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Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)
Explore one of the world's largest and most discussed duopolies, from the origins of the credit card to its combined market value of $850 billion.
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You don't have to pay the Microsoft 365 price increase
Here’s how to keep the price of your subscription the same as it’s always been.
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You don't want to hire "the best engineers"
I think this might be the meanest thing I've ever written.
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Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations
Wikipedia is the backbone of knowledge on the internet. Learn how the Wikimedia Foundation is safeguarding it under the UK Online Safety Act.
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Waymo and Toyota outline partnership to advance autonomous driving deployment
Toyota Motor Corporation (“Toyota”) and Waymo reached a preliminary agreement to explore a collaboration focused on accelerating the development and deployment of autonomous driving technologies.
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Databricks acquires Neon
Databricks agrees to acquire Neon, a serverless Postgres database company, to bring speed and flexibility to production workloads.
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New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer
The path to Vision Zero requires reducing severe crashes and improving the safety of those most at risk. Our latest research paper shows that the Waymo Driver is making significant strides in both areas. By reducing the most dangerous crashes and providing better protection for pedestrians, cyclists, and other…
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A new form of verification on Bluesky
We’re introducing a new layer of verification — a user-friendly, easily recognizable badge. Additionally, independent organizations can verify accounts directly through our Trusted Verifiers feature.
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Announcing the data.gov archive
The Library Innovation Lab is growing knowledge and community by bringing library principles to technological frontiers.
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A bug saved the company
Fortune favors the buggy?
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Perplexity Deep Research
Deep Research accelerates question answering by completing in 2-4 minutes what would take a human expert many hours.
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The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership
Microsoft and OpenAI sign a new agreement that strengthens its long-term partnership, expands innovation, and ensures responsible AI progress.
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Cerebras launches Qwen3-235B, achieving 1.5k tokens per second
Cerebras powers the world's fastest AI inference on the biggest wafer chip. Cerebras CS-4 delivers up to 30x faster inference than GPUs.
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Stop selling “unlimited”, when you mean “until we change our minds”
Claude Code joins the AI pricing bait-and-switch
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Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO
It is more important than ever that the social web is not controlled by corporations. Today, Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership. We're transferring ownership of key assets to a new European not-for-profit entity, ensuring our mission remains true to a…
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Kurt Got Got
The night we spent without control of our Twitter account.
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IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products
IKEA is launching 21 new smart home products focusing on lighting, sensors, and control — all built to work with Matter, the universal smart home standard. A significant step in making smart home technology easier to use, more affordable, and better adapted to real-life needs in the home.
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Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell Ecosia (2018)
Because we believe that the world would be a better place if more businesses were driven by a meaningful cause instead of greed.
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Abundance isn't going to happen unless politicians are scared of the status quo
It’s A Race Between Building Up and Burning Down
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A $1k AWS mistake
A cautionary tale about AWS VPC networking, NAT Gateways, and how a missing VPC Endpoint turned our S3 data transfers into an expensive lesson.
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MrBeast Failed to Disclose Ads and Improperly Collected Children's Data
The Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) recommended MrBeast update advertising and data collection practices.
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Our Farewell from Google Play
Our project started in 2016 with the goal of offering alternatives to apps with basic functionality that demanded – back then at install time – many permissions they did not need. From our humble beginnings with Privacy Friendly Torchlight, our apps have always been available in the Google Play Store. Our current…
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FLX1s phone is launched
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Is it a bubble?
In his latest memo, Howard Marks explores if there is a bubble in AI, identifying uncertainty, parallels to past bubbles, AI's vast potential, and emphasizing the importance of prudence.
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Why Bell Labs Worked
Or, how MBA culture killed Bell Labs
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We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3"
At thousands of uploads/second, S3’s per-request fees dominated costs. We built N3, a Rust in-memory landing zone with S3 as overflow.
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Akamai to shut down its CDN operations in China
Akamai provides a global CDN that serves visitors inside and outside of China via the Akamai global network and strategic in-country partners.