Syrian authorities say they intercepted a shipment of missiles and drones allegedly destined for Hezbollah in Lebanon.
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Netflix says around 300 titles used generative AI
Netflix says roughly 300 titles on its platform used generative AI, most of which occurred in post-production. The streaming service revealed the news in its second-quarter earnings report released on Thursday, saying it's "increasingly leveraging these tools to deliver higher quality output more quickly and at a lower cost." It also provided some examples of […]
xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users.
Elon Musk's xAI files first lawsuit against Grok user accused of making child sex images.
Wildfire smoke blankets World Cup final stadium before kickoff
Footage shows smoke from Canadian wildfires shrouding the New York New Jersey Stadium ahead of Sunday’s World Cup.
LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
Article URL: https://lmstudio.ai/blog/introducing-lm-studio-bionic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939662 Points: 311 # Comments: 111
Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory
Hyundai aims to deploy 25,000 Atlas robots starting with US factories in 2028.
Syria seizes advanced weapons it says were bound for Lebanon’s Hezbollah
Hezbollah denies activity in Syria after interception of arms shipment including missiles, rockets and drones via Iraq.
$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol
Article URL: https://www.tryai.dev/blog/ai-music-video-arena-claude-vs-gpt-5.6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939524 Points: 347 # Comments: 471
Nicaragua severs diplomatic ties with Italy over 1978 murder case
The rift follows Italy’s renewed demand for Nicaragua to extradite the man convicted of former prime minister's killing.
Trump teleprompter aide made $100,000 betting on what Trump would say, reports say
If only someone could have predicted it.
Why are people buying so many CDs?
CD sales are apparently going up, reportedly thanks to fans realizing they're an affordable way to support their favorite artists. According to a new report from research firm Luminate, 16.3 million CDs were sold in the first half of 2026 in the US, a 16 percent increase year-over-year. The growth in CD sales was driven […]
Kimi's open model K3 nears GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5 while signaling the end of super cheap Chinese AI
Kimi is launching K3, a multimodal open-weight model with 2.8 trillion parameters and one million tokens of context. In the company's own benchmarks, it comes close to Claude Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol while beating Opus 4.8 and GLM 5.2, in some cases by a wide margin. The model is also significantly pricier than its predecessor. Full weights are scheduled for release by July 27. The article Kimi's open model K3 nears GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5 while signaling the end of super cheap Chinese AI appeared first on The Decoder .
How serious is Iran’s threat to disrupt shipping in the Red Sea?
After the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's IRGC warns it could next target Bab al-Mandeb.
German tenants need better heat protection
Heat waves are becoming longer, hotter and more frequent. Record temperatures have left many tenants struggling. Now Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said the building law needs to be amended.
Iran war: US military attacks Iran for sixth night running
US Central Command said that a new wave of strikes was launched on Iran. It follows retaliatory strikes from Iran on sites in Jordan and Gulf states.
Iraq says $19M found in hideouts linked to ex-oil minister
Iraqi authorities say they seized the equivalent of $19 million in cash and several kilograms of gold jewelry
Three sacred cows that must die so Europe can live
The decline of Europe is not inevitable, despite how much Americans love to joke/proclaim that the continent is doomed to become an open-air museum. Sure, it's possible that things have to get worse before they get better, but believing that "it's over" is just loser talk. It's never over, but the old world also won't recover by itself. So here's my pithy prescription for how Europe can find its way back to The Good Times. # 1 End mass migration No single issue has cost Europe more than mass immigration when you add up the political, social, and economic consequences. You can't save the continent's declining birth rate, growing retiree burden, or even economy as a whole by importing millions of people from a culturally incompatible third world. I can forgive the original architects of this disaster with the goodwill you should always allow those who dare dream about the future. If you were nurtured on the delusion of blank-slatism, it wasn't much of a stretch to believe the theory that integration and assimilation would correct all immigration ills in a generation or two. But now that it hasn't, and the evidence is overwhelming that it won't, it's imperative that we collectively update our priors . To some of Europe's credit, this is already happening in places like Sweden , which has been on a fast track to copy many of the restrictive Danish ideas on immigration. But it's far, far from enough. Because the sacred cow here is not just that mass migration must stop going forward . It's also that millions who are already in Europe must go. Remigration has gone from a fringe concept to the mainstream discourse in record time on account of that realization. The Overton window is swinging wide open, but the cow is still there. # 2 Drop climate austerity This year has given us yet another installment of the old air-conditioning diaries. Tens of thousands of people die needlessly in Europe every year from something as simple as summer (more than the number of Americans who are killed by guns every year!). The climate catastrophizers have somehow married themselves to the moral argument that air conditioning in itself is a sin (because it uses ENERGY!), and the death of the old and the poor is a simple sacrifice they're willing to make. It's as callous as it is retarded. But the fight over air conditioning is downstream from the larger delusion about Europe's role in climate change. Setting aside how much of global warming is due to man-made causes, the reality is that Europe is irrelevant to the equation either way. Just 6% of global emissions originate there . So even if the nirvana of net zero could be achieved, it would change nothing, yet cost the continent everything. Behind this climate hysteria is an even deeper delusion, though: that degrowth will deliver us all from the sins of modernity. That energy use in and of itself is suspect. That salvation will be delivered through abstinence. It's all nonsense. Europe can't be a competitive part of the global economy if its energy costs are several times those of its commercial counterparts. And if you combine uncompetitive industries with a naive free-trade posture toward the likes of China, you'll not only get a dirtier planet, but also a hollowed-out economic bloc. # 3 Stop fighting success The best part of the American ethos is the belief that we can build our way out of anything. Behind China on chips and fabs? Let's build. Challenged by BYD? Let's build. Catch a glimpse of a future massively accelerated by AI? LET'S BUILD . Europe needs to shamelessly copy this aspect of the American ethos. It might not be able to match those crazy dreamers across the Atlantic, but it can give them a much, much better run for their money than it does today . This is the part that the European establishment already acknowledged with the Draghi report. This is what the seeds of promise from the Europe Inc initiative need to grow. But we need much more, much faster. And a big part of that is making peace with success. I know, this is perhaps the hardest ask of all . A generational skepticism of capitalism and the institutional inertia that supports it means we probably need a deeper crisis before the ship can be turned around. But Germany is on a fast track to deliver a sequel to the economic dismantling of Britain, so perhaps that example can provide the ignition. Now do it all at once This pithy prescription is not meant to be applied sequentially. First we fix this, then we fix that. No, we have to fix all of it at once: remigration, energization, and entrepreneurialism. It's all interconnected, but that actually makes the whole endeavor easier to pull off, not harder. Momentum in one area will feed momentum in the others. Europeans can rediscover their roots, their ancestry, their ingenuity, and choose to channel all those healthy national feelings toward a grand revival. But first, we need to sacrifice these holy cows and prepare the feast. How is next Thursday for you?
Why Gulf states are investing billions in Africa
Wealthy Gulf states are investing billions in African countries. But the nations involved all have different objectives. What's behind the investments and what's in it for African countries?
Alphabet shares fall on report its most powerful AI model Gemini 3.5 Pro is delayed
Alphabet announced the Gemini 3.5 Pro AI in May, saying it was being used internally but wouldn't be ready for a broader rollout until the following month.
Advanced search for Projects is generally available
The filter bar in GitHub Projects views now supports advanced search, so you can build the exact view you need with logical AND and OR instead of maintaining a separate… The post Advanced search for Projects is generally available appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Ebola spreading more quickly in DRC, while Uganda is close to being virus-free
Uganda discharges last-remaining patient, as WHO says Ebola has 'expanded faster than any previous outbreak' in DRC.
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Repository admins can archive pull requests
Repository admins can now archive pull requests to remove them from public view without permanently deleting them. When a pull request is archived, it is closed and locked. Pull requests… The post Repository admins can archive pull requests appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Energy drinks to be banned from sale to under-16s in England
About 100,000 children across the country drink the high-caffeine beverages daily High-caffeine energy drinks “have no place in children’s hands” and will be banned from sale to under-16s in England from April next year under new laws designed to improve health outcomes in young people. About 100,000 children across the country currently drink high-caffeine energy drinks daily, with those in more deprived areas and households more likely to consume them, according to the government. Continue reading...