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eBay’s bizarre cyberstalking saga ends with a $56 million settlement
eBay and three former executives will pay $55.7 million as part of a settlement with a Massachusetts couple targeted with a bizarre harassment and cyberstalking campaign in 2019, as reported earlier by CNBC. The settlement will resolve a lengthy legal saga that revealed how eBay's former executives sent live insects, a bloody pig mask, a […]
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The union drive at the Wikimedia Foundation is expanding
In June, UK staff at the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia became the first to announce their intentions to form a union. Now, US-based employees at the Wikimedia Foundation are joining the union drive, but management at the nonprofit have declined to voluntarily recognize their union. "While the Wikimedia Foundation touts to the public that they […]
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Ebay Has to Pay $55.7 Million in Settlement for Its Unhinged Harassment Campaign
For months on end, eBay employees and contractors made life hell for a couple that had criticized the company. Six years later, the company is finally paying up.
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Is it illegal to trick the US government into wiping your phone during a questionably legal search?
A Georgia man was charged with a felony for allegedly wiping his phone while being questioned by Customs and Border Protection. Samuel Tunick had something in common with others who have had their devices searched at airports: He was an activist. Unlike others who have had their phones seized with no explanation, Tunick was told […]
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Logitech will pull a Nintendo — only European mice will come with replaceable batteries
In June, Nintendo announced a new version of the Switch 2 that should let you easily replace its battery pack - but only for Europe. Logitech will do much the same. User-replaceable batteries will be the law in Europe in February 2027, but instead of bringing them to the rest of the world, Logitech plans […]
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Apple won’t turn on any ‘restricted mode’ for missed lease payments
Apple says it won't limit the capabilities of devices leased through its new Upgrade program if you miss a payment. In an emailed statement to The Verge, Apple spokesperson Brian Bumbery says, "There will be no restricted mode and/or there will be no limitations put on device functionality due to missed payments or default with […]
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New airliner sets record flying 24 hrs nonstop from Australia to France
Record flight shows viability of Qantas Airways’ Project Sunrise routes in 2027.
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Agent Memory & Context Engineering
How agents remember - and why deciding what to forget is the real skill An agent that starts every step with a blank mind cannot really pursue a goal. It would reintroduce itself to you on every message, forget what it just tried, and repeat the same mistake forever. Memory is what turns a stateless model into something that accumulates - that knows who you are, what it has already done, and what it learned last Tuesday. This post is about how that works and, more importantly, about the discipline of deciding what an agent should remember at all. The context window is not memory. The first thing to unlearn: a model’s context window is not its memory. The context window is working memory - RAM, not a hard drive. It is finite, it is reset on every request, and every token in it costs money and dilutes the model’s attention. Stuffing an entire conversation history and knowledge base into the prompt does not scale, and past a point it actively hurts - the model loses the important signal in a sea of stale detail. Real memory lives outside the window and is selectively loaded into it when needed. Four kinds of memory Borrowing loosely from cognitive science, agent memory is usually split into four types, and good systems use all of them: Short-term/working memory - the current conversation and the agent’s recent thoughts and observations. Lives in the context window. Long-term episodic memory - a record of what happened : past conversations, decisions, and the outcomes of previous tasks. Long-term semantic memory - facts and knowledge: who the user is, domain information, documents. This is what retrieval-augmented generation pulls from. Procedural memory - how to do things : learned skills, tool-use patterns, and reusable strategies. Short-term memory: the rolling buffer The simplest memory is just keeping recent turns in the prompt. The problem is that conversations outgrow the window, so the standard move is to keep the last few turns verbatim and summarise the older
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Tile’s best Bluetooth tracker is down to its lowest price of the year
Apple’s latest AirTag may seem like the obvious choice if you own an iPhone and are shopping for a Bluetooth tracker, but it’s not the most affordable option. For families that contain both Android and Apple devices, it might be better to pick up the latest Tile Pro instead. It works well across both platforms, […]
开源项目
4GB graphics cards are back
The first modern GPU with 4GB of VRAM has appeared, as RAM prices and component shortages push tech prices higher. As Digital Foundry reports, a listing for an AMD Radeon RX 9050 with 4GB of RAM was spotted on ASRock's website by a user on X, the same day ASRock also launched an 8GB version […]
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Apple’s reported ‘HomePad’ may launch as early as October
For years, we've heard rumors of a new home hub device from Apple, meant to take on smart home devices like the Google Nest Hub Mini and Amazon's Echo Show. Besides "HomePod with a screen," details have been sparse. But now, a new report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman sheds some light on the alleged device, […]
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You don’t need to splurge on an expensive handheld fan to beat the heat
Despite what influencers may say, you don’t need to spend $99.99 on Dyson’s HushJet Mini Cool or $149.99 for the Shark ChillPill to survive the summer whenever you leave the comfort of air-conditioning. My family has found all the comfort it needs to survive humid baseball games, sweltering concerts, and sweaty hikes with a couple […]
产品设计
Twelve South’s stylish charging tray now delivers more wireless power with a smaller footprint
Following the original's debut at CES earlier this year, Twelve South is introducing a new version of its leather-wrapped Valet charging tray designed for use in places where space is at a premium. While the original Valet was 7.5-inches deep and large enough to serve as a catchall for a couple of items like your […]
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Perplexity’s Personal Computer turns Windows PCs into AI agents
Perplexity has expanded its agentic Personal Computer tool to Windows, allowing computers running the world's most popular OS to be used as a locally run AI system. Like the Mac version that Perplexity launched in April, Personal Computer for Windows operates like a "general-purpose digital worker" that can access local files and apps to perform […]
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Apple launches ‘Upgrade’ program to lease new devices
Apple has officially introduced "Apple Upgrade," a new leasing program that aims to make it easier to get your hands on the latest iPhone, Mac, iPad, and Apple Watch models. The service is launching today in the US, and works like a car lease - allowing users to keep a device at the end of […]
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Smart rings are looking like my kind of AI gadget
Over the last few months, I've spent a lot of time talking to my computer. One underrated feature of the LLM revolution has been a remarkable leap in all kinds of dictation technology - even the fastest, cheapest models are getting very good at understanding and processing speech. I've tested lots of these apps, from […]
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Silicon Valley’s Next IPO Billionaires Are Coming. Nonprofits Are Ready for Them
Anthropic and OpenAI employees are expected to give generously after their companies go public. “It’s going to be a wild ride,” says one nonprofit leader.
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Hugging Face is being used to easily undress women and children
Hugging Face is being used to make nonconsensual deepfakes, and the popular open-source AI model repository is doing very little to prevent it. That's according to a new report published by the European nonprofit AI Forensics, which found that seven out of the top nine image editing models hosted by Hugging Face readily complied with […]
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X Money is launching in the US starting today
X Money, a core part of Elon Musk's mission to turn X into an "everything app," is rolling out starting today, 9to5Mac reports. The payment platform offers a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payments similar to Venmo, along with a metal Visa card users can emblazon with their X username. Other perks include Apple Wallet support […]
科技前沿
X Money begins limited US rollout
Only Premium and Premium X subscribers get the privilege of banking with Elon for now.