Designator

The manosphere’s testosterone fever is coming for the troops

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces mandatory testosterone screenings for US troops over 30 years old.

A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp

Lisp is a family of programming languages with over 20 dialects, sharing fundamental syntax but differing in operators and semantics.

17 Jul18 min read

Wired

Conspiracy Theorists Think Trump’s Speech Paves the Path to the Insurrection Act

Conspiracy theorists believe Trump's speech sets the stage for invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy the military at polls in November.

17 Jul4 min read

Wired

Pete Hegseth’s Plan for ‘High T’ Troops Is a Junk-Science Fever Dream

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's plan to screen US service members for testosterone deficiency and offer hormone therapy to boost "warrior ethos" is medically dubious, according to experts.

The Human-in-the-Loop Is Tired

The integration of large language models into programming workflows is creating a new form of "supervision fatigue" for developers, who must constantly review and correct AI-generated code.

17 Jul10 min read

SpaceX scrubs Starship launch after some of its engines didn't start

SpaceX aborted a Starship test flight after some of the Super Heavy booster's 33 engines failed to ignite during the countdown sequence.

17 Jul4 min read

San Francisco mayor pushes for tougher rules after the Waymo traffic fiasco

San Francisco's mayor is advocating for stricter state regulations on autonomous vehicles after Waymo robotaxis caused significant traffic disruptions during two major city events.

16 Jul4 min read

SpaceX suddenly aborts second Starship V3 launch after ignition

SpaceX aborted its second Starship V3 launch attempt moments after engine ignition, with CEO Elon Musk citing an automatic shutdown due to some engines failing to start.

16 Jul4 min read

Apple TV for Android adds widgets, Apple Music gets WhatsApp sharing

Apple TV for Android adds homescreen widgets and Apple Music introduces WhatsApp sharing and new widgets.

16 Jul2 min read

Two Trump health nominees crash and burn in tense Senate hearing

Two Trump health nominees struggled in a tense Senate hearing, failing to alleviate concerns about their qualifications and commitment to evidence-based policy.

The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement learning is explained in a publicly available book on GitHub.

Wired

Why Apple Sued OpenAI, New York Takes on Data Centers, and What to Know about Cyclosporiasis

Apple sued OpenAI for allegedly stealing confidential hardware secrets and proprietary information.

16 Jul31 min read

HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs

HP India was fined 1.4 billion rupees for cartelizing computers, ink cartridges, and toner with reseller partners.

Google Health 5.04 rolling out: Custom food logging, more fixes

Google Health 5.04 introduces custom food logging and various bug fixes.

'Likweli': A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin

Scientists have discovered a new Colobus monkey species, Colobus congoensis, in the Democratic Republic of Congo's high forest canopies.

16 Jul6 min read

Tesla driver who blamed crash on autopilot pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB finds

The NTSB's preliminary findings indicate a Tesla driver, who blamed autopilot for a fatal crash, manually overrode the system by pressing the accelerator to 100 percent.

Why AMI Labs’ Alexandre LeBrun won’t call his AI ‘AGI’ or ‘superintelligence’

AMI Labs CEO Alexandre LeBrun avoids labeling his company's AI as AGI or superintelligence, emphasizing world models' potential to enable robots to understand and interact with the physical world.

16 Jul5 min read

Realme confirms it will shut down in China to focus on global markets

Realme will cease operations in China to reallocate resources towards cultivating overseas markets, focusing on performance and gaming.

Moonshot’s upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8

Moonshot AI's upcoming Kimi K3 model is anticipated to rival or exceed Anthropic's Opus 4.8, potentially becoming China's largest open-weight AI model.

Google Pixel continues to grow as global smartphone shipments hit lowest point since 2013

Google Pixel saw 16% year-over-year growth in Q2 despite global smartphone shipments hitting their lowest point since 2013.

EU demands opening Android access and Search data to rivals, Google warns of privacy risks

The EU orders Google to open Android and Search data to rivals, despite Google's warnings of potential privacy risks.

The Verge

‘No company is going to go to jail for you’: Proton’s CTO on balancing privacy, policy, and trust

Proton's CTO discusses balancing privacy and policy while maintaining user trust in secure productivity software.

Show HN: AI Law Tracker – one audited API for US, EU and global AI law

AI Law Tracker provides a single audited API for US, EU, and global AI laws.

16 Jul47 min read