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GPT-4 API General Availability
GPT-3.5 Turbo, DALL·E and Whisper APIs are also generally available, and we are releasing a deprecation plan for older models of the Completions API, which will retire at the beginning of 2024.
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Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business
BOISE, Idaho, Dec. 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), a leader in innovative memory and storage solutions, today announced its decision to exit the Crucial consumer business, including the sale of Crucial consumer-branded products at key retailers, e-tailers and distributors worldwide…
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Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022
Update: The retired, out-of-support Internet Explorer 11 desktop application has bee
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Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters
We’re excited to announce that the Bluesky network is federating and opening up in a way that allows you to host your own data.
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Elasticsearch is open source, again
Elastic announces the return of open source licensing for Elasticsearch and Kibana, adding AGPL as an option alongside existing licenses. This change reinforces our long-standing commitment to open so...
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Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy
Claude Free, Pro, and Max users can now opt in to having conversations used to improve models, with a five-year retention period for participants.
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Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click
We've passed a milestone in Google's evolution from search engine to walled-garden. In June of 2019, for the first time, a majority of all browser-based
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SimulaVR Has Been Subpoenaed by Meta Platforms, Inc
A few days ago we received a large packet in the mail from Meta's legal team informing us that SimulaVR has been subpoenaed for their antitrust case FTC vs. Meta Platforms , in relation to the government's recent injunction against their acquisition of a VR fitness company.
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Our $100M Series B
Raising our Series B round of financing
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Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?
Examine.com was born in 2011 out of our personal frustration with the poor quality of information on nutrition and supplementation available on the Internet, and since then we’ve helped tens of millions of people get health information free from advertorial pressures, miracle cures, and clickbait headlines that tease…
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Welcome Home, Garry Tan
Today we're excited to announce that Garry Tan will be YC's next president and CEO. He is a visionary and builder — having founded the earliest blogging platform and advised hundreds of startups over the last decade.
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Substack Notes Launched
A way to share posts and short-form content on Substack
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No Kings: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a Flat Organization?
Practical thoughts from a back-end team leader
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Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch
For the past one and a half years I've been working on a secret Factorio project. Today we are finally revealing it. As announced during Nintendo Direct, Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch! It's already in the final stages and the global release date is set for 28th October 2022. Here is what to expect: All of the…
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Dropbox Project Infinite
Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.
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AWS's Egregious Egress
Amazon’s says: “We strive to offer our customers the lowest possible prices, the best available selection, and the utmost convenience.” When it comes to egress, their prices are far from the lowest.
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Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop connectivity standard
Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance today announced a new working group that plans to develop and promote a new connectivity standard.
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“Google: it is time to return to not being evil”
A monopoly both in search and advertising, Google, unfortunately, shows that they are not able to resist the misuse of power.
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Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser
Starting today, new Brave users will have the search functionality in the Brave browser powered by Brave Search, giving them the privacy and independence of a search/browser alternative to Big Tech.
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Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT
Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting next fall, thanks to newly expanded financial aid. Eighty percent of American households meet this income threshold.
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Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own anti-tracking crackdown
Apple is the one tech giant that has never been associated with ads, proudly declaring its customer a jewel it will never sell to advertisers. But it seems that Apple is now immersing itself deep into the ad business. Will its promises be kept?
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Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
In January 2025, the PSF submitted a proposal to the US government National Science Foundation under the Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open Source Ecosystems program to address structural vulnerabilities in Python and PyPI. It was the PSF’s first time applying for government funding, and navigating the intensive…
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Nest Reminds Customers That Ownership Isn't What It Used to Be
Nest Labs, a home automation company acquired by Google in 2014, will disable some of its customers' home automation control devices in May. This move is causing quite a stir among people who purchased the $300 Revolv Hub devices—customers who reasonably expected that the promised "lifetime" of...
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Addressing Spotify’s Claims
We want more app businesses to thrive — including the ones that compete with some aspect of our business, because they drive us to be better.