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* Ukrainian drone forces have proved so successful against US troops in exercises that “destroyed” equipment had to be reintroduced into the simulated combat * Over the course of the two-week-long exercise, US forces improved at camouflage, dispersing, and using electronic warfare against the aerial attacks * The Combined Resolve military exercise took
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A 360-degree camera takes photos and videos all around the camera, capturing everything in a sphere that you can post as is or edit to only focus on what’s interesting. Since the camera captures everything, you can just concentrate on what you’re doing instead of aiming the camera.
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Looking for a different day? A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Friday'
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Looking for a different day? A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Friday'
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Looking for a different day? A new Quordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Friday's
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In Brief 3:43 PM PDT · August 14, 2026 PayPal CEO Enrique Lores’ turnaround plan for the fintech company could include a sale — of itself. The prospect first popped in July when Stripe and private equity giant Advent offered to buy PayPal for $60.50 a share in a deal
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Jarmo Piironen/Getty Images August 14, 2026 06:31 PM ET Recently proposals look, in part, to deploy artificial intelligence solutions to prevent natural disasters from impeding U.S. military operations and evaluate China’s AI chip manufacturing sector. * Tech Bills of the Week Using AI for environmental evaluations near
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Humanoid robots are on the rise, with a slate of companies building several different prototypes. Whether they're designed to be on the production line or engineered to roam around your house performing various chores, different kinds of machines are on the cusp of mass production. Setting expectations Australian
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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 14, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day,Atanasoff Finishes Paper Describing the Atanasoff Berry Computer in 1940, Lunar Obitar 1 began its orbit around the Moon in 1966, Pakistan Independence
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Prefill/decode disaggregation has the elegance of a clean architecture diagram. Prompt processing is compute-heavy. Token generation is memory-bandwidth-heavy. Put them on separate GPU pools, scale each phase independently, and stop them from interfering with each other. That logic is sound. Then a burst arrives. Prefill queues grow. Decode GPUs
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I built a RAG tool over my own writing. Here's what I learned. A note: I built this with Claude Code doing the implementation, directed by me. Worth being explicit about that, since it's the more honest version of what "I built this" means
