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This Cannes Film Cost $500,000 to Make. $400,000 Was AI Compute Costs.
Higgsfield AI is debuting a 95-minute fully AI-generated film at Cannes called “Hell Grind” that reportedly cost $500,000 to make, $400,000 of which was spent on compute alone. The project took just two weeks to produce and is intended to showcase the startup’s AI production tools. But it also underscores the current limits of AI f 
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ProcÚs Athanor: au centre des débats, ce que savaient les services de renseignement
Entendu comme tĂ©moin, un ancien lieutenant-colonel du service action a dĂ©clarĂ© avoir alertĂ© la DGSE Ă  propos d’une opĂ©ration en cours «sur une IsraĂ©lienne» plusieurs semaines avant une tentative d’assassinat dont allait ĂȘtre victime Marie-HĂ©lĂšne Dini. ⌘ Read more

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Venmo Redesign Makes New Users’ Posts Friends-Only by Default
Venmo is testing a major redesign that will make new users’ payment posts viewable by their friends by default instead of being public. The Verge reports: It’s a notable update for a platform that has struggled with privacy in the past. In 2021, BuzzFeed News tracked down President Joe Biden’s Venmo account and the accounts of people in his inner circle 
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On the Money: Grant Baker’s book launch, Ray Smith, Nikhil Ravishankar, a great AI speech, and more
On the Money (OTM) is our column of general frippery we observed within the worlds of business and government this week.

It was not the easiest week to be a departmental chief executive. Minister for the Public Service Nicola Willis signalled 9,000 public-sector jobs might go, and several agencies might be folded into on 
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Palestine mon amour, par Elias Sanbar
Voix française de la Palestine, Elias Sanbar publie son livre le plus personnel et le plus douloureux: un «Nouveau Dictionnaire amoureux de la Palestine» Ă©crit Ă  l’ombre du gĂ©nocide de Gaza. ⌘ Read more

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Rechtsnationalist Jansa regiert Slowenien
Das slowenische Parlament hat den rechtsnationalen OppositionsfĂŒhrer Janez Jansa am Freitag zum neuen Regierungschef gewĂ€hlt. Jansa erhielt in einer geheimen Abstimmung 51 Stimmen, der Chef der Demokratischen Partei (SDS) ĂŒbertraf damit die erforderliche absolute Mehrheit von 46 Stimmen ĂŒberraschend deutlich und erhielt auch Stimmen aus den Reihen der Opposition. Seine Mitte-rechts-Koalition hat im Parlament aber keine Mehrheit und ist auf die UnterstĂŒtzung der rechtspopulistischen Gruppierung 
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Le poutinisme s’oriente vers le modùle iranien
Un rĂ©gime dĂ©pourvu de soutien populaire qui conserve le pouvoir par le recours Ă  la force: telle est la Russie aujourd’hui. La dĂ©gradation de la situation Ă©conomique atteint la lĂ©gitimitĂ© du Kremlin, mais la force de la rĂ©pression ne laisse entrevoir aucun dĂ©bordement populaire. ⌘ Read more

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OpenCL 3.1.1 Released To Address A Possible Performance Regression
Released earlier this month was the OpenCL 3.1 specification with a focus on enhancing AI and HPC workloads for this long-time Khronos specification. Out today is OpenCL 3.1.1 as a point release with an emphasis on addressing a possible performance regression of OpenCL 3.1
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Samsung Chip Workers To Get $340,000 Average Bonus In AI Boom
Samsung is reportedly set to pay chip-division workers an average bonus of about $340,000 after reaching a tentative deal with its union, according to Bloomberg (paywalled). The deal ended a standoff that “could have cost the economy as much as 1 trillion won ($658 million) daily, with losses potentially multiplying to 100 trillion won ($68 billion) if in 
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PanthĂ©onisations: cette fois, l’ÉlysĂ©e a bien Ă©tĂ© perquisitionnĂ©
Deux juges d’instruction qui enquĂȘtent sur des marchĂ©s publics attribuĂ©s Ă  la sociĂ©tĂ© Shortcut Events pour des cĂ©rĂ©monies de panthĂ©onisation ont perquisitionnĂ© l’ÉlysĂ©e jeudi. Ils avaient Ă©tĂ© refoulĂ©s voici un mois. ⌘ Read more

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Entscheidung ĂŒber Einsparungen vertagt
Die Entscheidung ĂŒber die Einsparungen im UniversitĂ€tsbudget 2028 bis 2030 ist vorerst vertagt. Im Doppelbudget 2027/28 wird der derzeitige Budgetansatz von rund 5,2 Mrd. Euro zunĂ€chst formal fortgeschrieben. Das gab Wissenschaftsministerin Eva-Maria Holzleitner (SPÖ) am Freitag bekannt, nachdem es einen Aufschrei der Unis und Kritik aus den LĂ€ndern gegeben hatte. ⌘ Read more

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A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: US lawmakers plan to introduce an amendment Thursday at a House committee markup hearing that would prohibit any recipient of federal highway funding from using automated license plate readers for any purpose other than tolling – a sweeping restriction that, if adopted, would bring 
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Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era
Hey HN, we’re Avi, Kiet, and Satya. We’re building Superset ( https://github.com/superset-sh/superset), an open-source agentic IDE for running coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode etc in parallel.

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWDHn7gUwfg

Try it: https://superset.sh/

We’re three engineers who’ve built and maintained large codebases, and we k 
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[$] Custom page-cache policies with BPF
The kernel’s page cache is charged with maintaining pages (or, more
correctly, folios) containing copies of
data from files in the filesystem; its performance has a big effect on the
performance of the system as a whole. One of the key decisions the kernel
must make is when to evict folios from the page cache. At the 2026 Linux Storage,\‹Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Tal Zussman ran a
memory-ma 
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systemd 261-rc1 Released With OS Installer, IMDS Subsystem & New storagectl
The first release candidate of systemd 261 is out today and it includes yet more features for this Linux init system and service manager
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Rechnungshof mahnt Gesundheitsreform ein
Dem Rechnungshof (RH) reichen die BemĂŒhungen von Bund, LĂ€ndern, Gemeinden und Sozialversicherung fĂŒr eine Gesundheitsreform offenbar nicht: In einem am Freitag veröffentlichten Themenpapier legt er Ideen vor, wie es bis 2040 zu einer Neuausrichtung des Systems kommen könnte. Abgeleitet von seinen PrĂŒfungen finden sich darin 15 VorschlĂ€ge fĂŒr Versorgungsstrukturen, Finanzierung und Steuerung. Bis 2028 mĂŒsse eine Richtungsentscheidung fallen. ⌘ Read more

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