Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics (Startup Fortune)
Hyundai pays $325 million to acquire full ownership of Boston Dynamics from SoftBank.
Many note this is just buying the remaining 9%, not a new acquisition.
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Hyundai pays $325 million to acquire full ownership of Boston Dynamics from SoftBank.
Many note this is just buying the remaining 9%, not a new acquisition.
Norway will ban generative AI for pupils aged 6-13 from August 2026, citing learning risks.
Support for the age-graded ban, citing evidence AI hurts learning, with cautious use for older students.
Project Valhalla's value classes preview in JDK 28 after a decade of work.
Split on Java vs. .NET value type design and Oracle's stewardship.
Google Workspace warns Firefox users they must switch to Chrome, despite support denying a block.
Commenters divided between blaming Google's anticompetitiveness and attributing the warning to organizational security policies.
Atproto separates hosting from aggregation, unlike Mastodon's instance model.
Readers split over whether atproto's relays and app views count as instances, with the author defending the distinction.
An AI engineer claims to have deciphered the Bronze-age Minoan writing system Linear A.
Caution dominates: commenters insist on waiting for expert verification before accepting the decipherment.
EFF supports the Open Courts Act to eliminate PACER fees for public court records.
Two camps: those for free access vs. those warning of privacy and scraping harms.
A 100-question challenge estimates your English vocabulary size from 171,476 words.
Users enjoyed the test but criticized the three-click interaction and inflated scores.
Bobby Prince, legendary composer for Doom and Duke Nukem 3D, died at 81.
Commenters mourn a legend, praising his immersive music and Library of Congress honor.
Larger models like GPT-5.5 hallucinate more than smaller MIT-licensed GLM-5.2.
Debate over conditional vs absolute hallucination rates and the role of model size.
The JAWBONE Act would let individuals sue federal officials who pressure platforms to remove lawful speech.
Bipartisan support noted; debate over whether jawboning is worse under Democrats or Republicans.
Screens cannot display many naturally occurring cyans due to color gamut limits, but they can be found in forests and underwater.
Commenters agreed screens miss vivid cyans and greens, with paint and lasers showing them better.
Markets cannot fund socially valuable third places like youth clubs, requiring public grants or basic income.
Commenters debate whether markets or grants are the right fix for disappearing third places.
Reliance on AI tools degrades physicians' and software engineers' skills, studies show.
Top comment warns of societal innovation stall from offloading thinking to AI.
Americans fear their retirement savings are being forced into a risky SpaceX investment via index funds.
Commenters split: some furious at the rule change, others say it hardly matters.
A developer stored a small website's HTML inside a 9x9 favicon pixel grid.
Mixed reactions: praise for creativity versus concerns about favicon caching for fingerprinting.
Age verification laws are a pretext to force Real ID tracking on all internet traffic.
The thread splits over whether parental controls or government ID databases are the real solution.
An 8-year-old boy survived 147 minutes underwater in ice water, rescued by ECMO.
Survival came with significant lasting deficits, prompting debate on quality of life.
Amazon dropped a Sam Altman biopic months after deepening its OpenAI partnership.
Split between conflict-of-interest accusations and defense of Amazon's offer to find a new distributor.
Senior engineers judge junior hires by learning ability, not task count.
Two camps: those saying juniors are hired for junior tasks, those agreeing with Beck's long-term view.