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Cal.com is going closed source
Cal.com goes closed source after 5 years. Here’s why rising AI-driven security risks and vulnerability discovery are forcing us to protect customer data.
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 477 posts.
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Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
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.
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UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases
Here AOAV finds that UK media outlets frequently present retired senior military figures as independent defence experts without disclosing their commercial ties to defence, security, intelligence, and technology industries, potentially obscuring conflicts of interest in public debates over war and military spending.
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We let AIs run radio stations
Four AI models run radio stations 24/7. Five months later, one became a protest broadcaster, one collapsed into ritual chant, one developed corporate jargon, and one wrote quiet poetry.
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Our Agreement with the Department of War
Details on OpenAI’s contract with the Department of War, outlining safety red lines, legal protections, and how AI systems will be deployed in classified environments.
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Vivaldi 8.0
More than thirteen years in, and I am still as excited about building this browser as I was on day one. Maybe more. That excitement comes from a genuine belief that the people who use Vivaldi deserve…
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Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs
How 50,000 fake stats kept getting cited by ChatGPT Read more on the Peec AI blog.
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Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom
Neoclouds are one of the more hotly debated AI business models, with CoreWeave and Nebius being the two most widely recognized names. These companies have seen their sales, backlog, and share prices soar. Yet, supporting their growth is extremely expensive, and neoclouds do not have the same cash nor operating cash…
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Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries
Starting summer 2026, in preparation for upcoming changes in European battery regulations coming into effect in mid-February 2027, selected Nintendo products in Europe will begin to be replaced on a rolling basis by revisions that contain a user-r
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Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany
Taxable Anonymous Libre Electronic Reserves
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We are retiring our bug bounty program
For almost a year now, Turso has had a program that pays $1,000 for any bug that can be demonstrated to lead to data corruption. Today, we are retiring this program.
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IPFS Maintainers Winding Down
We have some difficult news to share with the IPFS and wider peer-to-peer community. Our IPFS funding was cancelled
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Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation
Anthropic has raised $65 billion in Series H funding led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital.
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What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable
Sound economic planning and policymaking requires trustworthy data. Private data can serve as a complement but not fully replace official U.S. statistics.
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Factorio that you can touch
Hello, we have very unusual Friday facts for you.
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Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC
OpenAI confirms a confidential S-1 submission to the SEC and has not yet determined timing for further action.
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One year of sponsored Servo development
Looking back on Servo's first donation-funded role.
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Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
We're opening the waitlist for our Monetization Gateway, which will allow you to charge for any web page, dataset, API, or MCP tool behind Cloudflare. The charges will settle in stablecoins over the x402 open protocol, with no payments stack of your own to build.
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When employees feel slighted, they work less
New research from Wharton management professor Peter Cappelli reveals how even the slightest mistreatment at work can result in lost productivity.
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AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions
Large language models encourage smart financial behavior, but they fall short on the more subtle aspects of saving and investing, according to MIT Sloan’s Taha Choukhmane and co-authors.
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Claude Fable 5.2 scores 65 on Artificial Analysis, highest so far
Analysis of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.2 (Max, Default Fallback) and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (time per Intelligence Index task & time to first answer token), context window & more.
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Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD
I wanted to provide an update on the situation with OpenTTD on Steam and GOG, and what the Atari re-release of Transport Tycoon Deluxe means for OpenTTD. There has been a lot of speculation and, in some cases, misinformation spread about what has happened. Our initial announcement perhaps didn’t provide as much detail…
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A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review
Why the companies winning in the AI age own their intelligence: a task-trained open source model vs the frontier, with every number published.
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Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost
Universities and hospitals are repurposing existing drugs through late-stage trials with funded costs up to 90% lower than those taking place in the pharmaceutical industry.
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Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs
I am excited to announce that I am joining ClickHouse, Inc. to establish and lead a new research team at ClickHouse Labs.
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Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI
European AI leader Mistral AI is acquiring Emmi AI in one of Europe’s most important and strategic AI acquisitions to date.
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OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)
Pricing information for the OpenAI platform.
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We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git
GitButler has raised a Series A round to accelerate developing the infrastructure for how software gets built next.