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Wally Funk, last of Mercury 13 and oldest woman in space, dies at 87

Wally Funk, the oldest woman to travel into space and the last remaining member of the Mercury 13, has passed away at 87.

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Is an air-conditioning revolution coming to Europe?

Advances in environmentally friendly technology may lead to a revolution in air-conditioning adoption across Europe.

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Rocket Report: "Panic" over Transporter availability; Isar to launch from Canada

Recent reports indicate panic over Transporter launch availability and news that Isar will launch from Canada.

Hardware/Chips Ars Technica

Like a cheat code for your car: We investigate ECU tuning

An investigation into ECU tuning explores the ongoing conflict between car manufacturers locking chips and tuners attempting to crack them.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

RhyMix: A Lightweight Adaptive Multi-Rhythm Network for Long-Term Time Series Forecasting

RhyMix is a lightweight neural architecture for long-term time series forecasting that uses a parallel dual-path modeling paradigm.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Best-of-$N$ TTS Evaluation is Confounded by ASR Family Alignment

Research reveals that Best-of-N TTS evaluation is confounded by ASR family alignment and proposes cross-family rank ensembles for better accuracy.

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The mathematical secrets of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia

An exploration of the mathematical principles and geometric secrets used in the architecture of the Sagrada Familia.

Tech Business/VC Hacker News

Laylo (YC S20) Is Hiring a Head of Finance

Laylo, a Y Combinator startup, is searching for a Head of Finance.

Software Engineering Hacker News

Good Tools Are Invisible

A discussion on the philosophy of tool design, arguing that the best tools are those that become invisible to the user.

Software Engineering Hacker News

Java 27: What's New?

An overview of the new features and changes coming in Java 27.

Other The Verge

Doom’s new expansion shows just what makes id Software special

The launch of a new expansion for Doom: The Dark Ages is marred by reports of mass layoffs at Xbox.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Out of Sight: Compression-Aware Content Protection against Agentic Crawlers

CAPE is a new framework that protects online content from AI agents by injecting invisible perturbations that cause information loss during agentic compression.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

LEEVLA: Seeing What Matters in Latent Environment Evolution for Vision-Language-Action

LEEVLA is a new VLA architecture that uses drift-guided dynamic prioritization to help robots focus on task-critical visual evidence.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Leveraging Color Naming for Image Enhancement

NamedCurves+ is an image enhancement approach that integrates color naming and tone curves for interpretable and interactive image retouching.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Open-ended Multi-agent Autocurricula via Visual Inspection of Policies with Multi-modal LLMs

VIP (Visual Inspection of Policies) leverages Video Language Models to generate effective autocurricula for reinforcement learning agents by analyzing episode videos.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

TMI: Text-to-Image Meets Image-to-Image for Complementary Data Synthesis to Boost Long-Tailed Instance Segmentation

TMI is a hybrid pipeline combining text-to-image and image-to-image editing to synthesize data for boosting long-tailed instance segmentation.

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EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA

The EU Commission has found Instagram and Facebook to be in breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA) due to addictive design features.

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80-year-old woman with Alzheimer's took mushrooms and started speaking again

A report describes an 80-year-old woman with Alzheimer's who regained the ability to speak after taking mushrooms.

Tech Business/VC The Verge

Polestar owners left ‘holding the bag’ after EV brand pulls out of the US

Polestar is exiting the US market starting with the 2027 model year after the US government denied authorization due to Chinese-made connected vehicle software.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

LDFE: Laplacian Decoupled Feature Enhancement Block for Dual-Stream CNN-based RGB-IR Object Detection

Researchers introduce LDFE, a Laplacian Decoupled Feature Enhancement block designed to improve RGB-IR object detection using dual-stream CNNs.