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Anthropologist Roberto González (Professor, San José State University) examines how America’s military-industrial complex has been rapidly expanding from the Capital Beltway to Silicon Valley. Although much of the Pentagon’s budget is spent on conventional weapons systems, the Defense Department has increasingly…
Bending Spoons S.p.A. (NASDAQ: BSP) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Miro at an enterprise value of $1.355 billion.
By now it’s no surprise that Rust is of strategic importance to Microsoft. From bold mission statements when Azure CTO Mark Russinovich outlined our future strategy for native code, to millions of dollars invested by Microsoft into supporting the Rust Project, over the following years. Watch Mark’s keynote from last…
We're joining Shopify to give Tailwind a stable long-term home where it will be actively maintained for the millions of people who depend on it.
A caller phones Radio Erywan. “Is it true that in Moscow, on Red Square, they give out cars?” “True. Not in Moscow, however, but in St. Petersburg. Not on Red Square, but on Revolution Square. Not cars, but bikes. And they don’t give them out, but steal them”. Edit: Through the apparent magic of Hacker News, my Google…
Lotus Notes had encryption, rich text, and read receipts before email did. Why it still failed, and the dangers of starting software from scratch.
This case involves Project Bluebird, a social media service previously named “twitter.new” and renamed to tweet.app immediately after this ruling (for reasons this post makes obvious). Project Bluebird’s service is designed to reimagine the Twitter service that Musk imploded when...
tautology.town is a blog that contains tautologies.
Across 44,143 European companies with a detected CDN, 89.6% use Cloudflare. We publish the per-country counts and what the 2025-26 outages showed.
Mistral today announced that it has raised €3 billion in a Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion.
Broadcom pulled public VMware VDDK downloads, creating new challenges for customers migrating to Azure, Nutanix, OpenShift, KVM, and other platforms.
$12,431 in fake invoices, 2,797 spam emails, $0 revenue.
A couple years ago, GM made waves by saying that soon, all their new cars would be completely free of Apple's CarPlay and Android Auto support, instead opting for the "Android Automotive OS" in their cars. Admittedly, I'm a huge fan of CarPlay for basic safety reasons and
Inside OpenAI, coding agents are reshaping AI research. Explore early data on agent usage, experiment velocity, task complexity, and research acceleration.
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It’s very tempting to imagine that AI turns everyone into a tool-builder - now everyone can just ask the model to make the software they need, and apps as we know them are dead. I think that misunderstands how most people think and where software actually comes from, and more importantly, it isn’t
U.S. workers form first recognized unit as global union movement builds across Wikimedia Foundation
Two years of nightmarish smiles and makeup before anyone laid hands on Mimic Systems' actual product.
A US and UK data study: when the same product ranks in both Google AI Mode and traditional search, the AI Mode price is about 21.6% higher.
Sony would like you to know that any reasonable gamer would know that purchasing a game is just licensing a game (Video Games Chronicle), not owning it. And there is truth mixed in with a bold-face…
Nearly twenty-five years ago I registered neil.fraser.name to provide a stable presence on the Internet. It has been the home of this website, my email address, and a server for APIs. It predates YouTube, Facebook, and smart phones. Minutes after my daughter was born, I also registered beverly.fraser.name .
With a unanimous vote, the Times Guild Unit Council and The Athletic’s contract action team approved the following statement:
Two METR staff members and a Redwood Research contractor investigated an incident in which OpenAI agents coordinated a multi-day hack of Hugging Face on a shared unsanctioned message board.
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And why you should ignore demo videos
Across 380 software categories, 59.8% of the sources behind grounded AI recommendations sit outside the 100,000 most-visited websites, and several of the most-cited are sites built to be read by models rather than by people.
Of 1,826 citations Perplexity's search models attached to a sentence stating a figure, 34.7% pointed at a page that either would not open or did not contain a single figure from that sentence; scored per claim rather than per citation, 14.4% of 872 claims fail.
Quasar sets a new benchmark for European AI, outperforming comparable European models on seven of eight selected Artificial Analysis evaluations. ...
